I spend a lot of time talking about drinks — but not where to put them, so here you go ....

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Cocktail Glasses

These are your basic stemmed, conical martini glasses, and the foundation of any bar. Finding good glasses, however, seems to get more difficult by the day. Department stores like Target tend to carry brightly-colored novelty glasses, or those nine-ounce monstrosities that can hold a good three martinis without spilling. I tend to go for plain 5.7-ounce glasses that can be easily mixed and matched, and that won’t break in the dishwasher.

Where to buy: Now You’re Cooking, on the Commons. A set of three high-quality glasses costs $7.50 — more expensive than Ikea, but worth it.

Rocks and Highball Glasses

These are the workhorses of the cocktail world: Stemless and stubby, they’ll always be there when you need them. You should already be familiar with lowball or rocks glasses — they’re the ones private detectives are always drinking scotch from in hardboiled movies — but highballs, which are taller and thinner, are equally important, most notably for the Long Island Iced Tea and related drinks. Meanwhile, rocks glasses can hold anything from whiskey sours to Negronis.

Where to buy: B&W Restaurant Supply, across Route 13 next to the farmers’ market. These glasses double as ordinary drinking glasses, so it doesn’t hurt to get them in bulk.

Champagne Saucers

The older brother of the ubiquitous champagne flute, the champagne saucer is the exact opposite of what you want to put champagne in: The shallow, wide bowl lets the carbonation dissipate, making the drink go flat. For anything that doesn’t sparkle, however, they’re dead useful. I use them as an all-purpose substitute for cocktail glasses, particularly for drinks like the margarita or daiquiri; although they’re a little larger than standard-size cocktail glasses, their unique look can add a little color to your collection.

Where to buy: Salvation Army and assorted thrift stores. No one seems to know what to do with these, so they show up in quantity, often in matching sets with gilding or fancy stems. Snap them up for your next hipster party.

Pousse Cafe Glasses

Made for layered drinks, pousse cafe glasses are tall and thin with a long stem, holding slightly more than a shot of liquid. The small radius of the glass make it easy to pour layers without mixing.

Where to buy: I honestly have no idea; I came into mine from a thrift-store shopping trip, and haven’t seen another since. If you find one, hold onto it: It’s a great little glass that shows off drinks like the B-52 (Kahlua, Bailey’s and Cointreau) to nice effect.

Copper Mugs

As far as I know, the copper mug is used in exactly one drink: The Moscow Mule, an alcoholic milestone and arguably the reason you’re drinking vodka right now. As legend would have it, a shareholder of a then-unsuccessful vodka distillery helped cook up the drink, adding a couple of ounces of vodka to an ounce of lime juice and topping with home-brewed ginger beer; to promote the drink, they embossed bunch of mugs a friend had inherited from a factory with pictures of a kicking mule.

Where to buy: Down-on-their-luck mug heiresses looking for a quick buck.