I'm sitting at the kitchen table contemplating my coffee cup. I don't specifically remember what it used to say but I can make out a very faded I and A from the word MICHIGAN. It used to have a blue M on it and I think it said GO BLUE.

I think it also used to say Red Lobster or some other restaurant on it at one time...

The thing looks like it's been sitting in a smokehouse. Wierd coffee stains all over it. Some areas look like it's been sandpapered. The stains suggest the cup's cracked but it always comes out of the dishwasher whole. The part I sip on is dark brown. The part of the handle where my left thumb invariably rests when I pick it up is extremely worn.

I've been drinking out of this cup for over 30 years. 2 countries, 5 states, 4 houses, a college dorm room, several apartments...

Should I give in to my wife's disgusting scowl and retire it?

Or should I keep drinking it until the MICHIGAN WOLVERINES WIN ANOTHER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

Is it another college football Saturday or what?

Tom

A good coffee cup is hard to find ! I broke my favorite one a while back and I miss it every morning .

I wouldn't give it up without a fight, lol. Try soaking it in Cascade for a day or so it may make the mug a little bit more presentable .

Keep it! It's part of you!

I tend to use the same coffee cup every day. I have a cupboard full of them but only use the one. Maybe I should try rotating them so I don't grab the same one everyday.

Come to think of it....even when it's not the "next one up" in the cupboard I look for it, wash it, and use it again!

No way! Keep it, it's part of your soul, like a great pair of leather shoes, it just fits.

I agree with J., a little spa time with some bleached water will give it another decade or more.

I have two stainless mugs that are identical and I've been using them since 1998, life would never be the same without them.


Oh, and yeah, Tom, I'm the one with the weird ideas.

Mr Clean MAgic Erasers will take off even the darkest coffee stains.

I vote to hang onto an old friend. It sounds like the day may come that it wont be there, and you will have treasured memories.

Tell the wife when company is over you will use a better mug, but till then, its a mug full of memories that you cant bear to part with.

My DH bought me a cup for my 40th birthday. that says, "It's my 29th birthday and I'll cry if I want to"

It has a colorful burning cake with candles and confetti flying all over it....and I've been slurping all of my drinks out of it ever since...29 yrs.......Hey, it the cup's 29th birthday..

I hand wash it every day....it has not faded or stained, although the bottom of it gets pretty discusting at times..

If this is a poll...I say, ""Have it buried with you"!!!!!!

Um....you have to keep it until we are in the National Champ game. Then tell her you will get a new one.

Or you could say honey I'll keep it until your buckeyes can beat USC, or beat a #5 top ranked team or better or until OSU wins a national championship. All of those might take longer than Michigan winning a national champ game.

Go Blue!

Sounds like you have had that cup longer than you have had that wife.... Therefor the cup wins.

Kind of like me and my collection of high heeled shoes I cannot bear to part with even though I cannot wear them anymore.

Hubby to be realizes I have had those shoes longer than I have had him and it is mandatory that we pack them up every time we move.

I use a stainless travel mug every day, so it keeps my coffee good and hot, but I used to use a Denny's mug that had a smiling face on the front of it that changed from a frown to a smile when you poured hot coffee in.

I can also remember going to my Gram's house and always using the same glass from her cupboard.

I would get real touchy if someone else used "my" glass, so when she passed away, while everyone was snatching up their so called must haves; I took my glass and it's in my curio cabinet in it's place of honor.

I say keep your treasured cup, Tom. OR, put it in the curio cabinet in it's own ''place of honor".

Tom here is another one for you, just in case.