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Monday, October 13, 2008
Is your “good china” too good to use?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I recently celebrated my 15th wedding anniversary. Like many soon-to-be brides, part of the excitement of getting married was registering for all those goodies with which we’d start our home together.
For us, that included “good china”, something we’d never be able to afford on our own. After deliberating over patterns, I fell in love with one, and over the first year or two of marital bliss I accumulated about ten table settings.
Regarding them as an “investment”, I took good care of them, putting them in their own cabinet, only to realize a decade later, I NEVER use them. For holidays, I usually have more than ten and for regular entertaining I use my everyday dishwasher-friendly white plates.
Even when I catch a glimpse of them and resolve to use them, by the time I can appropriately incorporate them I have forgotten all about them. As they say, out of sight out of mind.
What about you? Do you save the “good stuff” to the exclusion of actually using them? If they are only “special occasion” worthy, do you think we could convince Hallmark to make a holiday called Good China Day?
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