I probably am but FFS - stop using my coffee mug for tea!

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I'm not a mug minimalist, we have fair size collection of mugs acquired over the years, but in among that collection there are a few favourite or specific mugs. And I have a favourite morning coffee mug, it says coffee all over it in different types and sizes of writing, its the perfect size for coffee on wfh mornings and it tends to live at the front of the cupboard because it's a regularly used mug.

But I can't have it this morning because my DFiL has nabbed it - and put tea in it!

Just how unreasonable would I be to pour the tea over him while sobbing 'That's MY mug' like a toddler

Disclaimers (1) I am not actually going to do this. (2) I am nearly 37wks, so the average toddler may be more emotionally stable atm. (3) in every other way he is a lovely man & he and DMiL have done some fantastic toddler wrangling this weekend while DH was away which has been life saving

but its still my mug

YANBU people do this at work and I want to kill them.

I leave my cup on my desk dirty then wash it up when I need it.

Truly, these are my people! Fairylea - I also do the slightly-larger-mug-for-my-first-cuppa-of-the-day thing.

I have a different mug problem. DH bought an fugly mug on holiday, it is was smaller than 'my' mug(s) and had a great big starfish on the handle that got on your nerves because you couldn't hold it comfortably. DS1 made it his life work to produce any tea he made me in that bloody mug, it gave him immense pleasure. Put a smile on his face every time. Made him proper chipper.
Funny thing is it has gone missing, and I don't know where it has gone. That popped his balloon.
But I lost out in the end...... far less tea being made.

I have lots of mugs, some lovely and some naff HOWEVER there are only 3 that I like to drink coffee from because I like a large mug of coffee but a smaller mug of tea. DH seems unable to comprehend this and has been known to make me a large tea in a large mug or a small coffee in a small mug - I have contemplated LTB but as he's generally decent I've let it go ( so far) but I often retaliate by making him a hot drink in one of the mugs from the back of the cupboard that I don't like and usually save for the Virgin Engineer that is here most weeks trying to fix our shitty broadband

If my first coffee of the day isn't made in a particular it doesn't taste right and the day is ruined! I have several mugs that are acceptable for tea later in the day but only one coffee mug.

Strangely when I'm away i'm happy to drink from any old mug

My 3yo DD gets really upset if someone uses my mug, even if it is just my DH stealing a sip of my coffee
"It's mummy's mug!!! "
Job done!

I am protective over my Mug too! We have a vast collection on mugs but my mug is pink with white spots and says Mummy, it is the only Mug I will accept.

When We first moved in to this house and not everything was unpacked, dh dared to use my mug and he got a & look and his never done it again. He learnt his lesson

I hate my soup mug being used for a hot drink, it wouldn't bother me if they used it for soup, it's the fact it has been used for the wrong thing that bugs me. Other stuff can be used for whatever by whoever but this mug is just perfect for soup and totally wrong for a hot drink, how can I be related to people who can't grasp such a simple fact

I fwel your pain. My dh doesn't like hot drinks so he uses MY mugs for squash.

Despite the fact we have a cupboard full of glasses and only 6 mugs

God, I'm very anal about my mugs. Luckily I'm the only hot beverage drinker resident in our house but if a friend or family come over and make themselves a cup IN THE MUG THAT'S ONLY USED FOR TEA AT BREAKFAST TIME I get very upset indeed. Very.

And yptea stains mugs much more than coffee I find, so that would be upsetting in itself.

Yptea? What the fuck is it and why does my iPad autocorrect to it??

it has taken a long time for me to get through to DH that mugs matter - large, wide china mug for coffee; narrower, thinner-edged bone china for tea. Must be white on the inside for both.

not long after he realised this, he broke my best tea mug. He proved that he understands by getting an appropriate replacement - thin edge, white inside, not enormous. He proudly told me that he was comparing the edges of several potential mugs to see which was thinnest .

My mum does this. It gives me the irrational rage to find her drinking one of her 18,070 cups of tea out of a mug which says "Best Dad" or "Top Notch [my job title]" or the children's special hot chocolate mugs (which I then have to spend hours scrubbing the tea stains off or they will cry). It's particularly annoying because woe betide anybody who uses her special mug in her house...

I am so protective about my work mug that I keep it hidden in a cupboard in the office, it doesn't live with the communal ones in the kitchen.

And at home I get very twitchy if I find one of the DC's friends using one of MY mugs. I don't say anything of course, but I don't like it.

MIL used to have a lovely mug that she knew was my favourite, and I always used it at her house. She eventually gave it to me to take home. I was quite sad when it got broken a while later, it always reminded me of her - in a nice way.

I've found my people! I become very attached to my mugs and teacups, I have separate ones for guests, and make sure I have two of each of my favourite type. DP is in the dog house because he broke one of a pair my DB got me for Christmas, (which were perfect and much loved) they were from Sweden so I have no hope of replacing it I often leave my mugs unwashed on the side to prevent anyone else using them like a pp said, it is a very good method to preserve the favourites!

I have 3 special mugs which DH isn't allowed to touch. Or anyone else, for that matter.
2 are Harry Potter mugs, both are ~1 pint, and both are Marauders' Map mugs - one with heat-sensitive footprints, and one without.
THe other is a chocolate monster one that says "All I need is Love but I'll settle for Chocolate". (I do actually have a replacement for that, just in case, that I found in the USA a few years ago and bought on ebay but DH doesn't know).

I REALLY don't like anyone using my pet mugs.

Buy another mug that says tea?

TheTurnOfTheScrew He's a keeper!

I can't stand tea or coffee, and they're kept in the awkward corner cupboard that I'm too short to reach, but accessible to visitors. However I favour my chunky mugs for hot chocolate and my fine mugs for fruit tea.

I am quite relaxed about my mugs really*

*sips coffee lovingly from red Harry Potter mug THAT.IS.MINE and is not touched on pain of death. It has a dedicated spot on the mug shelf.

My DD had a mug when she was young with a hippo on it. I still give it to her every time she visits. No-one else ever uses it. She's 40.

Hahaha OP, you're awesome.

Tea drinking freak x

I dont have a mug I MUST have but I do have one I DO NOT WANT.. and Dh keeps freaking serving me drinks in it.. It is the wrong mug!!!