Every mug up there is somewhere you went. Go on, point at one. Can you say when, or who you were with? Thought not. That is what this is for.

Early version

This is a prototype. It works, but it is rough in places, the mug list has gaps, and market prices are not in yet. You are seeing it early on purpose.

Why this exists

Naples, middle of summer, this afternoon. Four and a half miles on foot in the heat, dripping with sweat, my wife asking me somewhere around mile three why on earth we collect these things.

Got there. Bought the Naples mug. There was an Italia one sat next to it. I stood there trying to picture our shelf at home, decided we already had that one, and left it.

Back on the ship, my kids told me we haven't got it. So it is gone now, unless I pay three times the price online. After four and a half miles. And it is not the first time.

That is the whole problem. Not that I forget what is on the shelf — that I could not check while stood in the shop with the thing in my hand. Every app I tried wanted me sat at the kitchen table. Nobody built the one you need at the till.

Nobody else wanted to go. She had wanted the luxury trip along the Amalfi coast, which we had done before. The kids wanted another day round the pool. I wanted to bring another memory home instead — the sort that pays you back on a wet Wednesday in February, working at the kitchen table, when the cup in your hand is Naples in the middle of summer.

They all love them once they are home, mind. Family and friends round, you put the coffee on, somebody turns their mug over and asks where that one is from. Twenty minutes later everyone is talking about their holidays. That is what these are actually for. Not the shelf. The conversation.

So this is the thing that keeps the story attached to the mug, instead of leaving it to memory. Because today is going to be one of them.

So this is me building the one I wanted. It works offline, so it works in the shop. It is early, the list has holes in it and the prices are not in yet. If you collect these too, tell me what is wrong with it and I will actually fix it.

Simon

What this is

A place to keep your mug collection, and the trips that came with it

Tick off what you own, see how much of the world you have covered, and write down who you were with. That is the whole thing.

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Tick what you own

Open My mugs, search a city or open a region, and tap the ones on your shelf. Tap twice if you have a spare. If yours is not listed, add it.

2

Watch the map fill in

Where lights up every country you have brought one home from. It is usually a smaller number than people expect, and a lot more satisfying to grow.

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Write down the trip

Stories is for the date, who you were with, and what you remember. Takes a minute per mug. In ten years it is the part you will be glad you did.

Things worth knowing

Your collection is yours

No account needed to use it — everything saves straight to this browser. Which also means clearing your browser would wipe it, so there is a Log in tab at the end of the menu where you can either make it follow you across devices, or just back it up to a file.

Not sure which series you have?

There are eight of them and they are deliberately similar. Which one? at the end of the menu tells you how to spot the difference in about thirty seconds.

Which one is this

Eight series, and most people have been calling theirs the wrong thing for years

No shame in it, they are deliberately similar. Pick one up, look at the base, then feel how thick the wall is. Thirty seconds and you will know exactly what is sat on your shelf.

Help us get this right

This grouping is put together from public collector knowledge, and collectors know it better than we do. Some series overlap, some regions got their own runs, and a few never went on general sale at all. If something here is wrong, say so and it gets fixed.

What you own

Collected0
Spares0
Need0

0 of 0

Search for a city you have been to, or open a region below. Tap a row once for collected, twice if you have a spare. Tap the star on any you still need.

Own one that is not on the list?

Add yours and it goes straight into your collection, counts on every screen, and travels in your backup. It gets sent over here too, so the master list gets better for the next person.

Something here look wrong?

Wrong series, wrong country, a mug listed that was never made, a name spelt badly. The list is put together from public collector records and it will have mistakes in it. You know these better than we do.

Where you have been

Of the world
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Countries0 / 195
Continents0 / 7
Mugs0
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Not everywhere you have been. Everywhere you cared enough to carry something home from. The number always comes out smaller than people guess, which is half the fun of watching it climb.

What it is worth

What you have spent on this shelf
£0

Add what you paid below and this fills in. It is your own figure, so it is the one number here we can stand behind today.

Market value is not here yet

And no made-up one either, which is the easy option and the wrong one. Real prices are coming, built from what collectors actually paid rather than what hopeful sellers are asking.

Each one will show its working: how many sales it came from, over what period. Too few sales to be sure and it will say so instead of guessing.

What you paid

The story behind each one

Who you were with, and what you remember

Somebody picks up a mug, turns it over, and asks where that one is from. This is the screen that means you can actually answer. The heat, the walk, who moaned, who paid. Write it while you still have it — everything lands below, ready for the next time somebody asks.

Why it is worth the minute

What you write here is not just sat in an app. The month, the who and the memory are the three things a shelf cannot hold — and they are what turns a collection into something you can actually hand to somebody.

A printed book of your collection. A map of every trip. Both of those are built from exactly this, and neither can be made up afterwards. That is why the date and the who have their own boxes.

None of it exists yet and I am not taking money for any of it. But the ones you write down today are the ones that will be in it. The ones you do not are gone.

Your account

Open your collection on any phone

Right now your collection lives in this browser only. Add an email and a password and it follows you — same ticks, same notes, same want list, on any phone or laptop you log into. Nothing is shared with anyone.

Forgot your password?

By creating an account you agree to the privacy policy and terms. Your email is used to sign you in and to contact you about your account — nothing else, and no marketing unless you ask for it. You must be 13 or over.

No account? Back it up instead

Without an account everything is saved in this browser and nowhere else. Clear your history or change phone and it is gone. Back it up and it never can be — the same file loads straight back in.

Why we keep you signed in

So the app works where you need it — stood in a shop, holding a mug, deciding. Being asked for a password at the till defeats the entire point of it.

Staying signed in stores a token in your browser. That is the only thing we keep on your device, it is not used to follow you anywhere else, and Log out above clears it whenever you want.

Delete my account and everything in it

Your collection, your notes, your want list, your email address. All of it, gone, and not recoverable.

Email hello@collectmytrip.com from the address you signed up with, asking us to delete your account. It is done within 30 days and usually within a few. You get a note back confirming it, and you do not have to give a reason.

A one-tap button is being built. Until it exists the email route is the real one, and it works.

Want a copy first? Ask in the same email, or use Back up my collection above — that file is yours and it is complete.

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