AIBU to never buy teabags as I hate making tea even though guests like it?

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I hate tea. I don't like the taste of it, the smell of it, the wet soggy bags, and it gets on my nerves hanging about waiting on it to be ready, the right colour etc PITA

I used to delibrately make the tea really badly in the hope people would stop asking me to make it.

Now I just don't buy teabags. Recently my sister and separetly my ex husband have brought teabags with them because they know I never have teabags in the house.

And they know fine well why is this, because I hate making tea.

So now I have 2 boxes of teabags foisted upon me together with the expectation that, as hostess, I should suck it up and make copious cups of tea simply because there are now teabags in the house?

Is it really rude to just say to any guest...'if you would like a cup of tea please help yourself but I'm not making it' in a nice way?

lift the lid, flip it over to catch the drips from the tea bag, hold it under while you deal with the bag, and then pop it back on. no mess

I don't like tea (although DP does).

But I'd always have teabags in my house for guests (DP, or no DP!) who do like tea.

Or you could take cup to bin, fish tea bag out and put straight in bin.

I rarely drink hot drinks at home and yeah it is more of a faff than a glass of water but I have tea and coffee in the house and make it for guests because it is a social convention. You'd sound like a princess in claiming not to "do" tea.

feel slightly better there are other posters here who don't like tea, I always feel a bit of a freak when I say 'I don't like tea'

YANBU. As a non-tea drinker, you won't make it right anyway. If guests want tea they can make it themselves.

I have tea bags and coffee in the house (if my DH thinks to buy them as I don't drink either and would never think to put them on my shopping list!). When guests come round they are shown the kettle, the sugar/ sweeteners and the milk and told to help themselves! The chances of me making a cup of tea or coffee that is drinkable to their individual taste is neglidgable so it's the easiest solution!
Of course, if they are happy with a glass of water, i can manage that!

I hate tea. I hate the smell of it. I hate it when I catch a whiff on somebody's breath.

I'm rubbish at making tea too. My sister will raise an eyebrow and ask if it's seen a ghost, or tut and ask if I ran out of milk.

Yet once a month I order a box of tea bags (and not the cheapest ones, nice middle of the range sort) and every guest gets a tea or coffee question. Just because that's the done thing.

I'm buggered if they want a cold drink though. I hate squash, it goes off as nobody drinks it and we don't do fizzy drinks either. So if you don't want tea or coffee it's water.

Another tea hater here. I can handle making one or two cups of tea, but more than that and the smell is so horrible. I just have to avoid breathing it in or I end up gagging. I don't drink coffee either but I like the smell of it.

I do keep tea and coffee for guests, and take my own herbal tea bags if I am going somewhere and likely to fancy a cup. Luckily more homes and places have herbal tea now, I was getting fed up of the alternative to tea or coffee being orange squash- I'm not five years old!

Same salty- we rarely have soft drinks, squash or juice in as we don't drink them either. I can offer fizzy water though usually.

Goodo, if we no longer have to worry about being a good host then I can feck out the hideous stinky coffee that I am obliged to buy and make for people.

So if you come to my house and you don't like tea then it's tough titty.

I didn't like tea but still made it for guests and made sure I had tea bags in, it's rude not to IMO.

I take tea bags to houses of people who do not drink tea and make my own while there.

IF I was a guest of yours I would make my own.

Simply say "Oh I am a shite tea maker. its coffee or make your own tea in this house"

I don't like coffee but buy it as friends/family that visit drink it. Don't see it as a problem.

I don't drink tea, coffee or alcohol, but will happily make for guests/hubby despite hating the smell of tea and coffee, as otherwise it's rude!

Yabu, visitors that you see that regularly should be making their own!

I have friends who keep decaf in for me because caffeine gives ds (bf) colic. Visitors to my house are shown the kettle and told to help themselves. Why be a waitress?

Lol at "unless you're pregnant". How ridiculous. Anyway, I am a tea fiend and would quite happily make my own at a friends house if they hated it so much. Coffee makes me feel nauseous but I'd still make it for a guest.

I think most people wouldn't object to making their own tea.

I cannot stand coffee - the smell of it , the taste of it, and especially all the grounds that make an enormous mess if dh does squashy coffee. Don't mind making a cup of instant coffee for someone but that is my limit. And I point blank refuse to wash up coffee makers and cafetieres - the smell makes me gag.

I hate tea, never make it, but my dad and likes a cup when he comes over, which is about 3 times a year, have had the same pack for about 4 years I think as he is the only one that drinks it, does tea go off?

I meant unless you're pregnant and the smell actually does make you sick.

I don't drink tea either. When tea-drinking guests come round I just boil the water in the kettle for them, and get the box of tea bags and milk and sugar out for them and say, "if you want it to be drinkable it's best if you do the rest yourself."

I have both tea and coffee in my house, however i take both minus milk or sugar. My coffee is 2 heaped teaspoons of coffee and water. Most people cannot handle this

If you want milk or sugar in your tea/coffee you take your life in your hands. I usually ask guests (unless they are posh or important) to come and sort their own to taste.

I'll make my own tea in the mug but I'd rather know in advance if I need to bring my own teabag. Not having both tea and coffee in the house is weird IMO. Lots of people only drink one or the other.

My PILs only drink weak, instant coffee or very watered down instant hot chocolate. At one stage they brought out the same pot of instant tea granules every time I visited for about a year

I don't drink tea or coffee but I do have it in the house for when people come round. I'll even buy milk when guests are coming even though I don't have it and hubby is lactose intolerant. You'll even get a choice of tea bags and coffee too, and even the type of mug you prefer. my mum likes a thin cup for example so i have one in my cupboard for her. I think it's just polite to have it and most people prefer to add their own milk and sugar anyway.

I don't mind tea occasionally, I prefer a coffee though and am grateful however it comes.

Tea drinkers are fussy buggers - always an abstract description of the colour it should be or a vague timescale to leave the bag in for their particular preference - "oh just leave it in a while/Not too long". Just be happy to have a drink you didn't have to make yourself! I'd quite happily catapult teabags into the faces of those who put them in/by the sink and then bugger off till it's cold and slimy or dried and stuck on. Pack it in you dirty gerties!

They did tea granules at one time, if they're still knocking about I'd give them a go. You still have the smell but at least the mess and faff are gone.

I don't think it's rude if you gets guests to make their own tea. I am happy to do it in my house but I do explain that I'm not the best tea maker and I won't be insulted if they wan to do it themselves. And I usually ge them to put their own milk in.