What to Do With Family China When No One Wants It
“It” was my parents' circa 1955 wedding china.
Twelve place settings. Serving bowls. Platters. And full coffee and tea service.
Though very pretty – silver-rimmed with a classic wheat sheaf pattern – I preferred early 20th century floral French Limoges.
So I saved it for my daughter. Years went by. And when she finally saw those boxes stacked up, she went white.
Where would she keep it? When would she ever even use it?
The nieces and nephews said no too.
They’d already purchased dinnerware they loved when they married.
I couldn’t keep it. I was downsizing like mad to sell my house.
My siblings had full houses and cabinets. Where would they store it?
And to what end?
For a child to donate it after they’d passed some 30 years later?
It’s hard this preserving and passing on of treasures.
Perhaps the good china especially.
Peering into the box, you can’t help but remember holidays past…
…loved ones long gone gathered around the table…
…laughing and chatting…
…clinking silver against the gleaming white china plates.
The good china.
Always there for every special meal.
A quiet thread tying the years and family together.
To part with it feels unkind. A betrayal of sorts.
So we hang onto it for years. Decades.
But keeping it stuffed in a box in the attic or basement serves no purpose either.
By letting it go, by donating it when no one in your circle wants it, you give it the prospect for a new life.
For new families to make happy memories with it.
But it’s one thing to think, “Yeah, it’s probably time to pass my dinnerware on.”
Quite another to actually do it if you feel at all conflicted.
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