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[green girl]

had my first set for about 15 years ....noritake silk flowers....gave to my brother when i bought portmerion pamona...love it but its no longer made....have service for 16 with extra dinner plates to total 24...lots of entertaining !

[Nicnacsmommy]

How large is my dinnerware collection? Embarrassing I have to admit. I'm a plate addict. We or should I say I, because my husband and son would eat every meal from paper plates if that's what I sat the table with, bless their hearts! I have dinnerware for Winter w/ Snowmen, Spring and Summer in a Pfaltzgraff gardening pattern, Fall is a hodge podge of fall colors and patterns that I have collected from Dollar Tree and Goodwill, Christmas is Corelle Callaway Christmas. I have also started to collect some solid color cream and beige plates. I have a collection of 40's and 50's stoneware patterns. One is a pattern that my Grandmother had some pieces to. I also have a complete china pattern that was my Mothers that she gave to me when I got married. It's a complete service that even has a teapot.

My husband and I bought two large storage cabinets from Lowes that I store all of my dishes in. They are in an extra bedroom that we use as a closet. I also have loads of drinking glasses to go with each season or holiday. They are each wrapped and stored in plastic storage totes in the same room as the cabinets of dishes. I have lots of linens too. Table cloths, fabric napkins, and placemats.

[Anniecamp]

JeanLouise and Mominohio, I'm right there with you! I've never met anybody before that loves china/dishes as much as I do, so it's nice to see this thread with so many liking dishes.

I, at one point, had about 20 sets, and finally had to sell some. The ones I couldn't completely part with, I reduced to sets of 4.

I also have several pieces of the Longaberger Pottery, and bought a few more pieces at the Homestead this summer. I also have a huge set of the Fiesta, which I've been using for everyday. However, as much as I love it, I am getting sick of it, so I should change them out. I even have a set of the brown Fiesta that they sold in the 70s. You rarely see that set anywhere.

I especially like my old sets. The Jadite, Harlequin, etc.

The silly thing is how often dh and I use our white Correlle to microwave leftovers, put soup in, etc. So handy, but boring.

[green girl]

oh yeah almost forgot my christmas china service for 24...i love everyone to sit down with matching dishes...

[Pagan]

About 12 place settings of each type of dish. Bought individually (I'm not a 'set' person).

All plain white. I have not and will not buy anything else.

Most of it is Denby White because it's cheap when bought as seconds, easily replaced in most countries, dishwasher safe, microwave safe and it suits all occasions.

My whole family and a couple of neighbors all have this crockery and it enables you to mix and match between families when needed. I have no idea if I actually bought all my dishes, some of them will be from other houses now but nobody cares as long as you end up with the right number the next day!

Other things are any brand from anywhere as long as it's white.

I keep everything stacked in piles on a welsh dresser. Nothing in cupboards.

[shoekitty]

My china and dinnerware collection is shameful, I have the 1980s Pfatzsgraff Heritage, and 2 other collections I bought after that. They are nameless. Then I found in an attic when we were moving in 1979 a huge set of antique china from 1910 Czekeslovakia (thats how they spelled it on back) LOL, full set, serving pieces and all. Then at a church rummage I came by 2 sets of Adams (Wedgewood china) Ming Jade and Singapore Bird from early 1960's.. I also have a set of china I bought piece by piece from Safeway in 1982. Then I bought a set of Country Roses by Prince Albert, not to mention a huge collection of vintage and contemporary Fiestaware and Rivierware, Then there is the 1950, Russel Wright collection. Not to mention the 122++ set og china I inherited from my MIL from occupied Japan. It is beautiful

Here is the news, I gave away to daughters a couple sets, and donated 2 full bone china sets. I kept the antique set, the Adams china, russel wright, the Country Roses and all the fiestaware. and my MIL's china. I also kept bits and pieces of vintage and collectable pieces. Some of the Russel wright bar glasses go for 100@!

I resorted to using some of the vintage pieces every day to make sense of all this! LOL!

[JeanLouiseFinch]

On 12/11/2014 mominohio said:

On 12/11/2014 JeanLouiseFinch said:

mominohio - I might have you beat or at least we can be sisters from another mother. I've been married 36 years. I am a SUCKER for dishes and had several collections over the years. My current stuff is what I've used the longest (around 15 yrs.) and love a lot so I won't be changing anytime soon. My dinnerware collection is so large that it's embarrassing. Several years ago, I became a Longaberger consultant because I yearned for Longaberger dishes and many accessory pieces (casseroles, serving bowls, platters, you name it). I have gobs of it. All of the Classic Blue is in the kitchen as my everyday set. I have so much, it takes up a double cabinets and the top part of a hutch. I have Ivory for my dining room, and there is PLENTY there to divide into probably two very nice, complete sets or 3 modest sets. Honestly, we could have a crowd for dinner (24-30 people) and everyone would be using the same kind of plate. There are dinner plates, luncheon plates, bread/dessert plates, bowls, dessert bowls, custard cups, not to mention the usual casseroles, backing dishes, serving pieces, etc. Then, there's my Christmas set....so many pieces (pretty much a duplicate of what I already names with the ivory set) that I had to buy special cabinets to store it all in. None of this takes into account what I had prior to signing on with Longaberger.

First set - stoneware set from Service Merchandise - probably service for 8 (gave it away when I bought new)<br /> Second set - Correlle Wildflower - service for 8, plus matching casseroles and such (think I sold it at a garage sale when I wanted new)<br /> Third set - Correlle Abundance - service for 12 (don't remember what happened to it, but I wanted Fiestaware)<br /> Fourth set - Fiestaware - used it for awhile, but ended up disappointed with it because it showed marks. Consequently, this is when I started buying my Longaberger pottery. The Fiestaware got packed away and now my son has it at his place.<br /> <br /> Also during this time, I had collected a huge set of Pfaltzgraff Tea Rose as my dining room set. I liked it for awhile, when my LR/DR was that country blue & mauve, but when that went out so did the dishes. They're either packed away or I gave them to my niece who likes the pattern.<br /> Chirstmas dishes - I had a big set of Holly Berry China, bought at Venture (remember that store?). They're still packed and stored for whom ever wants it one day.<br /> <br /> I'm telling you, when I die my kids will be swearing as they divide up all the dishes.

It feels so good to know I'm not alone!!!

I did the whole blue and mauve thing for a long time too! And the Tea Rose was a beautiful pattern I thought. I'm glad to hear you say you left Fiesta behind. People are very loyal lifetime customers, and I love that it is made here, but I just don't care for the 'plainness' of it. I love the many colors to mix and match, but I can't get past the fact that everything is solid, and the shapes are boring to me. I like some curves and some squares as well. And I need a little pattern in my life.

I just got the Longaberger pottery bug. Had their baskets since forever (most I got dirt cheap second hand), but I would never lay down the money for the pottery. Not that I didn't think it was worth it (when made here anyway) just couldn't afford it back then.

Well the Homestead has pretty much turned into an outlet store, so I've been hanging out down there every couple of weeks this summer and fall. I haven't gotten any dinnerware, but boy have I loaded up on big mixing bowls, parfait cups, twisted square bows, casseroles, platters, the pumpkin pie dish, bean crocks, pitchers, quite a few wrought iron pieces, and bunches more. As I'm sure you know, everything was way marked down then half off of that. I went nuts! Best quality pottery I've ever seen, even if it is made in China right now. Hope they get it back here soon, and it's a shame they were set to go with a factory in New York, then it went out as well. From what I understand they are back to the drawing board on this again. Hard to believe they can't find a pottery left here that can do the job. That is just how far gone our once thriving pottery businesses is.

We go to a lot of estate auctions, and I love a good one. Nothing more fun than spending a warm sunny summer afternoon watching people buy up and give new homes to the lifetime collections of someone who has gone on. People are friendly, conversations strike up, and a sense of camaraderie develops as the day moves on, with people excited for you (or you for them) when you win the bidding on something you really wanted. I've told my son and husband that a whole bunch of people are going to have a blast at my estate auction! It will be like a treasure hunt for someone like us!

Is your pottery the cream background with the small blue trim, the original stuff they made? I love that line, and someday I'm going to pick up some of the made in USA dinnerware on ebay. Everything I have is the solid color stuff, but I love the way the older design and the newer solid stuff mixes. I like the way the pottery I got this summer mixes with my Temp-tations patterns and calms them down a bit as well.

Yes, that's my kitchen set. It's called Classic Blue. The plain ivory (embossed basketweave, but no colored trim) is what I have in the dining room. My Christmas set is the same except it has a little holly motif around the edge. It's called Traditional Holly. I had a huge collection of baskets, but sold a ton of them via an auction service in Ohio.

Yes, it's truly a shame, that the Homestead has suffered. It's also a shame that Popeye's, in Dresden, is no more. I used to love going there. Dave sure hit things at the right time and they enjoyed a great ride, but just don't know that they'll ever see those days again. Young people don't have the same decorating taste as their mom's.

[shoekitty]

picture too large, deleted it, whew!

[shoekitty]

[shesallthat]

i have 3 different sets. one formal white and one every day white. the third is a Pflatzgraff set. i had a fourth set that i just recently gave to Goodwill because i sent the Pflatzgraff set to try out. i love it!