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My german mug, with all the Länder states on there. A polish mug. A mug-mug. A coffee mug. The Oktoberfest beer stein. The boring mug. The cat and owl mug. The cat mug. The pukka mug. The homer simpson mug. ...

[–] brap@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago

Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don't change their bed sheets every day.

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[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In no uncertain terms: how dangerous are you?

[–] Cypher@aussie.zone 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have extensive knowledge of state forests

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

It's worse than I imagined.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

Is that a special case of state spaces?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Bita both ey?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Redstone1@lemmings.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 38 points 3 days ago

This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] Rajtinka@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

4th type .. cupboard empty. Everything on the counters! ADHD ftw!!!

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Everything on the counters dirty

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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!

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Ah, my old roommate is in the chat

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm both and I think most people are both, having several of some and also random ones.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] FloatingAlong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not nearly enough coffee cups.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago

Just can't see how deep the cabinet is

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unless you're 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You forgot the cup hooks underneath, and the large drinking steins/tankards/catfood on top

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 2 days ago

Other way around. The nice sets on top, the regularly used collection of oddities below.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 days ago

Normal human and hotel

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I was not made to have matching sets of anything.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?

Also: left side, but flipped.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

I enjoy my water with extra dust

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 2 days ago

I put them in an alternating pattern, they take less space that way

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I'm a little from column A and a little from column B.

[–] stopforgettingit@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

my glasses match but my mugs don't

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

They don't actually use most of them.

[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And always drinking directly out of the bottle

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Why not both, exactly like in the picture?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm a left. I need these things, store them in a cabinet behind an opaque door. Function over form, but always keep things clean & new, and periodically re-evaluate my belongings, to prevent clutter buildup & hoarding, sort things into four categories: trash-donate-recycle-keep.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The right side is when you first get a place and start with nothing, the left side is after living there for years.

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