Dishes?

I found an absurd deal on porcelain dishes at Canadian Tire during the boxing week sale.

$9.99 for a set of 16 dishes, plain white. If you're keeping track, that's about $0.56 per item; and the customer reviews are all very good. Quelle bargoon!

Here's what they look like:

We picked up 4 boxes, for a total of 16 place settings*. Overkill perhaps, but we'll need them when there's a crowd visiting, and this way I'll have spares if we happen to bounce one of 'em off the kitchen floor.

Much better than these hodgepodge jobbies:

Of course, now I have more mugs than brains.

Coffee, anyone?

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*And  no, I didn't just pick up dishes. I bought a kitchen scale, a hockey gear drying rack, yards and yards of Christmas gift wrap, some festive paper plates and napkins, and batteries. Because it was all on sale. Thank you crappy tire for emptying my wallet.