# Glassware in the Cupboard: Upright or Upside Down?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 15, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196 "2010-12-15T03:49:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/1 "2010-12-15T03:49:32Z")
I don’t like it when people put their glassware upside down…their cabinets might not be as clean as I like, and I don’t want all the crud on the lip of the glass 🙂
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/2 "2010-12-15T03:51:59Z")
No, it just let me vote. I said Up, as God intended.
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### Author:  [@Implicit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Implicit)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/3 "2010-12-15T04:03:54Z")
Endless battle in my house, I like them up and my husband likes them down. He’s OC and he unloads the dishwasher, so I lose this battle. ☹
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/4 "2010-12-15T04:06:09Z")
In my early adult years my apartment had a lot of roaches. Impossible to get rid of because all the units beside & above me were heavily infested too.
you learn, very quick to line the cupboards with clean paper towels and put coffee cups and glasses facing down. otherwise the bugs crawl in them and shit. I switched the paper towels every month for clean ones.
I also learned never to walk away from an opened coke on the table. I went to the john, and came back to the table. I took a big sip from the can and got a roach in my mouth. 😛 Spit it out and said a few curse words.
My home today is bug free. But, I still turn the glasses down onto clean paper towels.
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/5 "2010-12-15T04:46:04Z")
Upside down on the dish rack overnight until they dry, then upright in cabinet.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/6 "2010-12-15T04:55:12Z")
The largest glasses are 16 oz. and won’t all fit unless they are alternated up and down.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/7 "2010-12-15T04:59:31Z")
Upside down, so dust doesn’t collect in them if they go unused for a while.
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### Author:  [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/8 "2010-12-15T05:39:42Z")
Upside-down. Because I’ve always done it that way and see no reason to change.
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### Author:  [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/9 "2010-12-15T05:55:36Z")
The tall ones right-side-up or alternated, the short ones in 2 rows, right-side-up on top of upside-down.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/10 "2010-12-15T06:46:38Z")
Upside down or right side up, it doesn’t bother me. My parents do upside down, my roommate likes right side up so I switch depending on where I am at the moment. I just care if I can use it for liquid, so…
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/11 "2010-12-15T06:50:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> I don’t like it when people put their glassware upside down…their cabinets might not be as clean as I like, and I don’t want all the crud on the lip of the glass
That’s precisely why you put them upside-down. Leave them upright, and whatever is happening to make the cabinets dirty, is making the glasses dirty, too.
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### Author:  [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/12 "2010-12-15T09:43:47Z")
Upside down in a sealed plastic container placed inside a hermetically sealed titanium canister buried in the backyard inside the septic tank.
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### Author:  [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/13 "2010-12-15T13:38:39Z")
Like **Chefguy** , I alternate. I have quite a collection of pub-style ale glasses and they won’t fit unless I go with the close-packed alternate method.
(I didn’t vote because you can’t vote for both)
excavating (for a mind)
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/14 "2010-12-15T13:46:24Z")
> [@Cazzle](#):
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> Upside down, so dust doesn’t collect in them if they go unused for a while.
This, except for a set of rocks glasses that go right-side-up on top of upside-down like **Zulema** does it.
The rocks glasses don’t usually sit long enough to collect dust anyway. 😉
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/15 "2010-12-15T13:54:35Z")
Upside down. I have eleventy billion glasses and we use about 6 regularly so they sit for a long long time until we need something specific. Usually long enough that I end up rinsing them off anyway but upside down reduces the dust inside at least.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/16 "2010-12-15T14:04:30Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> In my early adult years my apartment had a lot of roaches. Impossible to get rid of because all the units beside & above me were heavily infested too.
>
> you learn, very quick to line the cupboards with clean paper towels and put coffee cups and glasses facing down. otherwise the bugs crawl in them and shit. I switched the paper towels every month for clean ones.
>
> I also learned never to walk away from an opened coke on the table. I went to the john, and came back to the table. I took a big sip from the can and got a roach in my mouth. 😛 Spit it out and said a few curse words.
>
> My home today is bug free. But, I still turn the glasses down onto clean paper towels.
Ah, the habits created by old apartments. Do you shake out all your shoes before you put them on, too? I still do that, as I was trained by years of crappy basement apartments. 🙂
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/17 "2010-12-15T14:12:01Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Upside down on the dish rack overnight until they dry, then upright in cabinet.
Exactly. My wife, however, leaves things “to dry” in the dish rack open end up, so either they wind up with little pools of stagnant water, or dry and leave sediment. You can’t talk to her about it. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/18 "2010-12-15T14:37:43Z")
Down. Only exceptions are the teacups (so you can see them), and they live in a glassed sideboard.
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### Author:  [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/19 "2010-12-15T15:07:58Z")
the cabinets are wiped down periodically with Clorox wipes, fresh liner is laid, and my glassware is ALWAYS upside down.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glassware-in-the-cupboard-upright-or-upside-down/564196/20 "2010-12-15T15:15:42Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#):
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> Down. Only exceptions are the teacups (so you can see them), and they live in a glassed sideboard.
Yes, the pretty unused things in the glass cupboard are right side up. Those are the stuff that we only use for Thanksgiving dinner and Very Important Guests. Those get rinsed before use anyway to get the dust out.
Otherwise, our cups are down because I hate it when I pour a glass and there is dust and pet fur floating in it. The damn glass was clean when I put it in the cupboard, so it makes me wonder how much dust and fur is just regularly floating around… and how much of it am I inhaling anyway?
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