Do you have a special cup/mug for tea of coffee that you just have to use?

DH insists on a bone china mug years old (guess who broke the spare one, you'd have thought it was a priceless antique). He won't drink out of anything else
Me? So long as it's a big mug, not fussed about which one.

yes, TerriBull, am the same as you.First thing I have to have a giant cup and saucer for my tea. later I have coffee from a delicate flowery china mug. Later still I have designated china mugs for tea, and after dinner in the evening like a normal sized china cup and saucer for coffee.Funny old things, aren't we?

Do not have any bone china. Just thinking what it's made of makes me feel queasy.

I like a particular shape of mug - fluted out at the top.
And can't stand thick mugs.
My favourite are my bone China Belleek mugs, £5 each when on offer. Beautifully lightweight especially when hands are sore with arthritis and a perfectly shaped handle.

My understanding is that bone China is much stronger than the thick chunky pottery mugs.

I also have two larger taller China mugs to use for tea when having a fry up breakfast or fish and chips at tea time.

I am dreadful, I think china and cutlery are the things that I am fussiest about.

The first cup of tea in bed is in thick china. It's the only one I can stand not to be in bone china. It's a huge cornishware blue and white striped mug that's almost a pint.

After that, about four mugs of coffee in smallish bone china mugs, the last coffee being at lunchtime. Then out come the larger tea mugs again, this time in bone china.

DBH has mugs, none of his are bone china, so we have a big cupboard full of DBH and My mugs, DS mugs, DD mugs, visitor mugs, GC mugs, bone china cups and saucers.

The only problem with bone china is, they don't last as long as the thick china ones. So a favourite expires pretty much every year or so. Luckily I have plenty of 'spares'. If we see some I like when we are out, DBH usually sighs and says 'Better buy three while we see them'.

I have just sat down with a mug of herbal tea. The mug is a plain brown mug until you pour hot water into it, when a photo of two of my grandchildren opening Christmas presents appears.

We have China mugs for tea (mine with flowers, his a Royal Navy one), and thicker ones for coffee time. At lunch time I often have cup of soup in a Christmas mug as it is a bit larger than all the others.

My morning tea mug is an outsize cup with a pattern of ladybirds. I bought it very many years ago in a rejects shop called Spoils which no longer exists. Tea definitely tastes better from this mug.

My special china "morning tea" mug has a picture of 2 of my gd's on it! I use another with hearts on in the afternoon!! In between it's coffee in any cup or mug!

I just like tall thin mugs as they keep the drink warmer for longer in my opinion.

My granddaughter loves our bright coloured plastic mugs we bought from IKEA when the children were little. I remember having favourite cereal bowls when we used to stay with our grandparents in Sussex as children.

My younger son has a special mug, a horrible Bart Simpson thing that contained a smallish Easter egg many years ago. He moved out recently and wanted to take it with him, but I said no, it belongs here, remembering all the stuff he took off to uni that ended up heaven knows where. He always looks happy to use it when he visits

We have a lot of crockery from Ikea, started out with even amounts of dark blue and cream - all but one of the dark blue tea-plates has broken, and only 2 of the dark blue dinner plates remain. Our older grandson always goes for the blue, his favourite colour. And he still likes to use the blue stripy plastic tumbler we bought for him when he was about 2, despite being 'allowed' a grown up glass tumbler now.
When he was little he always used the Mickey Mouse spoon which was one of two we had for our two when they were little. Now he has graciously said his little brother can have this when they visit

I use plain white, china, Denby mugs or nice china ones from Waitrose! I don't drink coffee but hot chocolate tastes better from thick mugs I always make tea, in a pot, from leaves! [Mrs Bucket strikes again!]

DH's mugs were a huge embarrassment for years as they were nearly 30 years old, thick, yellow and faded, from Tesco. I sent him out to get himself some new ones and he came back with thick plain ones.........from Tesco!

Oh she is Ashtree very civilized indeed.

I prefer white mugs or mugs with white inside.

My DGC have their own special mugs at mine too TwiceAsNice the girls love to have a cup of tea and a gossip with grandma.

I don't really like mugs much but have 2 sets of cups and saucers one larger than the other and I really prefer a cup and saucer. I do have some nice assorted mugs for visitors who prefer a mug some of my friends think a cup and saucer is a faff.

I also have special cups and bowls for my twin grandchildren when they visit according to their favourite colours etc. I have a dinner service in royal Albert which all matches I like things to match, is that precious!

DH and I have our individual mugs, ( mine is Winnie the pooh) partly because he doesn't take sugar and I do. Saves mix ups.
It doesn't bother me if others use mine. I have a couple of spares including"Worlds best Nanny" and a set for visitors.

What a lovely thread I like my tea out of a bone china mug, but prefer coffee from a cheap 'thick' mug. Daft isn't it?

I remember back in the eighties when I worked in an R&D lab, where everyone had their own easily recognizable mug, mine bore the legend 'I shot J.R'

Your grandma sounds very civilized gillybob

I'm now eating breakfast and heavens, just realised I also have a special bowl yikes I'm well along the road to idiosyncrasy! Different mugs for different times of the day that's a good one Grannybug

Most of the time I make my tea in a mug however on a Saturday or Sunday I make my tea in a teapot. I set a little tray just for me and it is special. My grandma will not drink from a mug. She insists on a cup and saucer compete with milk jug and sugar basin all set out on her tray on wheels, with a nice plate of or on the side .

Terribull I too have different mugs for different times of day however they can change depending on my mood! Complicated

Not just me then

DH drives me mad with mug-gate.

He deliberately makes me coffee in a mug with 'Time for Tea' on the side.

He makes his coffee in my favourite tea mug which I try and hide but he always finds it. YUK

He leaves various mugs in the workshop - covered in grease and dirt.

His pal, who helps us in the garden once a week, likes his tea very strong and leaves the tea bag in (I swear he sucks it dry at the end)

One of life's pleasures is to curl up on the sofa with a hot drink in the appropriate mug.

I'd like to say he just doesn't get it but I suspect he loves winding me up.

Not a special mug but I have two types of mug , thick cheapies which anyone can use and 6 nice porcelain pretty mugs which I always use myself I hate drinking out of a 'thick' mug or cup. You know you are 'special' if I give you one of my 'pretty' mugs