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Rating:yay no more fighting :)By Jade Docking on 7/10/2014 10:25:54 AM

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Omgosh where do I start I love these cups my kids love these cups! My children love the fact their names are on bright colours so my 2 youngest that can't read well can find their cups so easy. There is no more arguing over who's cup is who's and less dishes because instead of a new cup every time my children stick to their own colour cup. I highly recommend these cups easy to clean very versatile simply a amazing idea. I have recommended my colour to my family and friends my children always show them off swell another thing about my colour cups is my children feel so special and independent because they have their own things in the kitchen. I love my colour cup!

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Love these cups!!By kym coleman on 26/09/2014 1:16:37 PM

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wow! didn't think I could fall in love so much with a simple cup! fantastic but simple idea. my kids no longer fight over whos cup is whos and are happy to reuse their cups over and over instead of just getting a new cup from the cupboard, yay less dishes for me. easy to see at a glance who has left their cup lying around instead of taking it up to the sink. now all I need are plates, bowls and cutlery with names on them!!!

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Great!!By Louise Smith on 18/09/2014 1:26:11 PM

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No more of my kids fighting over whose cups is whose!! 
We love them. Good size, They even fit a whole can in them, perfect for hubby.
Great sturdy, see through design.
I love the assigned colours, I can see them, for when Im not wearing my glasses lol.

• Size, colours, versatile
• the black ring gets caught on the join in the label when turning

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The best cup ever.By Fiona on 11/09/2014 10:06:14 PM

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These cups are absolutely wonderful they are a great size for both adults and kids.
they have solved many an argument over who cup is who between my kids. The colour on the name disc are great and the plastic is very durable. They have also cut back on washing up as each child has been allocated there own cup for the whole day.

• The bright attractive colours for the names
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Incredible conceptBy Melanie de la Garde on 10/09/2014 6:48:58 PM

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As soon as these cups arrived my kids were begging to use them.

With a cup each there was no fighting at meal time... amazing.

They washed up really well in the dishwasher and my concerns about the labels coming unstuck was unwarranted.

The idea that you can swap the names on each cup meant there was no reason for someone to complain someone had their cup and even us adults used them in the evenings as they were so easy to use.

A great size, universal main colour and dishwasher safe, means ease of use for my family, without all the arguments and odd mismatched cups cluttering my cupboards.

• Professional, great quality, easy to use.
• More colour choice for the cup labels.

Watch the MyColourCup Grow with QVC

Twistid is an official QVC vendor and currently at the sprout level, selling the My Colour Cup on QVC website.  They have the potential of growing to a Fruit Bearing QVC product and selling their cups on the air.

QVC stands for:

Quality

Value 

Convenience

QVC lives up to their name.  The MyColourCup went through the QVC QA process.  All aspects of the product were scrutinized with requirements for packaging, shipping, and product quality. The cups now have the qualification as being DISHWASHER SAFE and USDA approved.  They passed the final inspection at QVC headquarters in West Chester PA,  and won the right to sell on the QVC web site.

Check them out at:  http://www.qvc.com/Set-of-Four-My-Color-Cup-Twist-Id-Customizable-Plastic-Cups.product.L39782.html

with shipping only $5.72 to US homes

DESIGN YOUR CUP

 GIVEAWAY

Want to get rid of those cups scattered around the house that noboby owns?  

Design your cup for a chance to win your set!
 

    

We are giving away two personalized sets of four MyColourCups to be randomly
 drawn on 13 March 2013.  Hurry up and enter to win your set.   

Share with all your friends, family, yourself, the world. OK, we would love the world to know.

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Twistid Products, designer and online retailer of the MyColourCup, cups that know who you are. 

Surviving the Duelling Years

My kids fight. 
I like to think of it more as duelling, standing up one against the other each aspiring to be the victor.  With their eye on the end of the battle prize where they can claim that special seat next to mum or that supped up matchbox car with the cool exhaust.  As a parent you have a couple of options;  retreat to the other end of the house, pretend they are the neighbours kids or give them some tactics to resolve those daily skirmishes by themselves.  NO ADULTS REQUIRED.

The main goal of these daily battles for my 3 boys is a win-win solution.

 I win – no retreating required.   They win – fairness restored.

Here are some of my sanity tactics that I have devised for some the most annoying battles.

1.       I Get Shotgun! 

The throne next to the driver’s seat, the most wanted seat in the world. Kids act as if they would instantly be knighted if only they could beat their siblings to this idolized seat.  I guess they are really competing for the love and affection of the queen mum.  But, you can’t pick who gets the front seat, that would be deemed as picking a victor and you don’t want to hear the bickering.  So you get them to claim ownership.  How?

One way trip – first to call shotgun gets it (i.e. school drop-off)

Round trip – first to call shotgun gets it on the way there, the other gets it on the way back.  More than two kids, then two call outs. 

 

2.       That’s My Toy!

It’s the exhausting never ending, “That’s my toy!”  “No it’s mine!” “Nu-huh!” There are a couple of tactics to handle this scenario;

·         Write their name on every toy they get.  Works great with matchbox cars.

·         Just take it away, on the spot.  No questions asked.  They will probably forget the toy ever existed.

·         Although this won’t work for Lego’s, it’s just too many pieces to label or take away.  I try to get them to barter, where a Lego man can be exchanged for a couple of swords.  Sometime this diversion tactic works.

 

3.       Not My Cup!

We use to have abandoned cups all over the house.  Of course they are nobody’s, right?  So nobody has to pick them up, right?  Wrong.  We now have cups that change names, so when you get a cup from the cupboard you change it to your name and voila (wah lah) it’s yours.  Nobody goes away. 

 

So it’s peaceful now, right.  Wrong again.  Siblings will always duel; it teaches them how to resolve conflict.  They learn to compromise and cooperate with each other, a great life lesson for the workforce.  Little SpongeBob’s in the making. 

 

by Shelly, mom of four and designer of the MyColourCup and owner of Twistid Products.

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Starting on a New Path

That’s not my cup!”, “That’s not my cup!”, is a nightly echo throughout our house usually before dinnertime. Cups scattered on coffee tables, kitchen counters, and computer desks but not one would be claimed for use at dinner. All the kids would scramble to get a new cup out of the cupboard. I guess the fear of accidentally getting their 6 year old brothers backwashed germs cup was too high a risk. My goal was to change this nightly ritual chant to “That’s my cup!”, . No more fighting over the abandoned cups scattered throughout the house. No more “Which one is my cup?” And this is how my journey of discovering a new product and in turn allowing my buried self to come to the surface and discover a inner voice that I did not know I had.

My first attempts at changing this behavior involved little schemes like “cup landing zones” and “cup drying racks”. This would work part of the time but did not resolve the abandoned cups throughout the house. So then I went in search of a product on the internet. A cup that could easily be changed to identify the user of the cup, but nothing was out there. So I started to think about all the things that I would like this factious cup to have; easily changeable names and it definitely had to be dishwasher safe. No way was I going to wash cups by hand. So I started to design this cup in my head. Then I designed it using a free 3D CAD product I got off the internet called CoCreate Modeling PE. My current job involves CAD design so I just had to learn the 3D part, which was fun, hard but fun. Not sure where I was taking this, I started researching plastic manufacturing and custom label companies. All this was new and a bit daunting but I just plodded through trying to learn this industry and not feel stupid asking questions. I sent several emails/phone calls to Australian plastic manufactures and had a hard time trying to get anyone to respond and/or follow up. Then I expanded my search to include China and Star Prototype responded immediately, which I have been dealing so far.

One of my biggest obstacles was my pessimistic husband compounded with my low self esteem. I kept hearing his words “just write names on those plastic red cups”. So I started reading books on motivation and how to influence other people. The book that helped me the most was “100 Ways to Motivate Yourself; Change Your like Forever” by Steve Chandler. It really got me motivated to the fact that I could do this. I also started reading books on innovations, marketing and business. There is so much to learn, but I compelled to gaining more knowledge. Knowledge that is going to help me pursue this passion to resolve this family problem. I then conducted a survey on Facebook to prove to my husband and myself that there were other people out there who thought this idea was great. I received so much positive feedback that I knew I had to keep moving forward. I go back to that list of over 70 people who responded in a 4 day window with such positive comments, it keeps me on track. It has been almost a year since I started thinking about this product and now I have a business plan, completed innovation patent, registered a trademark, website, and produced a prototype. The test cup has been knocking around our house and my kids are fight over it when it comes out of the dishwasher.


I now have manufacture these personalized cups, which is called the MyColourCup, and I'm selling them online at http://www.mycolourcup.com.au/








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