Buying mugs for your house can be interesting, especially if working to a budget and needing them to be inexpensive. Also, a lot will depend on whether they are going to be tucked away in a cupboard when not in use or on display.
Recently Mick and I went mug shopping. Every week we have a bible study group meets at our place and if they all turned up we did not have enough mugs. To my mind there’s nothing worse that standing around having tea or coffee and chat while trying to balance a cup of hot beverage in a cup and saucer as well as something to eat. You need to be an octopus to manage successfully. Mugs are much simpler.
Recently I went to a high tea and some of us struggled to find a cup and sauce. ‘Our generation doesn’t use cups,’ one younger woman said. Many of my generation don’t either. To me saucers are just one more thing that needs to be washed and wiped.
So Mick and I set out looking for mugs. All I wanted were simple blue and white mugs to match those I have that I could display in the glass fronted kitchen cabinet. Sounds easy don’t it? Apparently it is not.
Many were too thick in the china. I hate thick mugs. Some the patterns were awful, multi-colored and striped. Others were too small. There’s no point having a mug if it holds no more than a cup. Others were plain but colored inside as well. I like to drink from mugs that are white inside. It helps when you have tea as weak as I do, to make sure it’s the right color before whisking the teabag out.
Eventually we found four inexpensive mugs. Two are white with a green leaf pattern. Two are black with a green leaf pattern. Since they were the only ones we liked at all, we decided blue and white wasn’t necessary. We just will put them to the back of the cupboard and leave the blue mugs in front.
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