[Jamestown1630]

You’re a person after my heart ;-)

I’ll buy something just because it’s beautiful, regardless that it’s dedicated to one use per year. Not practical; but some impractical things can be important - in a way, they are ‘hallowing’, and influence further than their obvious material significance would suggest.

(I bought a huge, rustic, metal Jack-o-Lantern last week, because it seemed to say traditional ‘Hallowe’en’ more than anything I’d ever seen. Can’t use it until next year, now; but at least I got it at 75% off ;-)

[KC Burke]

We actually bring out the Woodlands set and use it from the end of September on to near Christmas when the Spode Christmas set comes out. And should be have a game bird dinner, bang, its always in the closet.

We had about six other sets but we gave two to children as wedding gifts. We combined two households twenty years ago and both sets of parents are now gone leaving various items we filled out from “Replacements.”

[KC Burke]

My mother had a set for eight of Royal Dalton Glamis Thistle that went to my sister, but there were a lot of odds and ends and partial serving items left that my sister didn't have room for at her home. So my wife, knowing how I had eaten off of it for sixty years at holidays and the like, went out and bought up enough for us to have a set for eight as well. It is a real treat.