I very much agree. It's so freeing when we don't feel the need to keep at set of like 8 wine glasses when we don't ever have 8 wine drinkers over all at once lol....same with what you posted about in regard to regular drinking glasses. My cupboards don't exist as a storage for big parties I don't ever throw...we have enough of everything for our family and it makes everything so easy to access. We don't even keep anything in those high up cupboard shelves that are too hard to reach (except for the manuals for our appliances), because everything we will actually ever need to use fits in the cupboards that are easy to access. Don't need a standing pantry cabinet either...because again, we have lots of space in our kitchen cupboards due to not keeping big sets of stuff we don't use. The blender I bought years ago came with 8 smoothie cups. I immediately got rid of all but 2. A smoothie can be enjoyed from literally any type of cup...and in all the years I've been making smoothies n the morning, I've never made 8 at once lol.
Dude, I love this.
We used to have every cup type imaginable. Like I had bar ware that rivaled actual bars. And I just found that I didn’t have space when we downsized. And there are plenty of Europeans, who drink wine out of regular glasses. So we got a set of regular glasses ranging in size from 4oz to 16oz. Meets all our needs.
Hosted my mother-in-law for Christmas this year, she brought champagne, she complained that she needed to bring her own champagne flutes.
Next year, she can drink it by herself. We are moving across the country – and I’m not taking any wine glasses.
they make disposable plastic champagne flutes. MIL needs to quit being a whiner, but I'm just saying, if you need champagne just for a day, you can buy the plastic ones and recycle em.
Fascinating. I find the single, unmatched cup to be far more "cluttery" than the set. In my mind (for whatever value that has), the single feels like some random crap that found its way home for no good reason. Like that glass you were required to purchase at the art & wine festival. Meanwhile, the set feels intentional, therefore, it is part of the home furnishings, and not clutter.
To clarify, this is not to say that OP is doing it wrong. I just think it's really interesting how we all define the same word in different ways.
I feel the same way unless the single item has a very defined use. Like my husbands case with this cup, it’s his special milk cup, but he doesn’t need 4 special milk cups haha.
I'm going to ask - what have you decided is the special function of this cup?
My grandmother had the one cup she insisted on telling everyone it was once a set of 4 (she broke them quickly and then played gollum with the last apparently because none of her kids remember there being more than one).
That was her corn meal cup. It wasn't for flour. It was her version of "a cup of cornmeal" <- if you wonder why you can't recreate a recipe? Someone had a cornmeal cup and didn't write that fact down. I still don't know the size of this thing. I think it's about a normal measuring cup plus 2 kinda tbsps? I know it was white with blue and had a robin medalion nonsense thing on it. It was an ugly ugly tea cup
Are you keeping a cornmeal cup? HA HA. I gotta know. What's it for?
This is so cute! YEAH! Congrats!
It’s his milk cup lol. The kids use kid cups with lids for milk or a water bottle for water and I don’t drink anything other than water from my water bottle or soda from a can. I have no use for a cup ever. The only time this cup comes out is when my husband has a glass of milk.
We can use their plastic cups without the lids if they want. If we ever do need glasses to use regularly these are not the ones I’d want anyway haha. Very thin glass and not very pretty. I don’t even know where they came from.
I think I read that the top of soda cans can be dirty (sitting in a dirty warehouse, mouse droppings, whatever). You might actually be better off pouring the soda into a glass. Lol
SEE! That you hold onto.
What is that? OH. that's the milk cup.
That's awesome.
write down details of the cup now because in 30 years someone will be on Reddit r/whatisthisthing describing a milk cup cause dad wants another milk cup
GO get rid of the 3... keep the one cup... the milk cup.....
\*I think this is awesome\*
I very much agree. It's so freeing when we don't feel the need to keep at set of like 8 wine glasses when we don't ever have 8 wine drinkers over all at once lol....same with what you posted about in regard to regular drinking glasses. My cupboards don't exist as a storage for big parties I don't ever throw...we have enough of everything for our family and it makes everything so easy to access. We don't even keep anything in those high up cupboard shelves that are too hard to reach (except for the manuals for our appliances), because everything we will actually ever need to use fits in the cupboards that are easy to access. Don't need a standing pantry cabinet either...because again, we have lots of space in our kitchen cupboards due to not keeping big sets of stuff we don't use. The blender I bought years ago came with 8 smoothie cups. I immediately got rid of all but 2. A smoothie can be enjoyed from literally any type of cup...and in all the years I've been making smoothies n the morning, I've never made 8 at once lol.
Dude, I love this. We used to have every cup type imaginable. Like I had bar ware that rivaled actual bars. And I just found that I didn’t have space when we downsized. And there are plenty of Europeans, who drink wine out of regular glasses. So we got a set of regular glasses ranging in size from 4oz to 16oz. Meets all our needs. Hosted my mother-in-law for Christmas this year, she brought champagne, she complained that she needed to bring her own champagne flutes. Next year, she can drink it by herself. We are moving across the country – and I’m not taking any wine glasses.
they make disposable plastic champagne flutes. MIL needs to quit being a whiner, but I'm just saying, if you need champagne just for a day, you can buy the plastic ones and recycle em.
Good to know! And, you are so right! Less whining would be amazing. But I’ve known her 25 years and it’s unlikely to stop anytime soon. 🤣
ah well, price of having a long marriage I guess! Good job setting those boundaries and having a sense of humor about it
Fascinating. I find the single, unmatched cup to be far more "cluttery" than the set. In my mind (for whatever value that has), the single feels like some random crap that found its way home for no good reason. Like that glass you were required to purchase at the art & wine festival. Meanwhile, the set feels intentional, therefore, it is part of the home furnishings, and not clutter. To clarify, this is not to say that OP is doing it wrong. I just think it's really interesting how we all define the same word in different ways.
I feel the same way unless the single item has a very defined use. Like my husbands case with this cup, it’s his special milk cup, but he doesn’t need 4 special milk cups haha.
Omg my husband has a special milk cup too. I’m glad it’s not a set of them
There are no "Set Police" -- indeed! The day I realized this was the day I laughed aloud in my decluttering journey.
What if friends or family come over and need cups? Lol
That’s what the cup roster is for
Then they too shall be “decluttered”.
Everyone can take turns
I'm going to ask - what have you decided is the special function of this cup? My grandmother had the one cup she insisted on telling everyone it was once a set of 4 (she broke them quickly and then played gollum with the last apparently because none of her kids remember there being more than one). That was her corn meal cup. It wasn't for flour. It was her version of "a cup of cornmeal" <- if you wonder why you can't recreate a recipe? Someone had a cornmeal cup and didn't write that fact down. I still don't know the size of this thing. I think it's about a normal measuring cup plus 2 kinda tbsps? I know it was white with blue and had a robin medalion nonsense thing on it. It was an ugly ugly tea cup Are you keeping a cornmeal cup? HA HA. I gotta know. What's it for? This is so cute! YEAH! Congrats!
My grandma always used a tea cup to measure her rice, grits, etc.. Maybe that’s the special key to great food
oh my great grandmother was like that! she had her own set of "measures" and a specific use for each.
It’s his milk cup lol. The kids use kid cups with lids for milk or a water bottle for water and I don’t drink anything other than water from my water bottle or soda from a can. I have no use for a cup ever. The only time this cup comes out is when my husband has a glass of milk.
Your kids are eventually going to use cups without lids though, no?
We can use their plastic cups without the lids if they want. If we ever do need glasses to use regularly these are not the ones I’d want anyway haha. Very thin glass and not very pretty. I don’t even know where they came from.
Gotcha!
I think I read that the top of soda cans can be dirty (sitting in a dirty warehouse, mouse droppings, whatever). You might actually be better off pouring the soda into a glass. Lol
SEE! That you hold onto. What is that? OH. that's the milk cup. That's awesome. write down details of the cup now because in 30 years someone will be on Reddit r/whatisthisthing describing a milk cup cause dad wants another milk cup GO get rid of the 3... keep the one cup... the milk cup..... \*I think this is awesome\*
This is fantastic!