setting a table

Daily the kitchen table is to be set and the table for dinner.After finishing the days cooking should set the kitchen table neat and clean. While to be getting to the dining after every meal the table is to be set and ready for the next meal.

I grew up setting the table, that was one of my jobs. My mom also taught me how to do a formal setting and know which fork to use with which foods. I did the same for my children, we always sat down at the table and ate together even if their dad was not going to be home until late and we had to eat alone. At 23 and 24 they are two of the few young people I know who can conduct themselves properly in any meal situation. Setting the table was part of a comfortable routine for me and my boys, as it was when I was a child. I think every child should know how to set a table both casual and formal and how to use the utensils. Mom made it fun and so did I by serving fancy foods a couple times a year to learn.

I haven't actually set a table for a long time. Right now, my kitchen table will hold three people, so when anyone comes, we fix our plates and go sit elsewhere. I will put a stack of plates and flatware on the table along with the food, so it's buffet style. I used to set it when all the kids were home (and I had a bigger table!), but then my husband would watch TV, and then he started going to the TV and carrying his plate and then he started not sitting at the table at all, and eventually the kids followed. It was pointless to set a table then.

Set what? We seldom eat at the table actually. My wife and dad eat breakfast at the table. Dad & I eat other times in the living room due to his health and my laziness I guess. HAH!!! Once every few years we have a formal set table for a holiday. But we seldom have it set formally otherwise. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

In our house no dining table is here so we arrange a small round table for eating we will purchase dining table after Diwali festival. In our house maximum two persons will eat at a time so table is good for two persons.

Wow, I haven't actually thought about that for years now. I remembered when I was a kid, my mom was teaching me the proper table setting, she assigned that duty to me. So every night I was supposed to set the table, but I was a very outdoorsy kid, so I don't get inside until it is already time for dinner, and I will rush into setting the table, that usually ends up not set. LOL! But reading what Joy said, yah, it's kinda nice to remember the old days. I actually feel more disciplined when I sat in a table with a proper setting. I think I also want to impart that in our family. Thanks Joy for the reminder. =)

Call me old-fashioned, but I still set the table that way before a meal. While we don't do formal, as in best china, it's still set in an orderly fashion. My kids grew up with setting the table, and still do it to this day. Now that I'm a gramma, my grandkids are learning to set a table too. To me, it all goes back to the 'family meal time', where everybody sits together and has a meal together and discuss the day, or whatever. I think a lot of modern families have gotten away from that, and it's a shame really, because it's a good opportunity to show the kids family unity, and family helping family. The way I was brought up, not setting the table and just letting everybody 'grab and go' was not done. Setting the table to eat was seen as more civilized and mannerly way to eat together and share a meal. I tell the kids, whatever anybody else does at their friends house is their choice and style, but here, we have our meals together, and for us, that means setting the table:-)

I can't remember the last time I set a table { I think I was a kid }. We just eat in the living room in front of the TV cause there is just the 2 of us. When my mom comes to visit we sit at the dining room table but we don't really set the table, we just grab our plates and serve ourselves and sit down and eat.....maybe have some paper towels on the table

I can honestly say that in the almost three years that we've lived over here, we have never formally set the table. Even when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner, my mother-in-law, who we always eat Thanksgiving dinner with, doesn't even set the table for the holiday. She serves everything as more of a buffet. At Christmas we don't even have a traditional dinner, but rather just grazing on different snack foods so there isn't even a need there to set the table. The last time that I remember eating dinner where the table had been formally set in someone's house was when my grandmother was still alive and she's been gone for five years.