RE: Re:Corelle plates: Thank you, so much!!!!

[Guest guest]

Back in the 80's, I worked for a large department store in housewares. We

stocked Vision

cookware (occasionally I'll still find some at a garage sale), Corelle

LivingWare and

Pyrex... Every once in a while, we'd have one of them shatter. They never broke

in pieces

like glass. They would always shatter into dust and splinters.

 

What a production it was to clean that stuff up!!! Sweep and vaccuum... and damp

mop. The

dust they left behind was the worst. If you got it on your skin, it went in your

skin. The

only way to get it out was to run your skin under cold water and wipe it off...

which

would hurt because basically it was glass scraping your skin.

 

I heard that Corelle has gotten better over the years. But it used to be that

the company

only expected people to own it for 5 years... and that was its shelf life. My

mother,

though, has pieces that date back to when it was first available in the early

70s. She has

never had one piece shatter on her the way they did in the store for me. Go

figure! But

good for mom

 

Cheers!

Denise Cartwright

[Guest guest]

I still have the set I got when I got married in 1970. A couple of the bowles

have broken because of the weight distribution, when dropped, they land on an

edge, but other than that, the whole 8 place set is still good. Still ugly, but

still good.

Katie

 

Denise Gontard Cartwright <dgontard wrote:

Back in the 80's, I worked for a large department store in housewares.

We stocked Vision

cookware (occasionally I'll still find some at a garage sale), Corelle

LivingWare and

Pyrex... Every once in a while, we'd have one of them shatter. They never broke

in pieces

like glass. They would always shatter into dust and splinters.

 

What a production it was to clean that stuff up!!! Sweep and vaccuum... and damp

mop. The

dust they left behind was the worst. If you got it on your skin, it went in your

skin. The

only way to get it out was to run your skin under cold water and wipe it off...

which

would hurt because basically it was glass scraping your skin.

 

I heard that Corelle has gotten better over the years. But it used to be that

the company

only expected people to own it for 5 years... and that was its shelf life. My

mother,

though, has pieces that date back to when it was first available in the early

70s. She has

never had one piece shatter on her the way they did in the store for me. Go

figure! But

good for mom

 

Cheers!

Denise Cartwright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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