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

[NoCryingInEngineering]

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

Not RTFT but YANBU.

I've always had a certain mug for everything. I had one at both GPs for my drinks and still have them today (but now for my DD1). I now have a hot chocolate mug that is only used for hot chocolate and a Tweety Pie mug that is just for me and for my tea. My DH DOESN'T quite understand but humours me.

No worries NoCrying you're allowed to do work stuff
I'd take extra stringent measures when MIL comes - perhaps mousetraps in the mugs you don't want used..?
Not really nippy ones though mil must still be able to wrangle

I don't believe it. I thought my mug unreasonableness was my dirty little secret, but there are literally hundreds of you out there who are the same (well, quite a few). Mine isn't even expensive - I think it was a quid from Wilkoes. But it's purple, it's large, and most importantly, it's MINE. I bought red, grey and black ones for everyone else to use, but still my purple one kept ending up in the teenage pit, or STBX used it (out of spite no doubt, because I TOLD him not to). My eyes actually started popping out of my head and I became very unreasonable when that happened. So I bought 2 more exactly the same, and now I hide all 3 so I always have a clean mug when I want my coffee. As soon as the dishwasher finishes I'm seen swiping any clean ones out so they can be placed in their hidey hole.

Crikey, even the thought of someone else using one of them makes me feel slightly hysterical

How irritating is your husband?! Why would he use your mug? Mine sometimes gives MIL my mug which almost sends me over the edge.
He would claim he put absolutely no thought into his actions and just got a mug to use. To this I say ' put some thought into every action you dimwit'
Gah! People are so thoughtless.
I didn't read whole thread but I hope you followed someone's advice. I particularly liked the suggestion to whack him with a shovel and bury him under the patio. Extreme maybe, but you wouldn't have the problem again,

OPs FIL obviously can't read.
My work mug lives in splendid isolation in my locker. Not having any other dirty mare using it.
My home mug is a mahoosive one from France. Any others feel far too small to me.
My late DMum used to call them beakers . I don't think she realised how dreadfully offensive this is to us mug lovers

My husband, our oldest dd and I all have particular mugs we prefer. There are also other mug categories, for special guests, not so special guest (), working in the garden and workmen who are doing messy jobs. I've never admitted this before or spoken of it, but I know dh understands because he always makes the right mug selection

See this? This is my coffee mug. With coffee in it. On my desk

When I was I teenager, I had a lovely pierro (sp) clown bought for me , with my name on , for Christmas. My Grandad came to stay for new years. I spent ages looking for my new mug and there it was in the bathroom with his fucking false teeth in soaking in steredent

A blokey who I used to work with uses disinfectant cleansing wipes for his mug every day, rather than wash it. No-one would ever DREAM of using his mug, surprisingly. Maybe you could adopt his tactic.

GMIL bought me a set of porcelain mugs with sweet peas on them for my birthday one year (she knew I liked them and they are the flower for my birth year). GMIL and the maker of the mugs are sadly no longer around so I try to keep them safe while still being able to use them. I have put them at the back of the cupboard and put others in front and I have bought a goodly number of matching large cups and put them on a shelf above the coffee maker that is much easier to reach.

Adult/teen sons still make coffee in them and walk around with them. I remind them each and every time and make them switch.

I'm a mugaholic, or mugamaniac if you prefer. I like my first tea of the day in my special very large breakfast cup & saucer and herbal tea in a rather fragile looking clear class cup & saucer - no other will do.

When I visit my sister she always brings me tea in a 'world's best uncle' mug - I feel a little affronted by this but am too polite to say so.

I suggest you hide your favourite mug at the back of the cupboard - I think that beating your DFIL with a shovel and burying him him under the patio is a bit extreme even under these circumstances. I don't think it'll stand up in court.