I have a confession to make. This is the third time in the last five years I’ve purged coffee mugs. And only a handful have come into the house in that time. Which is frightening.

I counted nearly thirty. And I know, without a doubt, that this does not include the 16 or so that belong to china sets we got as wedding gifts. Those are still in a box somewhere.

I headed to Unclutterer to see what other people do about coffee mugs. Specifically, how many. I checked out the comments and found some useful information. It made sense to start by looking at our usage and at which mugs we use more than others.

Both Stephen and I drink coffee every day. And some nights I’ll have a cup of tea. Stephen has his favorite coffee mugs, which are actually beer steins we got as a wedding gift. We kept two for him. He likes using the beer steins for coffee because: (a) he doesn’t drink alcohol; and (b) they hold a lot of coffee.

I kept my favorite coffee mug which I love because it’s ginormous, a tea mug and two additional mugs for guests. I also kept four plain white ones to use to stage our house for sale. Once we move, I’ll likely donate those.

Also sticking around are two mugs for the kids – these have their names on them and we use them for hot chocolate in the colder months.

In the meantime, I will be listing these on Freecycle later today:

There are two glasses in there as well as a koozie. We don’t drink soft drinks so it makes zero sense to keep the koozie.

How many mugs do you have? How do you keep from having them multiply like bunnies?