@CountingDown: Wrong thread. You should be using an InstantPot. 
Favorite wedding gifts: beautiful picnic basket which we still use often; set of Royal Dalton Cambridge china for 12; hand-embroidered placemats/napkins set from bridesmaid; Zwilling Henkels carving set from college friends; $100 (a lot of $ in 1981) tucked in my husband’s pocket to use for a “nice dinner on our honeymoon” from a college friend. Wierdest: handpainted zodiac drawing for bride and groom. Oddest thing: we got seven ice buckets and 3 different cocktail books…
Useless wok??? I just prepared dinner in our mid-80s wok and also used our rice steamer, same age, same wedding, gifts of different guests. The electric '80s wok has been joined by a stove top version which I purchased. I use the wok(s) multiple times a week.
I have wedgelood/Amherst also. If someone was talking about something very similar, I remember there being a very similar pattern ages ago, but I’m thinking it had more blue.
I probably use it even less than my Orrefors Prelude glasses, but I’m glad I have both. I had a very small wedding, and that’s pretty much all I suggested people get us if asked. My ex mother in law worked at Woodies (anyone else remember that store - really Woodward & Lothrop), and she got a discount, so got us a fair amount.
I remember Woodies.
Married 30 yrs. and still use the electric heating tray DH’s grandfather gave us. My other favorite (though at the time we received it, I thought it was ridiculous) is a kitchen step stool. I use it everyday. Least favorite, a gravy boat with a pattern that didn’t match any of my dishes. The aunt who gave me that was a notorious re-gifter.
I have two woks. 
I mostly use one, but sometimes both come in handy. Come to think of it, I also have a flat-bottomed wok that I don’t think of as a wok. I use that too, but not for Chinese food. More for greens sauteed in olive oil and garlic, that kind of thing.
Apparently I am the person who actually uses all of the items deemed useless by others, LOL.
What I don’t have is a set of fancy AllClad pots and pans or the like. (Not that I wouldn’t like one, don’t get me wrong!) I have a mishmash of things acquired over the years, ranging from an aluminum pot plucked off the street in Brooklyn Heights through my mother’s old Revereware, through Dansk copper, Williams Sonoma copper, Le Creuset, Lodge cast iron, and doG knows what acquired from restaurant supply places and TJMaxx.
I think your system works better than a matched set of cookware, @Consolation. Different products for different needs and cooking methods.
I agree about the mishmash. That said, I finally bought All Clad a few years ago. I am still
amazed. I have cook with some pretty sketchy cookware over the years and still did well but,
well, All Clad is worth the $$$$$,
Just to mention, I have a built in 2500 BTU wok…
And a few stovetop ones.
We receive a set of steak knifes with cherry wood handles. We use them very often and they
are beautiful. But 30 of our 35 years I cooked vegetarian so they were not really used.
No wedding = no wedding gifts. 
We got to buy whatever we wanted!! Like a Weber grill and a steam oven. Only took us 25+ years of marriage to be able to splurge on that stuff.
But I really enjoy reading about everyone else’s hits and misses.
We have a mishmash of pots and pans, too. Nothing super pricey. DH got some new pans from Costco a couple months ago. Took us four years to decide to do that. Still have our original knives, though they need to be replaced. They were a group gift from several of our still-in-college friends. We didn’t get much cash – most of our friends were still in or just out of college, and it was a small wedding in any event (55 people). The adult friends/relatives got us china settings to the tune of $35/placesetting at the time. We use it a few times a year, mainly for the Jewish holidays.
Our perpetual crockpot came from DH’s grandmother and great aunt, both of whom were in their eighties at the time.
My paternal grandmother had Revereware pots and pans dating from what we figure was the 30s or earlier. When we packed up her house in 1979, we found a small package of copper grommets, which one welded to the bottom of the pan as a repair. She said that one couldn’t buy new pans during WWII. That said, I have NEVER seen a Revereware pan that wore out. My parents had Revereware for decades, too. Should see if they are still around somewhere!
I still have and use the Revereware I got as a wedding present. @CountingDown Revereware as we know it was first sold in 1939. https://www.reverewareparts.com/revere-ware-history/ See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere_Ware
BTW, the founder of the original Revere company was none other than Paul Revere, who played a FAR more important role in the American Revolution than most people realize.
I had Revereware. I got a gift set from my mom’s golfing friends with pots, pans, mixing bowls and lids. I still use the mixing bowls and some of the pots and pans.
I got my mother’s Revereware. I have fond memories of it, as a youngster, but this is a case where what she no longer wanted…I didn’t either. Mine were not possible to clean enough (inside or out) and unless I cooked on very low heat, things stuck in the large pan. If I still have them, maybe someone wants them. I may have donated them.
I do have the mishmash and do have an All Clad non stick set, a gift (from the WS outlet.) Thing is, I rarely use the pots. Nowadays, who uses a whole set? I like the small fry pan and use the cast iron (maybe Martha Stewart) for a lot. And a great Jamie Oliver pot, for boiling.
I have a miss mash of cookware…including some all clad, and some other.
But one of my favorites is a very large stock pot my dad gave my mom in 1949 or so…it’s tall…not short and squat. It was the ONLY thing of my moms that I really wanted…and both of my kids seem to think they should have it too. I mean really…it’s close to 70 years old.
I never really liked revere ware,because I felt compelled to keep that copper clean. We had farberware until we gave it all away.
But none of these were wedding presents.
Brings back memories. We chose to have a small wedding- either that or the entire medical community that wouldn’t care about us… Should have invited that older specialty surgeon who gave us the bottle of champagne we drank when we opened gifts upon returning from our honeymoon. Didn’t invite my childhood different city neighbors for fear they would spend money on gifts- they got together and sent one anyway (my mom was deceased so no contact anymore). We were in our early 30’s with good jobs and didn’t need so much practical stuff young people just starting out would want.
Got zero of the registered dinner ware so we chose something else later. Love my squared Pt edges Rosenthal china but rarely use it- not dishwasher safe. Followed sibs and had my dad give us stainless instead of silver for good set- dishwasher safe!
Still have the lovely glass vase from a friend. And the Corning ware bake set still in use. Too many mixers- returned all but one. Likewise too many tea sets, but couldn’t figure out where they came from (patterns not from any store I could check)- those got put away and given away decades later- all but the one from his aunt. Some silver et al items that we were able to discard decades later.
White monogrammed towel set, yuck- and I never changed my name!
I agree with post #27 regarding changing tastes among generations. We received many gifts that reflected old tastes and what I thought I would want but we were becoming more casual by then. We gave sib’s kids money. Not memorable but practical- more than would have spent on a gift.
Non wedding gifts. Both my sister and I each still have the two aluminum 9" cake pans our brother gave us one year many decades ago. We each also have a couple of those freebie gas station steak knives from the 1960’s. And the Revere copper clad measuring cup our mom acquired for each of us via free promos- works on the stove. Waiting for MIL to be gone before donating two plain gray (Indian I presume) elephants and some other stuff put away.
One problem with so many decades of having stuff is having so much unless one purges. Plus- have so much perfectly good stuff one can’t get the prettier/better new stuff as often. But- some stuff no longer available so we hang onto it. When son got his first college apt I looked for Corelle dishes but finally decided to give him nearly half of our white sets- why spend on new when we had a lot we no longer needed with just two of us. It was a bit of a surprise a year or so ago when he apologetically told me he had broken one of the big bowls- his business, it was old and none of my concern anymore.
There is a colander we still use. And the china sometimes, but not the crystal stemware. We use the flatware. The wicker breakfast in bed tray was used just less than once.
And the crystal biscuit barrel has been resurrected as the holder for the various decaf and flavored Nespresso pods that I keep around for family but don’t use myself.
My MIL (who is wealthy) scours (I almost used the T word, lol) thrift stores for Corelle cookware because she says there is nothing better on flat top stoves.
Like most good yankees, I had revereware for many years but ditched it about a decade ago in favor of the cuisinart stainless steel-a lot of the way I cook starts on the stovetop (gas for me), and finishes in the oven. The plastic handles on the revereware drove me CRAZY. The cuisinart is all stainless-no teflon crap, no plastic. I can cook just about anything in it.
My other favorite (that my daughters also like) is the inexpensive cast iron pan from walmart. Made in the US, perfect for making an egg or two in the morning. And it keeps you from getting anemic! I think that pan may be travelling with D to college this fall (they have a community kitchen).
I am ditching our formal placesettings when we move. They just gather dust. Some Pfaltzgraff pattern that the replacements.com company has no interest in. I am keeping our champagne glasses that I found in an antique store from the 20s-I feel like Daisy Buchanan every time I drink from one :).
My mother still uses the Revere Ware pans that she got as wedding presents 65 years ago. When I was growing up they hung from a rack over the cooktop, so the bottoms had to be polished every single time you used it. If we were out of copper cleaner we scrubbed them with salt and the cut side of a half lemon.
I had Revere Ware back in the day , but I ditched it. I have mixed pieces of all -clad , cuisine art , le creuset and cast iron. No formal china ( not at all my taste ) I have some orrefors glassware / crystal which rarely gets used