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It's funny, sometimes you can have a mug for years and it survives, yet some get broken almost immediately. I know that it's unreasonable but you can feel irrationally upset about it.
We still have a couple of very dark blue mugs that we bought from Woolworths in the 1980's and my husband loves them. It's not unknown for him to go on using a badly chipped and stained mug for years

Many years ago I bought some very nice glass tumblers which lasted a couple of months before breaking one by one. I also bought some costing 50p each from an M&S outlet shop and they were indestructible!

Maremia

A good way to deal with it, by coming on here, and letting off steam
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Lel1

Oh for goodness sake! There have been posts on here from people who have had their hearts broken. It's only a flipping mug. I'm speechless.

I agree, we can allow a little annoyance, but unless this was a mug that was given to you by your husband when he proposed or some such other sentimental occasion… then forget it! Really stupid. Get enraged at world affairs or the neighbour who plays loud music at 3am… but at your daughter breaking a MUG!
Ask her to replace it. Put the rest out of reach and only use cheaper mugs… I’m astounded!

I broke a little mug at one of my ex boyfriend's house.
Then his mum told me that he'd carried it around everywhere with him from when he was in a Bernardos home, and when they first fostered him.
An emotional support mug, i suppose.
It was his only belonging.

I suspect it's only partially about the mug, I imagine it's about the lack of care with your possessions as though you don't matter. As has been said before, mother daughter relationships are fragile things... Chalk it up to experience but quietly.

NotSpaghetti

And some will "empathise" Cossy.

Ooops Far fingers I really need an “edit” button.

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Nomadica

I suspect it's only partially about the mug, I imagine it's about the lack of care with your possessions as though you don't matter. As has been said before, mother daughter relationships are fragile things... Chalk it up to experience but quietly.

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Hilda123
Thoughts and prayers with you at this difficult time 🙄
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Or just patronising and a bit mean 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

She's earning. She should supply her own necessities.
Not take anything from your house.

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Biscuitmuncher
You give the impression that your daughter took the mug to work and deliberately broke it.
Unless there’s a serious problem between you and your daughter I imagine she was just as angry with herself.

I’m not at all sentimental about ‘things’. If they break, they break.
I was with someone who was washing up a glass vase and smashed it. She was sobbing and throwing herself around.
It was ridiculous and embarrassing .
What a do about nothing! 🙄

welbeck

She's earning. She should supply her own necessities.
Not take anything from your house.

A bit harsh. Surely most household items are shared when your kids still live with you? Are you expecting the daughter to provide her own plates, bowls, cutlery? She made a mistake that's all.

This so reminds me of many years ago age about 8
when my younger sister and I were cleaning out the display cabinet and dropped and broke the handle off a china tea cup, one of mums favourite possessions.
We stuck it back on again with some of dad’s glue and as this was an item never used hoped and prayed nobody would ever.
know.
A couple of weeks later we had visitors and mum being posh got out the best China including the broken cup, I remember having crossed fingers as I made a pot of tea. Mum poured the tea and handed the damaged one to the visiting priest who thankfully due to talking let his tea cool and then lifted it and you’ve guessed it the handle came off and the man got the cup of tea all over him.
Luckily he wasn’t bothered, took the offered cloth to wipe himself and assured mum he was fine these things happen, and not to worry, but she did.
We got away with it, she thankfully assumed the cup must have had a crack in it and thank goodness the tea wasn't hot and she couldn’t remember where she had bought it from,these things happen 🤷‍♀️

It’s a mug. A MUG. just a mug.

I would swap that “problem” with you any day.

One of my grandchildren,the youngest one, is a klutz and nearly always breaks something, usually something nice, when she visits. I remind myself that you can’t take anything with you and keep my mouth firmly shut ! It’s just not worth the upset, it is just an object.

It's fine to vent on here! (Not sure why GNetters are so quick to tell people off for using this as a safe place for rants. Life is not a zero sum game, and it's perfectly ok to fret about the small things as well.as the huge global ones crises!! )
Sorry about your mug, it's not nice losing a favourite anything when you really like it. Your daughter sounds a bit scatterbrained! But as others have said and as you know, at the end of the day, your relationship with her mattets more than any object. Having said that, only you know her and what the right thing to say is. If she is careless with other people's things, it could cause her more problems. And it won't be her loving mum she needs to apologise toom Good luck x

Yes, I agree, Franski - why are some people thinking this is a serious complaint?
I immediately took it to be a small irritation of the "eye-roll" sort.

Some of us have shared other breakages.
I don't think anything has been said that would make me think it's a major issue.

NotSpaghetti I know some people are really cross I had a little moan. I didn't fall out with my daughter. I was just a bit upset something I liked got smashed