To be disappointed that Dp made my tea in my least favourite mug

[usualsuspect]

I have several favourite mugs, Is it too much to ask that he uses one of them and not the horrible thick one? I like a nice thin china mug.

Ok I'm bored, sorry.

I have only read the op and YADNBU

I like my tea in tall bone china

not in a mug

Not in someone else's bastard mug - YUK

DH knows this, he KNOWS.

Someone made me a coffee earlier. Stirred it about twice so it had two sugars in the bottom cm and none at the top.

usualsuspect you solve that problem by buying a cheap pack of spoons in the supermarket which you then throw away one by one because they are not stainless steel and they are sharp around the edges and then you wonder who has been eating all the spoons in the house again.

So, question... why don't you throw out the mugs you hate and get ones you like?

I'm the same.. I hate the nasty ikea black tiny mugs with impossibly small handles that we have, but the reason I can't throw them out is because they are the mugs favoured by my boyfriend's family when they visit.

I had some horrible ikea mugs with tiny handles that you couldn't get your fingers through,the handles were also too high up on the cup. Whats that all about?

I did bin them.

YANBU - must be a bone china cup, I hate it when we get to the emergency mugs at the back of the cupboard (why do we keep them?)
Also, I sniff cups before I can use them! To check they don't smell of washing up liquid, but looks a bit weird.
I also have had to coach dh to wash the teaspoon if he is making himself a coffee and me a tea.
Life is so complicated..

Boomerwang, its too hard to define what it is that makes a mug acceptable, to be able to go out and buy a perfect one. I tried to buy a mug for work, none of them were right.

Then I spied a company branded one that was the exact same as my most favourite one at home in the marketing department. Operation mug was launched and one became mine.

Big thick mug, so you can put hands around the mug. Has to be lighter in colour than the drink. Especially not navy or black. Darkest it can be is red. I am weird aren't I.

In fact I haven't bought any of the top 4 mugs in my hierarchy.

1 came from a conference
2 (formerly no 1 until it was usurped) was bought by my dad
3 came with an Easter egg
4 was one of those gift sets with hot chocolate in

All the fancy ones I have bought are no good for tea, guests get them.

YANBU.

I love this thread. I thought I was the only one...

Oh yes, yes, to mug heirarchy.

We were given 3 new mugs for Christmas. There is currently much jostling in the mug cupboard as they are settling into their rightful places.

My mother will only drink from thin china mugs. She has been with my father for nigh on 40 years. He still makes her coffee in one of my thicker mugs EVERY time, despite me having about a 50:50 mix. But then they are both moderately controlling and passive aggressive so I just watch the game with interest.

I bought a special 'work mug' and had to remove it soon after because other people kept using it There is a whole cupboard of identikit mugs, obviously the only pretty one was bought by someone for their exclusive use.
And I like my tea bag to have 30sec of relaxation MAX before it is whipped out in a frenzy, leaving drips on the counter. DP Has 'hilariously' blocked my path to my tea, thus letting the bag sit for 1 minute+ He gets punished for these episodes.

And by blocking my path, I mean actually using his body as a barricade in our tiny kitchen while laughing like a loon and telling me how my tea bag is seeping tea concentrate.

I wish the wrong mug was the worst of my DH wrongdoings in this area. Sadly, 7.5 years into our relationships he still only remembers I take 1 spoon of Splenda about 50% of the time. This distresses me and I wonder if I should LTB for his lack of tea etiquette

I wish the wrong mug was the worst of my DH wrongdoings in this area. Sadly, 7.5 years into our relationships he still only remembers I take 1 spoon of Splenda about 50% of the time. This distresses me and I wonder if I should LTB for his lack of tea etiquette

Ha ha this thread has really made me laugh! Would love it to go in classics. I regularly smash mugs I don't like and add them to a mosaic.

I have solved this problem by only having nice, big, thin but not too thin mugs.

I have a milk mug. DH knows this :)
I bought my mum a special mug at Christmas to have at our house because she was always somehow disappointed with our random collection.

I can't smash or charity shop the wrong mugs because they're not entirely wrong, just wrong for certain drinks or times of day. Except maybe the bird of paradise ones, they're too big and too thin and the tea never tastes right.

There are little ones for morning coffee if I've got to drive a long way and can't make myself need a wee too badly.
There are big ones for hot chocolate - those cone-like ones that are wrong for tea or coffee.
There are random but pretty ones that are nice for visitors but not my preferred ones.
And there are good, solid ones of the right size and shape for ordinary daytime tea-drinking.

DH has No Idea, but he always has the right one, so he has no excuse.

We have a high status mug we give each other when we want to be nice- a yellow Pantone one.

And don't get me started on the Penguin Books ones- we have several of those and getting to right title to the right person is sometimes very stressful..........

I don't drink hot drinks but have a lovely collection of Moomin mugs that must sit in the cupboard and never be used ever by anyone. If a guest accidentally uses one I sit plotting how I will kill them in their sleep if it were to get damaged. I also do this if someone sits in my corner of the sofa.

"We were given 3 new mugs for Christmas. There is currently much jostling in the mug cupboard as they are settling into their rightful places. "

I have a small stash of China cups and mugs for irritatingly fussy relatives

And mugs you don't like? Get rid of them perhaps? Or is the chance to get cross at being given the 'wrong' mug too good to waste

All our most annoying mugs belong to the children and they claim to be really attached to them. Particularly the horrible one with the weird cadbury's caramel bunny on that is so small at the bottom you can fit approximately a tablespoon of tea in it. I have 5 acceptable mugs so DH mostly manages to get the right one.

I think I get the mug obsession from my parents. My Dad buys them in charity shops all the time. I think he is on some strange quest for mug perfection. Actually, it's not strange. I totally understand.