Considering that most of the time only two people dwell in this house, we have a surfeit of mugs. I am almost embarrassed to admit that we have twenty four mugs in our mug cupboard. We could serve tea or indeed coffee to two football teams.
Giving someone a mug is a common gift option but for me the arrival of a new mug creates an internal groan. We have enough mugs already! No more mugs thank you very much!
Our lovely daughter, Frances - now aged thirty six - has always had a penchant for buying lovely, thoughtful gifts so I was a little surprised when on the occasion of my recent seventy first birthday she gave me a cardboard box that obviously contained yet another mug! Oh no!
But when I opened the box I was delighted to discover this mug which she had spotted online:-
Immediately, this new mug surged up my league table of "favourite mugs" putting it just above the mug below which a few years back was also given to me by The Beloved Daughter:-
I dare say that if you, dear reader, did your homework you could also purchase an "I ❤ Yorkshire" mug or better still a "Yorkshire Pudding" mug.
How many mugs have you got in your kitchen?
Too many mugs for sure in my kitchen. I weed them out every so often but they multiply. I have my favorites as you do.
ReplyDeleteI believe we have more than you, but who's counting? We each have our own and they all get used.
ReplyDeleteWell done, Frances, on finding such an appropriate gift!
Six, and two of them are mine which probably get used once or twice a year at most. I hate clutter.
ReplyDeleteI don't have 24 mugs but I have been getting rid of them for a few years. You can't get rid of the mugs the grandkids gave you.
ReplyDeleteMugs? Fifteen hanging on hooks, two in the hard-to-get-to corner cupboard, two in the back porch cupboard and about a dozen or so in a box in the shed.
ReplyDeleteI like your two mugs and would like to see the rest.
Oops, I made a boo-boo, there are eighteen hanging on hooks.
ReplyDeleteyou must have a large mug cupboard!
ReplyDeleteI think this one is very worth having but maybe you can pick some less favourite mugs and donate them
We had eight matching mugs but two were broken as they missed me, with one hitting the fridge and the other the benchtop. Now there are six, and they were sitting very neatly in the crockery cupboard until my tenant arrived. My mugs are pushed to the back and a variety of mugs are at the fore. I don't use mugs, so it doesn't bother me.
ReplyDeleteWe have 11 mugs and 4 cups and saucers in case anyone posh comes to visit.
ReplyDeleteWe have a large amount of glass ware that is in need of culling. There would a lot less of everything if I lived alone but husband is very sentimental about stuff and objects strongly to any thinning out of anything. Oh well. Live and let live.
Only 24! I just counted 30 in our cupboard, and another 5/6 ( mainly mugs for small children that are never used ) on a high shelf.
ReplyDeleteWe have too many. The wall cupboard above the kettle and coffee machine contains the mugs we use on a daily basis. The rest are stored away in another cupboard in readiness for any unexpected coachloads of visitors.
ReplyDeleteLike you -- TOO MANY!
ReplyDeleteI have not counted the mugs in my kitchen cupboard, but there are several I brought home from a Yorkshire holiday or received as gifts in Christmas or birthday parcels from there. I also have two with foxes on them, two with Fountains Abbey and one with Ripley Castle.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how many mugs we have YP. Same with my plants. Lots and lots.
ReplyDeleteI have just had a mug made for my oldest, Kimbo. It was he that took the photo of the 'No Riff Raff' sign on a gate for me, and I've had the picture 'mugged' for him. It's for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI live alone, and I have many, many mugs. I have my mugs for tea, and I have my mugs for coffee. My beloveds know that a good coffee mug is always appreciated. All the little Instagram people, when they're talking about cleaning out/decluttering, the first thing they say is to dump all your mugs but one or two. Blasphemy.
ReplyDelete19 - I've just counted! I use them regularly, except the ones I keep for workmen who come to do jobs - mugs seem to get broken outdoors. Every time I have a cup of coffee (I use a china cup for the rare cup of tea I drink) I fetch a clean one from the cupboard above the dishwasher, so get through a fair number. It's the same with cutlery, plates and dishes.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very smart, extra-special mug YP.
We did a serious weed out of mugs a while back when a charity we support that provides hot meals to homeless people put out a request for mugs. Apparently the customers sometimes linger over the last hot cuppa and carry it out with them when the doors close on lunch. We carved it down to 8 mugs but the number is creeping up again...just counted 11.
ReplyDelete17 porcelain or ceramic mugs. Considering that I also have at least half a dozen each of inherited old tea cups and coffee cups with saucers, certainly more than enough for any guests that I might even theoretically be able to invite for tea/coffee all at once... (In real life, where I live now since 16 years, I don't think I've ever "entertained" more than four at the same time. ) No doubt one reason why we hold on to things we don't really "need" is that they're bearers of memories - being gifts from friends, or inherited, or bought on some special occasion...
ReplyDeleteToo many to count. Neat pretty ones for coffee, huge informational ones for tea, beautiful ones for milk or hot water and a separate collection of Christmas mugs, which didn't even see the light of day last year. Cups and saucers, too, which we never use. I can't part with them - that will be a job for our children, sn'f, sn'f.
ReplyDeleteDozens and dozens, and like you I wonder WHY!??!!?!??!?!!
ReplyDeleteWhen we remodeled the kitchen we did a major purge, we have less than a dozen left.
ReplyDeleteI too have a cupboard groaning with far too many mugs. I live on my own too, so there's only so many I really need, though I do keep back some of my least favourite ones for tradesmen/window cleaners etc, so it doesn't matter if they break. You never know, you may get invaded by loads of tourists all wanting to meet the real Yorkshire Pudding and you'll have to open a cafe in your home to accommodate them.
ReplyDeleteI recently and ruthlessly went through the mugs. We still have way too many but not as many as before. And of course I always use the same one. It says nothing. It just holds coffee.
ReplyDeleteI think only three since we've winnowed them out.
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ReplyDeleteToo many. But I am particular about what mug to drink out of. Fine china mugs for tea, and coffee in special turquoise mugs. My daughter has mugs from Cath Kidston, too thick, and Andrew brought some mugs with exceptionally rude words on! We have too many of course.