I have china that I don't use because it's awkward to get it in and out of the hutch. It's awkward to get it in and out of the hutch because it is angled funny, and the door opens into a corner. The hutch is angled funny in the corner because the homebrew carboys have to sit right there by it. The homebrew carboys are right there because when they weren't, I bumped my toes on them. And the bumped toes finally, were unacceptable.

So we use the other china, which lives on an open shelf, and sitting there in the open, it gets dusty if it sits there very long, so we try to use all of it routinely, even if it isn't the right size.

I suppose this is what people mean when they say "Life is full of compromises."