We do both. We have organized dishes in one cupboard, and an absolute cluster-fuck in the one where we keep all the kids’ dishes and water bottles. In 30 years it will be that cupboard that our grand-kids pull an old plastic Barbie cup out of and have to give a quick smell test before pouring their drink into. You know the one.
I suspect that to some level this reflects how varied one’s path through life has been.
Certainly my own varied collection of mugs and cups is mainly the product of having lived in many different places and having picked new mugs up along the way. Also I’ll keep old mugs around even after they’re chipped because they’re associated with my memories of places I lived in before.
That said, maybe a varied life and a hodge-podge collection of mugs are correlated and have a common cause, rather than having a causal relation - it makes sense that the kind of people comfortable with moving to places were they don’t know anybody (and even with different cultures, if they change countries) would also be comfortable with a less than perfect collection of cups and mugs.
I’m a little from column A and a little from column B.
I am a right cabinet person forced to have a left cabinet because I am too poor to throw away perfectly good mugs and usable glasses just to have a matching set.
I just kinda accumulated pints and whiskey glasses and one day I realized I have no “regular” glassware. Then my girlfriend moved in with like 30 mismatched mugs and we are now almost exactly left cabinet.
I’m both and I think most people are both, having several of some and also random ones.
I’m definitely both but that’s because my cup wear is a random collection of cups that I acquired somehow over the years and stuff I actually went out and bought and only the bought stuff matches.
No one’s going to take my bee cup away from me, it’s got pictures of bees on and says “beeee happy” and can contain an Olympic swimming pool with a drink. I think I got it in an Easter egg.
Por que no los dos?
Yeah honestly. My kitchen looks exactly like this. I have all the same glasses and my cups are a wild mess, together with a bunch of random glasses i collected over the years
Same. The matching fancy side collects dust. The silly side gets used til things break.
yeah sometimes the cabinet layout makes sense to have them opening both to the left and to the right
For me too . One cabinet with fancy glassware and one cabinet with a wild collection of everything.
Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???
They don’t actually use most of them.
Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?
A lady we used to be friends with was like this.
She was too intense for us so we stopped hanging out with them and then our house cleaner (that we both used) told us they quit.
Turns out our ex friend was too intense about getting the house clean for our house cleaner and we had to promise not to tell the friend that our cleaner still worked for us to keep her.
Claudia clean day has been going on every other Wednesday several years strong and we’re very happy with her!
But seriously, how bananas do you have to be about getting things clean for a house cleaner to say “this is too much”?
I have near crippling ADHD and prior to moving in with my spouse, my kitchen looked like this, as well as my towels, sheets, cleaners, and spice rack. Having everything ordered took away the mental load, 8 identical towels is one load a week on Sunday plus a spare if something interrupts the schedule. I never had to consider a sensory issue because they’re all the exact same towel. Same for dishes, all my cups held the same amount and felt the same in hand. All my plates and bowls were identical so I couldn’t have a preferred one. All of them were dishwashers safe and dishwasher design friendly so I never needed to consider if they needed special treatment.
Taking away that thing to think about made a huge difference in clarity of mind because I could then use that energy for other things.
I also have ADHD and I remember that my towels should be switched out every 2-3 weeks. I know this will gross some people out, so sorry if it does, but this is just how my brain functions. in school my teachers frequently told me I’d lose my head if it wasn’t attached.
I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don’t change their bed sheets every day.
While I suggest changing them regularly, I have a different reasoning behind sheets and towels. I shower when I get up and frequently before bed if I feel icky or my spouse invites me. So frequency of sheets goes down because anything it transfers gets washed off in the shower. The towel is used after the shower so anything it transfers lasts all day. That said, after the move in I adopted my spouse’s routine which is much more lax and changes towels every few days. On one hand I now have to track towel wash cycles consciously, on the other hand I’m not doing 3 times the towels so it equals out.
Though now that you have me thinking about it, I would absolutely change sheets daily if it were easier to do so…
You shower twice a day?
Pretty common practice in places that are humid or close to the equator.
Not always, but frequently. Depending on how sticky I get.
I don’t have ADHD (I know enough people who do that I can say that quite confidently) and I still find this extremely helpful. Decision fatigue is real, and eliminating trivial decisions is great.
Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.
Hi 👋
Someone who just moved out on their own and can afford new kitchen items
That would be me.
My walls are painted white, and are bare of any paintings, posters or decorations.
I rent, and don’t own anything.
I don’t have any fingerprints.
In the freezer, is a mould containing the exact shape of NATO standard ca—
I’m just messing with you lmfao
When I first met my wife her cutlery drawer was so organised that the cutting edge of all the knives faced the same direction and the forks were all lined up on top of each other.
I nearly ran.
There are dozens of us
Go to big lots, buy sets. No more thinking. If get fun mugs, they live up high. Da end
Big Lots went out of business 😞
My parents and my partner’s parents are BOTH! Regular stuff cupboards are the left image, and fancy stuff that never gets used goes in clear glass displays sorted like the right image.
I WAS the right side, the gf has made it the left side but the image is too organized to truly represent how it looks
This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.
Unless you’re 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?
You forgot the cup hooks underneath, and the large drinking steins/tankards/catfood on top
Other way around. The nice sets on top, the regularly used collection of oddities below.
I was not made to have matching sets of anything.
4th type … cupboard empty. Everything on the counters! ADHD ftw!!!
Everything on the counters dirty
Me: Guess I have to wash a glass if I want to get a drink.
My kids: Guess we’re drinking out of flower vases this week!
Ah, my old roommate is in the chat
Of course dirty, I never emptied the dish washer from last time. Once it’s empty from pulling the only clean dishes left out of it, I will be forced to do the dishes again…
The dishwasher never fills up as quickly as when you’ve finally worked up the motivation to properly empty it.
Thats actually fine, even preferred, if you cannot be arsed to stack the dishes according to size in the sink where I will wash them in no more than 2 days. But no, bowl -> bread plate -> bowl -> dinner plate etc. 8 dishes could either be a small pile or stack higher than the faucet
cabinet door opens to the left, so I can reach in with my right hand
I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.
Came here to say this. It’s homey though.
Having diverse cups/mugs makes it easier to tell whose is whose when company comes over.
“when company comes over” look at you and your sociable characteristics.
we don’t do that here. we don’t have “company” “over” 🤣
I am left bottom shelf, right mid and top.
I have one cabinet with matching sets of wine glasses, tumblers, Collins, 4 martinis. Also all the matching sets of dansk plates, bowls etc.
Then theres another on the other side with all the mismatched glasses, branded pints, plastic cups, kids cup Disney jam jar cups, etc, and random plates and bowls and stuff.
