Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 01, 2021

Q: “What do you plan to do with this stuff?” A: “Eat from it?”

Been that long since she passed?

Who shot J.R.? Maggie Simpson. No. Wait. . . . Never mind.

I think the only thing good about Dallas was my wife learned to use the VCR. Just on the odd chance she missed it.

For many of us, having a set of china was a necessity. Proof you were a couple. Proof you were grownups.

And we’re sticking with the theme until we get a definitive answer!

We started using the good stuff routinely for ourselves a couple of years ago. The set that was so expensive years ago is destined for the thrift shop if not sold at a rummage sale when it’s time to downsize.

Also have a second set of silverware in a mahogany wood box that we got at a rummage sale twenty years ago for $35. Why? It was too good a deal to pass up.

It’s dumpster time.

We went to a “Who shot J.R. party”. Nov. 21, 1980. Still friends with the folks who hosted it.

Boy, does that ever put an age on them! I was in university when all that ‘who shot JR’ rot was going around. I guess that dates me also!

must resist the urge to guilt kids into taking stuff we don’t even use ourselves. Never bought “good china” so they don’t have to deal with it when we are gone.

We hide the ugliest set of china ever in the upper cabinets above the refrigerator.

Have the china, use the china and the silver and crystal too. Life is too short for paper plates. [Yes, it can/does go in the dishwasher.]

If it’s actually worth anything, give it to a local charity to auction off. Or sell it piecemeal on eBay.

I bought a 12-place Noritake Bone China set while I was in the Navy. It’s been in a dishpack in various garages for 41 years.

Ah, Joan Collins!

I thought Arlo & Janis were around my age (mid 50’s) but they must be older?

After my divorce, I moved back east, to an Amish/Mennonite area. I loved my china set with the delicate forget-me-not flower, and silver band border but with no family to entertain, I realized the best thing to do would be to donate it to the Mennonite Thrift Store. I’ve always wondered about whose home and table it eventually graced.

Two words: Melmac.

Remember all those baseball cards form the ’50s?

Gramma’s china is the same, only heavier.

If everyone throws it out, it will become valuable.

If not, then it won’t.

Use it! Why wait for a “special” occasion?

1980

I vaguely remember the china thing going on and on around the time of the wedding. Veeery specific requirements. Decades later, still in the attic, never came out of the box.

Whoa, Dallas reference before seven AM here, hee!

My dad offered up mothers Royal Dalton 8 place china to us 4 kids, saying 2 of us could have a 4 place setting. No takers. He just offered it to the 8 grandkids – crickets. No Interest. Phoned the Salvation Army and one other thrift store in town. They said they were only taking necessities and high value items because of Covid. What was of interest of the Traditionalist generation is not of late Boomers, and Gen X & Y.

I don’t know who shot J.R. ( I didn’t watch the series) , but Maggie shot Mr. Burns.

Why not? How many people actually remember who shot JR?

Well, Janis, at least he remembered…

Kewl… Retro

i never had a set of china. i remember having a Corelle set which was just a nice. hopefully they will have their vaccines first along with all the others they invite.

I can tell you this – my folks just got their first vaccine, and my state is starting to track toward getting folks vaccinated en mass. We are going to have a BIG party once things really open back up. I have grandkids who desperately need a hug from me!

Rather than buy more dishes when our regular set became diminished, my wife brought out the inherited stuff. Why not use it? Can’t nuke it, so I still have some of the old ones around.

I do have “good China”. Seldom used. My friends with adult children often have 2 or 3 sets of the “good China”. How? Parents or grandparents pass…. My friends thought that they would pass it on to their children. Much to their surprise the now adult children had no interest in getting the set. They just want a decent every day set….not Limoge

They want Target these days. Ditto flatware. Anyone holding on to anything nice to pass on to the next generation should get it in writing that it’s wanted or else use it for daily meals.

Not any more – young marrieds idea of entertaining have nothing to do with elegant or "proper’. Too stuffy for them.

A friend’s favorite saying is, “Everyday is special. Use the good china.”

Do eight place settings of Corelle “Butterfly Gold” count?

I don’t remember eating off my parents’ good china more than a few times when I was growing up. It’s kind of like the refinished living room or the special candle: they’re “too good (or special) to use”, so never got used. My parents’ china went to my daughter, and most of their other “old” stuff went to my niece who is really into the “retro/1950’s look” (courtesy of being a big “Mad Men” fan). I felt like I would be betraying my parents’ memory if I just got rid of stuff like that.

By the way, this arc is a re-run, from just a couple years back! I’m surprised no one has mentioned that!

Mary Crosby. Bing’s daughter from his second marriage.

That’s weird. I was just thinking about the Noritaki set I brought back from Vietnam way back in 1971. My wife died in 2018. I never heard them mentioned after we got married. I’ve looked everywhere for the set & there isn’t a trace of them. My 2 sons have never mentioned them. Coencidinky !!

Do these 2 actually have friends?

Friends? They have hundreds, and we get together almost every day.