It's a hard lesson to learn.

Bottom line: It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

I recently posted the above well-worn advice to a person asking if they should install a four foot fence or a six. That's a no-brainer for me, having a very large dog who can leap four foot fences in a single bound and thinks seriously about attempting the six footer I had installed.

But this isn't about fences. It's about tea cups. Okay, I'm...