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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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..to be sad about my mug and it’s replacement.

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BertrandRussell · 06/01/2019 10:27

I had a lovely mug. With elephants on it- I like elephants a lot. Before Christmas, ds broke it. Proper accident, and he was properly sorry. For Christmas, he bought me a lovely new mug, with elephants on it. He tried to find an exact replacement, but they aren’t made any more. But this is a very, very nice, quite expensive mug. But it’s the wrong shape, too big, too thick, the handle’s wrong, the colour’s wrong and it makes my tea gets cold really quickly. And I don’t like it. And i’m going to have to drink my tea out of it every day until he leaves home. It’s bad enough that I had to put up with breakfast in bed twice a year for 15 years when I hate it to spare my children’s feelings. But now I have to drink out of a bad mug!!!!!!! He’s so pleased with himself for finding it and keeps offering to make tea.......Did I mention that my diamond shoes are too tight?

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BabySharkAteMyHamster · 06/01/2019 11:39

Could you searcher types keep an eye out for a ' my farts hospitalise small children mug ' whilst youre at it

It was made by vimrod.

Lifeofa · 06/01/2019 11:40

Save it because it is so special for those dreaded breakfast in bed days! Fit all the misery in at once.

SaturdayNext · 06/01/2019 11:42

So you are essentially lying to your ds to make him feel better about himself over and over again? I pity his future wife

Why on earth wouldn't OP, @masterandmargarita? Why would you be so foul as to tell a child who has put this much effort into a present that it's no good? I think he sounds lovely, his future wife will be a lucky woman.

And, OP, pre-warm the mug before you put tea in it.

SluggishSnail · 06/01/2019 11:45

@Bertrand

I have a particularly hideous tealight holder in cheap metal that has been bent so it reads 'mum' and has a pink plastic bead in it. I have to have it on display until DD leaves home (another 3 years) as she was so proud of buying it for mother's day when she was 6.

I love it that she bought it for me, but it is truly ugly and has never had a tealight in it. I'm sure after she's left home I'll be fondly dusting it.

BlueBinDay · 06/01/2019 11:46

Just before Xmas my neighbour dropped and broke her husband's special latte mug. It was tall with a big ladybird on it.

Just after Xmas she spotted the very same in my mug cupboard. (I hadn't known about the breakage up till this point) She asked me, pleadingly and longingly, if I could bring myself to part with it.

I'm not all that keen on the shape and height of it myself, so I made a neighbour very happy. He came round hotfoot with a bottle of his finest wine. Which made me very happy. Joy all round.

masterandmargarita · 06/01/2019 11:46

I guess I am speaking from bitter experience!. My dh is like this with his mum and neither of them are really honest with each other about real stuff, although they are seemingly very close. I wasn't brought up like that. If my kids give me so something that I don't like which they frequently do, i make a big fuss if it at the time and put it away forever! Just the one lie, not the repeat lie.

DGRossetti · 06/01/2019 11:51

A few years ago, I bought a mug with a design connected to a famous rock band, and was impressed that they sent you two. One for drinking, and one for the cabinet ...

Consolidatedyourloins · 06/01/2019 11:52

Is he due to go away for a few days?

The mug could accidentally on purpose break then.

Start scoping out a replacement!

nakedscientist · 06/01/2019 11:54

Oh Bertrand, so happy to hear from you! Sorry about the sad elephant mug related circumstances ( your son is a star though :))

I nearly called for you on the thread where the disabled OP's DH was objecting to her charity work because it impinged on her housework 'duties' and posters were defending HIM!

StreetwiseHercules · 06/01/2019 11:55

I’d say that if you genuinely have capacity to feel sadness on an ongoing basis about a broken mug then your life is going fairly well. 👍

WeirdCatLady · 06/01/2019 11:56

Oh yes OP, I feel your pain. Perhaps you could notice it’s starting to discolour slightly from all the tea? And then decide it will be your special mug, only for special occasions.

Can we help find another one of your original mug?

Celebelly · 06/01/2019 12:04

DP put my gloriously tacky Heartbeat mug in the dishwasher and Claude Greengrass's face peeled off

SaturdayNext · 06/01/2019 12:07

It would be really mean to stage a breakage of the new mug. OP's son would be really disappointed, and anyway would probably just get a replacement.

Geepee71 · 06/01/2019 12:12

How about using it as a plant pot? Plant a small plant in a small plant pot inside it, (for drainage etc) then you can have it in display on window sill.
Then get another special mug.

TornFromTheInside · 06/01/2019 12:12

He's 17 - old enough to break the news to him. Be gentle, but he needs to understand a lifetime of tea lies ahead... it's a serious matter.

But, if you live by the sword you must die by the sword and be prepared to hear how he hates the trainers you bought him, and can't abide the jumper he's had to wear through gritted teeth for the last 2 years.

Still, you cannot drink tea through an ill-shaped mug. It's just a fact of life. Brian Cox will explain the physics behind it, but it's irrefutable that universal equilibrium cannot be maintained with a dodgy elephant mug.

TornFromTheInside · 06/01/2019 12:14

Do the honourable thing and fall on your mug!

LionsHeart · 06/01/2019 12:19

Use it as a penholder for your desk/ brush holder on your dressing table so that you can see it everyday, but it won't get broken.

WickedGoodDoge · 06/01/2019 12:56

@StoodOnALego I’m originally fron Boston, so I get to cringe in horror when DH goes total tourist on me. We just won’t mention my fridge agent collection (many of which mysteriously got lost in the last house move...)

Here it is- he loves it so.

..to be sad about my mug and it’s replacement.

WickedGoodDoge · 06/01/2019 13:06

*magnet. Collecting fridge agents would be an odd hobby indeed!

FreshlyWashed · 06/01/2019 13:11

It's funny how important having the "right" mug is. Tea is such an important drink* especially the first one of the day. And it has to be out of right receptacle. It just HAS to be.

other hot drinks are available....
Coffee (for the deluded)? Even herbal?

MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 06/01/2019 13:12

Babyshark is it this one?
It’s out of stock just wanted to check it’s the right one before I go down an Internet rabbit hole.

cushioncovers · 06/01/2019 13:12

I feel your pain. Every Xmas and birthday my dc get me a god awful mug and I have to use it. My kitchen is full of mugs I hate occasionally I have accidentally purposely broken one so I can get rid of it.

cushioncovers · 06/01/2019 13:13

🤮🤮who mentioned herbal tea.

anewyear · 06/01/2019 13:13

I love all things elephant and have a few elephant mugs
I would send you one, but I drink out of most of them on a daily basis..
Perhaps with the power of Mumsnet we can find one for you BertrandRussell ?

Bowchicawowow · 06/01/2019 13:19

I have lost a lot of mugs I have been very attached to. It’s always a sad moment when they go in the bin. I have started buying my mugs from Emma Bridgewater because they are sturdy and they are made in Stoke on Trent so they employ a lot of people in the Potteries. Their university town ones are really nice.

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