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[cotton4me]

How do you protect your everyday dining table when eating?  Do you use placemats or a tablecloth?  What kind?

[Peaches McPhee]

I use a simple table cloth with complimentary place mats. Some are seasonal and some just match the color of the room.

[Foxxee]

During holidays, I use a table pad on the dining room table, white tablecloth over the pad, placemats on top of the tablecloth at each chair.

We only use it for holidays, so it's left bare wood with a centerpiece on top at all other times. 

For the table in the breakfast room we use every day, it has a protective finish, so only use place mats for meals. 

[StylishLady]

For the every day kitchenette table i useplace mats. THe main dining room table when used, pads and I put a table cloth on it. 

[AuntG]

Nothing most of the time but I do have holiday placemats.

[Eileen in Virginia]

We usually eat at the table in our sunroom where I use a vinyl foam-backed liner (mainly as waterproofing), a tablecloth and placemats. I always have a half-inch felt-backed table pad and a tablecloth on our dining room table. Even though we rarely eat there now, better safe than sorry.

[tarsmom]

I don't.

I have a beautiful oak table that we bought in the 1990s.  My 10 year old son was doing his homework and shook a permanent marker and it splattered black dots all over it.  

That was a fun day

It's there forever.  

[FastDogWalker2]

We use placemats - I have a ton thanks to the good sales at Kohls's pre-Covid.

[Desertdi]

My kitchen table is ceramic tile.   I use it mostly as a desk.....

[Sooner]

Chilwich place mats are great!  I have woven black ones on the bar and table in the kitchen.

Our dining table is usually bare.  My philosophy, if your dining table is pristine you need to have more parties!  It should look loved and used, with "memories" of happy times here and there to show off!