To be so upset about a mug

[TeddyIsaHe]

I am an IDIOT. Just dropped my beautiful personalised EB mug dd bought for me (Granny actually did the purchasing) for her first Xmas. I could cry!! I’m going to buy another exactly the same but bloody hell.

I’m not the only one emotionally attached to mugs am I?!

Oh no! I totally get this. I have a mug that my mom gave to because it was my favorite. And the one she used daily, It’s at least 40 years old, probably closer to 50. (I made her a ‘copy’ when I was 4 at nursery school and planted a seedling plant, she still has the damn plant (to be fair it’s been close to death on more than one occasion... so that was 40 years ago))

During my first move with DH, I had already relocated and he was in charge of packing and moving. I told him he could set the rest of stuff on fire but that mug and 2 other things had to make it without getting broken. To this day I’m not sure which of our friends he forced to pack it, but I think they used an entire roll of bubble wrap, and those 3 things were the only things in 1 large moving box which was covered in bright yellow emergency caution tape (the kind used at accident scenes).

DH is definitely a keeper!

@AtAmber

I had a mug with a superlambanana on from when liverpool was the capital of culture in 2008. Dh dropped it a couple of weeks ago. There is zero chance of ever finding another one. I miss it very much!

Is it this one? www.liverpoolgiftcompany.co.uk/shop/my-world-liverpool-superlambanana-mug/

I would be gutted if I lost my mug so I don’t think YABU at all

Everything tastes funny from other cups. And my mam bought it for me just because she thought I’d like it. And I really do.

@RandomMess

*I had a shelf slip out of its plastic supports...

I lost all my mugs, including all the ones from my childhood*

Is that how you got your user name?

I recently dropped my favourite mug onto my 2nd favourite mug when unpacking dishwasher, breaking both

No sentimental value but just the two best big mugs of our mixmatch collection in the house, and now every time I make tea I feel cross at myself and miss my mugs!

I won't tell you the lengths I went to to try and find a beloved mug. It was perfect, beautiful, the right shape, thickness, size, everything. I mourn it, ffs.

I do get a bit hyperventilated at all the mugs the Lancashire siblings have on Gogglebox. They must have cupboards full of them.

I totally understand. Mug love is a thing. I have one that I painted at a craft experience type place after my DD was born and I absolutely adore it. If it's in the dishwasher then I won't have a brew in another mug, I just wait.

What is "EB" please?

Yanbu. My dad got me a forever friends mug when his work sent him to visitthe factory making them. He knew I loved forever friends. I had it for years and was gutted when it broke.

Oh no ! I’m with you too .

I have two perfect mugs that I treated myself to, one for work one at home . Perfect size , shape and thickness .

And then I find DH putting his fucking coffee in it. There were words

I have a favourite stripy mug that is already a replacement.
DH and DS think they are being kind when they make me tea in that mug. I just worry that they will hurt it. I don’t tell them that, because it would sound daft..but BE CAREFUL!

I’ve got a favourite mug my mum got for me

Sometimes I think not to use it, to keep it in the cupboard, however that’s not the point of being a favourite mug. It’s there to be used and think about my mum

Obviously I’ll be gutted when it breaks but I’ve got the pleasure of using it every day until then

Think I might take a picture of it now so I've always got that

I haven’t thrown out broken pieces of my kitchen dinner service. They’ve been glued back together and put to other uses like seasalt pot/ pen holder/ flower pot. My favourite is an espresso cup that I turned into a pin cushion and its saucer holds the scissors etc.

Or was your mug completely shattered?

I bought a plate from a car boot sale years ago for 10p and ate my tea off it every night. Favourite plate. Dropped it full of dinner. Cried about the plate.

I have a Lion King mug that I bought when I first went to Disneyland Paris in 1996 aged 14. No-one else is allowed to use it, though DH is permitted to make me tea in it. I have nightmares about it being broken as I can't replace it. It's got 'Disney Parks' stamped on the bottom. The Disney Store ones say just that. So it's not the same.

I mourn a mug I didn't even buy - surely that is even more ridiculous? . Lovely Duntroon mug with puffins on it, spotted after a puffin tour in Scotland. I thought it would be too difficult to transport (to NZ) and still hanker after it 18 years later. And do google it from time to time (but it's not made any more).

Had a favourite M&S red paisley one that caught up with me 10 yrs after I bought it. So happy to be reunited... I'm now in earthquake country, and it was thrown out of a cupboard during in one of the Christchurch earthquakes and chipped right where you drink. Thought I could cope with that but then in a later quake it was thrown right out again and smashed. Completely gutted - I think I was more upset about that than anything else that got broken and had to be replaced, including the house! Took such a long time to replace with anything even vaguely acceptable.

Dd has an unusual name (well according to MN it's soooo popular but hey) and you NEVER see things with her name on. In France on a school trip I organised I found a cereal bowl with her name on! (more common in France). She loved it and used it daily. Then DH was drying it up and dropped it. waaaah. We never went back to the town.

Never mind op, you used it and enjoyed it, and I really think we should do that with our lovely things.

My first mummy mug broke handle on it so it now sits on kitchen window with bits an bobs in it couldn't bare to throw it away. Also got my dads mug there he passed away 12 years ago strange how these cheap little things mean so much to us.

I had a gorgeous shaped mug from wilko that said some bunny loves you with a picture of a bunny. The mug broke and I still look to see if they have it when I go in - sadly no luck - so YANBU

@Eckhart 😂 erm no

TBF they bounced off the worktop (actually chipped it) and smashed to smithereens on the tiled floor in the middle of me hosting unexpected visitors and making chicken pie!! Plus the cats thought they wanted to investigate the disaster 🤦🏼‍♀️

User name is related to my MH!

I mourn a mug I've never even owned.

I'm autistic and Alton Towers is my special interest and special place.

I have a beautiful set of Alton Towers mugs.

They were pricey and I couldn't afford to buy all 6 in one go so decided to get 3 the first trip and the other 3 the next time I was due to visit a couple of months later.

One of the ones I still needed was sold out by the time I got back and I'm still not over it.

They have pencil sketches of the rides on and aren't in your face like most theme park merchandise. I have all but the The Smiler one. It bugs me. A lot.

I was given an I love Grandma mug on granddaughter's first Christmas, 15 years ago, it's disappeared totally and I am so annoyed. No doubt it will turn up somewhere totally unlikely, like the glassed I found in a flower bed two years after I lost them!

I want to know what an EB mug is as well.
There must be a mug in crowd for special people.

I have a pair of Charles and Diana Dunoon mugs, at least they've lasted.