AIBU to take my favourite mug on holiday?

[Niceandeasy]

My husband thinks I’m mad. We’re just packing for our Summer holiday to Norfolk, and I’m packing my favourite mug to take with me. The thing is, we all know tea tastes better out of a good mug. And mugs in rental holiday homes are always crap - generally those awful Ikea ones with tiny handles. So sod it, I’m going to take my mug with me. I’m only taking one, I’m not even bringing my afternoon mug (yes, I have different shaped mugs for different times of day, is that just me??)

I know it will increase my enjoyment of this holiday, and we need all the help we can get there as, whilst I love Norfolk, we were meant to be going to Canada 😔

Anyone else take other home comforts with them away on holiday??

This is my favourite mug. I always have my first cups of tea in the morning from this mug.

I usually take a sharp knife on holiday, and also a tea cosy. Holiday cottages usually have a teapot, but no tea cosy, so the tea goes cold before you can have a second cup!

I took a footstool (only one corner sofa no where to loaf about) and a filter coffee maker on last self catering hols. Even I think a footstool is a bit odd. A mug is perfectly normal and you mug is lovely

If you take a pillow, make sure it has a very stand-out-y colour pillow case on it.

I had to pay to get mine couriered back from Wales once because it was white in a sea of white bedding and there were children running everywhere on checkout day and chaos and it blended in every time we did the ‘last scan of each room to make sure we’ve got everything’ that each adult did at least 3 times! (extended family holiday so there were quite a few adults to go round and none of us clocked it).

YANBU of course OP! Tiny mugs in holiday lets are the worst.

We’re very keen on big mugs of tea in the morning and both took our favourite ones on holiday to Majorca last summer. We did get a few funny looks but also loads of people commented on what a good idea it was (the hotel only had those very small coffee cups available).

This is my current favourite after the handle came off my previous one! Plain but very thick sides so keeps tea nice and hot, and lovely to curl my hands around

This one

@VictoriaBun

I'm a Whittards mug fan as well ! Sadly they don't seem to make many these days.

I have five or six of the big ones they used to do. Love them but they don't sell them anymore!

I like to forget to take it so I then need to buy a new mug when I'm away.

The last time we were in Tenerife the hotel had no kettle and no mugs.It was a tragedy of huge proportions. I cannot start the day without tea. I quickly bought a mini kettle a two nice mugs from a store and was soon appeased.

My Whittards mug

It's probably worth looking out on eBay etc for a second hand copy of your favourite mug, so you have a backup one if yours gets broken. I'm considering doing this for my favourite mug, which is no longer made.

YANBU. My coffee mug always comes with us. I have two identical mugs that DH bought when I started staying at his many years ago. They're exactly like some my nan used to have :)

I had a Whittards mug shaped a bit like the Emma Bridgewater ones. It had Nick Butterworth rabbits painted on it. Best mug for tea ever! I've look at EB ones as a replacement and they are not quite right so definitely not worth what they cost!!

Always take a mug with me! I have 4 mugs that are acceptable for morning coffee...one is home from work for the summer!

Also my coffee dripper, proper coffee etc. If I'm somewhere self-catering I also take my coffee grinder.

Have very happy memories of being a leader on a guide camp and boiling water over a fire so I could make proper coffee in the morning!

We go away next week and already planning all of the kitchen utensils that will be coming with us!

DH took a camping stove plus kettle on a picnic at the weekend so he could have a fresh cup of tea.
We actually have an in car kettle, but it's tiny. (Please note... The instructions are explicit you cannot use it while the car is in a motion!)

YANBU 😂
I have a coffee and a regular tea mug at home
Then I have a separate tea and a separate coffee mug for the office

Then a travel (tea) mug that’s been travelling with me everywhere! 😂😂

This my favourite morning mug. It may fall into the MN definition of tacky.

Make sure you pack it really well to avoid breakage OP. I don't usually take my favourite cup and saucer but may consider it this time.

Late MIL took her best tea-towel to a self-catering bungalow but set fire to it (left it on top of a hot grill) and she was in tears. It didn't ruin the holiday but she'd wanted everything to be perfect and this put a damper on it especially as FIL told her off.

We're going away in our caravan on Friday....I will be taking the nespresso machine, all of the giant bath sheets, my pillow......

I have special caravan mugs though which are melamine. I like my coffee to taste like a camping coffee when I'm on holiday 🤷🏻‍♀️

@thistimelastweek

Here's wishing the mug a nice holiday.

I will be taking coffee machine, bread knife and special sharp knife with me.

@Niceandeasy

Whittard have a very similar shaped mug atm here

www.whittard.co.uk/tableware/florence-mint-tankard-345926.html

I usually take my 4th favourite mug with me.

Although confusingly, my 4th favourite mug is one that i bought on holiday in Wales, because all of the mugs in the house were a bit shit.

This is one of my faves. The large cup doesn't match the saucer and the napkin is for dribbles.

YANBU as long as you don't need to travel light.

Awesome idea OP. We usually end up buying new mugs on holiday, because cerebral mugs are so rubbish. We are going to a cottage at the end of the month that we last went to about 18 months ago. I’m hoping the mugs are still there!!

I take a travel kettle and Yorkshire teabags abroad with me. I am allergic to coffee, and often the only way of heating water in hotels in with a coffee machine.

I once went out and bought a mug in Spain when we were staying in a rental because they were all rubbish. That's the one think that annoys me about staying in a rental, kitchen equipment and crockery is often rubbish.