How many coffee cups do you have? Do you rotate use to

In My Humble Opinion
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I have, I just quickly counted, about
[list][li]57 regular ceramic cups[/li](only 2 of which match my plates; the rest left when the kids had to stock dorm rooms.)
[li]8 insulated and/or triangular tip-proof cups for the car.[/li]
I love to buy them as souvenirs of travel.That’s about half.
Dozens are from projects I worked on for museums, where a commemorative mug for the exhibit was sold in the giftshop.

Obviously, you can never toss anything like that.

But I’m sure most people wouldn’t actually use them all.
I try to keep them all in circulation. Partly for simple variety, but partly because I don’t want any of them “to feel neglected”.
That’s silly of course.
They know I love them equally. (Or is that my real children? I get those groups confused :))

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Well, let’s see. I’m doing this from memory, so bear with me.

8 Marlboro cups. These are the ones from the latest catalog - the blue ceramic ones with white speckles?

3 “mugs” - two Christmas ones and one with a flower on it.

6 handpainted china ones that I use for display only in my china cabinet.

17 that match my every day dishes. 17 cups, 8 plates, 11 bowls - hey, someone who was moving gave the whole set to me - I ain’t picky.

7 that are my good dessert china.

5 mugs (beer type) that Mr2U uses as coffee cups.

3 of those car kind - they’re thermos, have a sip top, you know what I mean.

So, if we are talking strictly coffee cups made for coffee, then we have, um, 44. If we are including the kind that Mr2U uses, I’d say 49. Somebody check my math - my calculator batteries are dead. :smiley:

As for rotation, I use the flowered one every time it is clean. One of the Christmas ones is used when clean, usually daily, but the other Christmas one, the Walgreen’s or Woolworth’s memorial one, sits on top of the fridge and holds those weird twisty bendy straws my kid loves to use and are a pain in the butt to clean.

The Marlboro ones, the blue and white ones I mentioned, don’t get used that often because they are flippin’ HUGE and my coffee gets cold. But when attempting to annoy me, Mr2U and Mini2U will use them.

The 17 that match my regular dishes get used whenever the Christmas ones, the flower one, the Marlboro ones and the mugs aren’t being used. They are the stupid kind that go with saucers, and are too small to be of any use whatsoever. But Mini2U uses them when he uses his watercolor paints - they are good for holding brush cleaning water.

The other 5 beer type mugs get used for coffee when they don’t have beer in them.

The handpainted china ones never get used. They are looked at but not used. And I have a bad habit of slapping people who get too close to them.

The other dessert china ones get used whenever I have a formal dinner party. The last time was, uh, last Thanksgiving. Of 1999, that is.

Oh - and I have a Dilbert mug at work that I now keep clips and rubberbands in.

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Actually, we had acquired quite a collection and since we don’t drink THAT much coffee and have a nice selection that came with the Iroquois stonewear she gave us, we sold them at a garage sale. We do like getting a memorabilia-type mug now and then. We’ve got a couple and, somehow, they both ended up at work with my husband.

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Right now, in my cubicle at work, I have fourteen identical used coffee mugs with the company logo on them, one with our main product logo on it that’s holding some candy (both the mug and the candy were giveaways at a company party some months ago), and another with the product logo on it that I’m actively drinking from at the moment.

Oops. Make that eighteen used ones; just noticed four more hiding behind a stack of papers and other detritus.

I’ve heard it’s possible to wash and re-use ceramic mugs like these. I’ll have to try it sometime.

At home, we have a dozen or so; four of them are identical black ceramic with a green and purple floral pattern, and the rest are miscellaneous gift mugs. I almost always use an oversized mug my wife got as a giveaway from a vendor years ago; the logo has faded almost completely away. It holds about twice what a normal mug does, however, so I tend to use it in preference to others. When it’s dirty, I use a mug with a couple of book-related quotations that my mother got for me from Levenger. After those two, I pretty much grab at random.

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I actually own and use:

5 black ceramic coffee mugs. I bought 5 so that I won’t be caught short if I break one.

4 espresso cups. They’re so cute.

1 travel cup with a nifty lever that seals the drinking hole in the lid

Untold numbers of other cups that I use to store pens and spare change.

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Well I’m a minimalist (being a single male) which means I have two mugs.One just about to be washed the other just about to be used.

I have three socks, I wear two of them and wash one, and rotate every day so each sock gets 2 days wear.

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OK, our family is addicted.

23 work/vendor related mugs, 12 of which are adorning my cubicle, the other 11 are stashed in a file cabinet.
5 insulated travel cubs/mugs 2 tall, skinny, no handles (fits Taurus cup holders), 3 wider ones with handles
12 Corel mugs
12 Pottery, wedding set (we went with stoneware instead of china)
3 pottery (what remains of the ones I made in HS, not bad 20 years)
8 Christmas mugs
5-7 misc. mugs

That’s 68 total, of those, 23-31 are and used on a regular basis.

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I’m not going to count mine, but lets just say that I’ve got enough that the one shelf that holds them now has to be stacked.

I have to admit that I enjoy collecting coffee mugs, especially ones with cute sayings or slogans on them. Friends know how grouchy I am in the morning until I’ve had a few cups of coffee, so I often recieve ones that reflect that.

I usually have a favourite mug of the minute, and that’s the one I use until I get another favourite.

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Six ceramic mugs decorated with various printed legends of deep personal meaning, two travel mugs, four matching spare mugs that I never use.

The morning I pull the last of the six ceramic mugs off the shelf, I know it’s time to do the dishes. :smiley:

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I’m with lola on this one; not gonna list 'em all. I was suprised how many. (Most were “gimmes” from businesses, etc., w/ some seasonal gifts from friends.)

My treasured standby at work was a gag gift from my staff. (As background, yes, I’m a boss–among fellow Rocky & Bullwinkle fans.)It’s white, w/ a clean logo in primary colors on the side and two words: “Fearless Leader”.

For poor souls deprived of a working Moose & Squirrel background, here’s the dish: Fearless Leader was the evil, ugly boss of Boris and Natasha.

Cracks me up every time.
Veb

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I’ve given away lots of mugs. I’ll never use them all anyway, so I just kept all the ones my brother made, and we use them when company is over.

I have 2 big mugs I use primarily - one home, and one at work.

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I can’t list them all, either. They take up more than one whole shelf in the cabinet, and they’re even stacked two high. The ones I use most are my Straight Dope Coffee Mug, my Baseball Hall of Fame mug, my Terminix Safety mug and my What A Guy! mug. These are exclusively coffee mugs, and therefore exclusively mine, since I’m the only coffee drinker in the house. I also have a New York Giants mug and a slightly oversized mug with a gigantic letter D on it. They can be used for hot chocolate and tea respectively. I only drink tea when I’m not feeling well, but drinking a very large mugfull out of the big D mug is very comforting.

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One. One stained, cracked, scratched, lonesome mug. Now all I need is a picture of my mug on my mug, and everything…will…be…perfect.

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  1. Only 1 of which was bought by me.

A matching pair given to me by an ex-girlfriend.
An extra mug bought by me later so I would have enough when my parents came to visit. This is my standby mug.
A square mug given to me as a going-away gift from my co-workers. This is now my office mug.
A pair of huge mugs that were given to me by the owner of a little pottery shop after I bought four sets of dishes there as Christmas gifts a few years ago. These are now my regulars.
A mug my girlfriend received from a friend, with her birthday printed on it.
A huge plastic travel mug (with lid) I received as a gift from Amazon.com after I did all my Christmas shopping through them one year (the year after I had to spend over $100 on shipping those ^?@!!? dishes mentioned earlier).

–sublight.

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I don’t have a coffee cup. I just wait until the coffee is lukewarm, then hold it in my left hand, while I type with my right hand.

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But slythe,

then you don’t have any hands left over for when you’re reviewing threads like “What panties do you wear?”