.... 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!!

We don't have enough mugs! I am a clutz and drop/chip them all the time. I also hate when patterns fade. I bought 2 new mugs from the charity shoo the other day! Bargain! It was either hello kitty or bank of jamaica. My dd chose kitty

Back to the OP - What is a GOSH mug?

Mums - Great ormond street hospital gift shop purchase

Have tea party and everyone has to take a cup home... like a party bag... fill it with chocolate, people won't be able to resist.

You can send some to me!! Dp attempted to put a cupboard up a few days ago... needless to say I now don't have many mugs left

We've got loads of mugs and every now and then I think of doing a cull but then we have a party and we run out and I think ahh that's why we need to keep them. We have lots of garden parties and although lots of wine gets drunk lots of people have to drive to us as we are rural so lots of tea and coffee also gets dished out.

local schools may take them for the smash crockery stall at summer fayres

Completely gobsmacked at all the mugs you have! I have a hard rule of no more than 2 each!

Bridgewater mugs, all mugs are same with different patterns on. Everyone has their favourite and one with their name on. Too precious to brake so everyone looks after them, only one broken in 5 years of so.

Must stop reading this thread. Am now looking at the Cosmo China home page - such a lovely choice.

You have reminded me of the task I have been meaning to get around to in this house. A full of the mugs. We have trillions of them. Cupboard overflowing and creaking.

DD1 will be moving out to start her job later this summer (she is 22). Perhaps I will be able to make up a massive gift box full of mugs for her. After all, they will be needed when she has guests, right?? Surely!

A CULL of the mugs, not full.

Luckily I am very clumsy especially when handling the ugliest mugs

Wow! I felt the dozen we had ( there are 4 of us) was too many and chucked a couple. I cant believe how many mugs you all have! And different mugs for different drinks...I never even knew that was a thing. I shall add this to my MN list of things I didn't know that people worried about like coloured pegs, the "right" way to hang washing and the order of knives, forks and spoons in the cutlery drawer.

Thanks Mission. I thought GOSH was a new 'must-have' brand of mug that I hadn't heard of! I have just done a mug count. We have 45. It's too many isn't it? There are 3 of us. We probably use about 6 or 7 on a daily basis. We have a number of old plain coloured 'builders' mugs which we keep for anyone working outside (house needing lots of work) because it doesn't matter if they get broken but somehow they never do. We have very careful workmen. It's always a favourite expensive mug that gets knocked over or chipped on the seemingly invisible edge of the black granite worktop as you're loading the dishwasher.

what is this witchcraft that is a MUG DRAWER?? ...it's makig me feel squirly....no wonder they are all chipped, rattling about in there clinking up against one another. For decency's sake throw out the chipped ones...drinking out of a chipped mug is rank.

I'd mark the rest of the unchipped ones with a water soluble pen....put them all away, and then in 2 weeks anything that still has the marker on (and therefore has not been used) is OUT!

mug drawer indeed.

Shame on you. I am a self-admitted mugophile

Is there not a book about how to effectively throw things out?

Ye, there is - it's the Marie Kondo "Japanese Art of Tidying up and ChuckingThings in The Bin" (This may not be the exact title - I forget what it is.)

You put every item you own of a particular "type" (shoes, mugs, children etc) into pile (you do one type at a time.

Then you pick each one up and hug it and ask yourself "Does this spark joy in my heart?". You make a split second decision - no prevaricating - and anything that doesn't immediately cry out to you "Keep me, I promise I will be the best mug ever - the caffeine equivalent of the magic porridge pot" goes in the "get rid" pile.

You must then put your hands together, bow to it, thank it for its many years of faithful service (stuff that shite) and pass it on/bung it in the bin.

It's like the philosophy of Wm. Morris (I think) who said - "Keep nothng in your life which is neither beautiful nor useful", only she charges £££ for a book about how to fold your one remaining jumper.

What is a sports direct mug and how come so many have them? (I don't live in the UK).

Sports Direct is a sports empire run by Evil Billionaire Mike Ashley. If you are suckered into buying his crap purchase online, you will find that a free mug arrives with your item or shortly afterwards --when you have already breathed a sigh of relief and think you are safe this time).

The mugs are HUGE, hold at least a pint of boiling liquid, BUT they are as thick as bulls' lugs and really, really horrible to drink from.

Their only legitimate purpose os to be inserted into the soil with a splash of beer in them, so that in the morning you can take them out and dump them on the grounds that they are full of beer-drowned slugs.

They really are AWFUL mugs (and I speak as a woman who can barely shut her mug cupboard door, there are so many).

I like my sports direct mug

You are a sick puppy Pipe.

A very sick puppy . . .

DH was given FIVE mugs for Christmas last year. This is what we are up against.

Don't bin them.
Donate to your local charity shop.
Dd2 has the worst taste in mugs- I'd love to cull all of hers- huge unwieldy mugs that take up too much space in the cupboard but it would hurt her feelings.
or 😥

Schadenfreude I know!! It's a serious psychological illness but it holds ALOT of coffee :)

I got rid of my excess mugs last year...moved out and left them behind along with stbxh. Possibly a bit drastic admittedly .

I now have a set of Penguin books mugs...one of each colour.