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Buy it and use it. It’s fun kitch, don’t let it collect dust. If it breaks, no worries, lots of it around.
Tastes change. As Millennials get older, have kids, buy large houses, they’ll want to fill them. All it’ll take is a couple of social media influences to bring back such kitch. I can’t believe that redneck beards have been in vogue for so long, but they came back from the slimy grave of the 70s.
What’s the problem? Just do with those what you did to the dishes when the babysitter died.
Right on top of that, Rose!
Why granny so jacked though?
She’s got some serious bingo wings right there.
Stirring cake mixes is no joke.
Actually, i wish i had something from my grandparents. I found my grandfathers dvds in a second hand store.
Been there. I inherited my maternal grandfather’s machinist toolbox. Had exactly one micrometer and two leveling blocks. The box itself was worth more. Old wooden kennedy. Wound up hockin it for gas money a couple years after getting it
What, the cabinet?
Ok I am an outlier here but honestly I kinda like stuff like that. I’m not gonna pretend it’s worth a million dollars (like they would be cool with you selling it anyway) but real China is actually really pretty and sturdy if you take care of it and has a lot of neat little pieces of history and stories related to it. I like antiques and the look of old stuff.
However
My mom once tried to give us old pilsner glasses, and the story was “Grandpa bought them and didn’t like them so they’ve been in this cupboard since then”, and then got really disappointed when I was seeing if a friend of mine wanted one since he’s a real beer guy who might like fancy glasses.
So yeah if you already have plates, and your family history isn’t as great or interesting to you, don’t feel obligated to keep stuff you don’t like. Donate it (to anything other than goodwill or salvation army) or whatever.
Thing is everybody’s gramma has a cabinet full of china because it’s mass produced. Just like diamond engagement rings or high school proms people in the mid-20th century made up a tradition of gifting sets of china to young women because of all the fancy dinners every single middle class woman would be hosting throughout her life.
What happened is a bunch of fancy looking plates sat in cupboards in dining rooms for decades while actual meals were eaten off other also mass-produced but slightly cheaper plates that were stored in the kitchen cabinets.
Is it some universal thing? I thought it was USSR-specific thing.
Gramma’s holier than god department store retail china is an actual problem in the United States. Some of it is fucking radioactive.
My family moved my grandam out. So much glassware that they thought was going to be worth gold since its “local made back when this town meant something an had an industry and hard working people”. Probably had a dozen different sets. I don’t have the heart to tell her no one wants sets of old ass cups made in hick-town USA even if they are nice. Only took a few for memories.
Not to mention all my dads old toys they held onto thinking some one was going to make bank selling them. Just a trash heap unless you got someone who wants to make it there life’s work selling smelly toys on ebay. The top we priced out was worth $60 minus the dry-rotting in a basement for 60ish years.
Hell, I got glassware from the house I moved into they just left behind and I can’t get rid of it. May just leave it for the next sucker.
I have to know, what sort of toys are you talking about? That your dad had?
My aunt was losing her shit, that all stuff dropped in price from when she collected it in the nineties…
Tastes change.
I don’t see the difference
Of course you don’t, you dido!
I go all out for Halloween. I’ve learned it’s cheaper to buy Garage sale/thrift store stuff like this for creepy decorations, than it is to get stuff from Halloween stores or even the dollar store sometimes. I have the coolest “potion” bottles made of old decanters. The massive influx of stuff that came into thrift stores after covid started, was awesome, in the most morbid way.
Both parents died. I was left to clean out their house. Advertised a yard sale and then was willing to give away almost anything for free. Had to get the furniture out of the house to put it on the market. There were few takers for free stuff. Had to pay “Got Junk” to cart the stuff away
I just set stuff at the curb and people eventually took it. Even the IKEA particle board bed that sat in the rain for 2 weeks.
But some asshole put their shit in the pile.
The trick is to put a sign up saying “any two items $5” and then turn away. Hopefully somebody steals it if they think it’s worth something.
My grandad labelled all his tat with little coloured stickers. After he died, his children went round peeling most of their own stickers off so they wouldn’t get lumbered with it.
Nobody really wants a bunch of nicotine stained nick-knacks. Most of it ended up at the charity shop.
These teacups are much more charming than stacks of mass-produced printed mugs.
On the other hand, Grandma, you’d better not know that I’ll be washing them in the dishwasher on a daily basis.
In 40 years time there’s going to be a bunch of 30 year old Gen-Betas going “What the fuck am I supposed to do with all my grandmother’s Rae Dunn crap? All this tacky white porcelain, just huck it in the ocean and let it erode.”
Lmao my niece and nephew are going to enjoy inheriting my brother’s hundreds upon hundreds of D&D minis.
At least we use (some of) them to play with though, they’re not (only) for the display cabinet.
“I’ve been trying to complete my Dad’s collection of games on steam, in the last year I’ve completed 365 games and gotten up to 1%!”
Oh gawd, don’t remind me. My mom already tried selling it and couldn’t find anyone to buy it. Of course, she blames kids these days for not valuing her obviously valuable collection…
you can’t reason with them. no matter how much you try to tell my mom it’s not the 90s anymore, she absolutely refuses to accept any reality other than her 10 giant plastic bins stuffed with beanie babies is a priceless collection
Well, if the market so undervalues that stuff, the logical step would be to go buy other people’s beanie babies for cheap, before people realize how much they are actually worth. And then sell heaps of them for profit, once people come to their senses.
That’s obviously a very stupid idea, that you could pose to her, and let her argue why she doesn’t do that. Maybe it triggers a realization about how value is constructed.
But maybe it’s not worth the risk of her taking up on this very stupid idea.My grandma got into snowbabies lol
