.... 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!!

Can you post a pic of the designs so we can help choose the ones to bin?

Mine tried this! If it's chipped it's gone, health and safety issue. The I weed out any that are old and faded or just plain ugly. Do this when you put in a new bin bag add a couple then put something over it to disguise they'll never know.

I absolutely love my sports direct mugs. I buy them specifically...

I'm pretty ruthless with anything badly stained or chipped/cracked, but I have a couple of favourites I just can't bring myself to throw away, which get relegated to pen holders. I have a small collection of mugs in a china cabinet (and I don't mean things sold as collectibles at extortionate prices) eg this year's official TT souvenir with a gold motorbike on it, I think it cost about £7; and a set of Felix mugs and teapot which were a special offer donkeys' years ago. One day I might bring myself to actually start using those.

I personally have 2 mugs I use daily for my Yorkshire tea. I like the feel of them, but I prefer to bring fruit tea from a china Dunoon mug. I keep 4 matching but slightly different designs for visitors.

^drink, not bring!

Emma Bridgewater is having another sale. I don't need to go there do I?

I still have the baby beakers
Mine are past the baby stage 😳

But we don't use them !!!

I'm a cup hoarder and would fume if someone threw mine out

Schadenfreude on a Kondo analysis of the mug problem. One of my favourite ever posts. Thank you.

We do a thing now where, once I get two mugs out for the first tea of the morning, we reuse the same mugs all day (unless they've got disgusting). We used to get fresh ones out for each drink - bad for the planet!
Cosmo China is much nicer than Emma Bridgewater, all individual. I keep them for years and buy in the sales or just have a treat every now and then

Love the Kondo summary, very accurate! I Kondo'd the mugs last year and reduced 40 to 20 (there's two of us that drink hot drinks) but I feel I could do better... the trouble is thd specialist mugs that cannot be binned - DH's hot chocolate mug (Best Teacher! when he stopped teaching 3 years ago ), my Cup a Soup mug (perfect water to powder ratio!), the lovely Dunoon 'I need the biggest cup of tea that can be created with a single Yorkshire tea bag' mug, the 'You're Purrrrfect' cat mug for when we make each other a surprise 'I didn't know if you wanted tea but I wuv you do I made you one' mug. The list goes on!
There's a pair of twee 'Mr & Mrs' mugs, and another pair of Mr Men mugs that are just too small for a good cuppa, that I have my eye on for bin transferral.
This post is a bit identifying for anyone that knows my mugs

Anything that I put in the bin that I don't want resuscitating I put in a sanitary bag as that stops OH from investigating. If it won't fit I disguise it as being a "girlie" product.

I have sometimes put the bin bag in the wheelie bin to prevent his checking.

Not read past the first page yet..... YABU to want to get rid of a load of everyone else's mugs to buy some more that you want.

However, YANBU to want the get rid of a load (without buying more) as that's a big collection!

I have to have mine in a cupboard. Neatly waiting.

If one breaks from the set, then they all have to go to charity.

I had to show you mine. I have too many but not as many as you

Neatly waiting.

Kondo analysis of the mug problem. One of my favourite ever posts. Thank you

Another vote for the Kondo summary by @SchadenfreudePersonified. Esp Stuff that shite

DH is always banging on about needing to cull our mugs. The problem is that many of our mugs are not ours, but belong to the DC. I am now thinking, though, that I should walk into the kitchen, get a stack of sacrificial victims out of the cupboard, and advertise them tomorrow as On Their Way Out unless someone can come up with a clinching reason why not.

And if DH, he who moans about the mugs, says 'You can't chuck the one we brought you back from Malta!' I reserve the right to throw it at him.

Everybody gets to pick their favourite 3 mugs.

Fill all other mugs with soil and plant herbs in them. It will produce useful ingredients and the mugs will be dead after about 2 seasons. By then you will have a new crop of "best dad" and sports direct monstrosities to plant the next crop.

You need to send the mugs to me. Every couple of months we buy new ones. And every couple of months we're back down to 3.

And don't even mention the rate of attrition of our glasses.... I've given up, and we now have plastic wine glasses. Yes, we're that classy .

I like my Sports Direct mug.. perfect size for when I fancy soup for lunch, never gets used for anything else though.

Do this when you put in a new bin bag add a couple then put something over it to disguise they'll never know

No, that's back to front. Wait till the bin bag is full. Add the target mug into the full bin bag just before you remove the full bin bag and put it in the outside wheelie bin.

No one's going to accidentally spot a discarded mug that's inside a tied up bin bag in a wheelie bin.

(Although the morally correct thing to do would be to get all family members to buy into the mug cull before mug discarding starts)

I stopped reading at 'Le Creuset mugs' and hauled my ass over to amazon.....

[......£60 later...... ]

Well, it was my birthday last week.....

We have a mug problem too. I drink tea - lots of it - and DS now also drinks tea - I'm fairly particular about mugs, they've got to 'feel' right and have a sufficient volume to be acceptable (and hopefully look nice too). I have about 8 - 10 mugs - DS has about 7. Some of these mugs are 'general use' mugs, but some are presents so 'mine' (although I don't get too upset if someone else uses them!). As you might expect, DS's are rather more 'his' (batman etc). DH doesn't use mugs as much as DS and I. He does use one (one given to me!) for water regularly. He probably uses 'normal' mugs about once a week. And yet he has about 10 in the cupboard, from various work conferences which I don't feel I can get rid of!

In defence of Sports Direct mugs, you can eat casserole from them on camp. That's it.