Just Coffee Mugs

I have always LOVED coffee mugs!

I do have two coffee mug anecdotes that I'm going to relate, but I liked coffee mugs BEFORE the earlier one of these took place.

My husband used to be in Canada's Armed Forces. (Before I met him he was in the Navy.) He joined the Army when we finished high school (yes, we were high school sweethearts!) and we moved around a bit.

When we lived on Prince Edward Island, I joined a Newcomers Club (which is a great organization, I might add, and I belong to the Truro and Area one here!) The Newcomers Club in Summerside had quite a nice mix of ladies. We got together for all kinds of things; crafts, Moms and Tots, cards or board games, and we did alot of social things in the evenings and on weekends with our husbands AND we had a coffee group.

Shortly before Barry and I were posted to Germany, I went to morning coffee. All the other ladies had the MOST beautiful coffee mugs. I was so impressed and Elaine gave me a nice mug from her cupboard to drink my coffee out of. I was admiring all her nice mugs, when the coffee group was finished. All the ladies turned their mugs upside down, wrote their names on the bottoms and presented them to me! They were my going away gift! I was SO impressed!!

Two postings later, Barry and I were posted back to Canada and, while he was in the former Yugoslavia, the two kids and I moved to Calgary. Assuming my furniture would arrive from Summerside, where it had been in storage, within 5 days, I invited my mom and dad to come out to Calgary and visit with us for a couple of weeks - to keep us company until Barry got there. WELL. The furniture from Summerside did NOT arrive within 5 days and Mom and Dad, Nathan, Kimberly and I spent a week and a half in a VERY empty house. (How does this relate to coffee mugs? I'm getting there!) Our furniture came from Summerside and within a day we had everything organized, all the dishes washed and everything looked good. EXCEPT we had no dining room furniture... 4 days after that all our furniture came from Germany where we had been living for 5 years. We now had two of everything except for the piano, the masterbedroom set, and the dining room furniture. The house was suddenly VERY full. One might even say TOO FULL.

Mom and Dad thought I should have a yard sale. This was early September, by the way. We advertised, we marked prices on things and we filled the two car garage with stuff. The day came. It SNOWED! The yard sale happened. I SOLD 87 coffee mugs. I still had more than 30 in the house. Did I mention that I like coffee mugs?

When I bought the house in Calgary, the Real Estate agent gave me a house warming gift. She gave me 4 coffee mugs!

:-)
P.S. I had had a yard sale in Summerside when I moved there and it snowed. I had a yard sale in May in Calgary when we were getting ready to move away and it snowed AGAIN. I now longer have yard sales. At all. I just take the stuff to the Salvation Army or Rotary House. Bad weather can be their fault - but not mine any more!
J