More dithering about new dishes, parents moving, everything passes

[kaylarudbek]

So I tried to count up the number of plates that I currently have in the two patterns, and it looks like:

Spring blossom green, 7 or 8 dinner (largest), 7 or 8 salad/ lunch size (which I usually use for dinner), 8 appetizer plates (use for heating up sausage patties for breakfast). Also some of those hooked handle tea cups and saucers, and at least 3 cereal bowls.

Old town blue, 8 dinner plates, 6 salad/lunch plates, 0 appetizer plates, 9? cereal bowls, 7? small bowls (appetizer size, I use these for dry cereal).

So to solely replace the green ones, 8 place settings. To replace everything, 16 place settings.

Caspian Lace is the cheapest set that coordinates with the old town blue, but I keep on coming back to the Portofino sets which of course are more expensive. And part of me just wants to replace both of my current patterns as they are all showing wear and brown spots (which I am tired of trying to remove with barkeeper’s friend). Corelle is doing a sale for the 4th of July so they are probably the cheapest option right now.

My parents have officially put their house of 42 years on the market and it’s so strange to see the realtor’s pictures without any furniture in there. I am feeling sad; I never thought growing up that all of my immediate family would be gone from what I regard as my hometown. And they’ve sold off a good chunk of stuff that I remember (although I realize that I wouldn’t be using their Weber grill or the Pfalzgraff hand-wash china for starters). I think it will sell fairly quickly as it’s been tagged as a favorite on the realty’s website a few times already in less than two days.

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[altamira16]

I grew up with those two dish sets in my mom's home.

Downsizing after that length of time is really tough. My husband's parents keep trying to give us stuff. We have accepted his grandmother's paintings, some of his grandfather's books about pirates, a small canon, and we are not interested in any clocks that are falling apart.

[kaylarudbek]

And my grandparents lived a block and street over and were there for over half a century, I think. So there were lots of things from my grandparents to sort through before that house was sold, some of which are with my parents, some of which are with me now. And only one nephew and then my cousins’ kids to pass things on to.

We need to pare down here as well, so I think maybe 8-12 place settings are enough. If my side of the family is together, I only need 8 settings max, but if Mr. Rudbek’s entire family is over, then I would need 14 settings. No more than 16 settings total as that’s pretty much what I have right now. I’m trying to remember when I bought the old town blue set, but it must have been before it was discontinued in 2017; maybe in 2004 or so. And the spring blossom was discontinued in 1986 and I remember having it when my parents moved into the house in the early 1980s. So 20-40 years is a good run for the dishes and I shouldn’t feel guilty about replacing all of them in one fell swoop. I will try to sell them so that someone else can use them.

And I have been in my current house for over a decade so I have lived here almost as long as I lived in my hometown.