How many sets of silverware do you have and maybe my condo

A bit more up north, but of course I am up north longer.

@DianneN - We receive friends time by time and 2 services are enough. Florida is too hot inland.

@DianneN - Most of the glasses and dishes we had in Switzerland needed to be hand washed, but I sold them all. I do not want to spend too much time washing and cleaning anymore. The temperature here is more or less the same we had in Switzerland, never too cold in winter and never too hot in summer. We do not even need air conditioning, we had the woods behind our windows.

2 would be ideal for me in Florida. I only have a service for 8 and it’s stainless steel. I don’t like the design, because it’s too contemporary for my taste. Hubs wanted to choose it, because he said I chose everything up north myself. Thank you. I doubt very much we’d be here if we were inland. We get a beautiful breeze off the water and lots of action.

@DianneN ..........I would love having the woods in my backyard. But that's just me. I love trees and mountains. Yes, very important to keep them.

Imagine my surprise when the photo actually showed up! I love the water and wish I had it in my backyard up north instead of the woods. Oh, well. All of the good stuff has to be washed by hand. Decisions is right.

@celticeagle I agree, and have had them all my life. But water seems to be my thing. There are many, many trees in Florida and not all palms.

@DianneN — dessert, I’m allergic to flowers.

I’m on my way! Would you like flowers or dessert?

@FourWalls Ok. So no flowers for you! Dessert it is!

@DianneN I had a set in Colorado that was high priced and the design wore off.

@jstory07 Ours was fairly inexpensive and shiny. It’s showing scratches all over them now.

I seem to need another set here. Our stainless steel service of 8 is getting old as well.

@DianneN Hidden away.

@wolfgirl569 Got it!

Happy you like it. What do you mean put up? For sale?

@DianneN I wish I leave that close to the water.

I only have a service for 8. It’s too contemporary for me and stainless steel. When I have guests, I never have more than 6 people at once here. I had to run the dishwasher just to have clean silverware for the guests, but I included a pot, pot lid, and a measuring cup to justify it Thanks so much. I love being so close to the water. We are a short ride, walk, or bike ride to our center of town and very close to main roads and highways to get anywhere in Florida. We put in a pool at our last house up north, but hubs didn’t want one when we moved. We have too many critters that would come out of the woods and probably drown, not to mention the leaves.

@DianneN

That’s the same as what I was talking about. Stainless steel would be called a silverware set or some call them place settings here. That’s what I have in Florida. lol

@DianneN yes, I do.

Thank you, we do love being by the water. I’m sure you treasure that set that your grandmother bought you.

Lots of water for sure and we’ve never had a hurricane here - yet! I agree with running out of silver before the dishes. We only have a service for eight and had to run an almost empty dishwasher before our guests arrived yesterday. I guess you would need all that plastic ware for your large family, so I would say it counts.

@DianneN I do occasionally miss the days of setting a nice table with a pretty tablecloth, fine china and the sterling silver. But, it's not practical anymore with my large family so we always have to do buffet so all that plasticware and heavy duty chinette plates come in handy. Every once in awhile I tell my daughter we should eat dinner on the fine china and use the sterling

@Marilynda1225 I certainly understand. My grandson brought a friend from school last Thanksgiving. We squeezed him in at the table, but I sent hubs out this year to buy pretty dinner and dessert dishes which just needed tossing into the trash afterwards. It saved a lot of time handwashing the china. However, the rest of the table was set beautifully. I’m sure when my family grows a bit more, I will do the same as you. I say the same thing to my husband! What the heck are we saving it for?

@thelme55

That’s similar to what I have except for the 4 piece. Yes, we need them to go into the dishwasher! I told hubs I was going to throw my 8 piece stainless steel set into the water so the fish can use them. I’m sick of looking at them

@DianneN Dishwasher is really a good help especially when I am baking. Do you think the fish will use them Just give away what you don’t like anymore.

Thanks. The pewter has Fleur de lis on it which goes with my pewter tiles in my floor and backsplash tiles in my kitchen. The bummer is that it has to be hand washed, but just now, I have decided to use it more when we go north. Most of the time we only use a spoon or fork and a knife.

@DianneN You're very welcome.

@thedevilinme Could very well be. My aunts, cousins, and hubby’s parents did the same.

You’d be surprised. Most of the residents are full timers, and the rest are snowbirds who own their condos. We are actually Florida residents and owners, but consider ourselves snowbirds, too.

@DianneN when I was living in Miami for a year having an outrageous time I recall it was the old Jewish ladies that were the official snowbirds and the rest were snowchicks ;-)

Many thanks. I certainly understand why you don’t entertain much and it is a lot of work. However, I love it.

@DianneN I can't be doing with it anymore I do like being entertained though. I love that lol

@Ineeddentures

Thanks. I love the pool and the ocean the most and get in both.

Thanks. I would like a storage locker. The storage they give us isn’t very large.

Yes, 72 units on the south side (my side) and 72 units in the north side where my brother and sis in law are. She just flew down today for 2 weeks.

I may or may not make do with the service for 8 that we have. The sets up north go with various dinner dish sets. Yes, I have several of those, too. It’s this beautiful almost every single day here, although we do need some rain.