Springs coming! :cheer: Sorting out the 'van but every year, how to provide safe storage for those all important wine and beer glasses? What do others use please?
Glass and china storage
- Thread starter TerryIvybridge
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Parksy
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I use a small plastic basket that fits inside a top locker, this is what they look like but a look round a pound shop or Wilkinsons should unearth a basket that will fit inside the locker.
Why use plastic baskets when you can use plastic glasses in the first place. Saves breakages. 
We're not proud, we will drink from anything.
We're not proud, we will drink from anything.
Parksy
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I never have any breakages
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses or plastic crockery .
That sort of thing is best left for tenters who carry all their worldly goods in backpacks :lol:
I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses or plastic crockery .
That sort of thing is best left for tenters who carry all their worldly goods in backpacks :lol:
We got rid of the bone china years ago, give paper plates, paper cups and plastic knife and forks a go, saves pounds on the fairy liquid,
Parksy said:I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses
But you've drunk champagne and shorts out of plastic glasses at the Woosiefests. Are you now too good/posh to attend the next ones? :huh:
Afraid we use plastic everything. Cheaper and lighter than glass and china and as far as we can tell everything tastes just the same.
Mel
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I am with Parksy, wine tastes much nicer out of glass; coffee is nicer from a mug that is warm, ( hot coffe from cold plastic is just weird) and while we are at it Corelle (other tempered glass plates cheaper at IKEA) for dinner plates. Most of it sits happlily in the racks in the cup ours while towing. The glasses go in a plastic crate on the floor.
Mel
Mel
We use glass and crockery, all travel in normal storage racks in cupboards. -- Never had a problem.
Parksy
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I think you'll find that we normally take our own glasses for outside gatherings and pubs usually supply glasses. Having met me you'd know that I'm not posh, it's just a matter of personal preference. I rarely touch alcohol these days anywayWoodlandsCamper said:Parksy said:I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses
But you've drunk champagne and shorts out of plastic glasses at the Woosiefests. Are you now too good/posh to attend the next ones? :huh:
Parksy said:I think you'll find that we normally take our own glasses for outside gatherings and pubs usually supply glasses. Having met me you'd know that I'm not posh, it's just a matter of personal preference. I rarely touch alcohol these days anywayWoodlandsCamper said:Parksy said:I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses
But you've drunk champagne and shorts out of plastic glasses at the Woosiefests. Are you now too good/posh to attend the next ones? :huh:
You partook in champagne from plastic champagne glasses when toasting my birthday at Stowford a few years ago and also use plastic for the toasts at the Woosiefests.
Perhaps rarely touching alcohol these days has blunted your memory. You do look very fit in your new avatar. :kiss:
Parksy
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WoodlandsCamper said:Parksy said:I think you'll find that we normally take our own glasses for outside gatherings and pubs usually supply glasses. Having met me you'd know that I'm not posh, it's just a matter of personal preference. I rarely touch alcohol these days anywayWoodlandsCamper said:Parksy said:I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than use plastic glasses
But you've drunk champagne and shorts out of plastic glasses at the Woosiefests. Are you now too good/posh to attend the next ones? :huh:
You partook in champagne from plastic champagne glasses when toasting my birthday at Stowford a few years ago and also use plastic for the toasts at the Woosiefests.
You do look very fit in your new avatar. :kiss:
Crikey this plastic crockery business is obviously very important to you
hmy:If I sipped champagne from a plastic cup supplied by somebody else years ago that doesn't mean that I'd want to use them in the caravan all the time. Somebody asked a question which I answered. My answer isn't the same as yours, I find it hard to understand why this is such a big deal to you
Noooo! Not plastic? Euk! sacrilege that is, but I'll have that sweet white please? No, thanks to all for the replies, some had more than others. I'll keep looking and post up any good ideas. :woohoo:
I'll keep looking and post up any good ideas. :woohoo:
Parksy
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We have the correlle stuff in the upper locker in the racks no problem, proper wine glasses, not Plastic, hanging in the racks, proper mugs, Union Jack motifs, and glass tumblers go into the six pack wine bag for travelling, had a couple of breakages but only when washing up.
And Parksy doesn't drink "Normally", just with friends.
And Parksy doesn't drink "Normally", just with friends.
EH52ARH said:And Parksy doesn't drink "Normally", just with friends.
Somewhat similar for me, I drink normally, binge drinking is normal round these parts, so that makes me normal.
I only drink when in the company of friends or people that I don't know, the rest of the time I drink on my own.
We use melamine plates but proper glasses and China mugs I tend to put oven gloves in front of them and lock cupboard door have had no breakages and they do not move when traveling.
Now that we rarely rally the melamine and plarstic is on the way out and the china and glassware will be gradually making it's way back into the van. Just need to keep trawling the charity shops for the right stuff. We do keep a couple of builders' mugs in the van incase of guests but Mrs B always has china.
As far as storage we've not had a breakage yet and use the odd towel and roll of kitchen paper to pack things out in the appropriate racks.
As far as storage we've not had a breakage yet and use the odd towel and roll of kitchen paper to pack things out in the appropriate racks.
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