taking sides: glasses in cupboard rightside-up or upside-down

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please settle this once and for all, dear readers.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You actually put them inside the cupboards?

― nabisco, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Upside-down! I don't trust glasses stored rightside-up. (They are SHIFTY DEVILS on no!)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Up-side-down...you know you turn me..."

I swing both ways. Depends how I feel at the time.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose the [perhaps unspoken] theory is that, if they're rightside- up, dust will gather inside of.

but I think my glasses are used too frequently and, subsequently, washed and replaced that there is no risk of gatherage. and I think I opt for the rim-piece not to rest on a surface. even if I know it is probably clean.

y'know. so, hole UP. [unless I'm doing some longterm glass storage].

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I suppose ANOTHER factor may be STABILITY. but, now thinking, the base of most glasses is the thickest+heaviest part. but the top usually affords more spreading of its own load. but.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You're turning me on, RJG.

― Tracer hand, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry. I'll try not to use phrase rim-piece again unless I really have to.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I opt for the rim-piece not to rest on a surface. even if I know it is probably clean.

I don't even know where to start with this...

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I once read a serious etiquette expert reply to this question. S/he came down on the side of rim UP. This is because if the glasses are being left long enough for dust to gather in them then they should be washed again before use anyway. The muck that might transfer from the shelf to the rim was deemed to be of greater import.

― N., Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Store them the right way up, fer God's sake! Don't you know anything? If you rest them on their rims (har har) they can get accidentally chipped which is a Very Bad Thing.

Glasses/cups/mugs/jugs/bowls etc do not hang around long enough in my cupboards to gather dust, as they are always being used.

So - right way up, please.

― C J, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

rightside-up speaks for itself!

I never considered rim cracking--important to avoid.

haha x2.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A mixture! In my cupboards some glasses stand up, some are upside down.

― jel --, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Right way up, tumblers stacked in twos, wine glasses poised precariously at the front of the cupboard waiting to smashed when you reach across for the small cups to their right (d'oh!).

― Ellie, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

just looked in the cupboard...all the glasses were upside down! OH NO!

― jel --, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

all glasses upside down=you're gay.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, this really depends on precisely what sort of dirt-factors your particular cupboard contains. I go with upside-down because we do get the occasional centipede and roommate has nurtured the occasional fruit-fly explosion; I hate to imagine anything actually crawling through my cups, much less falling in and dying in there. It's also preferable if you weren't being especially rigorous about drying the items off.

(If this makes my kitchen sound like a filthy pit, well, I wouldn't know: I've stopped going in there. It's all roommate's until I can smell something.)

― nabisco, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Important contextual note: when I was a kid my cousin filled a mug with milk and put it in the microwave. When she took it out a small spider came bobbing and struggling desperately to the surface, presumably drowning and boiling at once. She'd grabbed the mug and caught the spider still in there, possibly implying that spiders regularly galavant around your glassware. It left me paranoid, I guess.

― nabisco, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This is a great question, and I put my cups/ mugs upside down.

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

right side up. if you leave them upside down they get all scummy around the edges.

― di, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

if you keep the shelves clean you can store them upside down and not worry about getting the rims all ganky.

what about sideways? (NB would only work if your glasses have corners)

― rener, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

erm... right-side up. deffo.

why put them in upside-down? it's obviously wrong, that's why it's called upside-down. surely?

and don't cupboard doors keep dust out of cupboards?

― g-kit, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

spider spider spider!!

― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

All our glasses are in our DRINKS/GLASSES CABINET the right way up. Along with our shot glasses which are on a little rotating stand, like the chutneys/yoghurts you get in curry houses.

― Sarah, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I quite like the idea of stacking my square/straight-sided tumblers sideways. Perhaps in some huge honeycomb structure. But in fact they go right side up, because I wash the glasses far more frequently than I wipe the bottom of the cupboard.

― Archel, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Rightside-up, but I still have paranoid thoughts about mice and spiders crawling into the glasses and sleeping in them and then crawling away without you ever knowing if they have been near the glass. This is why I usually will rinse out a glass before I use it. I know, it sounds mental.

― Nicole, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

mice!! mice with ladders or mice with small biplanes?

― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mice are everywhere, wagging their little tails at you in defiance.

― Nicole, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The mice come into Mark S's room at night and dance and sing on his computer and keyboard. They type messages with little 'ha ha' notes.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha fear of contamination from hypothetical mice crawling (or biplaning) into yr glasses = is it worse to clean piss out of a bin if you know it's piss? If I don't know, I don't care. However, when my sister came round last week she made us tea and a tiny dead insect floated to the top. She made new tea; I have a horrible feeling I would've picked out the insect and drunk it, ie even if I know I don't care. It's not like it was a wasp or something, just a teeny tiny flying thing; probably more fly into your mouth than into your tea.

― Ellie, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine are all upside down but clearly this is the way to make mould. Still. It feels right.

― Ronan, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Ellie you haven't seen the centipedes in my building.

Actual size:

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ >vvvvvvvvvvvvv+++ //////////////

― nabisco, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm really proud of my ASCII drawing! It looks just like one of them! Except they have long antennae in front and identical rear pincer- things, so you can't tell which way they're facing. They're very disconcerting.

― zowee!, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Eeeek! At what screen resolution would that be life size, because on 600x400 that looking TERRIFYING.

― kate, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Centipede display is at 800 by 600.

― nabisco, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

nabisco are you sure that's not a SILVERFISH you saw? i see those in my place pretty regularly but they don't try to get at the food and generally they vanish as quickly as they appear so I don't really care too much. (btw Emma B has just learned the word "cockroach" and is now applying it to every crawly thing she doesn't like)

― Tracer hand, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Nabisco: you're right, I would NEVAH drink a huge centipede. But, see, now you've represented it it's not so hypothetical (ie if I thought huge centipedes/silverfish made of slashes, v's and pluses were running around my cupboards I'd rinse glasses first too).

― Ellie, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't forget that end bracket at the tail.

Tracer: I thought so too, but they're proper centipedes. I grew up with New Mexico and southern Colorado centipedes, which are the fat glossy jungle variety, so I was hesitant to believe that these spindly bent-legged things could be "centipedes" as well. But the exterminator says so, and my Webster's even has a picture of one of them under "centipede."

― nabisco, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I only have six glasses and they stack so I have two rightside-up stacks of three. If I had more glasses I would have them upside-down on frequently changed paper towel or tea towel. My cups hang on cup hooks and so they are diagonal side up and protected from falling creepy-crawlies by the the shelf under which they are hanging.

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

NB really my apartment is quite lovely, apart from the bits I've ceded to roommate. I don't live in a crack house or anything, it's just that every so often you catch a centipede going up the wall.

― nabisco, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Toraneko: creepy-crawlies can creepy-crawl along the underside of the shelf! If you give them an inch they will take a mile!

― nabisco, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

you shouldn't stack glasses as glass is a liquid and they will get stuck and tyhen when you unstack them one or all will break

some creepycrawlies FLY and others use MAGICAL SILKEN ROPES which they produce from their arachnoid butt

― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

just a took another look in the cupboard...the cups are the rightside up and the glasses are upside down! I think this is the correct way to store.

Now, I think we should move on to Saucepan's.

― jel --, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

lids?

― RJG, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

right side up!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 17 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

right side up, but i always give my dishes a once-over in the sink before using them.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 May 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

upside down.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 May 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

on the living room carpet

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 17 May 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you could leave them in the dishwasher. I don't have one so I'm just dreamin', of course.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Upside down.

We lined the shelves a couple of years back so we don't have much to worry about re: dirty shelves, but we do sometimes experience a bit of a spider problem, and storing the glasses upside down is just what's always been done.

― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

upside-down cause the cupboard is like their batcave and shit.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Right-side-up crew reprazent! My housemate and I have never discussed it, it's just what we do.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:12 (twenty-one years ago)

upside down

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

even wine goblets go right-side-up? anything with a stem should be upside-down cause you're less likely to drop it when plucking.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oops i'm imagining your house as some kind of valhallan feasting chamber

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't wear glasses and if i did i wouldn't keep them in the cupboard.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Everyday use glasses/tumblers/pint pots go upside down in the cupboard. Anything half decent, particularly if it's somewhere on display (e.g. glass cabinet) should be right way up. Don't stack glasses inside other glasses.

I have no idea why but those are the house rules.

Never rest crystal glasses on the rim unless it's just to dry and even then put a towel under them to prevent chipping.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternate -- it saves space.

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

With tapered glasses anyway.

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Upside down if not used often...I even put my crystal upside down but I do it very carefully so as not to damage the glassware.

― Gale (gale2g2004@gosympatico.ca), Thursday, 1 July 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago)

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