There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange.
Every once in a while you’d get a toy or a household appliance that would be a bright neon colour and it would be considered hi tech advanced fancy stuff (until it broke the next day).
Nowadays you’d have to look hard for dark brown/orange drab stuff. They make dark brown/orange stuff but it usually is made of a veneer of fancy wood and it’ll cost you an arm and a leg. (And then it breaks the very next day)
yeah that makes sense, my grandma only ever uses the good china for christmas and that’s it. the only reason she’d whip it out twice in a year would indeed be if the pope came to visit her
at least with the china she’s already getting out the dishes. with the plastic, I have no idea how long it would take to strip the furniture, but it’s not a quick process lol. it was so strange.