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To be so upset about a mug

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TeddyIsaHe · 26/10/2020 15:53

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?!

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oakleaffy · 26/10/2020 23:47

Our tutor had a cobalt blue mug with Strychnine on it.

some kid broke it.

He , the tutor, was devastated.

Said he'd had it ever since he was a Student..now a Dr.

I still remember the incident very clearly...Despite it being years ago.

He was so scientific....yet the sorrow over his broken mug showed his emotional side.

oakleaffy · 26/10/2020 23:48

What is an ''EB'' mug???

oakleaffy · 26/10/2020 23:49

Oh just googled...Emma Bridgewater.

dottiedaisee · 26/10/2020 23:51

I have a mug with my youngest son pic taken when he was eight for his football team. He is now 20 and struggling with MH problems and I would never have imagined this 6 months ago ...am absolutely heartbroken 😔

EstuaryBird · 26/10/2020 23:56

I had a cheap supermarket mug with a stick drawing of s smiling cat holding out a bunch of flowers

Every morning that mug made me happy and I became absurdly attached to it... I broke it about 10 years ago and I still pine for it. Never managed to find another one ☹️

gavisconismyfriend · 26/10/2020 23:57

@FortunesFave @frogface69
EB - Emma Bridgewater

SlopesOff · 27/10/2020 00:01

@Pumpkinstace

Is it this one? From your description I don't think it is but it is The Smiler.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Merlin-Entertainment-Group-2013-Alton-Towers-The-Smiler-Rare-Ceramic-Mug/233672085904?hash=item3667f11190:g:FJ0AAOSwv2VfK-7D

Pumpkinstace · 27/10/2020 00:05

No, unfortunately not.

It's yellow inside but the outside is just a black and white pencil sketching of the ride

BeaLola · 27/10/2020 01:15

I am very attached to my mugs - especially the EB ones my son has bought me .

Mind you I have a hideous one with my name on that my brother bought me when I was 13 - has a cheesy sister joke on it and I would be gutted if it broke - it's nearly 40 years old

Mind you I also have some teacups that my late Aunt had wrapped up and put away "for best " her whole life which her Mum gave her in the 1920s - I use them all the time as I think it's sad otherwise that they are not used

IfIHadAHeart · 27/10/2020 02:27

I bought the EB moon landing mugs, and broke the one with the picture on the very first time I used it. It was sold out straight away and now discontinued and I’m gutted. I want another!

Rosebel · 27/10/2020 03:15

I get it. The cat jumped on the table (which he's not allowed to do anyway) and knocked my cup off. It was my first Mother's Day gift and I was so upset.
More upset because my husband promised he'd replace it but by the time he did they didn't do that cup anymore. He got me a different one but not the same.

1forAll74 · 27/10/2020 03:16

I had a favourite mug years ago, it had a black cat with a white bib on it, the exact picture of my black cat with white bib. My cat died in my arms one night, and next day I buried him in my garden, I then came in and was going to use this mug to make a cup of tea, and I got it off the shelf, and dropped it on the floor, and it broke into pieces. That was the only time I got upset about a broken mug.

Rememberallball · 27/10/2020 03:25

Not at all; I broke a casserole dish in the summer - normally would be an ‘oh well, best replace it’ moment - except it’s one from my childhood and has huge sentimental value as it’s one of my late DM’s dishes. Off to look to see if I can replace a 1960’s Pyrex dish!!

FiveShelties · 27/10/2020 03:54

Definitely not.

I broke my Snowman mug - the one from Royal Doulton which showed the snowman carrying the boy 'walking in the air'. I think I got it in 1985 and it survived moves from Lancashire to Staffordshire, then onto Oxfordshire, to NZ, back to UK and returned to NZ.

After all that, I knocked it off the work surface last year. It was around 34 years old - I was so upset. Definitely had my monies worth though.

LostInTheColonies · 27/10/2020 04:21

@FiveShelties

Definitely not.

I broke my Snowman mug - the one from Royal Doulton which showed the snowman carrying the boy 'walking in the air'. I think I got it in 1985 and it survived moves from Lancashire to Staffordshire, then onto Oxfordshire, to NZ, back to UK and returned to NZ.

After all that, I knocked it off the work surface last year. It was around 34 years old - I was so upset. Definitely had my monies worth though.

DParents have the building a snowman one - inherited from DGM. It's also travelled across the world. I get up extra-early (a bonus of jetlag?) when I visit to make sure I get to drink out of it Grin. It's hidden when DAunt visits in case she tries to claim it...
LuaDipa · 27/10/2020 05:28

I have two ‘precious’ mugs. One is EB that my mum gave me that I use for my tea. The other is a really cheap mug that dh gave me that I have my coffee in. When he gave it to me I hated it, but it’s the perfect size and I have grown to love it. I would be devastated to lose either. Yanbu.

IslaMann · 27/10/2020 06:22

I saw my fave mug on a Timehop photo yesterday and felt the loss again. However inspired by this thread I've taken a look on eBay and found it on buy it now.... am delighted!

LzzyHale · 27/10/2020 06:50

@oakleaffy

Our tutor had a cobalt blue mug with Strychnine on it.

some kid broke it.

He , the tutor, was devastated.

Said he'd had it ever since he was a Student..now a Dr.

I still remember the incident very clearly...Despite it being years ago.

He was so scientific....yet the sorrow over his broken mug showed his emotional side.

My late dad had the full set of those mugs: cyanide, arsenic, opium etc. That's a trip down memory lane Smile
MrTumblesSpottyHag · 27/10/2020 07:00

DD (DH) bought me a lovely mug for my first Mother's Day. I loved it!
Then DH used it, left it somewhere stupid and it got smashed.
8 years ago and I'm still not over it 😁

I also have a mug in the back of the cupboard that I love but don't use because it isn't dishwasher safe and I haaaaate washing up! It stares at me resentfully every time I open the cupboard 😕

Yeahnahmum · 27/10/2020 07:05

Dd bought it for you..... for her FIRST Christmas. .... meaning she was 1.... meaning she didnt buy it. And it had nothing at all to do with her buying you something. It was all her nan doing it😂.

So fair enough to be upset if it was your dd who bought it.but it wasn't ... so...just keep that in mind. Also: its just a mug.
Buuuuut if you love it sooo much: try Kintsugi 😊 the Japanese gold joinery. It makes a broken mug even prettier

Bluntness100 · 27/10/2020 07:08

I’m also weird about my mug. I broke the last one and got a new one. I don’t drink coffee out of anything else and I don’t like the idea of anyone else using it. I had guests last weekend and buried it at the back of the mug cupboard so no one else used it by mistake, 😧

malificent7 · 27/10/2020 07:10

Awwww...loving the mug affection here. I have broken a few favourite mugs recently and i now ise them as pencil holders.

CharityDingle · 27/10/2020 07:24

I have a mug that is almost thirty years old. I've used it a lot but recently realised I want it to be safe, so I put it where I can see it, but not in with the mugs to be used.
I firmly believe in using stuff, not keeping it for special occasions, that might never happen. But that mug earned its retirement.

I do understand completely, OP.

FiveShelties · 27/10/2020 08:21

@LostInTheColonies

Grin
Celticdawn5 · 27/10/2020 08:36

I still mourn the loss of a ‘Thelwell’ mug when I was 11 or 12.
I suspect my brother smashed because it was the sort of thing he would do. Sigh.

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