Swapping cups and plates.

Lixy what a good idea.

I do the same as you, Tabitha..

I try to rotate the tea towels, since we married * years ago we have bought one nearly every time we went on holiday so each one brings back memories. Sadly since we got a dishwasher they don't get much use!

When I stack the clean crockery I always do this, the same with linen and underwear of the same colour.

I have never heard of this rotation malarkey. It's whatever comes first to hand for us.

I must be contrary. Freshly laundered towels and sheets are put on the top and replaced with ones from the bottom of the pile.

I rotate the tea towels; when I put clean ones away they go too the bottom of the pile, OH will just stick them on top. When we get a clean one out we take from the top of the pile. Therefore, we can end up with a couple of sad, lonely tea towels that rarely get used.

ElaineI

I am definitely like that! Mostly with mugs as we hand wash those but the plates go in the dishwasher and we run it every 3 days so they all get used. Must be mad but I feel the mugs will be hurt if they don't get used ?

Thats more or less what Dermot admitted when he said he talks to them.

I’ve got a few hurt mugs then. They look nice on their shelf and are useful if all the others are in the dishwasher and somebody calls.

ElaineI

I am definitely like that! Mostly with mugs as we hand wash those but the plates go in the dishwasher and we run it every 3 days so they all get used. Must be mad but I feel the mugs will be hurt if they don't get used ?

Hurt mugs?

Never even considered it for dinnerware and mugs. Mine mostly match, but since mugs get broken or chipped more quickly than plates I have had to buy replacements.

Tea towels don't get rotated either, but it's not a bad idea. I need to go through that drawer anyway, so I'll put it on the list for the weekend. I was just saying I needed more rags for cleaning, so I will rip some of the older towels in half, and re-organize. Maybe even help myself to some new ones.

I am definitely like that! Mostly with mugs as we hand wash those but the plates go in the dishwasher and we run it every 3 days so they all get used. Must be mad but I feel the mugs will be hurt if they don't get used ?

I used to do things like that, but not really, anymore.

I also always had a set of 6 mugs, and would replace the lot if one got damaged.
These days whatever is clean will do.

Rotation of stock.
You could all get a job in a supermarket ?

Mugs aren’t rotated, plates and bowls are simply because they go in the dishwasher which isn’t put on everyday. When they emerge the plates and bowls go to the bottom of the pile. Always have. Never occurred to me to do anything else. Sorry, kitty, we do have mugs that match. Maybe I’m odd. . Bedding, towels and tea towels have their own system, different ones for different times of the year - I do like a change. I know, no hope for me and definitely none for Mr C when he tries to work out which duvet cover is next when he’s on bed changing detail.

Sara1954

KittyLester; apparently many people do have matching mugs.

I love having each mug a different colour, different pattern, connected with the memory of who gifted it to me, or where I found it to my delight .
But, like all things, to each his own and more power to them!

I've just worked out that my favourite Chunky Mug, used 4 times daily is 46 years old and looks good as new. It was given to me as a leaving present when I changed jobs and then was my 'at work' mug in various jobs until I retired and it came home with me.

Well we do have some matching mugs, but I prefer things not matching really.
My favourite mug is a NT mug, my husband favours some rather large ones I picked up in Waitrose because they were pretty, and our daughter will drink out of anything.
The other five hundred may be useful if I’m ever asked to host the village fete.

People really have matching mugs?

I rotate /my mugs and bookmarks. I buy them when I go on holiday and it brings back happy memories of places visited abroad or in the UK and friends who have bought them for me. My oldest mug is one I got with an Easter egg from my nanna and grandad when I was 7. I'm now 60 ?

I also rotate some of the varied mugs in the cupboard.

If I find myself constantly reaching around one to get to another, then it's off to the charity shop it goes!

Having said that, I did find that during the initial Covid lockdown, many of my mugs mysteriously developed chips from careless washing up ( not me ).

Of course I couldn't get more at that time, and dreamt of having new mugs!

All my mugs are miss-matched, I guess I'm more eclectic than 'matchy- matchy'.

That goes for silverware too; each piece has it's own 'personality' I find.

This was a fun post; thank you

We rotate china and linen but have our own favourite mugs that we use all the time.

I filled our surplus mugs with goodies - some with sweets, others with small soaps/toiletries - wrapped up in cellophane. We sold them at my Mum's church Christmas fayre - none left over. She lives in a different town; no-one saw their gift being repurposed so no hard feelings either.

I need a mug sort-out, Sara1954

We have some rather nice ones but they're a bit too small or oddly shaped.
Not many match now either.

Callistemon
We also have dozens of mugs, we have three sections, one for me, I like smaller mugs, one for everyone else, and one for tradesmen, known as builders mugs.