When you put your drinking glasses away in the cabinet, do you set them right-side-up, as you would drink out of them, or upside-down?
My mother always placed them right-side-up, and I do, too. I see that my sister has switched, placing them in the cabinet upside-down. I don’t understand this.* Unless the glasses are completely dry, storing them upside-down traps the residual moisture, so that the next time you grab a glass it’s full of condensation. I don’t know why that bothers me, but it does. I think storing your frequently-used cups right-side-up so that any moisture can evaporate is more logical.
How do you do it, and why?
*Well, perhaps fancy glasses that are used infrequently, to keep them from collecting dust.
The one and only correct way is to store them upside up. Upside down is nonsensical on all counts. Not only is it not the correct drinking orientation but it puts the rim that people actually drink out of in contact with the shelf’s bacteria and dirt. Glasses and cups get cleaned far more often than the shelves themselves. Plus, it looks like the house is run by an order of dyslexic monks.
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, and I’ve never found any sort of bug in a cup in the cabinet. Unless possibly maybe a bit of dust and a dead fly or something in my dad’s whiskey glasses which were used maybe once a year.
Like I said, if you use them regularly, I don’t see the problem.
Not Florida but New Orleans which is the same sub-tropical idea. We had some super-large roaches there and one house I lived in had this large split level fake basement that you could walk down to and literally do an Indiana Jones style walking crunch. There were thousands of them and when I got bored, I would go down and collect a jar of them and torture them in various ways.
My favorite was the paper/contact cement torture. You take a Post-It note and glue the giant roach to it on its back with contact cement. Then, you interrogate the suspect about racketeering, terrorism, postal fraud or littering. When the suspect fights back too much, you can safely assume that is an admission of guilt. An execution date is set within the next 30 seconds. A match is lit, the paper catches fire, it reaches the contact cement and goes up in a big ball of flame. It sounds cruel but I bet Joan of Arc wishes they covered her in contact cement. Then, you move onto the next suspect. Roaches are completely immoral and can almost always be found guilty of something.
Still, rims to wood or even 70’s style contact paper is much dirtier than rims up. Roaches shit in there you know.
I store most cups & glasses upside down, but it varies. I have a large number of 16oz tumblers that due to their general truncated conic shape store better by going side-by-side opposite each other. So they store roughly like this from a side view: _//¯\_//¯\
Indeed. We keep a reasonably clean house, but even still, we only apply soap and a wet rag to the shelves once every year or two, and over that time it’s safe to assume that a certain amount of dust and lint and whatnot drifts in. And who wants to put the rim of a glass - even dry, but especially not damp - on that?
OTOH, the amount of dust that drifts into a glass between one use and the next is pretty minimal - two weeks at the outside, and usually much less. Except for those glasses way in the back corner of the cabinet that almost never get used, of course.
And we have no roaches, no ants, only the occasional spider, and the house centipedes stay in the basement and mind their own business.
The Dixie Cup dispenser holds them open end up. Then there’s ma. She can’t decide so she stores them sideways.
I store glasses upside down so nothing gathers in the bottom. It’s easier to wash sticking grime off the outside of a glass than the interior. On a historical note, older cabinets often have wood splinters and dirt that the new cabinets don’t. Some of them looked like they were torn out of the hen house or built with barn boards. That’s why contact paper was used regularly in the 60’s and 70’s. For decades the fake wood cabinets have been sold with the vinyl laminated particle board. They are so much cleaner.
Regular cups and glasses are kept upside up. I feel vaguely guilty about this, because I was raised to keep them upside down, but then again, my mother is a woman who cleans her shelf liners every few days. That is not really happening in my house.
I keep the stemware upside down, though. If I had a nice display cabinet, I’d probably keep it upside up, but since the stemware lives in the regular old cabinet, it goes upside down. I feel like they are more stable that way – less likely to fall over if another glass knocks into them.
