AmberGretchen
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Hey ladies - so I took a study break last night to have dinner with my mom at a place near our apartment (hey, gotta eat, right?), and we were walking back to the car and walked by a Goodwill, and I saw some pretty china in the window so we decided to go in on a lark just to check it out. A little background here: FI and I had a really hard time finding patterned china we liked so we just registered for very plain stuff with simple platinum rims (see pic below) and figured we could get accent pieces as we found them later on. Anyway, so mom and I check out this china, and its a 95 piece set for $71, so I figure even if FI doesn''t love it like I do, we can sell it on Craigslist and recoup what we spent at least, and it was all in fairly good to impeccable condition. The set included everything but dinner plates - large and small bowls, salad plates, bread and butter plates, cups and saucers, and a butter dish. So I get it home and I checked it out online and it turns out its a discontinued pattern from Noritake called Marywood. Then I looked at replacement costs in case we wanted to supplement with dinner plates, and I was totally blown away. At the absolute cheapest website I could find what we got last night for $71 would have cost about $3500!!! So, needless to say I am pretty excited, and it was even prettier today in the sunlight when I served FI breakfast on it. I''m still trying to figure out if its porcelain or bone china or what and what the metal is, so maybe someone on here can enlighten me on that. In the meantime, here are some pics of a few of the items, and at the bottom, the set we registered for which will be perfect to mix and match with!