When I get money or a gift card as a gift, I try to get something specific or special with it. Then I can point to that as the present. My parents gave me some money for Christmas, but I took a long time to decide what to do with it. In the mean time, I got some birthday money too.
So I finally decided: I would get new dishes. I really like what I found. They are Corelle. The design is called Cherry Blossom. It’s from Corelle’s Ultra line. The plates are a little thicker and a little tougher (if you can imagine Corelle actually being tougher). I really like the design. They’re a gardener’s kind of plates. And they’re square! Through some internet searching I found a really good price. Plus, I found a discount code for $10 off!
Thank you to a Yahoo shopping site for giving me the discount code.
Thank you to Cooking.com for giving me the best price.
Thank you to Mom and Dad for getting me new plates for Christmas and my birthday!
I’m jealous! They’re really pretty and remind me of Japan! My dishes are a hodge-podge of whatever I haven’t broken over the years… and my ‘good dishes’ are ones I got from Piggly Wiggly in Seward – one plate free with every purchase!
Ha! Piggly Wiggly… I haven’t heard that name in a while. They changed the name of that store to Sunmart… not anywhere near as classy a name.
I have had plates on my “to-buy-when-we-have-extra-money-list” for a long time now. We are using 20 year old plates that we purchased with wedding money. I am working very hard at not coveting your plates. They are very cool.
I love them. Did you get more than one set? I mean, do you have more than four plates? Your dinner for 8 group will never come over if you serve them on paper plates…though I do think it would be hilarious to invite them to your house and just order pizza, serve them on paper plates and have them sit on the floor…
Heh.
I got two sets. If I have more than eight people, I’ll have to get out my old set of Corelle, which, interestingly enough, sort of looks like paper plates, because it has fluted edges.
Pizza on the floor would be funny to watch. But for some reason, the people at church think I’m not capable of even boiling water. At the dinner group I like to serve something fun and maybe even complicated. They’re blown away. But then they go back to underestimating my powers…
Yes, you can eat round food on square plates. My concern is this: how do you drink from the square-ish mugs without liquid running down your cheeks? Your mouth is only so wide!
Very classy Brad, very classy!
Did you see these dishes in person somewhere 1st, ’cause the picture on cooking.com doesn’t do them any justice … and although round food might work on square dishes, oval will definately not … so no Quisp in the square, plain white bowls … (square bowls-isn’t that a paradox?)
I was just thinking about the bowls, too. Is is possible to eat from a square bowl? I think that’s just too complicated for me. Your spoon will always slide to a corner, and I can’t relinquish that much control to a bowl!! I can never visit you, Brad.