S/O Plates - How many everyday place settings?

We have a service for 8, but I recently bought extra salad sized plates because we typically use them instead of our bigger dinner plates. I’m about to go buy extra soup/cereal bowls because we only had 6 of those to begin with, one got broken and it feels like we’re always running out before the dishwasher gets turned on (I only like to run it when it’s actually full).

ETA: We already donated all of the smaller Corelle coffee cups that matched our pattern. DH prefers some bigger 16 ounce stoneware mugs for his morning coffee.

I am in a small studio.

I could serve four if I had to. 
Appetizer sized plates, small plate - small portions. I have a set of "four of each" utensils. Two each of two different sized glasses.
I have a small (30x30) bistro style table, with two chairs (I have two stools that could be added).

In general, I am not set up for, nor do I enjoy entertaining. I do not enjoy cooking, I cook because I have to . 
If I were the "I love entertaining" type, my inventory and set up would be much different.

I have 8 settings. and 12 in my very good china.
I just inherited 2 more silver sets.. so place sets for 40? I am taking a set to use at our condo as everyday.

I have 2 sets of everyday dishes in current rotation. Each one has 8 full (5 pc) place settings. I also have 2 sets of Oneida stainless, 8 place settings each. So I could serve a total of 16 people. Only once have I had that many people in my house for a meal and it was extremely tight, so won't do that again.

If you are registering dishes that are not open stock, then my recommendation is to buy 2-4 place settings extra to cover for breakage. If it is open stock, then you should be good with just getting the number of settings you prefer. Same goes for silverware. Open stock patterns give you more flexibility for replacing lost/broken pieces.

I only had a 4 place setting - offloaded it cos I didn’t actually like it

I now have plain white - which is easily added to

But as I had 4x kids, I ended up with an 8place setting.
Nothing fancy - did I mention I had 4 kids?

We have 4 place settings of dishes but lots of silverware; I think for 12.

I have an 8 piece white setting, then a four piece black setting (dinner plates only) plus a couple of odd plates that people have left here over the years. I do not own any "good china". 

If I have any more than about 16 people here (rare), I use plastic picnic plates for the kids. 

Cutlery - who knows? Most of our forks and teaspoons mysteriously* disappeared over time, so recently DSO went to K-Mart and bought a ton of forks and teaspoons.

*I say 'mysteriously' disappeared, but it had to have been DD and DS taking them to work or into their bedroom, although both strenuously deny it.

I'd say 20 everyday, bringing it up to about 50 if you include the sets of fine china.

We have enough plates for 8.

We did the math on how many people we would actually have over for a meal. If we hosted both of our families and our kids, we would have 9 or 10 people. I feel like once we go past 6 people, we would buy paper plates since we don't have a dishwasher.

I also only have 8 seasonal plates. It's a discontinued pattern so 8 is all I'll have unless I want to spend too much on replacement.com or eBay.

Everyday plates, I'm down to 4 dinner plates after breaking 2. We have 6 luncheon plates that I use a lot also. I haven't replaced the broken ones because I have 12 china plates. My main china is very simple and I usually use that if we have company regardless of whether or not it is a special occasion. So I could serve 16 though I have no idea where as I don't have that much seating.

I have an additional 6 place settings of very good china that I use for Christmas or something like that. Also, I found my mother's wedding china packed in a box in her basement wrapped in newspaper from 1981. I guess we had both forgotten about it because it matches my home perfectly. I replaced the one lost dinner plate so that is a setting for 6 also.

I can serve up to 40 people and have all place settings match.  Anything above that, I dig out extra sets of 8 as needed, but they will be a different set.  They will coordinate, but not match.  All told, I can seat 72 for a meal - but that has only happened once or twice lol   

We were registering at both a major/metro department store and a gift shop in my smaller hometown, so we registered for 6 place settings of dishes/silverware at the smaller store and 10 at the larger. We ended up at something like 12-14 sets of each, and it's been great. I do have a smaller set of inherited antique glassware but no other silverware. I'm not a big entertainer, but I don't think I'd want more of the everyday stuff except as replacements. The silverware we have is about what fits nicely in the little drawer divider when it's all clean. We have bought more of the dishes to replace damaged pieces, but we keep it to about the same number in the cupboard because again, that's what fits nicely.

My everyday stuff is Mikasa, and one thing we have added and I wish I had sooner is a matching 4 place settings of melamine. It was nice to get rid of all the mixed size weird kid dishes but still have something I didn't have to worry about crashing to the floor if the kid dropped it. One thing I might have skipped is the serving pieces. I don't hate them, but I reach for clear pyrex dishes that have flat lids first, because I can just pop a lid on and stack them in the fridge, instead of having to use plastic wrap or a domed lid that doesn't allow for stacking.

Well, I f I were you I wouldn't care what others have, I would think about what I need. How big s your family? Do you have a lot of family members likely to get married and have kids? Do you even like to entertain?

I have dinnerware and placesettings for 30 and use them regularly now rhat our family has grown but as newlyweds the 8 place settings we had were sufficient

We have a set of 8 large plates/small plates/cereal bowls/flat bowls in white. We also have 4 black plates. We have a set of 16 flatware.