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Arg! #@$% I am DONE with glass cups!
I have been sweeping one up a week it seems because we have tile in the kitchen and I am GOING MAD I TELL YOU!!!!!!
I have some enamel (the camping cups.. it's enamel right?) cups but those are chipping... arg!! Is that safe? It is mostly around the rim!
Ideas??? Help! I don't want to go back to plastic!
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would corelle cups work? They're pretty hardy but when they do shatter....well they shatter into millions of pieces; or mason jar type glasses?
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I gave up and went back to plastic cups for the kids. It wasn't so much the sweeping that bothered me...it was the slivers I missed when sweeping but found when walking that irritated me!
We have ceramic tile in the kitchen and wood flooring everywhere else. The kids broke every jelly jar cup and mason jar cup we had. Then they started breaking the adult glasses. We got down to 2 glasses.
So I went and bought 12 more adult glasses and 6 small kid cups (plastic) for 60cents a piece.
I had some enamelware mugs for the kids thinking they were the perfect solution but dd said she didn't like them because they made her drinks taste funny. I took a sip of her drink and it did taste funny. I dumped out the drink and noticed a small chip where the bottom of the mug joins the side on the inside. So now we only use them for snacks...popcorn and such.
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I went to goodwill and found those old jelly jars with characters on them... we use those. I think we have broken one. We have two plastic sippies... one for bed, and one for the car. She does really well with them... I also limited eating to the dining room for my own sanity. (Well, most of the time, I can't say I just limited it becuase we ate popcorn in front of the tv last night... lol)... anyway, I have had those cups drop on concrete and not break or chip. They were the best $6 I ever spent!
lol...and we've lost about 3dozen of those jelly jars over the last several years. They usually break into big chunks without too many small slivers. Here recently there was a broken glass every single day for almost 2 weeks. I couldn't take it anymore.
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We have been using mason jars and those are the ones we keep breaking. I think DH is the only who hasn't! LOL! We all have butter fingers! I miss my wood floor in the old house!! I just can't see replacing perfectly foo tile y/k? I have also read tile is also pretty healthy so theres another reason I want to leave it even though it's not my first choice.
Is corelle like Corning ware? We have plates and those have shattered into little shards on the tile. Luckily we have only lost one of those in seven months *knowck on wood*
thanks ladies
edited to add: If I have to use plastics cups for the kids are there safer plastics that don't break down as much with washing?
Yeah, and kimberly, remember when that dish broke? I'm still finding pieces in deep dark corners when I'm over there. And those shards are razor sharp. Honestly I'd go look for the old fashioned camping ones. the ones that are just tin or something. any problems with those?
I woulds thought the enameled ones are fine, because they are porceline. Porcelin can vary in content, but it's basically baked earth of some kind. although they do get pretty hi-tech with it nowadays.
What about some area rugs in your kitchen. It may help to define the areas better anyway?
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Originally posted by Dannielle I gave up and went back to plastic cups for the kids. It wasn't so much the sweeping that bothered me...it was the slivers I missed when sweeping but found when walking that irritated me!
UGH! Me too! There was one week where ds broke 4 glases in one week. My dh got a sliver of glass in his foot and was not too pleased. I was so fed up, I went out and bought those Tupperware kids cups with the lids on top that have a hole for a straw. They are plastic, but I don't let his water sit around in them all day. I always give him fresh water when he wants a drink.
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My kiddos drink out of coffee mugs. They have dropped them several times but only the handle breaks if it breaks at all. We do have vinyl flooring but coffee mugs are pretty thick and I can't see them shattering even on tile. Also, they are super cheap at garage sales resale shops and stuff. IMO (and I am not super crunchy- just love reading this forum ) The plastic cups have a nasty texture that starts to shred a little around the rims after a while. I can't stand drinking out of them so I don't make the kids. We do have 2 plastic cups that used to be sippy cups (we lost the lids) I use those sometimes if the kids seem to be in a clumsy mood. For the car I have plastic sports bottles that I get free at different events (they have advertsing on them). I throw them away when they get nasty.
You can get stainless steel ones like the ceramic camping ones.....metal, with no coating, kwim? Just "tin" like stainless ones.....(o: I prefer these over all else.
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Originally posted by ~Denise~ You can get stainless steel ones like the ceramic camping ones.....metal, with no coating, kwim? Just "tin" like stainless ones.....(o: I prefer these over all else.
I think that's what I am going to have to go with and try out.. I don't have a choie. Anything that hits this floor breaks.. I don't think coffie cups will survive but I do think they would break in larger pc so that would be better but still....
I think i will look for those cups Denise
I can totally sympathize. When I am pregnant I have butterfingers really bad..and we had ceramic tile everywhere. dd drinks out of little silver or stainless cups. She uses the stainless in the tub too. (for the record0she NEVER dropped them....just mommy-lol) For plastic-I would look into tupperware for being very resilient. And do not use any harsh detergents on them. Just nice vegetable based soaps-not petroleum or chlorine based.
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Arg! #@$% I am DONE with glass cups!
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