To think my parents are batshit

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My parents don't own drinking glasses and never have.
Every single drink from tea/coffee to water or wine is served in a mug.
When I was growing up it seemed normal but when I moved out at 17 (I'm in my 30s now) I realised how odd it was.
I've now gone the other way and own far too many glasses for every occasion.

AIBU to think that my parents must be psychopaths?? 😂😂

Does anyone else's parents/family have odd quirks like this?

Me too, it definitely doesn’t taste right in a mug. My sister will pour wine in to a tea cup even though I have glasses 🤷‍♀️

I'm pretty sure I remember this being a thing as a child.

Every drink I ever had was in a mug?

My mum had 1 wine glass and my dad had one of those old fashioned beer tankards but that was it!

Thinking about it, when DS used to go round for his tea on a Friday after school I'm sure my dad used to give him a cold drink in a mug 🤣

I'd never really thought about it before, I wonder if it's a generational/not being wasteful type thing?

I cannot drink cold drinks out of a mug. I'm zero alcohol anyway, but tea has to be out of a pot and in china

@JeandeServiette Oh now this is news to me?! Do people genuinely have two little towels in their kitchens and keep track of what dries what?!!!

My DM only drinks tea from "thin" china too. She hates the thickness of normal mugs

DF is Baldy McBald. DM has very thin, fine, greasy and yet brittle hair. I also have thin and fine hair but manage to keep it fairly okay with alot of that cheapo Alberto Balsam conditioner you can get for £1. I have tried fancier conditioners but find the cheap stuff does just as well.

It's probably all the same thing at the end of the day to be fair. I did try shampoo bars once but it turned my hair into a sticky mess.

@RiseYpres I was worried it was going to be one of those vile Pyrex mugs, but those are quite lovely 😍

Now I just need to 'accidentally' break some of the mugs currently stuffing out my cupboard so I've got room for it.

Or, make a truly enormous drink of tea in my cafetiere!

It’s very odd indeed

I’d think it would affect the taste, and also the “ceremony” of pouring a glass of wine is part of the enjoyment for me , if that’s not equally batshit.

But equally if they enjoy it that’s probably just what they like so no point trying to change them

I've just bought some thanks to my own link.

Although I quite like the idea of using a caffetiere.....

Hahahahahaha. This was and is my parents!

That's very odd. I've got about 10 tumblers and 12 pint glasses, but don't own a cup, saucer or teapot

I actually drink wine alot out of china mugs. I quite like it. DS1 had a two handled china sippy cup with the Hungry Caterpillar on it and I use that alot for wine. No idea why.... It sounds truly batshit now I am thinking about it.

@RiseYpres so a bar of soap is NOT the answer to luscious locks then 😂🙈

@RiseYpres give it a few years and there'll be a thread called 'my mum keeps drinking wine out of a china sippy cup! Is she batshit?'
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Do they drink wine though? Or other alcoholic drinks. I drink water/soft drinks from a mug, but use a glass for a 'proper' drink. Weird to bin them though.

We're like this in my household.

Not because I don't like glasses, but because every glass I ever own I break 🤣 DH told me I'm not allowed to have nice things because I break them, any future kitchen dishes and cups must be plastic!

I've been trying to imagine drinking a G&T from a mug, and it's so many shades of wrong that I simply can't.

My MIL only ever drinks coffee from a cup and saucer, has very few mugs and all of them small. I drink vast amounts of tea, and all my mugs are half-pints, and whenever I'm at her house I have to make endless cuppas because none of them are ever big enough.

She has glasses though, she's not a complete heathen.

Thank goodness someone else said this. I thought I was going mad.

Absolutely, you’d never dry your hands with a tea towel, that’s rank!

One hand towel and various tea towels in my kitchen.

I quite like the idea of a mug of wine. You could also be sipping away and everyone would just think you were having a nice cup of tea. 😂

Drinks taste wrong in the wrong vessel, imagine tea in a champagne flute! Or a mug of margarita. Criminal.

In terms of tea towels, I have a dishwasher so don't dry dishes but I have a 'tea towel' which I use to dry my hands and the occasional spill.
It gets changed every day.

yeah that was the covid lockdown special for work zoom meetings. Bonus marks for using sticky tape to tape a tea lable string to the side.

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My parents only had really small glasses so I'd have to refill them about 4 times to get a decent drink. I bought them some big ones