As I mentioned yesterday, we are pretty simple people in what we use and maintain. High maintenance dishes are not our thing. But we get off the beaten path from time to time.
Time was, we had given one of our sons our Corelle dishes, purchased some white dishes, loved them, and then saw some very pretty blue pattern dishes advertised on a TV show. All in we went! Dishes, bakeware, trays. One time in the oven and we heard a tray crack. A couple times and the casserole cracked. Even so, we kept the dishes and we decided to use the loaf pans to “hold stuff” – you know – breakfast bars, water flavoring mixture packets. Right? Be creative. One by one the dishes cracked and chipped. Eventually we were left with one dinner plate, a couple small plates, and some bowls. Many with chips. And we are not hard on dishes.
We brought them up to the little house up north – and barely used them. Meanwhile we had gone back to the sturdy everyday china, white, we already had, and also bought some for the little house up north.
We brought the few unused blue bowls back when we brought everything back. I have no idea why. The silly things you do.
All in all, it was a good lesson. You live and you learn, and you stop buying things you really do not need just because they look great on TV.
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