When we get together with friends and are using plastic cups, I am The Keeper of the Sharpie Marker. Everybody knows that I am ALL about writing the names on the cups so people don't waste extra cups because they can't tell whose is whose.

I even made wine glass charms to use when we go to my mom's house since we usually drink out of stemmed glasses there.

But ALAS, on Thanksgiving we faced another challenge - she used just regular drinking glasses. Couldn't use a Sharpie, couldn't use the glass charms. What to do?

Well we tried the strategic glass placement method, but that's not really reliable. A lot of glasses end up getting moved around and dumped out. Very wasteful.

Today though, I feel like I've seen the light. Dell had a great suggestion on her Taming the Chaos entry on the HomeschoolBlogger Company Porch. Simply use colored rubber bands to mark the glasses! Isn't that a great idea?! Totally simple, but the thought had never occurred to me.

Don't you just love it when you learn something new like that? Everybody better watch out - I'm going to buy some colored rubberbands and then I'll be The Keeper of the Sharpie AND the Rubberbands!