You and your dining table
@allknowing (153544)
India
October 13, 2024 7:01pm CST
Our dining table is an all purpose dining table . Besides eating, it is used as a writing table. Visitors sometimes sit around it not to eat but to have a nice conversation.
Our dining table is always cluttered with things that are used on a daily basis - mobiles,and stuff.
Do you always eat together?
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Oct 24
Not many eat together these days I have a computer table next to the dining table, from where I can see my kitchen, and also the tv. and ofcourse the other part of the hall
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
15 Oct 24
@rakski Our hall is pretty big and at the extreme corner is my computer space
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Oct 24
TV time is snack time for me in the evenings.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Oct 24
Occasionally you should try and get all together as it is such a nice thing to sit, chat and eat together
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Oct 24
We do that too and then back to square one
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
14 Oct 24
@allknowing My husband is the one who clutters more.
My husband is the one who clutters more.1 person likes this
@RevivedWarrior (3853)
• India
14 Oct 24
Eating is always at the dining table. However, do not keep the dining table cluttered most of times. One reason is apart from the eating , dining table is also where we write on books , sometimes work on laptops .Besides, we do not want to clutter it as most guests post living room , comes to dining table and keeping it untidy causes havoc at last minute to keep it tidy. Seeing it cluttered , would not make you feel like eating over there. So, yes the dining table is a multi purpose place where not just eating , but perhaps most of life happens in house after living room , bedrooms and kitchen.
@allknowing (153544)
• India
15 Oct 24
The dining table is indeed 
a multi purpose place.
a multi purpose place.1 person likes this
@somewitch (1470)
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14 Oct 24
We use the dining table for cooking mostly, the kitchen has countertops but there are activities such as chopping that feel nice to do while sitting. It's a dining table but it's in the kitchen, so it's also a kitchen table. There is another one in the living room but we hardly ever eat there, only on special occasions.
I usually eat with the whole family on weekends, and with my father in the evening.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
15 Oct 24
When I was holidaying in the US I had spent a few days with my nephew and they too had a small dining table in the kitchen but a formal one in the hall which they used when there were guests.
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
15 Oct 24
I do not have a dining table. There is just not enough room in my apartment. If I had one, I would have to get rid of my bookcase and the China hutch my late mother left me. That means more to me. I usually have a little TV tray table that I set up for me. I rarely have anyone over for dinner, but the times I had my parents or best friend I just gave them a TV tray too.
@allknowing (153544)
• India
16 Oct 24
May be when you lived with your parents there was the dining table and you all must have sat together for your meals
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@AmbiePam (120533)
• United States
16 Oct 24
@allknowing Oh yes, definitely. It was a dining table they had received for a wedding present. It was made so well, with such timeless style, that they never had to get a new one. It wasn’t until my dad remarried and she brought her own dining table that a change was made. But my mom always insisted we eat at the table, and my stepmom prefers that too.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
16 Oct 24
@AmbiePam Those are great memories to cherish
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@jstory07 (148701)
• Roseburg, Oregon
14 Oct 24
We always eat together and the dining room is a multi purpose table.
@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Oct 24
For most it is a multi purpose table which in other words means that is a family space
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@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
15 Oct 24
Since it's just me and my mother, we don't use the dining table. My boyfriend does become our guest, but we still don't use the dining table.
@JESSY3236 (22199)
• United States
18 Oct 24
@allknowing We usually eat in the living room on the couch or in chairs.
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