Drinking Glasses - what do you do?

[dexters]

I'm going full time and getting rid of stuff and sorting out what I will keep to use on the road.
What do you use for drinking 'glasses'? I have wine glasses, water glasses, etc I'd like to have a few of but I was thinking they would break in the travel trailer.

What do you use or do with glass glasses?

[Pepper2]

We don't use glass. We use plastic glasses with wide bases. I have heard that wine glasses can be stored in old socks, but once again, they are available in plastic. Also we use Corelle dishware. Good luck!

[rvtrekers]

Although we are not full-timers we use both Riedel stemless as well as stemmed wine glasses. The stemmed ones fit nicely in our slide out pantry. The stemless are transported in a soft sided box that has dividers and holds 6 glasses. The box fits nicely into the cabinet over our dinette. For coffee we use Pantone Universe insulated to-go cups. For water and mixed drinks we use plastic.

[Selah]

Drinking glasses: we use Turvis Tumblers. They don't sweat and if you accidentally earl knock over the spill is very minimal (We use lids with everything but water)
Wine Glasses. We carry six crystal wine glasses. I picked up a small box and some foam board from staples and made a devided container. One glass per section.
Another suggestion: get nesting cookware, often referred to as gallyware. We use Rapid Chief but MagnaWare also make excellant nesting cookware. All of your normal cookware will nest down taking very little space.
Dishes: Corell dishes also stack down nicely taking very little room. Plus they are very hard to break.

[SillyLilly]

Personal water bottles. Mine's a 24 oz Blender Bottle. Or a rinsed and reused plastic soft drink bottle that's refilled and refrigerated. Storage is an issue in our rig, so everything has to be useful or out it goes.

Ditto on the Corelle dishware. One dinner plate, salad plate, and large bowl each. Benefits are it's thin and harder to break or chip than regular dishware.

[Barbaraok]

Originally Posted by Pepper2

We don't use glass. We use plastic glasses with wide bases. I have heard that wine glasses can be stored in old socks, but once again, they are available in plastic. Also we use Corelle dishware. Good luck!

Sorry, but my very good wine doesn't go into plastic.

We got styrofoam blocks with different size holes which hold our wine glasses (stems up) as well as other glasses. Then I use a white adjustable bar to make sure the block doesn't slide out when first opening the cupboard after travel.

[twogypsies]

It depends a lot on how smooth of ride your RV is. Our wine and drinking glasses traveled as is in our cabinets. We did turn the wine glasses upside down on the rim, not on the stems. Never had a breakage. Same for our dishes. We didn't use plastic.

It also help if your cabinets are packed without a lot of space. Then things don't shift around. Fill in with rolls of toilet paper or paper towels.

[dexters]

Originally Posted by twogypsies

It depends a lot on how smooth of ride your RV is. Our wine and drinking glasses traveled as is in our cabinets. We did turn the wine glasses upside down on the rim, not on the stems. Never had a breakage. Same for our dishes. We didn't use plastic.

It also help if your cabinets are packed without a lot of space. Then things don't shift around. Fill in with rolls of toilet paper or paper towels.

Thanks - I buying a new - going from a Casita to a Creekside 21rbs. Space still is a premium. However, I think little things like nice plates and dishes makes the traveling nicer.

[Rambeau]

Would not even think of putting my wife's scotch in plastic...I like living! My tequila on the other hand... insulated acrylic. Even cheap wine tastes better in glass.

[dons2346]

I don't put any booze in plastic.

Get some can "cozzies", you know the ones that you use to keep your beer can cold? Put your glassware in those

[TonyDi]

I use plastic glasses if I'm using them outdoors where they can break easily. Wine is a different story I would never drink wine from a plastic glass. I have 4 Reidel glass that we use for wine. We store them in a box with shipping peanuts and have never had one break.

[SpaceNorman]

At the time we were outfitting our kitchen - these acrylic tumblers were available at Costco. $20 got you eight of the tall ones and eight of the short ones. They're reasonably pleasing to the eye, they've got a "nice heft" to 'em, and they've got enough of room for ice plus beverage. For cold drinks in the coach/on the patio when you want to drink from a glass and not an oversized, insulated, covered, on-the-go type container - we've been pretty happy with them. We've got the oversized, insulated, covered, on-the-go type containers too ... but that a different sort of glass.

We have 4 relatively inexpensive "real glass" wine glasses that in cupboard as well. By dumb luck - we discovered that they fit nicely inside of a sturdy cardboard tube that something completely unrelated was delivered in. I sliced (4) 2.5 inch tall slices from the cardboard tube and bundled them together with a strip of tape. The bundle of short tube pieces sit nicely in a corner of the "cups and glasses" cupboard - and keep the 4 glass wineglasses neatly in place as we travel.

[vsheetz]

Soda from the can, bottled water, and plastic glasses. Paper plates. A few plastic pieces. Big thing, you don't need much stuff.

[Pepper2]

Originally Posted by Barbaraok

Sorry, but my very good wine doesn't go into plastic.

We got styrofoam blocks with different size holes which hold our wine glasses (stems up) as well as other glasses. Then I use a white adjustable bar to make sure the block doesn't slide out when first opening the cupboard after travel.

Are we talking $3 a bottle or box wine here?