Problem solving

I've spent the last three days getting the beach house ready for the boys. Several car loads of boxes have been coming down to the house for months. 

This has been a vacation home for many, many years, so it's not stocked with too many things. One of the things that did get replaced was the dinner plates.  These new oversized plates (round ones) are so big they don't fit in the dishwasher. The arrow points to the chip on the edge. The other down size is people still load the dishwasher up with them. The spinning thingy, doesn't really spin so the dishes don't really get clean. 

This is year with all the guests we have coming down, I can't see having to hand wash all the dinner plates. If I had thought of it sooner, I would have picked up a set at the Happy Dragon but instead I went to the Branches thrift store here in Monterey. I really didn't want to pay a lot, even at $1.50 each (set of 9) killed me. The new set is only a 1/4 smaller but their more a square shape so fit better in the dishwasher. 

I did bring down a set of my cow glasses since the boys no longer want to use baby type cups anymore. These have a thicker rim than the ones here at the beach house, which tend to break easily.  I've had these for years (cows were my mom's lucky charm) but I don't really need a set of 12 anymore. I'm donating them to the house since the owners were going to have to replace the missing juice glasses anyways. Win Win!