Need a RUG

[celticdragonfly]

Darn it, Corell plates are supposed to be the next thing to unbreakable.

In our new living room, there's a fireplace diagonally across one corner, with a ceramic section of floor just in front of it. We currently have the ComfyChair, a wide armchair with ottoman, pushed in front of it, since we're not using it and that way it keeps Maggie baby from playing with the screen. But some of the ceramic floor part pokes out on either side of the chair.

I have a bad habit of leaving a small corell plate sitting on an arm of a chair or sofa. Never been a problem before. Twice this week Maggie's managed to knock it off the chair - onto the ceramic floor. Where it then shatters into many small sharp pieces all over.

I want to measure that area when Karl gets home, and go out to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy an area rug to put under the chair, before I start seriously depleting my corell supply, or somebody gets cut.

Comments

Unbreakable?

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

I resorted to buying plastic cups and melanine plates a few years ago, after I broke all my glass glasses, most of my corelle and corningware bakeware and 9 plates that had survived 25 years and two small children...

Nothing is really unbreakable if you are as good as I am at knocking things off kitchen benches... :-)

Catherine

Re: Unbreakable?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I've dropped the corell on hardwood floors and kitchen linoleum many times, and never had a problem. It's just this ceramic tile stuff.

Plastic cups, DEFINITELY, with small kids around.

[castiron.livejournal.com]

If you like, I can check the Corelle outlet store in San Marcos to see if they've got stock of the pattern; we're literally driving right by it every time we take the boy for an infusion, so it'd be no problem to stop there on the way home from one.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Well, we don't particularly care about the pattern - these are actually the old set from my Mom, that she passed on to me when she got a new fancier pattern that she liked. It's just I don't want to run out of plates! We'll probably go rug-shopping this weekend. I don't want to keep having sharp shards around, either.