# Glasses in the cupboard, upside down, or upright?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 2, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067 "2004-03-02T06:29:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/1 "2004-03-02T06:29:29Z")
My roomate and I have differing theories about whether a clean glass in the cupboard should be placed upside down or right side up. I say right side up , because then the rim isn’t touching the cupboard shelf, he says upside down so that dust dosn’t collect in the glass.
I know that this is quite trivial, but you clicked on the link didn’t you. Opinions? Factual data about dust accumulation inside a closed cupboard? Maybe I should just hermetically seal them in plastic.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/2 "2004-03-02T06:32:22Z")
Probably more of an IMHO thread, but I put mine upside-down because of the dust thing. That, and dead bugs tend to accumulate in right side up ones; especially if you don’t use them frequently.
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### Author:  [@pilot141](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pilot141)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/3 "2004-03-02T06:38:30Z")
Two votes here:
1. This is an IMHO thread.
2. Glasses should be placed upside-down in the cupboard. You can control the surface that they are on, but you can’t control the air above them (or all the nasties that fall or climb in…)
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### Author:  [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/4 "2004-03-02T07:10:27Z")
Upside down. Just clean out the surface before you do that. 🙂
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/5 "2004-03-02T12:57:50Z")
Glasses used often: rightside up for convenience.
Glasses used rarely: upside down to prevent embarassment when they’re gotten out for company & are found have deceased insects inside.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/6 "2004-03-02T13:05:04Z")
> [@pilot141](#):
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> Glasses should be placed upside-down in the cupboard. You can control the surface that they are on, but you can’t control the air above them (or all the nasties that fall or climb in…)
ditto!
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/7 "2004-03-02T13:08:57Z")
I agree with those of you who say this belong in IMHO. Perhaps a mod will be along to move it. We’re pretty contrary about the glasses; ours are flared (wider on top than bottom), so we put them away alternating, because it takes up less space that way. As for dust and such, we use them way too frequently for it to be a real problem. The good glasses that we don’t use much at all are all lying on their side in a drawer in my side board.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/8 "2004-03-02T13:12:54Z")
In a drawer? How do you keep them from clanking against each other?
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Serpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Serpentine)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/9 "2004-03-02T13:56:44Z")
My mom always put our glasses back upside down, so it never occurred to me that it wasn’t done everywhere until I moved out, into my eventually-to-be MiL’s duplex. She put her glasses in right side up. It was always gross to find dead bugs in a glass that hadn’t ben used in a while.
If you go through all of your glasses in a span of a few days, neither way matters. But, if you’re like me and half your glasses sit unused in a cupboard for weeks, I say upside down. Dust and bugs be gross. It’s a pain to need to rinse glasses before you use them.
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/10 "2004-03-02T14:07:49Z")
> [@Ruby](#):
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> In a drawer? How do you keep them from clanking against each other?
I have them packed in on one side of a drawer (serving dishes on the other side) and arranged so that there’s no real amount of space between them, so it’s not a problem.
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### Author:  [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/11 "2004-03-02T14:26:03Z")
Off to IMHO.
**DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/12 "2004-03-02T14:45:28Z")
Upside down.
And I put the TP on the roller with the paper coming down over the top.
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/13 "2004-03-02T15:27:30Z")
Upside down? Let’s see, they’re fresh from the washer, so they are probably a little wet. They are in a cupboard, so it’s dark. And they are stagnant and airtight because they are upside down.
What cultures are you attempting to grow?
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/14 "2004-03-02T15:36:28Z")
> [@twickster](#):
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> And I put the TP on the roller with the paper coming down over the top.
You heathen! 😉
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### Author:  [@Mogwei22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mogwei22)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/15 "2004-03-02T15:59:56Z")
Upside down.
I make sure they’re dry beforehand so there’s no bacterial invasion to worry about **NurseCarmen**.
**LSLGuy** Why are right-side up glasses more convenient? It’s a simple turn of the wrist to pick up a glass that is upside down.
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### Author:  [@Sionach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sionach)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/16 "2004-03-02T16:20:56Z")
Right side up . . . even with liner paper, cupboards (particularly the newer pressboard junk) have a distinct smell. If glasses are upside down, they smell and taste just like the cupboard, even if they’ve only been in there a short time. It’s especially noticable with water, aka eau de cupboard.
Even if the cupboard doesn’t smell, storing glasses upside down wouldn’t save me any work anyway - if a glass hasn’t been used for so long that it’d collect dust or bugs, it’s getting washed regardless.
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### Author:  [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/17 "2004-03-02T19:38:05Z")
Right side up, apparently I’ve got amazingly bug-free cupboards.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/18 "2004-03-02T19:43:25Z")
Right-side up. We own too many weird-shaped beer glasses to store them upside-down.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/19 "2004-03-02T20:36:31Z")
Upside down.
> [@](#):
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> Let’s see, they’re fresh from the washer, so they are probably a little wet.
Yeah, my wife doesn’t like the little “Heat Dry” button on the dishwasher, either. 😉
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glasses-in-the-cupboard-upside-down-or-upright/232067/20 "2004-03-02T20:55:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> _originally psychicly envisioned by Casey1505_ Yeah, my wife doesn’t like the little “Heat Dry” button on the dishwasher, either.
Man, you are so dead on.
Nail.
Head.
Hit.
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