[CassieInVa]

Check to see if any of your sterling or china patterns are popular on replacements limited website. They will buy your China and sterling. Especially if it has been discontinued.

[graciegirl]

I brought four complete sets of dishes and my crystal. I have used it all. We like to invite people to dinner and we use it couple three times a month.. One set is just for Christmas but Christmas for me begins the day after Thanksgiving. I always use cloth napkins when we have guests to eat anything. Snacks, cake etc. Also use cloth tablecloths. They all are easy care, no ironing.


If that is how you live, you will continue to live that way. If you don't, no one cares. It is just for me. I like a pretty table. I make no excuses. I do not expect or want it from friends when we go out. Paper plates are great. These are things I enjoy, and sometimes I use paper plates too.


Don't be too quick to get rid of it all if you used it quite a bit before your move here.


Just be yourself. Everyone will love you and if it makes you happy, bring it.

[theorem painter]

Originally Posted by CassieInVa

Check to see if any of your sterling or china patterns are popular on replacements limited website. They will buy your China and sterling. Especially if it has been discontinued.

I just contacted Replacements about my sterling that they are selling on their web site for $300 a place setting. They offered me $40. I will wait until the price of silver goes back up and sell it for scrap.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I brought four complete sets of dishes and my crystal. I have used it all. We like to invite people to dinner and we use it couple three times a month.. One set is just for Christmas but Christmas for me begins the day after Thanksgiving. I always use cloth napkins when we have guests to eat anything. Snacks, cake etc. Also use cloth tablecloths. They all are easy care, no ironing.


If that is how you live, you will continue to live that way. If you don't, no one cares. It is just for me. I like a pretty table. I make no excuses. I do not expect or want it from friends when we go out. Paper plates are great. These are things I enjoy, and sometimes I use paper plates too.


Don't be too quick to get rid of it all if you used it quite a bit before your move here.


Just be yourself. Everyone will love you and if it makes you happy, bring it.

My wife would smile at your comments. Maybe she is a close relative?

[big guy]

We had three sets of china...none of which could be washed in the dishwasher so I wasn't unhappy to give it away to family. I gave my great niece, as a wedding gift, a set of china that had been my great grandmother's (her great, great, great grandmother's). She was thrilled. We gave my mother-in-law's china to our niece (her grandmother) and she was thrilled. I sold the other set and kept my silver flatware and crystal. I have plain white dishes that I can use at any time with different linens. I have never used the crystal since we moved 5 years ago. I have never been sorry that I passed the china on to younger people in the family.

[CFrance]

Keep what you really love. You'll find someplace for it if it means a lot to you. I wouldn't get rid of stuff that is really meaningful to me.

[Bonny]

I kept my good set of china for 12 and I have some beautiful Murano glassware. I love it when I have dinner for 6 - 10 of us and I get to put the nice items out. I just feel it's a a little special. Good friends could care less if it's that or paper plates, but sometimes I just really enjoy putting out the good stuff !!!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Bonny

I kept my good set of china for 12 and I have some beautiful Murano glassware. I love it when I have dinner for 6 - 10 of us and I get to put the nice items out. I just feel it's a a little special. Good friends could care less if it's that or paper plates, but sometimes I just really enjoy putting out the good stuff !!!

I agree! I didn't care about the Limoges and was glad the kids wanted it, but I am enamored of our Twas The Night Before Christmas dinnerware, and the sterling silverware we amassed over the years.

Twas the Night Before Christmas has two personal meanings in our little family and the dishes mean more to me than any other sets that we have. I kept the stuff that means the most and still enjoy using it. The rest I gave to the kids or donated.

[dotti105]

Originally Posted by theorem painter

I just contacted Replacements about my sterling that they are selling on their web site for $300 a place setting. They offered me $40. I will wait until the price of silver goes back up and sell it for scrap.

I had a similar experience with Replacements. My sterling flatware, service for 12 with lots of extra serving utensils was only worth $900 to them. Nope, couldn't do that!!

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by dotti105

I had a similar experience with Replacements. My sterling flatware, service for 12 with lots of extra serving utensils was only worth $900 to them. Nope, couldn't do that!!

Originally Posted by theorem painter

I just contacted Replacements about my sterling that they are selling on their web site for $300 a place setting. They offered me $40. I will wait until the price of silver goes back up and sell it for scrap.

For many years, I was a huge supplier to Replacements, of china, crystal and flatware.
The way they determine a price is very simple.
Without going into details that may sound confusing, it works this way.
When they have an order from a customer,
for a certain pattern and certain pieces or a set (of anything),
they will offer you a very fair and good price for your items.
However, if they are simply buying because someone has something to sell
and Replacements has no call for it (to resell immediately),
their price is very low.

While the above holds true,
the price of an item can change from one month to another.
In addition, what an owner may think is a perfect specimen
could easily have a 25% (or more) reduction of the current price,
because it is not as perfect as they think.

Since the time the Internet became the preferred way to sell things
and the resale market changed so tremendously,
I sell for myself and my customers on eBay and a couple of other sites.
At least that way, I don't have to drive up to the Carolinas!

[andercat]

I saved one bowl from my china set that belonged to my grandmother and a cream and sugar set from her crystal as well. I display them in my hutch and see them every day. Now I can enjoy looking at my grandmother's pieces and not have to carry around a lot of boxes. Saving these few items brings back memories of her just as well as the entire sets.

[graciegirl]

I didn't have GOOD stuff, couldn't afford real silver, but I loved playing house as a little girl and still love to do it now.


I love my home and I enjoy trying to make it feel comfy and welcoming and pretty. I could have a tiny house or a big house and it wouldn't matter to me. It is about making a cozy nest. I love to have visitors and I love to cook. Nothing I have is precious to anyone but me.


I loved dolls when I was little and loved having my children around. The time is past now when a woman is a homemaker. That idea is looked down on now...But, if you did it "right" it was a full time occupation that made life easier and better and more secure and ordered for everyone in the home. I never felt cheated.


I think children came out better raised by the person who loved them most in this world. Now people hand their babies over to someone they wouldn't trust with their car keys. That is sad to me.


There was time later to have a career.


Now I sound like an old woman. Guess I am and loving it.

[CassieInVa]

Okay so the Sterling is probably not a wise move on Replacements. But years ago I had a set of china from the 80's Johnson Brothers and I discovered that it was discontinued and they paid me quite a high price for it more than I could get on ebay or a yard sale. With nice sterling you're better off putting it probably on ebay or taking it to a consignment shop possibly.

[OBXNana]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I brought four complete sets of dishes and my crystal. I have used it all. We like to invite people to dinner and we use it couple three times a month.. One set is just for Christmas but Christmas for me begins the day after Thanksgiving. I always use cloth napkins when we have guests to eat anything. Snacks, cake etc. Also use cloth tablecloths. They all are easy care, no ironing.


If that is how you live, you will continue to live that way. If you don't, no one cares. It is just for me. I like a pretty table. I make no excuses. I do not expect or want it from friends when we go out. Paper plates are great. These are things I enjoy, and sometimes I use paper plates too.


Don't be too quick to get rid of it all if you used it quite a bit before your move here.


Just be yourself. Everyone will love you and if it makes you happy, bring it.

As we're going through years of accumulation, I found this post to touch a nerve. I just pulled the Christmas set of dishes out of the "to go" pile.

Thank you. If I change my mind, I can always donate, but once they're gone, all I'll have are the memories.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

I didn't have GOOD stuff, couldn't afford real silver, but I loved playing house as a little girl and still love to do it now.


I love my home and I enjoy trying to make it feel comfy and welcoming and pretty. I could have a tiny house or a big house and it wouldn't matter to me. It is about making a cozy nest. I love to have visitors and I love to cook. Nothing I have is precious to anyone but me.


I loved dolls when I was little and loved having my children around. The time is past now when a woman is a homemaker. That idea is looked down on now...But, if you did it "right" it was a full time occupation that made life easier and better and more secure and ordered for everyone in the home. I never felt cheated.


I think children came out better raised by the person who loved them most in this world. Now people hand their babies over to someone they wouldn't trust with their car keys. That is sad to me.


There was time later to have a career.


Now I sound like an old woman. Guess I am and loving it.

Hey, I did the same thing--kids first, career later. I've never regretted it. They were both fun--the kids and the career. I don't know if either would have been as much fun if I had lumped them together.

I'm just grateful that jobs were plentiful back then and we could afford a good life on one salary. I feel sorry for the people who have no choice. it's a different financial situation today, and many have to work.

I also support those who want to work.

But back on topic, I kept the things I love and brought them to FL, and haven't regretted that either.