This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.
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Por que no los dos?
Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?
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.
I don't have ADHD (I know enough people who do that I can say that quite confidently) and I still find this extremely helpful. Decision fatigue is real, and eliminating trivial decisions is great.
I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don't change their bed sheets every day.
While I suggest changing them regularly, I have a different reasoning behind sheets and towels. I shower when I get up and frequently before bed if I feel icky or my spouse invites me. So frequency of sheets goes down because anything it transfers gets washed off in the shower. The towel is used after the shower so anything it transfers lasts all day. That said, after the move in I adopted my spouse's routine which is much more lax and changes towels every few days. On one hand I now have to track towel wash cycles consciously, on the other hand I'm not doing 3 times the towels so it equals out.
Though now that you have me thinking about it, I would absolutely change sheets daily if it were easier to do so...
I also have ADHD and I remember that my towels should be switched out every 2-3 weeks. I know this will gross some people out, so sorry if it does, but this is just how my brain functions. in school my teachers frequently told me I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached.
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.
There are dozens of us
Go to big lots, buy sets. No more thinking. If get fun mugs, they live up high. Da end
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 caโ
I'm just messing with you lmfao
My parents and my partnerโs parents are BOTH! Regular stuff cupboards are the left image, and fancy stuff that never gets used goes in clear glass displays sorted like the right image.
Yep! I'm both! My glass hutch in the kitchen is all clear and white glass and matching sets, daily use. My hoarders nest cabinet in the pantry holds cups from mystic pizza, the pirate restaurant, promotional yetis, my nostalgic Tupperware from college with no lid.
I WAS the right side, the gf has made it the left side but the image is too organized to truly represent how it looks
Someone who just moved out on their own and can afford new kitchen items
A lady we used to be friends with was like this.
She was too intense for us so we stopped hanging out with them and then our house cleaner (that we both used) told us they quit.
Turns out our ex friend was too intense about getting the house clean for our house cleaner and we had to promise not to tell the friend that our cleaner still worked for us to keep her.
Claudia clean day has been going on every other Wednesday several years strong and we're very happy with her!
But seriously, how bananas do you have to be about getting things clean for a house cleaner to say "this is too much"?
I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.
Having diverse cups/mugs makes it easier to tell whose is whose when company comes over.
4th type .. cupboard empty. Everything on the counters! ADHD ftw!!!
Everything on the counters dirty
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!
Of course dirty, I never emptied the dish washer from last time. Once it's empty from pulling the only clean dishes left out of it, I will be forced to do the dishes again...
Thats actually fine, even preferred, if you cannot be arsed to stack the dishes according to size in the sink where I will wash them in no more than 2 days. But no, bowl -> bread plate -> bowl -> dinner plate etc. 8 dishes could either be a small pile or stack higher than the faucet
Unless you're 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?

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.
I'm both and I think most people are both, having several of some and also random ones.
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.
Third type: No cupboard
And always drinking directly out of the bottle
Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?
Also: left side, but flipped.
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.
The severity of each level is different
I think matching wine glasses is relatively uncontroversial, but also understandable if kinda mismatched. A contingent of matching tumblers is also fine but you need the random pint glasses too at the very least. I maintain a fully matching set of mugs is a red flag
I think there's room to wiggle on the mugs. I have a matching set for daily use and an unmatched collection stored separately for special occasional. I will never get rid of my penis pink German skull and crossbone mug, but I also prefer the consistency in volume of my matching set for chai in the morning.
The right side is when you first get a place and start with nothing, the left side is after living there for years.
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.
iโm both - dishes I use on the right the ones I donโt on the left
I have one super small section that looks like the left, everything else looks like the right.
Itโs only like a single 12x12 space in one cabinet, but this post is making me awkwardly uncomfortable about it. And itโs making me want to do something about it. But they are my most commonly used cups. So functionally it would be counter productive to get rid of them.
I need to leave this thread before my head explodes.
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.
Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???
What if you have one of each?
I think the comic is creating a false dichotomy (as comics often do) because in reality people will often be a little bit of both.
I've got assorted mugs and glasses acquired over decades, and my favourites are among them.
I've also got some matching wine glasses and matching tea cups, because sometimes it's just nice when everyone is equal and gets the same.
I am the left, but I strongly desire to be the one on the right , I just can't bear to part with all my random cups and glassware that have special significance or sentimentality.
The builder of my house is one of those nationwide homebuilders. I donโt trust the workmanship enough to fill the cupboards with breakable plates and glasses.
Kinda feel the same about the cupboards in my apartment. They are visibly angled forward and look like they could just fall down at any moment. ๐ฌ
What you want to do is get a box of deck screws a cheap drill, and a stud finder. Find the stud behind the cabinets, then put the deck screw through the top and bottom board at a 45ยฐ angle from the outside through the cabinet, into the stud. That will put about 6cm of screw to anchor through both the frame and back of the cabinet. Only way it's comming down is if the wall does.
While you're at it, replace the screws holding your door to the wall with them too, the normal screws for a door hinge are 1.5cm max, this will allow your door to sag as well as allow it to be easily knocked down. Replacing them with deck screws makes that far less likely.
If it wasn't an apartment, I'd have already fixed them up. I have the tools and the know-how; not the permission. ๐ฎโ๐จ
As someone who has lived in apartments for most of my adult life, there are two easy fixes for this. If your place has a maintenance guy, hunt him down and either ask him to come by and do exactly this, or if it'd be fine for you to do it yourself. Most maintenance guys are just cool stoners who can fix things and they'll give 0 fucks if you want to fix something for them so long as you don't fuck up and have to call him to fix it.
If you have a land Lord, it's almost exactly the same. Call them, tell them you have an issue you need them to fix, then off hand mention how you'd just do it yourself and explain how before saying you wouldn't want to get in trouble for messing with their property. Again, most land lords will take you up on it and just let you.
If you have a corperate or bank land Lord, do it anyways and if anyone asks down the road just say it was like that when you got here. They're too beaurocratic to actually notice or care.
What you want to do is get a box of deck screws, a cheap drill, and a stud finder. Find the stud behind the cabinets, then put the deck screw through the top and bottom board at a 45ยฐ angle from the outside through the cabinet, into the stud. That will put about 6cm of screw to anchor through both the frame and back of the cabinet. Only way it's comming down is if the wall does.
While you're at it, replace the screws holding your door to the wall with them too, the normal screws for a door hinge are 1.5cm max, this will allow your door to sag as well as allow it to be easily knocked down. Replacing them with deck screws makes that far less likely.
I'm so called out in this pic. My coffee mug area is a travesty.
Do you also strategically choose which lesser mugs have to sit precariously on top of the others?
The one on the left, because I have friends and when they visit they also expect to drink from a glass.
Thereโs a trend to arrange everything like a sculptures in the louvre. Itโs a cupboard, and it has doors for a reason.
This does not spark joy.
Not enough mugs tbh
My mugs are taking over. I've started having to take some out of circulation and store them elsewhere.
That's not nearly enough coffee cups.
The left side is a collection of memories, and the right side is a collection of order. I definitely live on the left, and honestly, I wouldn't have it any other way!


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