We only have a few plates. Not enough that they need their own storage area.

Yes, of course, where else am I gonna keep my china? Older millennial, for reference.

Uh, also live in a century home (1880), so there's no closests or cupboards; the expectation is you'd have wardrobes and cabinets and other heavy storage furniture for that purpose instead of anything built-in.

Yea. A couple. I love them.

I don't keep china in them. One has a bunch of baking gear and lots of photos. The other is in the basement and is used as a pantry. Nice hard wood cabinets that will last forever in a house with woefully little storage.

Puling out the fine china for a gathering used to be a big deal. Nowadays, gatherings are less common, the cachet of owning a set of fine china is less, and when we do gather, many probably use paper plates and the like for easier cleanup.

The act of cooking for guests is considered sufficient effort, I think. And we typically value other posessions more - may I even suggest that most people already have too much stuff, so instead of a sparse house and tales of people holding on to string from packages and that string proving valuable (a tale I remember reading in a childhood schoolbook), today we have too much stuff.

No, it seems to be a "I misunderstand being an adult" thing. I witnessed all our friends who made the middle-class dream of "take neverending debt and buy a house" their reality at some point having a china-cabinet.

And I undeestand it now. For our wedding the colleagues of my wife got us those fancy wine glasses, engraved with our names. Like those crystal shiny thingies, which break when you look at them for too long. So where do you put those? Apparently that is the time, when you need to give up precious space in your home for a china-cabinet 😅. Because you better never use those glasses, but how would people know, that you're married otherwise? And I guess you get more of that shit, when you age, or something.

We have something like that with glassware in it. Much of it is from our respective parents so there's some sentimental / nostalgia value, but also we like cocktails and it's fun having stuff in different types of glasses. None of it is particularly valuable, but glass doors makes it easier to find what you're looking for and it more or less looks nice.

Yup.

Since we have a living room now (decided to stay 2 when the last roommate moved out) we have the luxury of space and my roommates parents wanted to get rid of theirs.

It has Doors with windows at the top where we actually put our China. The button cupboards are for various Household stuff (cleaning utensils, tools etc.)

No. I do not.

We were kind of expected to get china for our wedding, but we got our own we liked instead of some old one from our family. We do keep it in a cabinet. We try to use it more often when we make dinner and want to feel fancy or when we have people over for holidays or dinners. We also drink out of our wedding champagne glasses fairly often because they are our only ones and we like them. Also the bottom of the China cabinet also holds other kitchen and serving stuff.

No. Closest thing we have is a Germany Cabinet, as we bought a large set from a German manufacturer last year. It's more high end than our everyday stuff, and mostly use it when we have people over and birthdays and stuff.

When I hear "China Cabinet" I think of somewhere easily visible and with glass doors so that they're also on display when not in use. Ours ate hidden in the back along with other stuff we don't use all that often.

Imagine having so much disposable income you have dishes that you use twice a year, otherwise just on display in its own cubby, taking up space and for what. Yes this is 100% a fuckin boomer thing, and we will see more and more of the sets and the cabinets in second hand shops worldwide as they continue to finally die off.