To not want mismatched mugs?

[Cloudyyy]

Just a lighthearted one really, but why would people buy random mugs as gifts? I can’t undertand wanting a mug bag doesn’t match anything else. All of my crockery must match. Are other people hoarding mismatched mugs and cups at home?? Are people doing this on purpose? Also cushions! Why would someone buy a random cushion for someone’s house that doesn’t match anything else? This happens all the time in my friendship group. Shouldn’t cushions match the sofa exactly? Can’t stand it!!! AIBU?

I’m with @BalanchineBallet and @Mittler — mismatched crockery (which I keep on a dresser) and a child with a name so unusual, yet not a new invention, that there were three or fewer in his birth year.

@user1493759849 I mean exactly that I haven’t minced my words

matching mugs make me queasy, you can't drink tea from a coffee mug and nor can you have hot chocolate from a tea mug. YABU. the more eclectic the mugs the better imo they are great souvenirs, gifts, random farm shop, art fair purchases. would never be able to commit myself to one style. dull.

OP, nope, white mugs aren’t timeless and elegant. I agree with a PP that they shout ‘rental’ as in, I’d better nip down to Ikea to get some mugs for my tenants, I need something inoffensive, oh yeah, white mugs, we’ll get 6 of those.

Not all white mugs are the cheap Ikea duplicates 😂😂🤣🤣🙈🙈🙈 Also of course it’s perfectly possible to have a variety of cups for different beverages that all match! Ha!!

I will take from this thread that some people genuinely do think a random mug or cushion is a good present. Perhaps others do actually think I will enjoy one odd mug hanging conspicuously around the cupboard. What a world! 🤣

Love my none matching mugs, tbh I collect them. Yes with photos, slogans all sorts. A few match. Also different sizes and shapes to match all the different drinks we have.
Matching cath kidston mugs 4 x 2 different sets but than an additional 30 mugs.
Sass and belle - I woke up like this, greatest granddaughter, 5 year wedding anniversary, you get the picture.
None matching cushions on sofa. 🤣🤣
Daughter has a unique derivative of a flower name that yet to meet anyone else with it.

I think OP and pp you may hate me....

Argh. It seems that there are also different degrees of 'mismatching' when it comes to mugs. I'm struggling to decide whether matchy-matchy would be worse, or random mugs with 'I woke up like this' type slogans. Who would have guessed that mug etiquette was a Thing?

Mine are decidedly not matching, but definitely don't have photos or slogans on them. If anyone gave me a slogan mug, not to mention a wedding anniversary mug, it would find its way gently to a charity shop.

FWIW, I use matching white mugs for rental properties.

GloriousMystery, mine are on a dresser, too...

Mug, cushion, flowers, chocs... it's the thought that counts. The fact that you don't appreciate spontaneous gifts says more about your personality than you know!

Also of course it’s perfectly possible to have a variety of cups for different beverages that all match! Ha!!

If they are all white and matchy then they need to actually match though! My dinner service is white but you can't just get other white things as they won't be the same white. You can't have almost but not quite matching!

My bold didn't work there.

Also of course it’s perfectly possible to have a variety of cups for different beverages that all match! Ha!!

If they are all white and matchy then they need to actually match though! My dinner service is white but you can't just get other white things as they won't be the same white. You can't have almost but not quite matching!

@SavoyCabbage I meant that you can find a range/ style you like and purchase a variety of different cups within it! I have espresso cups, tea cups and saucers, coffee cups etc from one range that have the same style handles but are different vessels. Over the years though, I have found other things that match and work with them. For example we recently found a lovely sugar pot in a different shop entirely that matches them, but I suppose that’s only possible because they are very simple.

@Cloudyyy

Aha! You’ve made me think.... actually, I do have something that match. The DC names! Definitely on a theme.

I think my daughter is one of only a handful in the UK. In the US, there are only 62 people with her name (according to a website I just checked, which could be bollox!!)

@Backtosxhool 8.50am 24th August.

I also hate plain white mugs...nothing screams rental more than cheap white mugs. 🤢

@user1493759849 19.48. 24th August.

What do you mean by that? rental what?

@Backtosxhool 22.15 ...24th August.

I mean exactly that I haven’t minced my words.

Yeah I thought as much. You won't actually say what you mean, because you know you have fucked up by saying it. But it's obvious you mean people who rent their property are the type to have 'cheap, tacky, mugs.'

This, along with you being incredibly smug, with your silly grinning smiley, and proud of 'not mincing your words' means you are the tacky, wannabe snob I thought you were. You clearly think you're better than other people, and you have just shown everyone on here what you're really like. Judgemental and rude, and one of the dreaded, and much-mocked faux middle classes.

Your posts speak volumes about you, and as I said, they show you for the faux middle class you really are. Looking down your nose at people, when you are no better than anyone else. Met people like you in real life, and I ghost them pretty sharpish. Dreadful individuals.

Oh and have this back >>>

Sorry to all the other posters on this thread who are posting lighthearted comments, but I detest and loathe people looking down their nose at other people.

Calm down, @user1493759849, the poster clearly means that a landlord who rents out a property often stocks the kitchen with a few pots and pans, plates, a set of cutlery, and plain white mugs. My student accommodation always had them, and the hotel apartment ‘with fully stocked kitchen’ that we rent every Christmas has them too.

It was no slur on people who rent, or their taste in mugs.

Are you my MIL OP?

I think this is subjective, therefore YANBU to have your opinion, but YABU to expect everyone else to 'get' it!

I like my mismatched mugs. I also like my mismatched cushions (but I do buy covers in pairs for each side of my sofa and I coordinate colour/style as much as possible).

Do the matchy-matchy people also favour ‘classic’ names?

@GloriousMystery That's an interesting question!

I'm another person wondering whether the reverse applies.

I have mismatched mugs and sofa cushions. My DS has a classic/traditional name and any future DC will also end up with a classic/traditional name in the same style. Naming children is probably the only 'matchy' aspect of my life, though!

I have far too many mugs, as I can't throw them out due to their sentimental value. And yes most are individual mugs that were given as gifts, hence the sentiment.
Choosing which mug I'll have my drink from is part of the ritual.

Some of my mugs match as in part of a set, but they’re a different design.

More importantly, my mugs have to look and have the right feel if they want to live with me. I can’t stand heavy, clunky mugs. The handle has to be the right shape and located in the middle of the cup...no novelty bullshit location.

I also can’t drink coffee out of one that may have the word “tea” on it or vice versa.

Also, if you’re giving me a coffee in a Christmas mug in June, yes, I will make a comment!

I think it's a matter of individual taste but I prefer to have lots of different mugs. My main problem with mugs is that DH gets two every year from two different events he participates in, and we're not breaking them fast enough to stop them piling up so there's no excuse at all for buying any more colourful, interesting mugs...

I wouldn't keep my mugs out on a dresser, I'd be worrying a fly or blue bottle fly would land on them. 🤢
I use my novelty mugs from the press for myself and mug tree matching for guest. I wash mug tree ones before use again the risk of fly vomit is to much.

Ahhh yes I agree that it’s just personal taste, I wouldn’t expect others to like all the same things as me. I can’t stand lazy tat for the house as gifts though and just think you should gift consumables if you don’t know someone well enough to shop for their decor preferences. You can say it’s the thought that counts but sometimes there isn’t really any thought behind it. For lovely example: I have a strong preference for square photos in square frame on the wall. My sister often takes photos at family events/ holidays in square pano and prints them for me because she knows I will frame them and put them up on the wall!! It’s a simple, inexpensive and really thoughtful gift that I absolutely love!! If she bought me an expensive but hideous patterned single mug, I would think she was mad! 😂 We all have our decor quirks it seems!

Nothing much matches in our house. A combination of children/teenagers, DH being heavy handed and granite worktops makes sets pointless and I am not really bothered. Our current sugar bowl is an inherited Royal Worcester trinket box that had lost its lid. It goes well with the random mugs.