Anyone else wish they had a dining table for special occasions

[Meetmeunderthemoonlight]

Happy Easter 🐣

Just going to make beef and red wine stew for dinner tonight, chucking everything in the slow cooker as trying to have a low effort relaxing day. It's made me realise again how much I would love to have a dining table for occasions like Easter, Christmas, Valentine's, Birthdays. My house is small with no room for one, but oh how I would love to set a table to sit at for nice occasions. Just having a slight moan really.

Do you have a garden? Could always bring in a garden table with tablecloth etc for events like Christmas & Easter. I am living in a flat at the moment and we have 2 high bar stools for the worktop which works ok, but my daughter and I just eat on our lap. Buying a house in the summer and I am going to buy a table, but largely for when visitors come over. I’ll probably continue to eat on my lap most of the time.

I'm very pleased you know my layout better than I do. I will immediately install a dining table

That's a good idea. I think you'll see the benefits quite quickly.

Ok boomer

No need to rude. We are trying to help you find solutions.

Have I asked for solutions?
I'm happy with my small home and lack of dining table, hence my posting to prove that tables are not a basic minimum requirement for life.

oh I don't do anything sensible with them.

Love my dining table. My husband built it so super cheap as I wanted a big one and they were all thousands in the shops. We can seat 10 comfortably and 12-14 at a push. Great for when we have guests for Christmas or events

Do you have any outdoor space so you could use your nice settings outdoors when it’s warmer? We don’t have a kitchen table (it’s tiny!) but do have a dining room table which sits 6 at a squish and I enjoy it.

I have a dining table for 8 and the last time it was full was 13 years ago.
It's now home to GCSE revision.
How I wish it was full of people. I truly miss those days.

Are you for real?

Did you have to add “utterly delusional” though? Clearly you were just being rude.

Hilarious - @Meetmeunderthemoonlight posted at 14.52 yesterday, explaining that when she redecorated she’d prioritised a huge sofa, and hadn’t been aware of fold up table options. (She also has a spare room that could have been a dining room but is now her husbands’s bedroom - she doesn’t say why that is. Perhaps he’s ill and needs a separate space? Perhaps it’s just a choice.

She doesn’t sound desperately poor, or savage …

But scarcely a single person has referred to her post since then. Just endless descriptions of your dining table set ups.

Absolutely. It's what we use for occasional/temporary need for more dining space. They are kept in the eaves space and obviously have other uses. Why not?

And why so aggressive in the middle of the night?

@SunnyKoalaits shock at the level of oblivious entitlement rather than aggression.

This thread shows such a lack of awareness. An increasing issue on MN.

As for the weird being the middle of the night remark, some people work nights....

Entitled to what? How?