Does anyone still use a mug tree?

[TheChosenTwo]

Reading a book and the narrator is describing a house as being dated and he mentions seeing a mug tree which made me think that I don’t think I’ve seen a house with a mug tree in it for years!!
We don’t have one, do you? Did you used to have one and now don’t?
I remember my mum having one when I was a kid, (late 80’s) but I’ve never had one since I had my own place. I don’t drink tea or coffee but dh does so we do own mugs, they just live in the cupboard on the shelf above small glasses!
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I have one but only because my kitchen is tidy and it frees up some cupboard space!

Tiny, not tidy.

Maybe they’re not old fashioned, I just don’t see them anymore!! And in the book that was one of the markers which dated the kitchen, along with “matching tea and coffee jars and an enamel toaster that’s definitely an original rather than a trendy repro.”
To be fair we don’t have matching tea and coffee jars or a toaster full stop either

No I hate how the mugs just hang there. Same with the newer stackable mugs. I think it looks untidy. IMO of course

We use a butter dish too, is that old fashioned?

And does anyone else still use a toast rack

I've got one. My grandad made it for me though, so it's sentimental. Quite useful too though!

I have a chrome one. Never realised they were old fashioned!

Gawd, fruit bowls last week, mug trees this.

I might as well just donate my house to the National Trust.

I see them all the time in shops as well as the vertical ones with matching cups so people must be buying them.

I don't have room on my sides for one though.

@ZittiEBuoni

Gawd, fruit bowls last week, mug trees this.

I might as well just donate my house to the National Trust.

Wait, are fruit bowls passé now?!

@GreenTortoise

No I hate how the mugs just hang there. Same with the newer stackable mugs. I think it looks untidy. IMO of course

Absolutely agree, they always seem a bit dusty too

But then I hate all kitchen appliances out on worktops and get the heebie jeebies at seeing someone’s kitchen worktop that has mug tree > spice rack > oils in those pouring bottles > teabag holder > toaster > George foreman > microwave > 18 boxes of Tupperware > 6 packs of cereal etc etc etc

It’s all such clutter! Put it in the cupboard!

If asked, I'd have put them as 80s/90s though much more space efficient than horizontal storage.

We do have 2 butter dishes! One to use and one ready for when the first is dirty and needs washing. What else would you use if you didn’t have a butter dish?!
I don’t have a toast rack, I just make a toast tent. I don’t want unnecessary stuff in my drawers!!
@Shirleyphallus in my last house the kitchen was tiny and we had no choice but to have lots of things on the side! Not everyone has big enough kitchens to put appliances etc away in although I’m glad i do now, it all just looks so tidy.

Why would you ???!!!!!

Kitchens are mezntvto be functional...

I have a mug tree, a fruit bowl and matching tea/cofee/sugar jars....shoot me!

@TheChosenTwo

We do have 2 butter dishes! One to use and one ready for when the first is dirty and needs washing. What else would you use if you didn’t have a butter dish?! I don’t have a toast rack, I just make a toast tent. I don’t want unnecessary stuff in my drawers!! *@Shirleyphallus* in my last house the kitchen was tiny and we had no choice but to have lots of things on the side! Not everyone has big enough kitchens to put appliances etc away in although I’m glad i do now, it all just looks so tidy.

Well I would argue that no one needs 20 pieces of Tupperware or 35 mugs or a doughnut maker which doubles as a popcorn maker . All clutter innit

I use one----had it for years

I bought one last year after not having one for years.

OH did say "it's a not for using tree isn't it ?" And I didn't correct him so they never get used 😄

No, we had one once but it was easy to knock a second mug off it accidentally when taking one off and people used to put the mugs on the wrong way round and annoy me. I prefer them in the cupboard.

I have -
A fruit/garlic/ginger shallow bowl.
A metal spice rack designed to go in a cupboard but I have them up against my tiles on the surface. Have two.
A metal butter dish on a marble slab. Keeps butter room temp or goes in fridge on warm days.
Also utensil pots which I have discovered are valuable 1920s vases and I should maybe stop using as I break things. But they are gorgeous and I love them.
And a salt caddy.
I have never had a mug tree. Nor I think ever been in a house with one that I’ve noticed.

Not for me. I imagine spiders coming down on a thread and laying eggs in them or having an argument with a fly. Do people normally rinse them first before using?

Its nice to be able to see your nice things i suppose. I might get one now!

Whenever we stay in a holiday let they have one . I quite like them .

I've just bought one. A swan retro one in pale blue - fab! Clears up so much cupboard space

No, I don’t like the look, plus I feel like hanging from the handle isn’t the best for them. It weakens the join and shortens the life of the cup.