Ah! My plates, bowels, and saucers for my first… well, almost 20 years of independent living. (There was a marriage in there, but it was short and we never merged households — long story.) My mother, bless her heart wanted to have me set up after I graduated college and was on my own, so she made sure I had a full set of grocery store bonus-buy goods. Durable as rocks and twice as pretty. Alas, since these were acquired a few at a time as groceries were bought, the patterns are not, um, consistent. 😐
Three nieces, two nephews setting up house so far, no takers. <sigh>