A confession

You've got a cupboard full of these too, haven't you.

Empty Gü pots. Too nice to bin, no actual job to do, quietly multiplying at the back of a cupboard until there are, inexplicably, nine of them. If that sentence landed a bit too close to home, welcome. You're not alone, and it's not even a niche habit.

This isn't just us saying it

It's a real, named habit.

  • Ideal Home, a major UK publication, has run its own piece on reusing "hoarded" Gü pots. National press, independently, without any prompting from us.
  • Our own order book spikes every January to March, like clockwork, every year since 2021: something to do with a certain kind of new-year cupboard clear-out.
  • ~27,000 people follow @puddingpotlids on Instagram, for a single-product brand about pudding pot lids. That's not nothing.
The whole idea, in one line

You were always going to keep the pot. Might as well make it useful.

That's genuinely it. Not a sustainability lecture, not a design manifesto, just the obvious fix for a habit almost every British household already has, whether they'd admit it or not.

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