Looking for some affordable everyday glassware,  

Define affordable
please.

French Jelly Jar glasses
Indestructible, well almost. I've dropped them and watched them actually bounce! I have a set of 12 short and 12 tall that are over 20 years old and I've only broken one in all that time. IKEA, Crate and Barrel and lots of online places sell them. This is the tall version, it easily holds 16oz.

PS:
And you can get lids for them, which is spectacularly useful!

Affordable=
about $5 each, so it won't pain me when they're broken.

Duralex
Any Duralex glasses: the Picardie in particular.
http://www.le-tom.com/duralex-picardie

Good old Libbey Glass seems to have some attractive offerings
Just looked at their website-- these sell for around $10 for a set of four. Not bad, I could live with these.
(Hoping that's a bad photoshop retouch on the first, and not vertical stripes?)

I've got it
Vintage mason jars!

I kind of like the stripe,...
I kind of like the stripe, w-h-c. The jelly jar glasses are very durable, I agree. In college, we used those mugs you won at the ring-toss at the State Fair, usually with beer logo attached, PBR and Schlitz and the like, extremely durable but probably not something most people would like, something of a guilty pleasure.
Maybe get away from glass, altogether. I remember my grandma always served us kids in those glasses with the plastic (thermal) inserts, white banding at top, with a cool design on the lower shell or just some bright color.

Those won't survive your 'old man'
WHC, those glasses have heavy bottoms and thin rims...he'll wipe them out in no time! My hubby is also a glass assassin so I know what you mean, you really have to look for thicker walls. The mason jars aren't a bad suggestion! But check out the jelly jars glasses, I've never found anything else so sturdy...now if I could only find nice wine glasses that bounce too!

I know the thermal plastic stuff to which you refer
It's fun looking, but not very pleasant to use.
After owning so much good, thin, hand-ground vintage glassware, everything that's new (& affordable to easily replace) seems rather heavy & crude.
The quality of thinness that I desire is the same quality that makes it an impractical choice, it seems.

WHC
I have no suggestions for $5 glasses, but are you sure that you really need them to be so inexpensive?
If I'd read your query on some generic happy-homemaker forum that I was inexplicably browsing, I wouldn't be suggesting this... But since it's Design Addict, I'm going to assume that design has some value to you. Could you pay $12 per glass?
For $12, you can get really nice glasses -- nice enough, maybe, that the pleasure you derive from using them will outweigh the cost of replacing them.
I mean... You say your husband breaks a glass every two weeks. So if he breaks $5 glasses, you pay $10/month, and if he breaks $12 glasses, you pay $24/month. Will the $14/month difference really hurt?
Or in other words, will that $14/month hurt more than drinking out of a plastic cup?
Plus... What if your husband's depth perception improves, or he stops throwing glasses at the TV or gets the hydraulics in his bionic arm recalibrated or whatever? Once he fixes the problem that's making him break two dozen glasses a year, what'll you do if your cupboards are filled with sippy cups and jelly jars? Wouldn't it be better to just fill them now with glasses like these?

Fastfwd...
Do you really think the jelly jar glasses belong in the same category as sippy cups?? I'm just curious, cuz I really like their design, to me, they're classics.
So I'm surprised to think that you'd rate them as hideous...or at least that's what I surmise, since sippy cups are definitely hideous!!!

Jar glasses are definately fr...
Jar glasses are definately frugal. You can find them very easily and in quanity for cheap.
I suggest giving Target a peek. Last time I looked at their glasses (last spring), seemed decent.

Olive
No, I guess I don't put jelly-jar glasses in the same class as sippy cups; I grouped the two together because they're both NOT in the class of grown-up glassware that's represented by the glasses I showed earlier.
There's nothing wrong with jelly-jar glasses (or sippy cups), just as there's nothing wrong with plastic plates, mismatched coffee cups, or dining tables made from old doors. I'm just saying that if a person can recognize that a glass is reminiscent of Tapio Wirkkala's work, maybe there'd be something of value -- to that person -- in a design that was less utilitarian than a jelly glass.
If you really like the jelly-jar look, great. Everyone's got his own taste, so vive la difference. I'm just not sure that I understand your admiration for the design. I mean, I can imagine that it might have certain emotional associations for you -- maybe it reminds you of the glasses you used as a child or something -- but I can't see why you feel it's a "classic".
It seems to me that jelly-jar glasses don't really appreciate, let alone accentuate or celebrate, the qualities of the material they're made from. Plus, they're all the same; if there's any difference between one and another, it's just from decoration. And they look vaguely like repurposed trash, but a) you aren't actually helping the environment by putting them in your cupboard, and b) on top of that, you have to pay for them.
For me, the only reason to buy jelly-jar glasses would be economy... And if times were that tough, I'd probably use actual jelly jars instead.