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3 days, 3 shattered glasses...think it's time for something new!
Every day for the last 3 days DDs have dropped drinking glasses and they have SHATTERED (I mean like pyrex, itty bitty pieces). Tonight was the only injury...9yo got a cut on her foot when the glass flew across the floor, she'll live, but she's playing it up BIG! We've had this set for 12 years (my Dad gave it to us when we married) and we have vinyl tile that most things bounce off of, so I'm thinking they've seen a few too many dishwasher racks.
Just so happens...I'll be at Disney World this weekend with a little Christmas pocket money... You KNOW what I'm thinking...
What kind of glassware do you have and how long have you had it? Has it held up well? (and should I spring for some new glasses or should we just resort (pun intended) to WDW mugs??? )
My everyday "glassware" is Tupperware glasses that I've had for about 1000 years. For other than the day to day meals I have an assortment of stemware that hangs in the pantry. Then there's the really good stemware that is stored in cushioned boxes in the attic! One of these years I'll get it down and see how many glasses the Grands can shatter!
Have a great time at WDW. It sounds as if the pocket money will be spent wisely
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Every day glasses are not - they're Tupperware.
For "good" glasses, I have some old, old "Libbey" glasses that my grandparents had.
I think that's it. I probably could use some really good glasses - or some regular ones - I'm about done with the Tupperware and Corelle stage - kids don't drop much anything anymore.
We have glass drinking glasses that were a wedding gift....Alex has his own set of small plastic cups. We just lost our first glass...I'm thinking after another loss, it'll be time for a new set....I can deal with one broken/missing glass, but two will send my orderly sensibilities into a tizzy and I'll have to replace them!
DH broke every one of our first set of drinking glasses. Since then, we've been using acrylic tumblers. We have a few "glasses" from my POM iced tea drinks, but nothing I've bought to replace the old glasses. No breakage of the tumblers yet!
We have some glasses that we've had for a long time, but have only broken one. We'll use those for when we have guests for dinner or something, which isn't very often. Otherwise, we don't use them unless we are behind on the dishes and don't have any clean cups.
Once Emilie started toddling around (so, about 5 1/2 years ago), we stopped using glass glasses and started using Tupperware tumblers.
With three kids 9 & under plastic cups and tumblers are the everyday glasses here. I do have some glasses in a box in my china cabinet but I haven't dared to bring them out in years. We rarely have anyone over for a formal dinner usually just pizza and a visit so plastic cups work just fine for us
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MY DH has never met a glass he hasn't broken. So, I do have "good" drinking glasses (as my mother would say - she was always saving things "for good"), which I hide in a cabinet. When guests come, I pull these out - cut glass, heavy and very pretty. In the kitchen where kids and DH grab for glasses - a potpouri of things that don't match.
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Maybe I'm weird.....we don't use much cups/glasses. I always drink out of my resort mug (what can I say?) and the kids always drink out of juice boxes/Capri Suns/cans.
For the times they drink OJ/milk/juice they'll pour it in plastic cups I have, mostly those big huge plastic Coke cups from Subway.....I used to collect them. Can't stand broken glass on the floor!
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Since then, we've been using acrylic tumblers. We have a few "glasses" from my POM iced tea drinks, but nothing I've bought to replace the old glasses. No breakage of the tumblers yet! 
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