dont have matching dishes for holidays-any suggestions? (bath, bed, house)
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I wouldn't worry about having matching dishes for 21. Who has that many matching dishes? Not me for sure. My mom always did china in the dining room, everyday dishes at a smaller table or 2 set up in the living room, and maybe even paper at the kids table in the kitchen. Could you borrow a set from someone?
Check out the dollar stores. The often have the clear glass dinner plates. You could set your tables, every other one, your china and the clear glass. No one is going to care about your dishes. Just being together and sharing the meal is what most care about.
wow World Market here is pricey...........
Dollar Stores or Goodwill or even Walmart have cheap prices.
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Check out the dollar stores. The often have the clear glass dinner plates. You could set your tables, every other one, your china and the clear glass. No one is going to care about your dishes. Just being together and sharing the meal is what most care about.
Definitely agree with Newdaawn. The point is to be together and create and share memories. No one will even remember you didn't have matching plates. Or, even if they do, they may find it funny, or not even notice. I have actually eaten out of paper plates on several Thanksgivings.
DreamWeavin: World Market is pretty reasonable. I would recommend Dollar General and Family Dollar for plates. Dollar Tree is pretty good too, but I don't know about their presence where she lives.
Mom has a small kitchen & no dishwasher, so we have always used good quality paper plates. We do use real silverware, tho.
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LOL... I second (901)s post. Honestly, I can not imagine not using high quality disposable dinnerware for your Thanksgiving meal. I have never had anything but comments on my sensibility, at our large family dinners when doing so. We always use the full-sized plates and buy double the amount of dessert plates....and loads of plastic forks and spoons....heavy duty ones. Guilt free dining for the group and so much less clean-up for you! You can go to a dollar store for extra serving trays and platters though....quite inexpensive. So inexpensive in fact that you can afford to send the leftovers home on them.
I can serve 24 people with plates in the same pattern. I am not wealthy. I have bought inexpensive white porcelain everyday dishes that I can dress up with napkins, inexpensive goblets and pretty salad plates. I bought a few placesettings at a time. Real dishes make holiday meals special. It would be expensive to go out and buy tons of dishes at the last minute, but it isn't expensive to slowly build up a collection of inexpensive porcelain (high fired) dishes. World Market white porcelain dishes are not expensive and frequently go on sale. Just because one poster declared that World Market is "pricey" doesn't mean that the dishes I was speaking about are expensive - they are not.
I can serve 24 people with plates in the same pattern. I am not wealthy. I have bought inexpensive white porcelain everyday dishes that I can dress up with napkins, inexpensive goblets and pretty salad plates. I bought a few placesettings at a time. Real dishes make holiday meals special. It would be expensive to go out and buy tons of dishes at the last minute, but it isn't expensive to slowly build up a collection of inexpensive porcelain (high fired) dishes. World Market white porcelain dishes are not expensive and frequently go on sale. Just because one poster declared that World Market is "pricey" doesn't mean that the dishes I was speaking about are expensive - they are not.
I agree. I have formal china for 12, second-best china for 24, and ruby glass for 100, acquired over time.
Here, it's not a matter of not having lovely dinnerware. I actually have probably 40 place settings of LuRay Pastel dinnerware as well as a couple of other collectible dinnerware sets, including a beautiful huge collection of bakelite silverware. In our case, it has nothing to do with not having enough "hardware", it's the simple matter of washing dishes. We are enormous "cookers" and make so very many dishes, horsdeouvers, salads, main courses, many kinds of desserts, etc., that we wash a huge volume of dishes, over and over again. We make everything from scratch. After the food prep dishes, serving plates, platters and bowls. I simply refuse to spend any more time in the kitchen washing eating plates and silverwares. Oh by the way....for main courses....we do use the real silverware. What's better than prime rib or turkety with plastic forkes. LOL
If you have other dishes, I would not worry about matching. I would just use the ones you have and put them at every other place setting and fill in with the others. If you have a Big Lots, they might have some inexpensive dishes. Too late to hit yard sales. Do you have a neighbor who you could borrow from? If you want to come to Delaware, I have some dishes that I plan to give away.
I just bring out the un-used wedding gifts (since we did not register back then) plate sets. I got like 5 different patters and mix-match stacked them up. With same colored disposable napkins, it worked.
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