To not understand this obsession with seasonal china?

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I am sick of this obsession with season china which seems to infect people like a bug come every Christmas, Easter, etc. Next thing you know, we will have MayDay China, August Breaks China. and the like. What does it tell you?
That the owner of said china has a really large kitchen with enough cupboard space to store china for every kind of festivity?

That you have so much money that when you have bought your "daily" dinner and breakfast set, your "NICE" dinner and breakfast, and coffee and tea set, you progress to Christmas dinner sets and cake platters with cheerful mice with funny hats on, and little mini santas eating porridge from a wooden tray perched on a fence. Then you opt for garish yellow and light green china, with little ducklings and eggs. WHY?

Why does the world NEED yellow and lime china with ducks and eggs? You use it for ONE WEEKEND of the year?

Get a grip, and stick to plain china. No ducks. No mice. No little pygmes with long white beard and pots with porridge.

and whats the deal with the toby jug?

ok, I feel better now.

As you were.

Oh I like habitat for really quirky crockery.
I've got a huge mix of things, none is remotely seasonal though.

I do however have a set of London Toile crockery that is never ever used. I just take it out and smile at it occasionally.

We've got a set of white china that I use for 'best', when someone comes for dinner or lunch. Day to day we use a load of mismatched oddities. DD has a special plate that she decorated and had fired. Stupidly I put it into the dishwasher and now it has faded. I told her it was the sun how the sun could shine into a cupboard didn't bother her.
Switzerland seems to have a lot of seasonal china, currently the shops are full of pale green and lemon stuff, probably for spring because the easter gear is chicks and rabbits. I won't buy any of it to my dd's horror.

I don't have any seasonal stuff. Just one set of plain white stuff (full set including serving dishes), which only comes out at Christmas etc. Everyday stuff is a bit of a pick 'n' mix.....stuff from my mum, DH's mum & Ikea. I have got a nice set of mugs that come out when people visit.

I have got some seasonal tea towels. DSs bought them as a Christmas present when they were small. That's what you get when DH is in charge of buying 'something for mummy'. I can't bin them so I pack them away with the decorations every year!

The Americans seem to go for this a lot, if Crate & Barrel are to be believed - Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Spring, July 4, Summer, Fall etc.

Myself I quite like the odd piece (Xmas mugs, a festive dish or two) but lack of storage definitely limits my lunacy to items I really love. Yanks must have huge amounts of storage.

Need some new things and just came across this and quint I immediately thought of you.

Simply perfect

a seasonal cruet set??????????? this is getting insane

I am a clayhead and ceramics are my thing...

I have a Port Meirion Christmas set, a Wedgwood china dinner service, some Wedgwood stoneware, more Port Meirion, some Denby...I could go on.

I barely own any first quiality, all seconds and some inherited (seconds).

I LOVE it.

I was in the Royal Copenhagen shop in Copenhagen (unsurprisingly) recently, and when I had finished lusting over their Blue Denmark (I have the Habitat version which was wedding present china 30 years ago, but used everyday), I also looked at their Christmas porcelain. It's lovely, but I couldn't justify it, so I bought a mug and some little angels on a spindle that rotate when you light a tea light underneath.

I'm dreading the day my MIL pops her clogs. Through a set of circumstances which means she is the only female in her generation of the family, and then her having had two boys, we are looking at around 14 full tea sets that will be coming my way. Very rigid etiquette where every woman had her own tea set, and they were passed down the female line. They are all in boxes in her loft and I have no idea what we will do with them

I really wanted seasonal bedding this year. Naice 100% cotton, king size stuff. I couldn't find any and still have a lingering sense of disappointment. I may need help.

I have Christmas china (and Christmas bedding). A set for 8 really doesn't take up that much room! I like it; looks beautiful on the Christmas dinner table. I wasn't aware it was 'aspirational' or that I may be judged for it. (And I have 2 seasonal cruet sets )

I have seasonal Christmas china inherited from my mother. To my knowledge it's been used every Christmas since the early 1950s. I love using it and if it makes me posh, so be it!

I have red transferware which I collect for pennies at car boot sales and charity shops. Each piece has a story but none is valuable.
It gets used at Christmas and appeals to my feelings of tradition, thrift and connection with the past.

I have nice Christmas plates with snowmen on them I bought a good few years ago in Morrisons, I don't call them China, it's not a set and I'm certainly not posh! We use them on Christmas Day and then up New Years dinner and then they get packed away with the Christmas decorations up the loft. Wouldn't call it an "obsession" either, we just like them!