Usually upside down, but when everything is clean we have to alternate to make room.
Upside-down, and periodically wipe down the cupboard surface to insure that it’s clean. I don’t want to drink from a glass that’s had flies, spiders and centipedes in it.
It’s not an either/or question. Regular glassware is right-side up. Cocktail glasses and some wine glasses are upside down. Pint glasses are stacked.
We do the opposite. Most everything is the correct way (upside down) but the fancy glassware (the stuff we rarely use) is upright, so it looks nice. I would never use one of the upright dust collectors without washing it first. I never stack glassware because they like to stick together.
What Cazzle said: “Upside down, so dust doesn’t collect in them if they go unused for a while.”
And you should never ever accept drinking from a glass that has been hanging upside down over a bar. It might be better now, when more and more countries have abolished smoking in restaurants, but it’s still not particularly hygienic to leave the insides of the glasses exposed like that.
Up, because we have cabinets, so dust isn’t an issue. Plus a pretty bugless house. Stemware is hung upside down in the liquor cabinet, though.
Oh, we have cabinets with doors and everything. It’s just that even though renos were done a couple years ago, there still seems to be endless drywall dust.
Interestingly, only the cabinets that are used often, so have the doors opened and closed a lot, seem to get dusty glasses. Our fancy cupboard with the glass doors, where we keep the fancy glassware, is a lot less dusty on the inside. Those doors are probably opened only a few times year.
I would say that is logical not interesting. When you open the door, some dust gets in. When you don’t, it doesn’t.
We keep ours upside down. They are used frequently enough that dust isn’t really a problem I have just always done it that way.
Anything we don’t use very often (champagne flutes, wine glasses for wine types we don’t typically drink (like chardonnay glasses) we wash before use.
(And yes, I have chardonnay glasses and pinot glasses and riesling glasses and cabernet glasses… I have a wine problem. At last count, there were 60 or so wine glasses in the house with at most six being of the same type.)
Rightside up, but our cabinets have glass doors, so dust isn’t really an issue.
Right side up in the kitchen, upside down in the downstairs bar (the basement sometimes has a pretty good-sized spider population; they are good at finding their way into glassware, but need to work on their exiting skills).
If I were doing the dishes they would go upside down. My husband is the King of Dishwashing in our house though and he puts them rightside up. I’ve never uttered a peep about it because I am not the Queen of the Dishwashing. I am, however, the Queen of the Laundry and choose the brand of laundry soap and how things are folded, etc. He doesn’t say a word about the way I wash clothes because he is not King of the Laundry.
I can’t vote, because there’s no “it depends on the glass” option.
Let’s see…
pint glasses are upside down
coffee mugs are upright
wine glasses are upright
‘special’ glasses (e.g. my engraved Mickey Mouse beer stein) are upright
rocks glasses are usually stacked bottom-to-bottom, so one of each
and there’s one set of mugs that hang from hooks.
Put them upside down all my life, but now you’ve got me ruminating this serious matter. Not sure I can sleep tonight.
Up, because we go through all the glasses every 2-3 days and it’s easier to put them in right side up.
** volunteering to talk to her for you, as such shenanigans are not to be tolerated from the general public and must be dealt with promptly **
I have never even paid attention and it shows. They are randomly turned because I just don’t care. The cabinet stays closed and I’ve not noticed anything funky either way.
Me too, although this holds even for ordinary glasses, not supersized because the cabinet is very narrow. But I didn’t vote because there was no third option.
Our mugs are in a different cabinet and they are right side up.
What’s a “rocks” glass?
Sorry, I should have Googled™ that before asking. I know now, but I wasn’t familiar with that usage for an old-fashioned glass before.
Oh, rightside up.
Bolding added. What exactly would be unhygienic about that? Are you implying a health hazard?