Last week I was once again at the thrift store, where they know me by sight. And name. First name. Anyway, I was on the lookout for some dishes for my niece. She moved out and is in need of “matching dishes”, because she has a Jones about that sort of thing. She can’t afford much, so I offered to be on the lookout for them at my usual haunt. As always, the store did not disappoint.
I found a nice set of dishes, dinner and salad plates only, and figured that would be enough. They looked a bit opaly, but sturdy, and for $3 the set I couldn’t go wrong. Until I took them home and washed them.
VINTAGE ARCOPAL DISHES!!!!!
So now I am in a huge quandary. I love, LOVE, LOVE vintage stuff. I have vintage Pyrex™ and Anchor Hocking™ and Hazel Atlas™ and Fire King™ and just can’t bring myself to give these up. But neither can I justify yet another set of dishes into the kitchen. Seriously, I am at full capacity. Everywhere you look I have a set of dishes: Polish pottery, Brasserie™, Longaberger™, Gorham™, Lenox™, Wedgwood™, Franciscan™….. Oh, and my mom is bringing me my grandmother’s bakelite from Puerto Rico.
CRAP!!!!
Something’s gotta give, and I get the feeling it will be the Franciscan, since none of the kids like the flower pattern. As for my niece, I bet she would prefer a new set of dishes anyway. That is what I will tell myself to lessen the guilt 😉
May 20th, 2014 at 10:07 AM
Seems like your choice is simple…choose the set you like least and give that to your niece, ooooorrrrrrrr…..build an addition onto the house so you have room for more dishes. Happy to help! LOL
May 20th, 2014 at 10:13 AM
Thanks…. 😛
May 20th, 2014 at 12:57 PM
…” I bet she would prefer a new set of dishes anyway.”… Oh hell yes!, nieces always like new stuff, don’t even take the chance of insulting her with that old used crap…..;-) A four place setting of Corel should be just fine……or what ever they have handy down at Wally World.
May 20th, 2014 at 1:59 PM
That’s what I’m thinking 🙂
May 20th, 2014 at 4:18 PM
I think some of my dishes match…
May 20th, 2014 at 5:08 PM
Well, some of my dishes match…with some other dishes somewhere. They wouldn’t do dishes as a one-off, would they?
May 21st, 2014 at 7:46 AM
That’s called “being an original” 😉
May 21st, 2014 at 7:45 AM
You have great taste 🙂
May 20th, 2014 at 7:39 PM
Very pretty. I don’t know much about vintage dishes. I know I like Cambridge Caprice crystal (and I have far too many cup & saucer sets of it) and I have some china patterns I like but that’s about the extent of it.
May 21st, 2014 at 7:47 AM
It dooms me to know about this stuff. Dooms Hubby, too 😉