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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

Gentlemën, Ladiës, Binariës and Whateveriës...

Never a glorious day goes by where the topic of tea or coffee isn't mentioned. (Even the stomach-churning Pumpkin Spice Latte gets a look in!).

However — do you have a special 'go to' mug or cup? Something that you treasure, a keepsake, a gift from a loved one... A branded mug or cup that takes pride of place next to your favourite blend?

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By *ily WhiteWoman
over a year ago

Yes, I do. I only ever drink tea from my favourite mug at home. It's quite short but wide, gently bowed out on the side, slightly ribbed so that it doesn't slip out of my hands, and the perfect size and shape for wrapping both hands around. It also happens to be a very pretty pearlised dark turquoise colour.

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By *arriedcoupleNECouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

A purple Warner Brothers dog mug which I've been using daily for about 25 years.

It only ever holds coffee and only I use it.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

We have 2 cups with half a face on each, a red one with a white inside and a white one with a red inside. When placed together, it looks like they are both kissing…

The handles are shaped into hearts.

They look great and they are a decent size to have a good cup of tea…

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I got a mug, one of those gimmicky ones that claims to enhance the flavour of coffee, from a coffee festival in 2018. I don't always use it, but it's my favourite.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My autistic brain allows me to drink from one mug and one mug only, and if it isn't in that mug I won't drink it.

It's a Dalmatian one, I've had it for years but it is wide and round. My mother (good old mum) has bought a few just incase it breaks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I only drink tea out of my special IKEA mugs. Doesn't taste the same otherwise

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By *ittlebirdWoman
over a year ago

The Big Smoke

A beautiful striped tall Portmeirion mug for my morning coffee. Starts the day right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m not to fussed with coffee But tea I’ve always found taste better out of a china cup. So I have myself one just for that. It’s not a dainty thing it’s quite big and I can get a decent amount inside it.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"It's quite short but wide, gently bowed out on the side, slightly ribbed so that it doesn't slip out of my hands, and the perfect size and shape for wrapping both hands around. "

Are you absolutely, positively, sure you’re talking about a mug there?

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"Yes, I do. I only ever drink tea from my favourite mug at home. It's quite short but wide, gently bowed out on the side, slightly ribbed so that it doesn't slip out of my hands, and the perfect size and shape for wrapping both hands around. It also happens to be a very pretty pearlised dark turquoise colour. "

That sounds like an extremely tactile mug. Tea drinking has never been so 'immersive'.

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By *sleWightCoupleCouple
over a year ago

Ryde

I've always collected mugs, and I still have my one from collecting Smiths Crisps tokens in the 80s - the damn thing still plays "We want to be Smiths Crips" even after all these years!

Any of my penguin mugs is great for a cuppa. Hubby has one with the words:

Charile

Umbrella

November

Tango

...in large letters on it. He says it's a pity that the rim isn't furry...

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

We don’t have novelty mugs but the couple of sets we have are China. I don’t really like a builders mug - they make me dribble

Mr doesn’t really have a say in the mug making decisions

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By *uicy 2020Woman
over a year ago

London

Yes, i have a scooby doo mug that was gifted to me by a friend while i was at uni, probably 20 years ago now! The handle has been glued back on and no one else ever uses it. Its my coffee mug as its slightly larger than my other mugs and is nice to hold as its tapered rather than straight sided. I have some other mugs which have been given to me, most i only use for specific drinks, like hot chocolate, or cold milk. Im a bit particular about my mugs! But living alone i can get away with it! X

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Yes, one that came from my grandma and granddad's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My autistic brain allows me to drink from one mug and one mug only, and if it isn't in that mug I won't drink it.

It's a Dalmatian one, I've had it for years but it is wide and round. My mother (good old mum) has bought a few just incase it breaks. "

She never told why your goldfish lived for 20 years did she?..

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

I have different cups/mugs for different drinks. I have a beautiful China cup and saucer at home for my coffee, I have a similar cup and saucer for work, I have a really big China cup for tea, a mug for hot chocolate and a different one in case I have a cuppa soup.

I prefer a cup and saucer

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

We have about 30 coffee mugs in the house.

Fox doesn't drink tea or coffee.

I don't have a favourite and generally go for the biggest. Usually one of those giant sports direct ones.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

At home, i will only drink Coffee from my treasured Luton Town FC Stein mug.

Its about 30% bigger than normal mugs.

And i will only wash it by hand, never in the dishwasher. Do avoid it fading

At work..i carry a normal sized LTFC mug in my kitbag.

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By *he FAB Social - MCRCouple (FF)
over a year ago

manchester

I’ve A favourite one that I got from work secret Santa a couple of years ago that says ‘bad girls tell good stories’.

I’ve recently started a new job in a justice/legal setting and my OH treated me to one from Betty’s tea room. the new job told me not to bring a mug I treasured as they often get pinched! What irony!

GG xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A friend bought me a 'lovely elegant' black mug to use it work. I thought... OK. So I washed it before putting it in my bag to take to the office next day. It was one of those bloody heat reactive things and hot water revealed.... I big pair of hairy balls! Ill elegant him lol

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

"A friend bought me a 'lovely elegant' black mug to use it work. I thought... OK. So I washed it before putting it in my bag to take to the office next day. It was one of those bloody heat reactive things and hot water revealed.... I big pair of hairy balls! Ill elegant him lol"

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

My dad supported Hartlepool. He died in 1999 but I still drink my coffee from his Hartlepool United mug.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have an oversized mug I use. Normal size mugs just don't hold enough

Lee

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

Some of these responses are both poignant and hilarious!!

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

All my mugs have meaning to me but my work on has particular sentiment

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

This reminds me I must put the kettle on

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

I recently drove off with my favourite coffee cup on the roof of the car, still not over the tragedy! Rip Costa cup

But I do have one that says my name written in penis's that's ace!

Mrs

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By *ad NannaWoman
over a year ago

East London

I acquired one recently that will be displayed on my bedside chest.

For tea I like my bone china mug.

For hot chocolate I use my Winnie the Pooh or Bumblebee mug.

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By *ose-tinted GlassesMan
over a year ago

Glasgow / London

"This reminds me I must put the kettle on

Milk, no sugar thanks.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yup though it's not really a mug one those travel tall coffee cups that keeps your drink hot

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By *eliWoman
over a year ago

I really love your little nods to me OP.

I have a beautiful one that's Halloween themed and my go to for hot chocolates, it's an Emma Bridgewater and so lovely.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have 3 on rotation that il like

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito

"I have 3 on rotation that il like"

This is the way.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have 3 on rotation that il like

This is the way."
exactly straws are handy too

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"I really love your little nods to me OP.

I have a beautiful one that's Halloween themed and my go to for hot chocolates, it's an Emma Bridgewater and so lovely. "

Mèlí, every once in a while I feel it's my moral duty to reference the ex-wife. May I please have back my Tiffany™ mug?

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By *orphia2003Woman
over a year ago

Tonypandy.

Bought myself a massive mug from charity shop few years ago. It's my lazy mug, as I don't have to get up and make 2nd cup this way.

Sadly, developed a slow drip, so just been chucked out. On hunt for another now.

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

Funnily enough we’ve only got one mug each that we’ve kept pristine and they were both gifts from a forum fabber that was quite well known for gifting mugs.

If you’re out there… hey bud

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine is rounded with Giraffes all over it

My mug at work is blue and white which has the words 'I'm surrounded by Idiots' on the side

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By *enrietteandSamCouple
over a year ago

Staffordshire

"Mine is rounded with Giraffes all over it

My mug at work is blue and white which has the words 'I'm surrounded by Idiots' on the side

Which side?

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

I like a small China mug and I hate those heavy, thick rimmed mugs

Most of my mugs are from the ‘I’d rather be…. ‘ series

Drinking champagne

Trimming my bush

Drinking gin

Shopping for handbags/shoes

In the shed

I’m quite partial to a China cup and saucer too! ( well I would be wouldn’t I

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By *TG3Man
over a year ago

Dorchester

Yes I do 2 mugs that were bought by a woman i don't see any more but I have them with me now as I lay listening to the rain batter the roof of my campervan incessantly noisily relentlessly batter the roof

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By *nabelle21Woman
over a year ago

B38

"A purple Warner Brothers dog mug which I've been using daily for about 25 years.

It only ever holds coffee and only I use it.

Wow 25 yrs! That is some feat to have kept it that long!

Over the yrs I have got through so many cups. There is not any piece of crockery that I have had that long.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a fox mug I got about 5 years ago from an ex I still use religiously but that’s only because foxes are my favourite animal

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

I have a white China tea cup and saucer for my tea.

And my coffee mug, was a gift from my youngest daughter many yrs ago for mothers day.

Both are used daily

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I go between two cups a beautiful white China one that says Mother on it,and a big pink one that says Nanna on it

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By *he ass man 666Man
over a year ago

paradise city

Got me oversized Leeds United mug , 5 years old and still going strong

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By *eroLondon OP Man
over a year ago

Mayfair

"Mine is rounded with Giraffes all over it

My mug at work is blue and white which has the words 'I'm surrounded by Idiots' on the side

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