Third type: No cupboard

4th type .. cupboard empty. Everything on the counters! ADHD ftw!!!

How did you get a picture of my cupboard on the left?!?

What if you have one of each?

Everything on the counters dirty

Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?

And always drinking directly out of the bottle

Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.

I'm both.

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In no uncertain terms: how dangerous are you?

I have extensive knowledge of state forests

The builder of my house is one of those nationwide homebuilders. I don’t trust the workmanship enough to fill the cupboards with breakable plates and glasses.

This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.

my glasses match but my mugs don't

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. 😬

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

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!

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.

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.

Not enough mugs tbh

My mugs are taking over. I've started having to take some out of circulation and store them elsewhere.

Person with only 12 cups vs person with 32 cups?

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.

Is that a special case of state spaces?

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 45° 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.

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 45° 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. 😮‍💨

Or drinking directly out of the cabinet?

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.

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.

Art imitates life?

I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.

I always find it odd that people use a new towel every day but don't change their bed sheets every day.

Ah, my old roommate is in the chat

top shelf: ?, guinness
middle shelf: amstel, stella, sam adams, fosters

There's a reason I don't want glass fronts on my cabinets.

There are dozens of us

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

Came here to say this. It’s homey though.

Go to big lots, buy sets. No more thinking. If get fun mugs, they live up high. Da end

Anything with logos or designs is for display, not actual use. Those sorts of things are rarely ever dishwasher safe, and even if they say they are the colors and designs fade away into a sad reminder of what once was after a year or two.

Having different sizes can be really annoying. For loading the dishwasher, putting them away, putting things in your car's cupholder or on a coaster. It's really nice to not need to think about.

Break a random generic clear glass? No worries- we have a spare pack stored away and can just pull another out. Break the souvenir glass from that vacation 5 years ago? Good luck trying to track down another one!

Want to consistently measure things without having the hassle of actually breaking out measuring cups? It's really easy when the container is always the same. I have two cups of coffee every day, each with the same amount of milk (probably 2-3 tablespoons but I haven't measured). It's even better for mixing alcoholic drinks consistently. Having to deal with all kinds of crazy shapes and sizes, even colors, can influence how you pour things.

Also my kitchen is not a fucking advertising platform. Get those disgusting corporate logos the fuck out of my house.

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

Type 3

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.

The right side is when you first get a place and start with nothing, the left side is after living there for years.

There was once a time where standard was a thing. Living in a country using metric, if a recipe said a coffee cup I could use any coffee I, or my neighbour had, and have the exact mesurement. Then came cheap non-standard cup from China, then US-standard size of stuff no absolutely no reason. Now, I have to mesure my pillow before buying pillowcases because I can't be use either the pillow or the case are following any standard from around the world.

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...

The biggest problem with a standard is competing standards.

That being said, having different shapes makes it harder to measure things by eye. Even if all of your cups are the same volume, if they are different shapes that makes it harder to measure things consistently by eye. So I might make the same amount of coffee every day, using my carafe to measure the water and a scoop to measure the grounds, but unless I whip out measuring spoons for the milk I'm relying on a consistent container for that piece.

Unless you're 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?