Teabgs in sinks. Fuckers

[SlightlyJaded]

Seriously. AIBU to think people who do this should be made to remove the cold teabag with their teeth?

I have worked in a few different places in my time and there are always a few people who think it's ok to put a used teabag in the sink. For the love of god, why? It's rubbish. It goes in the bin. Would you put a half eaten sandwich in the sink? An apple core? No? Then why the fuck would you put a tea bag in there for some hygeine freak poor soul to fish out.

I have sent emails round workplaces and nobody ever owns up but unless the teabags are jumping in themselves there are clearly lots of people who do this.

Stand up
Be counted
Explain to me why it's ok.

I really want to understand.

My parents have a special little metal pot with holes (like you would stand drying cutlery in) that they keep in the sink for the purpose of putting tea bags and other food waste in. Their compost caddy is next to the sink. WTF is that all about???

My dad leaves them in the sink here too, it drives me bananas. DH doesn't drink tea, but he does leave litter on the work surface . We have conversations like this every couple of days:

Me- Do you want to keep that empty noodle packet?
DH- Don't be so arsey, I only put it there this second, you are such a nag, I'm in the middle of cooking, I haven't left it there blah blah.

Aaargh!

@ Limelight

No, slightly jaded, it doesn't

No, Never

Willbean I am actually laughing out load as opposed to 'LOLing' when I'm not really.

Thank you for that

DH has been known to leave packaging by the chopping board. We have the almost identical exchange

My MIL does this and it drives me potty. I have the same squeeze and dump technique as Jaded.

And wtf is a Belfast sink?!

MittzytheMinx you are damn right about the dishcloths.

And there is a special place in hell for people who leave sieves in the sink.

ooh look at the time. School run.

Will be checking back to see if any more culprits have come forward

Jaded I'm glad I'm not the only one! It feels good to have a little vent .

YADNU. My dh has just started doing this. Lord knows why when the bin is one pace away.

I'm tempted to see a divorce lawyer...

I'll see your teabags and raise you dishcloths left in sink with pots "left to soak" vomits

My dh does it as well. drives me mental and my dd spills sugar everywhere and leaves teabag in teapot which is usually clean grrrrr

DH can't stand bags in the sink (for all the reasons ranted about eloquently expressed above) and I can't stand teabags thrown straight in the bin - they invariably mean skanky liquid at the bottom when you take the bag out (we do drink rather a lot of tea...).

We used to have a waste disposal and would put the bags down there, but after we broke that and found it was clogged up with teabags we had to come up with another plan. Now we have a little dish by the kettle for them to dry out in before they move to the bin.

My FIL does this. It drives me potty. Does he think we're going to save it to reuse later?

NorfolknChance - it's a sink which is specifically designed to stain like buggery. In deciding he wanted it, DH used the same reasoning as when he insisted we buy a hob kettle which takes twenty mins to boil i.e. he's a wanker.

DH does this!!

he walks almost to the bin, puts the teabag on the counter and walks back...i have no idea why he cant just take that last step to the bin and put the bag in there

for those who are "waiting for the teabg to cool down"...why dont you run the teabag under the cold tap for a couple of seconds and then squeeze it out? surely thats more hygenic than the former?? to be honest, i dont do that but i do put the hot dripping bag into the bin straight away...i may adopt this method for myself as i hate the binbag juice that accumulates

Wilbean Charriot Can you send my DH home please? (no, on second thoughts, you can keep him)

What a waste to throw them away!
My DS and his uni friends all peg their used teabags to the washing line to dry. They say that they make excellent second cups of tea and is a great way to economise! And one of their friends uses their old tea bags for making some herbal remedy mixed with vinegar to keep flies off of their horses in the summer!
Apparently they are really great for composting as well!!

Limelight - hob kettles are the Devil's Invention. They take too long to boil and my MIL insists on one because she's a nutter a bit eccentric.

Hate tea-bags in the sink but fortunately we are squeeze-with-spoon-and-dump-in-bin merchants in this house.

People who take the last item out of a packet then leave the packet in the cupboard will all go to hell ........ oh yes.

My DS People who leave dirty plates on the counter because it doesn't occur to them to empty the dishwasher are criminals.

By the way, my DS did not learn this disgusting habit from home!!

"why not leave an apple core in the sink, with a little sign on a cocktail stick stuck into it saying "i'm friends with the teabags"

Tip of the day that I reckon

No-one at work does this thank god but ex DP used to pile them up on the counter next to the kettle.

By the end of the day (he drank a lot of tea) it seriously looked like a horse had taken a dump on the kitchen counter

Plus, he'd always leave one extra 'bonus' bag on the teaspoon discarded on the edge of the sink and then claimed he did it because it kept the spoon clean.

Nutter!

limelight pMSL

"People who take the last item out of a packet then leave the packet in the cupboard will all go to hell ........ oh yes"

I sincerely hope there is a special kind of hell reserved for those characters!

Every day I open a cupboard in the office to find either a box of envelopes with one envelope left in it, a box of storage boxes with only the lids left in it, kitchen roll with the last sticky sheet desperately clinging to the cardboard inner, four coffee granules in the coffee container etc etc etc.

Sooooo selfish!!! You're not the only person in the universe last bit/sheet/item/granule leavers!!!

Oooh, it feels good to let that out!

we dont honest