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To have a kettle in the bedroom?

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Teaandcakepleasee · 23/11/2025 20:00

I have, as of today, fulfilled my lifelong dream… I have a kettle in my bedroom! It has always been a dream of mine to purchase a teasmaid but they are hard to find and expensive. So I’ve bought a bright pink kettle, Lakeland milk sachets, coffee sachets, tea bags and now all I need is some biscuits 🍪

I am so excited to wake up tomorrow morning 🤣 I am also recently separated and doing whatever I damn well please 🤣 Life has been shite lately so I am seeking out a little joy where I can find it 💕

Have I finally lost the plot or am I a genius?! 🤣

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Wickedlittledancer · 23/11/2025 21:03

CalmShaker · 23/11/2025 20:44

Someone once told me, never, ever, drink from a bathroom tap

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That’s only if your house does not pull from the mains but a tank, very very few houses have that anymore. My house is 400 years old and does not have it and I fill my water bottle from the bathroom tap regularly if I want to do it upstairs,

JudgeJ · 23/11/2025 21:02

DisplayPurposesOnly · 23/11/2025 20:40

I have had a travel kettle in mine for years. Black coffee so no milk issues for me. A cuppa in bed first thing is a joy 😊

If our travel kettle had collected air miles it would go to the moon and back! I recall a tour of, I think, India, after we'd all gone up to bed we sat out on our balcony with a cup of tea and some ginger nuts to dunk, the envious looks we got!

JustSawJohnny · 23/11/2025 21:02

All of our old kettles go straight to the bedroom for hot water bottles.

Makes life that little bit easier.

ihatecoffee · 23/11/2025 21:01

What an absolutely brilliant idea!! An idea I’m definitely copying!
As you can tell from my name I don’t do coffee, but a cup of tea fresh every morning sounds perfect!

StruggleFlourish · 23/11/2025 20:59

I must be out of it. I've never heard of teamaid and I can't imagine anyone who lives in a house or apartment wanting to have a kettle in their bedroom...
Unless they lived in a dormitory, like with a bunch of housemates (and they didn't want to go out to the kitchen in the morning in just their slippers and bathrobe type thing)...

But hey, you do you!
I mean I can think of two really good reasons why you could have a kettle in your bedroom. Number one, hot water bottle whenever you fancy it, you don't even have to leave the bedroom. I love hot water bottles...
And number two, if you had a cold or if it was quite dry, you could boil the cattle to put a little moisture in the air if you don't have a humidifier.

But like I said I must be completely out of it cuz I have never heard of anyone having a kettle or tea set or coffee maker or anything like that in their bedroom before but, perhaps I just live a sheltered life.

Jamesblonde2 · 23/11/2025 20:59

QueenStevie · 23/11/2025 20:57

Wouldn't you just wash it in the bathroom?

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I don’t keep my Fairy Liquid in the bathroom strangely enough….

QueenStevie · 23/11/2025 20:57

Jamesblonde2 · 23/11/2025 20:50

I think it would take more discipline to carry the dirty cup etc downstairs to wash. I carry enough downstairs each day already as it is.

Wouldn't you just wash it in the bathroom?

Homegrownberries · 23/11/2025 20:57

I thought you'd lost the plot until you said this bit - "I am also recently separated and doing whatever I damn well please 🤣". Good for you. Enjoy!

LittlePotteryBird · 23/11/2025 20:55

I have a little trolley next to my bed with a travel kettle, a bottle of water for top ups, teabags, coffee, spoons etc. I or DH put a teabag in a cup and fill the kettle before I go to bed (we sleep separately- bliss) so I only have to roll over and switch it on when I wake up.

I only drink redbush tea or black coffee so I don’t need milk.

threescoops · 23/11/2025 20:54

I have long loved my bedroom kettle. I fill it from the bathroom tap. I have a tin of the best teabags on the bedside table. Every night I take up a tray with a nice mug, the teabag squeezer, and a little plastic screw top 100 ml bottle of frozen milk from my stash in the freezer. By the morning it’s perfectly ready. I recommend you buy 10 x 100 ml plastic screw top bottles with lids, dishwasher safe. Every 10 days or so I get a litre of fresh milk, fill them all and put them in the freezer. Game changer. I really enjoy that first cup of tea in bed having hardly moved.

suggestionsplease1 · 23/11/2025 20:53

Do you have another small bowl for the tea bags and milk sachets debris in your setup, OP?

Ohpleeeease · 23/11/2025 20:52

CalmShaker · 23/11/2025 20:44

Someone once told me, never, ever, drink from a bathroom tap

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The bathroom cold tap is fine, the water comes from the same place as the kitchen tap.

It used to be said that you shouldn’t drink from the hot water tap, because the water would have come from a tank somewhere harbouring all sorts of unmentionables, rats and pigeons and anything else that had crawled in and died.

Not a problem with modern day plumbing but the habit lingers.

Aparecium · 23/11/2025 20:52

Lap. Of. Luxury.

Enjoyyyyy

Brew 😊

Justmadesourkraut · 23/11/2025 20:52

A pink kettle is much more civilized than a (v. noisy teas maid) I had one in my twenties, but it was never as nice as a home made cup of tea.

Yy to a little flask of fresh milk in the room.

Enjoy.

SodthatImoff · 23/11/2025 20:51

Lovely set up. All sounds like bliss to me. As for the poster concerned about crumbs in the bed which is a good call, maybe you could invest in a small tray to catch the crumbs! As well as the mini fridge of course....

Jamesblonde2 · 23/11/2025 20:50

I think it would take more discipline to carry the dirty cup etc downstairs to wash. I carry enough downstairs each day already as it is.

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 23/11/2025 20:50

I don’t drink tea, but do have a Nespresso coffee ☕️ machine next to the bed.

ElBandito · 23/11/2025 20:49

CalmShaker · 23/11/2025 20:44

Someone once told me, never, ever, drink from a bathroom tap

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Surely this depends on whether you have a cold water tank or water direct from the mains?

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Teaandcakepleasee · 23/11/2025 20:49

swapsicles · 23/11/2025 20:48

That's only for older houses with a water tank in the loft or similar, things can fall in like dust, bugs and mice....
Love the OP's setup, if I lived in a house I'd be doing this, as it is I live in a flat and the coffee machine is only a few feet away anyway😂

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It’s a new build so should be ok 👌 I did worry about that? It would be water from my en-suite?

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GetOverTheEgo · 23/11/2025 20:49

I love this idea.

Problem is I am up at 5.30 and DH at 6.15. I could however, banish him to the spare room from this day forth so I can have a little hotel setup. Hmmmm.

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Teaandcakepleasee · 23/11/2025 20:48

QueenStevie · 23/11/2025 20:48

Now you need an Alexa plug so you can just lie in bed and say 'Alexa, kettle on' so you don even have to get out of bed until the kettle has boiled.

Yes!! 🙌🏽

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swapsicles · 23/11/2025 20:48

CalmShaker · 23/11/2025 20:44

Someone once told me, never, ever, drink from a bathroom tap

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That's only for older houses with a water tank in the loft or similar, things can fall in like dust, bugs and mice....
Love the OP's setup, if I lived in a house I'd be doing this, as it is I live in a flat and the coffee machine is only a few feet away anyway😂

QueenStevie · 23/11/2025 20:48

Now you need an Alexa plug so you can just lie in bed and say 'Alexa, kettle on' so you don even have to get out of bed until the kettle has boiled.