When I became a moderator here on the SDMB–jeez, must be ten years ago now and my name was This Year’s Model–the powers that be sent me an SDMB Staff coffee mug. It was a nice design and just the right size for me.
I can sympathize. It was a sad day when I broke my favorite coffee mug. It was a souvenir mug from Disney World and couldn’t be replaced; it had an old Pirates of the Caribbean logo from before the movie and Disney hadn’t made any of them in years when I broke mine.
I broke a coffee mug that I’d received in a SDMB coffee mug exchange. Though it broke rather cleanly into two pieces, and I glued it back together, and although it wasn’t good enough for drinking after that, I found I could still use it as a pencil/paintbrush holder.