Mugs...rant

Tone71

Random post I know but how many cups and mugs do you have in your kitchen cupboards?

There are 4 of us in my house and we all drink tea and coffee but having just had a count up there are 17 mugs in the cupboard!!??  Why on earth do we need so many?

Ok when visitors are here fair enough you need a few more but I can honestly say I have not had 17 people in my house all drinking tea and coffee at once nor have I ever heard anyone say "shit we are out of mugs" ffs no wonder the door barely shuts at times.

Can feel a kitchen cull and de-cluttering coming on........

Edit: Just found another 2 in the washing up, 19 now!!

TTony

What you need is some special "theFB" branded mugs.

chillidoggy

I sense a shameless FB merchandise plug.

thecolourbox

It depends how frequently you wash up

boogieman

thecolourbox;1096910" said:

It depends how frequently you wash up

Or if you have a dishwasher.

TTony

chillidoggy said:

I sense a shameless FB merchandise plug.

I was worried that it was too subtle and people might miss it ...

Sporky

I have a similar surfeit of mugs.

I use two, both the same. I'd be fine with just one of them.

Lady BMcH uses three different ones.

We have, in total, about a thousand mugs.

Guitar_Slinger

@Tone71 Congratulations on not being a clumsy oaf.

When we shared a house with my brother and his wife, she'd break at least one a month and we'd have to buy new ones every now and again. Since we got our own place, mug count is now a whole shelf in one cupboard, FFS! :-o

stickyfiddle

I still have all but one of the mugs I bought at the start of university 13 years ago. Plus all the countless others we've obtained since. It's a lot of mugs. 

What really gets me is small mugs. What's the point? You never want a small cup of tea, and even if you did, you can fit that in a big mug, but you can't get a big cup of tea in a small mug. Madness!!

chillidoggy

You can't beat a big mug.

ICBM

At the rate my wife breaks them I need a few spares...

octatonic

Mrs Oct has a serious mug fetish.* 

I've never counted them but there must be at least 50 here in different sizes.

She has 3 sets of espresso mugs and I've never once seen her drink an espresso at home.

Every year or so I have a clear out of the ones that are in the kitchen and banish them to the pantry, where they get in the way less.

* (awaiting puns).

Sporky

chillidoggy said:

You can't beat a big mug.

EHX's lawyers will be on to you for that post.

RocknRollDave

It's because mugs are an obvious,unimaginative present. He likes golf, shit, what can I get him? He already has all the clubs and bits and pieces, and I got him that golf book last year....I know, a mug that says I HEART GOLF. Ditto any other hobby, although good luck finding somewhere that will print some of the more, erm, 'specialist adult' hobbies out there...

chillidoggy

octatonic said:

Mrs Oct has a serious mug fetish.* 

I've never counted them but there must be at least 50 here in different sizes.

She has 3 sets of espresso mugs and I've never once seen her drink an espresso at home.

Every year or so I have a clear out of the ones that are in the kitchen and banish them to the pantry, where they get in the way less.

* (awaiting puns).

......he says, neatly avoiding said puns.

kjdowd

Our mug population increases as our teaspoon population declines. I suspect some sort of positive discrimination.

Sambostar

I have 5 mugs.  A nice one which I never use and broke the other 3 which matched it.  Two old pyrex white ones and a large chipped to fuck 'Happy Birthday 30' Mug, which I use everyday and is black inside because I never wash it.  I really only need that one really.  I don't have milk or teabags so if someone comes around it's black coffee or water or beer.  I always have plenty of beer.

thermionic

People keep buying them for me for some strange reason. I have no use for them - I live on my own, never drink tea, and 95% of the coffee I drink is in little espresso cups. 

Sambostar

I'II have to see what I have to trade.

ESchap

ICBM said:

At the rate my wife breaks them I need a few spares...

Ah! so that accounts for all the dents in your workshop wall

Iamnobody

kjdowd;1097058" said:

Our mug population increases as our teaspoon population declines. I suspect some sort of positive discrimination.

Where do teaspoons go?

I think my four year old throws them in the bin with empty yoghurt pots...

But pre kids we still lost them. They aren't exactly small so what's going on...