https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:27:00 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811158 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:12:11 +0000 SugarplumsMom 811158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have fancy china. We got married not too long after we bought our first house and I never got around to picking a set I liked. I figured I'll just wait until one comes up and in the meanwhile, we'll use cheap Ikea plates. Years later, we still haven't bought decent plates! I did find silverware I like though and we have enough for 12 or 16? Half of it is still in the box. We don't entertain much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811154 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:08:10 +0000 Smurfette 811154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: Yeah we were tight last night with 7 adults and 2 kids. Had 3 folding chairs since we only have 6 chairs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811147 Mon, 27 May 2013 12:04:00 +0000 mrs. bird 811147@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: oooo, good point! We can have 8 ppl/ 10 if squished in at our dining room table right now, so I guess we'd have to do an extra table that could, in therory, have different plates... I think it might still bother me though :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811134 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:56:24 +0000 Smurfette 811134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We only have every day dishes. Have 12, which so far is plenty cause we can't have more then that at our table! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811126 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:51:46 +0000 pui 811126@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have our normal dishes which are not really even a set.</p> <p>We also have our fancy dishes, which is one of the presents i most wanted on our wedding gift registry!! We use them for at home "date nights" and special occasions like guests and holidays. We have 12 place settings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811119 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:46:02 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 811119@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We skipped the fancy dishes. We have a complete set of 6 C&amp;B everyday dishes (bowls, plates, mugs etc). I bought additional plates last Thanksgiving. If hosting functions at our home becomes the norm I will buy more of everything. I have an old set of dishes I use when I need a few extra. DH likes using paper plates and plastic forks and knives anyway, so we usually don't run out of dishes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811111 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:41:56 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 811111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: no, we have a small kitchen. Our china is stored in a china cabinet in another part of our house! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811101 Mon, 27 May 2013 11:35:59 +0000 mrs. bird 811101@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: you must have a big kitchen! Jealous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-811000 Mon, 27 May 2013 10:32:15 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 811000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we have 16 place settings for our china and 12 for our regular every day dishes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810968 Mon, 27 May 2013 10:11:11 +0000 mrs. bird 810968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: extra glasses are genius! i am a freak and much prefer to drink out of square glasses. my favorite cups are these big clear green plastic ones i got at target that have square bases and i've yet to find a glass equivalent, but you better believe when i do, i will buy them by the dozen! =D</p> <p>@MarieJ: if we had real china, it would still be boxed too! haha. we use as our everyday plates, so they get used all the time, but we haven't opened some of the additional pieces- like the pasta set. </p> <p>@Foodnerd81: we have a C&amp;B set that was mine from before DH (haha, i guess getting married after 25 means you come with more baggage, in every sense =D ) i looooved it, but it didn't hold up well &amp; the glaze on most has cracked and many chipped =( i guess you could say we have a decent sized family- DH has 2 siblings &amp; a BIL, i have just one not yet married sibling, and both sets of parents, i assume the 2 unmarried siblings will both marry in the next few years &amp; we plan on having 2-3 kids, but sometimes people do different dishes for the kids. now i'm leaning toward 16 place settings.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810960 Mon, 27 May 2013 10:03:17 +0000 Foodnerd81 810960@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: My mom only let us use Tupperware glasses, so I have no idea! :) But I think it depends on the glasses-- some are thicker and heavier, so less likely to tip over, and if they tip, less likely to break, where the ones we chose are a little thinner and more delicate, so if they tip, yeah, they stand a good chance of breaking. Plus, we had Formica counters growing up and we have quartz or granite here, so it's harder and again, more likely to break them. </p> <p>All that to say-- yeah, I don't know. We haven't broken THAT many but I think we need to get some plastic ones for when LO gets here. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810957 Mon, 27 May 2013 10:00:00 +0000 Bluebonnet 810957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12 place settings of our everyday dishes and 12 place settings of china. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810956 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:59:35 +0000 .twist. 810956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Do you find they break more now a days? I swear when I was a kid we had the same set of glasses for my entire childhood. In fact, I think my mom still has some of the original ones. I think in a year or so I'll need to either get another replacement box (if the set still exists) or replace our glasses. Which I don't want to do because I LOVE ours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810949 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:55:00 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 810949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 8 of our good china. We intend to buy 4 more settings and some more serving pieces. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810946 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:52:06 +0000 heartonastring 810946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12 of our everyday dishes and 12 of our good china. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810945 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:52:01 +0000 Foodnerd81 810945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have good china-- when we were registering, we made a deal that we'd get a not super expensive set once we have a big house, which won't be for a few more years. But our everyday stuff we have 10 and that works for now. It was discontinued by C&amp;B so there is no replacing things that break, but they are pretty heavy duty and they are casual. </p> <p>For good stuff-- how big is your family? If you have a really large family, I feel like it would make sense to buy extras, but if it will be the very rare occasion that you have a lot of people coming, it probably matters less. Then again... things do break! </p> <p>@.twist.: We've bought extra glasses and I'm glad we did. In my experience, glasses break way more often than plates. But we have WAY too many glasses in general-- went a little nuts registering, and people love to gift fun bar glasses! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810943 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:51:13 +0000 MarieJ 810943@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 8 place settings of china my mother gifted us for our wedding in 2011. The box is still unopened....oops! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810939 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:49:58 +0000 aprk 810939@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 12, but half of it is in storage </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810936 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:41:35 +0000 citymouse 810936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We didn't register for china, but my MIL has been gifting it to us slowly for Christmas gifts. Currently, we only have 4! I would say 12-16 is an ideal number for us! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810935 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:40:39 +0000 .twist. 810935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. bird: seriously! I found an amazing set of glasses a few years ago and bought an extra box *just in case*, well, wouldn't you know it we've had to use quite a few of the extra box glasses because of people breaking them! It's helped out SO MUCH. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810934 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:40:23 +0000 Mrs. Twine 810934@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I only have ten of our good stuff, but it was my great-grandmother's so it is very hard to get additional settings. I have 16 of our everyday and like having that much. It's good for entertaining and not stressing if any break, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810929 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:37:20 +0000 mrs. bird 810929@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: that's another reason I was thinking of ordering another one! DH looked at me like I was a little crazy when I said maybe we should have 16 just in case we break some in the future and can't replace them (I know Lenox has a replacement program, but still, at some point they must run out!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810903 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:19:32 +0000 .twist. 810903@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have 8. However, I wish I would have gotten 12. I have contemplated going back because our set is still in the stores, but I've just been lazy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-many-place-settings-do-you-have#post-810899 Mon, 27 May 2013 09:17:35 +0000 mrs. bird 810899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>how many place settings of your dishes do you have? </p> <p>our lenox 'china' (it was considered fine china by the stores i think because it's bone china, but they aren't at all fancy, we use them as our ever day dishes, they're white) we have 8 place settings. i just found more on amazon warehouse for 75% off so i ordered another set of 4. that'll bring us up to 12, but i'm wondering if 16 would be better..... mostly for holidays in the future if we host. </p> <p>how many place settings do you have? what do you think an ideal number would be? </p>