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Which absolute psychopath has the one on the right?

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!!!

Por que no los dos?

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.

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

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'm both and I think most people are both, having several of some and also random ones.

my glasses match but my mugs don't

Third type: No cupboard

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.

Why not both, exactly like in the picture?

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.

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

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

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.

What if you have one of each?

Left bottom shelve here too. How do right shelvers even do anything while keeping the whole thing neat???

Person with only 12 cups vs person with 32 cups?

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'm both.