I do use my china. It was my grandmother's. Shocked everyone by giving it to me as a wedding gift. Gma received the start of it for her wedding and received plates for every anniversary until she had 16 dinner plates. Unfortunately the factory was bombed in the war and she was never able to complete her settings. It is priceless and worthless. I love it very much and even though such things are not really part of what my children's generation does, I hope that my daughter will keep it in the family and pass it along to her granddaughter some day.