Price Points: Travel mugs

Travel mugs | H is for Home

Up until a couple of weeks before lock-down, we’d been making regular trips between Mid-Wales and Northern England. We were taking stock to our antique centre space in Hebden Bridge and returning a couple of days later with a carload of household items from storage. Moving house has been taking us quite a while!

We tend to stop for a break half-way, which often includes coffee and a pastry. If we’re supplying our own coffee, then we’ve taken to making it there on the spot – using a flask of boiling water and one of those instant cappuccino or flat white sachets. We much prefer it to coffee that was made a few hours in advance and kept warm in a flask. It doesn’t have that distinctive ‘plastic-y’ taste…. and those tiny flask cups aren’t great either. We brew ours in decent sized travel mugs. There’s none of that unpleasant after-taste – they’re more robust and the coffee stays warmer for longer.

They come in a variety of sizes and materials to suit your requirements. Here are three examples that caught our eye.

  1. New Bone China travel mugs: £8.78 each, Wayfair
  2. Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml: £15.00, Argos
  3. Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown: £35.00, John Lewis

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Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
£35.00
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
£15.00
New Bone China travel mugs
New Bone China travel mugs
£8.78 each
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
£35.00
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
£15.00
New Bone China travel mugs
New Bone China travel mugs
£8.78 each
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
£35.00
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
£15.00
New Bone China travel mugs
New Bone China travel mugs
£8.78 each
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
£35.00
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
£15.00
New Bone China travel mugs
New Bone China travel mugs
£8.78 each
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown
£35.00
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml
£15.00
New Bone China travel mugs
New Bone China travel mugs
£8.78 each

Gimme Five! Mugs

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selection of 5 ceramic mugs

We’ve been doing our thrice daily dog walks in some pretty atrocious weather of late. The kettle goes on straight away when we walk through the door! A choice of nice mugs can only enhance that reviving hot brew.

Here are a few lovely examples that caught our eye in a quick trawl of the web’s offerings.

  1. Periodic table of elements ceramic mug: £9.95, Amazon
  2. Orla Kiely bird mug: £9, John Lewis
  3. Apple mug, large: £16, Scandinavian Design Center
  4. Hold Tight bone china mug – mustard: £8, Mini Moderns
  5. Fishs Eddy Painted Bunting bird mug: £13.95, Liberty

Charity Vintage: Hornsea mug collection

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vintage Hornsea mug collection(ends 1 Dec, 2013 20:04:48 GMT)

At the moment we have 1,300 images uploaded to our Flickr photo stream. Currently holding at #6 in popularity is our photo of a Hornsea mug collection.

When we saw this collection of Hornsea mugs being sold by and in support of British Heart Foundation* we knew we had to share it with you. The lot is currently at £68, which we think is still a very good price for 8 mugs. There isn’t much time left to bid – just over a day – so if you’re interested you’d better hop to it!

*British Heart Foundation is the nation’s heart charity. They help save lives with information, patient care and pioneering research. With your support, they’re beating heart disease for good.