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.
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 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.
Yes! Absolutely the same for me. I also have ADHD and when living alone I had only one type of everything. Since my now wife and me live together, this it not the case anymore and, if I'm being honest, it sometimes stresses me out. It leads to so much distraction for me, that it makes cleaning and tidying up even harder for me than it already is.
I want things to be orderly because walking into a chaotic place is mentally stressing for me. I feel overwhelmed by things in the way, I am stressed when trying to find things, and I feel like all the things left out are just more things that need to be done when I already have a lot of things to do. This overstimulation causes my brain to just short circuit and shutdown.....
For me I respond to stress with object blindness. If I can't immediately fix something my mind Will literally redact it away to the point that inconveniently places boxes on the floor will be stepped over for weeks until I eventually trip on it and it becomes relevant again.
Absolutely the same. I grew up in a messy and unregulated environment and the first coping skill I learned was object blindness. If it causes distress and I can't fix it immediately, my mind simply refuses to acknowledge it from that point on which is a point of contention in the house because it leads to me simply ignoring a lot of things.
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.
My parents and my partner’s 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.
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"?
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
Yeah honestly. My kitchen looks exactly like this. I have all the same glasses and my cups are a wild mess, together with a bunch of random glasses i collected over the years
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 just kinda accumulated pints and whiskey glasses and one day I realized I have no "regular" glassware. Then my girlfriend moved in with like 30 mismatched mugs and we are now almost exactly left cabinet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have one super small section that looks like the left, everything else looks like the right.
It’s only like a single 12x12 space in one cabinet, but this post is making me awkwardly uncomfortable about it. And it’s 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I have one cabinet with matching sets of wine glasses, tumblers, Collins, 4 martinis. Also all the matching sets of dansk plates, bowls etc.
Then theres another on the other side with all the mismatched glasses, branded pints, plastic cups, kids cup Disney jam jar cups, etc, and random plates and bowls and stuff.
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!
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.
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.
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.
I've got a bunch of pint glasses from local breweries, and they hold up just fine to the dishwasher. Nice thing is if I DO break one, it's an excuse to go back to the brewery and get another.
Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?
Only IKEA and Pottery Barn photographers I think.
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 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...
Not always, but frequently. Depending on how sticky I get.
Pretty common practice in places that are humid or close to the equator.
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.
Yes! Absolutely the same for me. I also have ADHD and when living alone I had only one type of everything. Since my now wife and me live together, this it not the case anymore and, if I'm being honest, it sometimes stresses me out. It leads to so much distraction for me, that it makes cleaning and tidying up even harder for me than it already is.
100% this is my struggle.
I want things to be orderly because walking into a chaotic place is mentally stressing for me. I feel overwhelmed by things in the way, I am stressed when trying to find things, and I feel like all the things left out are just more things that need to be done when I already have a lot of things to do. This overstimulation causes my brain to just short circuit and shutdown.....
For me I respond to stress with object blindness. If I can't immediately fix something my mind Will literally redact it away to the point that inconveniently places boxes on the floor will be stepped over for weeks until I eventually trip on it and it becomes relevant again.
Absolutely the same. I grew up in a messy and unregulated environment and the first coping skill I learned was object blindness. If it causes distress and I can't fix it immediately, my mind simply refuses to acknowledge it from that point on which is a point of contention in the house because it leads to me simply ignoring a lot of things.
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.
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In no uncertain terms: how dangerous are you?
I have extensive knowledge of state forests
Is that a special case of state spaces?
It's worse than I imagined.
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
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 ca—
I'm just messing with you lmfao
Go to big lots, buy sets. No more thinking. If get fun mugs, they live up high. Da end
Big Lots went out of business 😞
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
My parents and my partner’s 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.
Someone who just moved out on their own and can afford new kitchen items
me
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"?
This just looks like my shelves. One side has the store bought glasses; the other has all the novelty/gas station refillable cups.
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!
Ah, my old roommate is in the chat
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...
The dishwasher never fills up as quickly as when you've finally worked up the motivation to properly empty it.
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
Por que no los dos?
Yeah honestly. My kitchen looks exactly like this. I have all the same glasses and my cups are a wild mess, together with a bunch of random glasses i collected over the years
Same. The matching fancy side collects dust. The silly side gets used til things break.
For me too . One cabinet with fancy glassware and one cabinet with a wild collection of everything.
yeah sometimes the cabinet layout makes sense to have them opening both to the left and to the right
Normal human and hotel
I want to be the one on the right, but my wife and kids say I have to be the one on the left.
Came here to say this. It’s homey though.
Having diverse cups/mugs makes it easier to tell whose is whose when company comes over.
"when company comes over" look at you and your sociable characteristics.
we don't do that here. we don't have "company" "over" 🤣
Unless you're 8 feet tall most cupboards are like this, no?
You forgot the cup hooks underneath, and the large drinking steins/tankards/catfood on top
Other way around. The nice sets on top, the regularly used collection of oddities below.
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 just kinda accumulated pints and whiskey glasses and one day I realized I have no "regular" glassware. Then my girlfriend moved in with like 30 mismatched mugs and we are now almost exactly left cabinet.
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.
my glasses match but my mugs don't
Third type: No cupboard
And always drinking directly out of the bottle
DRANKIN OUT THE BOTTLE
MOTHAFUCK A CUP
IMMA POUR IT IN YA MOUTH
LEAN BACK, OPEN UP
(Oooo)
Or drinking directly out of the cabinet?
I was not made to have matching sets of anything.
Am I the only person who puts glasses in the cabinet upside down?
Also: left side, but flipped.
I enjoy my water with extra dust
I put them in an alternating pattern, they take less space that way
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.
Why not both, exactly like in the picture?
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.
Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???
They don't actually use most of them.
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.
Art imitates life?
Person with only 12 cups vs person with 32 cups?
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.
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.
Bita both ey?
I'm both.
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.
Type 3
i’m both - dishes I use on the right the ones I don’t on the left
I have one super small section that looks like the left, everything else looks like the right.
It’s only like a single 12x12 space in one cabinet, but this post is making me awkwardly uncomfortable about it. And it’s 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.
Own home on the left, air bnb on the right.
The one on the left, because I have friends and when they visit they also expect to drink from a glass.
There’s a trend to arrange everything like a sculptures in the louvre. It’s a cupboard, and it has doors for a reason.
This does not spark joy.
I'm a little from column A and a little from column B.
How did you get a picture of my cupboard on the left?!?
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.
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. 😬
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. 😮💨
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 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.
I am left bottom shelf, right mid and top.
I have one cabinet with matching sets of wine glasses, tumblers, Collins, 4 martinis. Also all the matching sets of dansk plates, bowls etc.
Then theres another on the other side with all the mismatched glasses, branded pints, plastic cups, kids cup Disney jam jar cups, etc, and random plates and bowls and stuff.
There's a reason I don't want glass fronts on my cabinets.
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?
Absolutely. It isn't true chaos. There is a hierarchy of the mugs that cannot be denied.
But do you ever use any of them to get Travis tea?
...and everything in between
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!
cabinet door opens to the left, so I can reach in with my right hand
That's not nearly enough coffee cups.
Just can't see how deep the cabinet is
top shelf: ?, guinness middle shelf: amstel, stella, sam adams, fosters
I like glass mugs and they can come with designs as well
Not enough mugs tbh
My mugs are taking over. I've started having to take some out of circulation and store them elsewhere.
The unusable cabinet that commonly lives above refrigerators is the ideal purgatory for lesser mugs.
That's exactly where they are!
I am on the right, the wife and kid are on the left.
@The_Picard_Maneuver just one more cup...
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.
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.
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.
I've got a bunch of pint glasses from local breweries, and they hold up just fine to the dishwasher. Nice thing is if I DO break one, it's an excuse to go back to the brewery and get another.
There are only two options. What would be a third?
Two glasses, both of which are in the kitchen sink.
Uh. We have both of these. The home cupboard and the guest cupboard.