Wine tasting stem charms/name tags - annoying or useful?

[Chris_Blum]

I hate charms that clang around when i drink

[Victor_Hong]

@Chris Blum

I hate charms that clang around when i drink

Precisely. However, it can serve usefully like a cowbell, as a signal for approaching drunks.

[Mike_Heyse]

@mike pobega

So these could work, right?

That would be fantastic… I do have a 2 year old daughter, and it would certainly get a laugh from this bunch!

[Chad_Richardson]

Skip the charms, go with the sharpie.

Not always practical unless you have the right number of people, but my wife bought me a dozen red wine stems, each etched with a number from 1 thru 12. Give each person their own numbered glass as they arrive, and you’re set. While they are not Riedel or other super-high quality, they are nicely weighted with appropriately sized bowls and a proper thickness of glass. Any guesses on who always gets #1??

[Mike_Heyse]

@Chad Richardson

Skip the charms, go with the sharpie.

Not always practical unless you have the right number of people, but my wife bought me a dozen red wine stems, each etched with a number from 1 thru 12. Give each person their own numbered glass as they arrive, and you’re set. While they are not Riedel or other super-high quality, they are nicely weighted with appropriately sized bowls and a proper thickness of glass. Any guesses on who always gets #1??

Nice! Just don’t step on #2

[Scott_Butler]

So, people above mentioned they can never remember what charm they have, but they can remember what number is written on their glass?

I was assuming that the sharpie group were writing their names on their glasses.

[Chad_Richardson]

@Scott Butler

So, people above mentioned they can never remember what charm they have, but they can remember what number is written on their glass?

I was assuming that the sharpie group were writing their names on their glasses.

You make a good point. I’m a numbers guy, so I’ve always been more apt to remember your phone number than your name. Plus, a lot of the charms are so blasted small, I can’t always tell them apart.
For the etched numbered glasses, I think they’ve usually worked for us because nearly everyone has some comment on the number they get (“oh good, number 11 will still look the same after I’m upside down”, “so number 3 means I only have to kill two of you to reach the top”, etc). But using the sharpie method, I’d assume names, cartoon animals or whatever would cause a person to readily identify their own glass.

[Misha_Heaton]

I just bought a set of these (the different toast ones) Seefred - as they seem “distinctive” yet won’t clank around.

[Scott_Butler]

@Chad Richardson

@Scott Butler

So, people above mentioned they can never remember what charm they have, but they can remember what number is written on their glass?

I was assuming that the sharpie group were writing their names on their glasses.

You make a good point. I’m a numbers guy, so I’ve always been more apt to remember your phone number than your name. Plus, a lot of the charms are so blasted small, I can’t always tell them apart.

Yeh, and I am a visual guy, so I guess I’d remember the object more than the number - though I’d remember a number over a name (I suck with names). Hey, whatever works, right?

[craig_v]

My personal “charms” are small colored rubber bands. Works great and my glasses always stand out from everyone elses.

[Gordon_Fitz]

The charms seem to be remembered by more guest. Except for those for whom you can tell everything they have eaten in the past hour from the crude hanging from their wine glases. Nobody touches those glases by accident! Who taught these people that napkins ae only for the finger!