I have taken to choosing mugs as my “wow, I like this graphic \/ want to remember this place \/ want to show of my fanboyishness about this book \/ movie \/ TV show” icon of choice. Used to be t-shirts, but they have two big problems. (1) It’s way too easy to get too many t-shirts (just glance in my closet some time, please don’t), and (2) t-shirts, if you wear them, wear out. Then you have to get rid of them, which is sorrowful, or they go into the gardening \/ knock-around t-shirt drawer, which also quickly spirals into “old man living alone found crushed under pile of old t-shirts” proportions.<\/p>\n
So I’ve changed to mugs, since they usually don’t fade much, they are useful, you can put them into peoples’ hands (or let them search through themselves), they don’t take up much space, and are generally much more durable (Jackie’s chortling maniacally right now).<\/p>\n
We have a lot of mugs in the basement, but here’s what we have up in the kitchen cabinet at the moment. Consider this one of those personal “surveys of stuff” that either reveals all sorts of stuff about Margie and my psyche, or else is utterly boring and you should go on to the next post.<\/p>\n
Or, maybe, I should make this one of those “meme” thangs — Besides the stock coffee cups in your dinnerware, what sort of coffee mugs do you have sitting around your house?<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *Yes, Colorado\/Denver and California\/LA mugs are pretty standard gifts-from-Dave’s-business-trips items.<\/p>\n <\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have taken to choosing mugs as my “wow, I like this graphic \/ want to remember this place \/ want to show of my fanboyishness about this book \/ movie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[722,263,38,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffee","category-disney","category-food-drink","category-personality-tests"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/some-sf-abcs.html","url_meta":{"origin":12696,"position":0},"title":"Some SF ABCs","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Mar-14 6:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, I'd wear t-shirts with some of these. \u00a0Or maybe a set of 26 coffee mugs ...(h\/t +Yonatan Zunger)Reshared post from +Mara MascaroAbcdefgeekBy Otis Framptonhttp:\/\/otis-frampton.squarespace.com\/abcdefgeek\/\ufeffIn album 2014-03-04 View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-Is-For-Ackbar-low-res-square.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13562,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/14\/b5_quote_swag.html","url_meta":{"origin":12696,"position":1},"title":"B5 Quote Swag","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Nov-08 11:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"I definitely think there are some things here for my Christmas list. 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