I highly recommend a shoe horn if you don’t have one. A nice long sturdy metal one was a game changer for me pregnant.
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Yes, I have a pair of Kiziks and I love them! They are comfortable, most comfortable tennis shoes I’ve tried. I usually hate tennis shoes but I’m happy to wear my Kiziks. gardeningandgreen
I looked it up in case it helps. I have the Athens. I’m considering a second pair, in a different style.
Thoughts on Corelle dishes? We’ve been using Ikea dishes for years but have broken most of the bowls and little plates. We no longer live anywhere near an IKEA and it seems they’ve discontinued our particular set anyway.
My requirements are that they be extremely sturdy, relatively inexpensive and not too heavy. Seems like Corelle could fit that, but what does the hive mind think of them? Do they feel cheap or displeasing? Are they not as good as they used to be?
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I love ours. They are mostly older ones, but they stack well, feel nice, and basically don’t break. they’re also oven proof.
Be aware that on the rare occasions you manage to break one, it will shatter into a couple billion tiny shards that you’ll be finding for the next couple years.
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I’m not sure if we had knock offs or not? But when I lived with one of my aunts she had white corelle and it stained really bad from food. That’s my main recollection- feeling like it was gross to eat on clean but looks-dirty plates.
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Huh. Ours don’t stain.
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I grew up with Corelle and as an adult had my parents’ “second” set for a looooooong time. So those dishes were from probably the late 70s. (I eventually donated them to the office kitchen before I left CA because at that point they were a second set to me, I left in 2012, so you can do the math.) So anyway, by the time I left them behind they were at least 30 years old. They never stained and they were extremely break resistant. I only had one break ever, and like Rural said, it shattered into a million pieces. (Small price to pay though for no other breakages, and I drop things all the time.) Dishwasher safe, oven safe, super light, amazing.
No idea if the modern new ones are as good.
Now I have my parents’ old set of Pfaltzgraff, and I kind of wish I still had the Corelle.(Pfaltzgraff are stonewear, and are heavy as fuck.)
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Try looking for plate racks instead? Doesn’t pull out though 
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Really like mine, they’re a lot lighter and less inclined to chip than the collection of thrift-store bowls and plates I used previously, and while they are breakable if you happen to drop a cast iron pan on them, I can’t really blame the corelle for that 
. I haven’t had an issue with mine staining, but it’s just me so they tend to get soaked if not washed immediately after eating which might be a factor.
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I like ours! No staining and no breaking, and I am a real hazard to dishes.
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I’ve had my Corelle for 24 years of daily use and I’ve broken one bowl. No staining. All other dishware seems sooo heavy!
ETA: one problem with it. My style tastes have changed over the last 24 years and I’m tired of the pattern I chose then. But they are still a complete set (I broke and replaced that one bowl 23 years ago) of perfectly fine dishes so I must keep them.
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Haha okay it sounds like it’s verified my aunts were knock offs then 
disregard.
ETA WAIT! I just remembered. She had super high iron (and sulfur 
) well water. Idk if that factors in.
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I also love my Corelle. I have some plain white stuff from Walmart, and some pretty leaf ones I got on the website, and I’ve had one of the pretty ones break. It cracked in half in the dishwasher a month after I got it, and Corelle shipped me a new one.
My mom has had hers for probably 20 or 25 years, and I think it’s all still in good repair.
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I have extremely limited shelving in my kitchen and love my correlle plates. I got an older pattern used off ebay 8+ years ago, and they’ve been fine/great. I haven’t managed to break one yet, but I don’t tend to drop them. Mine don’t stain. I particularly love that they’re very small/thin and thus my stack of 15 dinner places takes up about 2.5 inches of vertical space (I just measured lol).
My only downsides are that because I got a used incomplete set, I don’t have matching bowls/salad plates (though I did find 4 bowls at goodwill once, and could defs ebay some more if I really cared that much), and since they’re old patterns, modern bowl shapes have really changed. IDK if modern corelle sets have more modern bowl shapes, but if that’s important to you, check it out.
I’m also extremely into the cute old decorative patterns, and they make me happy everytime I use them.
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I had all thrift store corelle in my school kitchen and nothing ever stained.
Those dishes were hand washed, dried and put away by my crack team of 12 and 13 yos, and in 16 years we broke TWO pieces. (And we sold food every week - they were carries between buildings!)
My parents now use Corelle exclusively. I wish I could get my ILs them so that they wouldn’t have chipped everything. (Also, they did that after refilling all the midwinter sun pattern set that we’d broken over the years, which was not cheap from what I understand.)
However, these are plates they got from my grandmother’s estate iirc (about a decade ago) so I can’t speak to current ones.
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Current corelle is still good corelle, but the line on the bowls is in a new and different spot.
My one complaint is that soup bowls don’t come on their sets, so we eat primarily off of our heavy stonewear soup bowls
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Another nice thing about corolle is that there is such a variety of soup bowl sizes, from very deep to very shallow. I suppose that not every set offers every version, but it seems easy to match. If I didn’t have one million dishes I’d start over with corolle.
Well, not really because the potters keep making things. But still.
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Oh no. I had seen the two shapes of soup plates but only in white, which I am not into. Based on your comment I went on the website and they have the meal bowls. In patterns I love. On sale
But I have 8 stonewear ones.
But I waaaaaant.
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