Decluttering the Mug Cupboard... what horrors lurk in yours?

[fluffyhamster]

Friends always seem to have dainty, co-ordinated, bone china, new-looking and unscratched mugs when we visit.

Meanwhile, I fling open our mug cupboard and find....

• a red Nescafe mug from the 1980s
• 2 mugs with pics of DS1's friends from a laser party
• a promotional Dulux mug (used for builders when they come)

and a rag bag collection from various places we've been, or promotional items we've acquired...

What's lurking in your mug cupboard?

I hate those, too, hely.

Just reading this thread makes me want to go smash naff mugs.

I hate those, too, hely.

Just reading this thread makes me want to go smash naff mugs.

sorry, i hate the penguin mugs.

i have Tain pottery ones.

The worst one is from DH's old work that says "I've been MUGged!"

We also have a fair old collection of Easter Egg and cartoon character mugs.

When we manage to buy a house, I'm going to pack all the naff mugs in one box with no newspaper and get someone to drop it. Then replace with lovely new Le Creuset ones.

I used to have one which we got sent as a "Christmas gift" from the Indian takeaway. It had the name of the takeaway, a garish red and gold design and that gold edging stuff on it.

Also one which ended up given to us when we ran out of cooking oil, I asked XP to pick up a bottle on his way home, he was watching the football at a mate's house so just brought me a scummy ancient once white mug with the tiniest measly bit of oil in it We ended up keeping the mug, and then I made hot chocolate in it in the microwave, the mug unbeknownst to me had some kind of heat retaining properties, and badly burnt my arm on the rim of it while reaching around for the handle at the back. I still have the scar!

And yet we STILL kept the mug. Just far far away from the microwave...

Also, I had a Harry Potter one which my friend gave me for Christmas when we were at school, but DS smashed it.

'When we manage to buy a house, I'm going to pack all the naff mugs in one box with no newspaper and get someone to drop it.'

LOLOL

Bertie, that is scaring me with how YOUNG you must be

Harry Potter when you were at SCHOOL!?!

boogeek Lol - that's exactly what happened in this house too! dh heard my sweary muttering about the thing and offered to bin it in a maudlin, puppy dog kind of way that made it impossible for me to agree.

I'm with expat. I hate all those horrid mismatching ugly mugs.

I have four very beautiful, plain, white, German bone china mugs.

Only four mugs? I have to have a different mug for different times/drinks.

I have a horrid Harry Potter one that my ds won't let me throw away.

I quite like some of these

Can't do links

Buda, why so many mugs?

We have a set of Tain ones and then some plastic ones that stay in the picnic basket - 2 of them.

If I get other ones I give them to charity shops or make candles in them and give them away.

Mugs are sort of the worst representation of emotionl baggage and sentimentality, aren't they?
Gifts from people...
Places you've been...
Times in your life...

Am liking the cardboard box idea though..

(P.S. Does every DH has some MHASSSSSIVE mug? DH's is from Yosemite, with pictures of giant redwoods... never used, but not allowed to be thrown out either....)

It was secondary school, but yes I am one of the younger posters on here...

expat - I don't know!

Black ones were bought when we lived in Thailand and ended up in storage when we moved to Vietnam. DH was reunited with them when we moved to Bulgaria and he likes them. I don't.

The lovely china ones that a friend got me all finally broke just before we moved here so I bought my stripey set.

The Polish pottery ones I really like and will replace the stripey ones when we move back to UK.

Various others are ones I bought from a pottery shop here that sells seconds - they do lots of polka dot ones that are Laura Ashley. So I bought those as i love polka dots. Only like coffee in them though not tea!

I have a problem with getting rid of stuff. And I have an even bigger problem in buying more stuff!

I got one of those mahoosive sports direct ones - straight into the school fete box.

I give the naff mugs to BIL for his workshop, then get all nostalgic when I see one of his greasy mates supping a brew out of one.

fluffy, why don't you orchestate an unfortunate accident for that naff mug?

you could be re-arranging them, cleaning them, and it just slipped out of your hands and broke.

or perhaps you used it to say, water some plants outside, dropped it on the driveway, and it broke.

or just make it disappear.

when he notices, say you broke it.

I tend to keep them if only for breakage insurance.

and I LOVE large ones, have to go through entire cupboard at times rejecting hundreds as being NOT BIG ENOUGH because I need a BIG cup of tea.

The only two I really love using were made by Johnson for Asda a few years ago. I even bought two which usually results in immediate karmic tragedy but this time, two were good for ages...then I did break one, and still have my precious other one.

They are a beautiful size and shape and just perfect. I wouldn't say no to a sports direct one though if it is big enough...

Pride of place I have 2 large mugs from sportsdirect.com that came as a free gift. The hold one whole pint each I know because sadly I tested it with a measuring jug

I had an extension built last year so we got rid of a lot of our mugs with the builders help.

A pint will tell dh.

MargaretAtwood - I think there are several of us here who could arrange a Sports Direct mug or two for you ....

Hmm. If it is a proper accurate pint I might allow it a reprieve as a sort of spare measuring jug . FFS, who drnks a pint of tea? (Note we all just know that the sports direct one is a tea mug never ever a coffee one!)

I have two best ones to use for weekend breakfast that I bought at Potfest, and 2 handmade ones from a holiday in cornwall, 3 others that were handmade...I was just thinking the other day how I will feel properly grown up when I truly like all of my mugs and don't have that slightly dissapointed feeling when it's one of the naff ones- like dps Arsenal and 'best teacher' ones.

My mug cupboard is overflowing and still we run out!

My favorites are 2 HUGE red mugs- very cheap and cheerful that we bought in Hobby Lobby in the US- I love them as they hold a really decent size coffee!
On one side of my cupboard are my US mugs- all very large and on the other are the more dainty sized brit mugs-my english friends find the american mugs too big!

We have various freebies from dh's work,a gorgeous bone china mug with flowers and "mum' on it from Mothers'day last year and a variety of crap unfunny joke mugs that I use for water for ds's painting!!

My pride and joy mug is my red and cream "Keep Calm and carry on' mug I recently bought.

As for the mugs in the cardboard box in the garage(waiting for something heavy to fall from the rafters!).....well its just too hideous to tell you!