To think husband could have a bought a kettle that matched the kitchen?

[BegoniaBampot]

Needed a new kettle ASAP and husband came in a few hours later and surprised me with a new kettle which I thought was lovely. it's bloody bright blue and white, does not match the kitchen at all. Can't change it as it sounds like I'm being a controlling nutjob but every time I turn round it's there screaming out, taunting me with it's very hideousness! Please tell me IABU and to get a grip! usually he has quite good taste, a little chrome or even cream jobbie would have been most welcomed.

YANU.

I like the spotty kettle, no help at all, Is it your kitchen that is but and white? I'd really like a picture to judge the seriousness of the crime, not to laugh

I think blokes are quite capable of buying correct and attractive items. But I wouldn't see the point in paying extra for a kettle that matched the kitchen myself tbh

I hate matchy-matchy houses, so I think YABU from that point of view, but presumably that's the sort of thing that floats your boat, and your husband should really know that by now, so on balance, YANBU.

I feel quite boring now with my stainless steel stuff in the kitchen.

Can't you just get a new kitchen to match the kettle?

:)

Clearly you just need to redecorate the kitchen to match; should be simple enough. Paint some spots on the walls and you'll even tie the toaster into the scheme too.

Feeling the need to stand up for men here. My husband would definitely have bought a matching kettle.

I think YABU it is a kettle, mine is a £4.99 tesco value one as long as it boils water so I can have a cuppa I really don't care.
Price is always my deciding factor, even my oven and hob don't match hob white oven black.

It's a kettle. It boils water.

Keep it a week and then get a new one. Put the other away as an emergency back up, in case the new matching one breaks.

While I am with youthecat on the aesthetics ... sorry, but people who're doing the whole 'bless, he's a man, they can't be expected to cope' dance ... are you certain you're not married to clueless idiots, as opposed to men? DH is perfectly capable of fussing over aesthetics and I haven't noticed him choosing kettles with his penis yet.

That's the thing, husband is usually way more fussy then me usually and perfectly capable (most of the time).

My dp wouldn't choose a kettle with his penis. The lid might slam shut and snip the tip.

Go on, change it then. It'll piss you off every time you use it. How much does a kettle cost anyway? Couldn't you just tell him, put it away 'for spare', and buy a nice one?

you - OUCH! Please god, don't give me that image. A nice cup of tea, ruined.

Change it. He won't notice.

Kettles last for years. That's all.

People buy kettles to match their kitchens? who knew?

'Change it. He won't notice.'

How will he not notice? It's bloody bright blue and white!

I would find it came a-cropper somehow and replace it with a more suitable one. Or use the "friend bought one/won one in a competition" line and put the other away for when builders are in. Or get some builders in possibly a bit extreme as they always knacker my kettles with plaster/paint/cement hence keeping old one just in case actually they've knackers hoovers too now there's a thought we're having bathroom done soon.

YANBU

What an absolute brute, Begonia.

LTB

hugoagogo just what I have been thinking! How on earth can a kettle 'match' a kitchen? WTF?

I really don't understand this matching milarky. Much prefer a mishmatch of stuff. Plus when something breaks, don't have to either spend an arm and a leg replacing because of limited colour scheme and don't have to redo the whole lot when you get bored/no longer available in colour choice... Maybe its his way of saying sod the colour scheme.

YANBU, he should buy you a new kitchen that matches the kettle.