# How do you keep cups/glasses in your cabinet?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 25, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789 "2005-10-25T07:31:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789/21 "2005-10-26T20:56:52Z")

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Ew. I had to shudder at the mental image of the fly carcass incident.  
I’m hoping to avoid that sort of thing by keeping my glasses upside down. Even with that, I usually rinse my glass out before pouring my drink into it in the hopes of getting rid of any dust or whatnot.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789/22 "2005-10-26T21:14:03Z")

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Most are upside-down. The coffee mugs and old-fashioned glasses will stack, though, and the bottom layer is down, and the upper layer is right-side-up. The cupboard doors are pretty tight, and there’s not much dust in there, unlike the rest of the house.

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**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789/23 "2005-10-27T05:09:23Z")

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I live alone so I keep the ones I use most upside-up in the front but the rest are upside-down. I come from an upside-down family but I am like NurseCarmen–if they aren’t perfectly bone dry I don’t want them upside-down in the cupboard because sometimes I will turn around and see condensation in there and it really bothers me. I don’t want to drink out of a humid glass.

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**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789/24 "2005-10-27T20:19:52Z")

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We have a little cabinet and lots of glasses and cups. Everything is stacked as much as possible, sometimes three glasses high. They are all bottom-down. Nothing stays in there long enough to get dusty.😉

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**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-keep-cups-glasses-in-your-cabinet/327789/25 "2005-10-27T21:48:31Z")

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> [@psycat90](#):
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> Ours are always completely dry when put away (dishwasher.) We put them in the cabinet upside down.  
> Wine glasses hang on a rack upside down.

Ditto.

I was reared in an “up” household, my SO was reared in a “down” household. We do it his way. He’s more of a control freak than I (Note that I didn’t deny any trace of control-freak-icity myself; I just stated that his CF quotient is higher than mine. Dishes go in the dishwasher **my** way).

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