.... to demand a serious cull? Mugs are trying to take over my kitchen (pic attached)

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But apparently every one of them is 'precious' and needs to stay according to DH and DSs (they are ganging up on me).
Most are mismatched, some are freebies, many are chipped and faded from having been in the dishwasher 2 million times.

Help me!!

I looked at the Dunoon website and was very tempted to buy one - resisting temptation so far.
I also have to have a different mug for every different drink: black tea, green tea, herbal tea, hot chocolate, cold milk, hot toddy, soup, the list goes on ...

Definitely octopus - cupboard above the kettle. Bottom shelf. Anything else is just witchcraft.....

I'm doomed, I have no wall cupboards in the kitchen. :(

I find if hard to throw out mugs and I sometimes get them from children, seems a bit rude to get rid! Friends like to give me horse and dog related mugs. I used to love my Whittard spin wash mugs, they don't do them anymore :(

Do people still have mug trees these days? That might be your answer ginger !

Come and live with me. I had a Mug Moment of Madness and made a house wide decision after getting pissed off at a sink full of mugs every other day.

Binary Household Mug Rules

1 mug per person is all that is allowed. If it's dirty you wash and go. No using other people's mugs!

If a mug breaks a spare one is brought down from the mug store box in the loft (where all the fucking mugs live)

You an swap mugs with the ones in the store. Or retire a mug to the store if gifted a new one.

4 for guests. On display. Never to be used by a Binary Household Member

No more Mug Kenya here!

Oh God I hate the breeding phenomenon that is mugs - they are like cockroaches - you let one in and they take over the house. In an ideal world i would own maybe six maximum - enough for me and guests. In fact I have a cupboardful - DD will not let me destroy any.

I have a whole assortment of mugs that my XH used to bring home from work - with chemical companies/medical supply companies/diseases he was researching etc printed on them. Mugs with things like 'CAMPYLOBACTER (with list of symptoms including 'bloody diarrhoea')' or 'CANDIDA' emblazoned on them (The worse one shouted 'CANCER' at me when I was actually going through chemotherapy !!, -made me feel quite ill drinking out of them.

But DD won't let me bin them I tried to make him take them away in the divorce settlement but he claimed to 'have enough mugs '

I just 'accidentally' break one every so often - it's the only way.

I can't advise. I also need to cull, but I bought twith more today! Arrgghh! Why?
I just can't stop it's an addiction. I also collect vintage tea sets and cake stands.

Luckily I don't drink coffee and builders' tea is my favourite, not often tempted by herb or weird teas. It makes my mug allocation and number of mugs much easier. But I do smash up unwanted gift mugs to put in the garden pots. I only allow mugs from Cosmochina.co.uk to grace my cupboards

My DH collects Cath Kidston mugs. One broke a couple of weeks ago, and he's looking on ebay to replace it.

Hell would freeze over before I allowed a chipped mug to enter my cupboard. Get rid.

001 you would hate me. I have a clean mug for every single cup, and even carry my first cup from the lounge, get a clean one from the cupboard, and make my next drink. Only hot drinks though- I use a pint glass for water and it's the only one we have so is always reused.

I have a cautionary tale!

My PIL LOVE their old, chipped mugs. They have about 60 of them. They also love their old glasses. And every saucepan they have ever had.

So much so that they recently spent £80k building a second kitchen in which to store all of this junk. They could probably have gone around the world twice on some kind of mega-cruise, but instead they are clinging to their knackered old mugs.

Pass all your old, chipped mugs on to Scout groups etc - they can use them for their crockery smashing stalls at local events!

I thought that pic of OPs was my mug drawer and she'd sneaked in my house to take it!

Worst thing is... my DH will only use ONE mug so it's all my fault. His mug is horrible, some freebie from a company.

I have to have a pint mug for tea in the morning. It's old, it's chipped but when it breaks I will cry. I've had it about 30 years!

And I'm peculiar about what I drink out of. Tea cannot be out of a mug that is white inside. It has to be coloured or preferably brown. Coffee is a certain sized mug. So what the hell are all these different mugs doing here?

I take a mug in the car so if we buy a tea and it's served in a polystyrene beaker I pour it into the mug.

Get rid of any chipped ones for a start, I wouldn't drink out of a chipped mug!

Roussette I'm the opposite. Can't have my tea in a mug that's coloured. I need to know what shade it is!!

Magic it's good we're all different, I have peculiar things I get stuck on i.e. coloured inside of a mug for tea!

I think it was because my DM insisted on a bone china cup and saucer and I'm revolting!

Damn, my Dunoon mugs don't breed. Never found one I hadn't bought.

Perhaps they are like panda bears and will only mate under very specific conditions?

I can't advise. I also need to cull, but I bought twith more today! Arrgghh! Why? I just can't stop it's an addiction. I also collect vintage tea sets and cake stands

Don't go anywhere you can see them. I haven't found a way to resist buying them after I see them.

I had to ban DD from buying key rings when she was about 8, this is just the adult version

Loved the reference to Sports Direct mugs in relation to Mr Ashley's drunken business dealings on Last leg, last night :o

My MIL has 104 mugs/cups. I counted them all one day much to DH annoyance. Other than PILS, me, DH, DBIL, and DSIL no-one ever has tea in their house and never all at the same time.

I love mugs and have a fair few (known to pick one or 2 up seemingly every time I am in the supermarket).

However, as soon as a mug is chipped - it's gone!! Not having chipped mugs taking up space.

I am seriously impressed by that picture of a mug 'drawer' - what a clever way to store them.

We are ok at home, but at work we have lashings - mostly freebees from suppliers.

I regularly bin them off, as more mugs means more left to wash.

Mug washing seems to fall to me - and I'm a director!

I worked in retail after uni, and we sold shedloads of dunoon mugs.

Quite nice to unpack boxes of 50, all wrapped up etc!

must get rid of rose tinted glasses

Oh Kurri how I feel for you. Especially that cancer mug. You really need to carry them all on a tray for washing and "accidentally trip".