I don’t want plates I only use twice a year and silverware I have to polish. What a waste
I’m submitting satellite photos to him right now for “analysis” of your cabinet you sicko
Jeeze, I helped my parents move over Xmas and had to box up my mom’s China, her mom’s China and my dad’s mom’s China. We’ve never used any of it, and still hauling it around after 30 years and multiple moves
WASTE!!!!! Get a real family heirloom. I recommend a sword; my family has had one for generations
And so often they're not even good for eating! Too heavy or too light, bad shape, weird texture, fragile.
that's the worst part, especially when you have to hand wash it. who wants to have to hand wash every dish after a fancy meal that you presumably also had to spend a bunch of time cleaning up for and cooking for. The absolute minimum is being able to throw them all in the dishwasher
Exactly. Give me solid dishes that I’ll use forever and then I’ll pass those down instead
"MiLLeNiaLs aRe KiLliNg thE ChInA iNdUstRY!!!"
fr though, does anyone under 40 own china?
Weird, I have no china but I do have a china cabinet. It's currently in storage, but when it wasn't, it had a Master Chief figurine, among other things.
At that point, is it considered a curio cabinet? Or if the figurines in the cabinet were all made in China, is it still technically a china cabinet?
Believe it or not but Chinaware got in millennial discourse because boomers were getting mad that no one wanted their old Chinaware either as a hand-me-down or in a living will. They got mad because it was incredibly valuable and a status symbol when they got it but is yet another sign of their mortality and aging and disconnect from younger culture.
When I have space I'm gonna get some china no one wants for $2, not care about destroying it in the dishwasher, and just eat my mac n cheese off it like a fancy bitch until it breaks
And their own special cabinet? Who has this kind of floor space to work with?
my mother has far, far too much china that absolutely never gets used
now that i'm an adult i like to have as little as possible
Using paper plates even though it costs more over time because you don't have a dishwasher and have too much depression to handwash dishes every day is what Marx would have wanted.
Noooooooooooo please as a climatologist I’m begging you. You only ever need as many plates as you’ll personally use at one time
This sounds sorta icky. Just pair down to one bowl and make a habit of washing it immediately after you eat. I lived for 7 months in a shitty shared apartment using only one plate, one bowl, and one of each utensil. Things are always way easier to clean while its warm.
yeah, my environmentalism usually overpowers my depression for washing dishes (plus I have nice dishes that I like to use), but when I took an environmentalism class and we looked at the embodied energy numbers it's kinda wild how disposable paper stacks up to reused ceramics, like, you'd assume it's a lot lower and that it take a while for reusing ceramic plates to become more efficient, but holy shit it really takes forever, iirc our comparison of styrofoam vs ceramics for coffee cups estimated that even with a dishwasher (so more efficient washing) the embodied energy of the ceramic mug took like 10,000 uses to equalize with using styrofoam. obv styrofoam does create a downstream waste management problem with all that shit, and that isn't well addressed by embodied energy calculation, but it kinda blew me away how just using something really really lightweight and compostable is really underappreciated in environmental discourse.
Yeah, having multiple sets of dishes seems like a pain. That's why when my grandparents' stuff was getting passed on through the family nobody wanted the like 12+ different patterns of china that my grandfather had collected, I think like 2 or 3 sets found homes but most of it was just super impractical. I'm super lucky because I requested their everyday set of pyrex milkglass that they got for their wedding in the late 50s and grew over the years and it's super nice and I don't feel bad about actually using it either (gotta love actual borosilicate pyrex, it's actually decently sturdy).
My girlfriend has FOUR SETS of second-hand china that we will never use. Granted they are nice and they were cheap, but we have enough useless crap sitting around and not enough room for it. I'm going to force her to use them this year.
I'm re-educating her on a lot of things lol
Honestly it's the least of my concern with clutter right now, there is a room in the house dedicated exclusively to crafting and not even all of the crafting stuff fits in there. She has enough yarn alone to fill a standard-sized coat closet floor to ceiling.
Her family has major issues with holding onto things they never use instead of donating or throwing them away and it's been a year-long struggle since we've moved in. Especially since I have ADHD and anything past minor clutter will immediately render me helpless in finding anything around the house.
Sounds like I’m reading something I wrote lol. ADHD is such a fuck
Isn't it amazing how you could be searching for something on a table/desk/whatever for like five minutes and when you finally see it, it was out in the open right in front of you and you know that you probably looked directly at it like 10 times.
I’ve called my own phone from my phone to find my phone that I’m currently using
Lmao nice
Get some Tile trackers if you can afford it, they prevent a lot of cursing and rage when I'm trying to find my keys/wallet/phone. Just don't misplace all 3 at once :agony:
Dumb question: Why is that sort of dinnerware called "Fine China"?
Because porcelain originated in China. It also wasn’t able to be replicated by Europeans until 1730 or something like that, so the only was to get it was trade with the East
