I'm sure it's the same in the UK: In church halls, offices and staff rooms , places where people make and serve drinks themselves, I hate the way that cups and glasses are always stacked with the rims facing downwards on the shelves.
In the office where I used to work, I asked someone why they did this as I found it so unhygienic. She mumbled something about germs falling into the cups.
This didn't make sense as the cups were almost all used daily and washed in the dishwasher, but the shelves they were stored on were NEVER wiped and must have had the germs of at least ten years accumulated. I once managed to get the cupboards wiped out but I doubt that that would have made them any cleaner as they would have been wiped with the same cloth that the rest of the kitchen had been cleaned with.
OK, nobody ever got any infection from the cups but I still always had a slight shudder of disgust at the thought of where they had been.
In our local church hall, which was newly built some 12 years ago now, it is the same. Hundreds of glasses all upturned and placed directly on the shelves.
My DS2's mother-in-law held her 60th birthday party in her local church hall. The coffee cups were stored the right way up (i.e. with the opening at the top.) They were a tad OTT in the other direction, though: there were signs on the inside of the cupboard doors, stipulating that the cups should be placed in stacks of three with the handles all pointing to the right!
How do you store your cups and glasses at home? Rims to the top or bottom?
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