For collecting teabags in a ramekin?

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My DP just doesn't get it! My theory is that if I put them in the food wastage or the bin whilst hot, they will attract maggots. It's a habit I have picked up from my mum and have always done it. It's not like they're just sat on the work surface and they go straight into the food wastage once they have cooled down. Am I mad??

Maggots and blowflies are only attracted to rotting meat/flesh

Barf. Used tea bags make me feel ill. Squeeze them out on the side of the cup then put them in the bin straight away. A fly is only able to lay eggs on a tea bag left on the worktop, not in a sealed bin. retches silently

I put them straight in the compost bin which is nr the kettle . No maggots .
An old Frank Skinner observation to make you'll smile:
His mum wouldst let them put teabags straight in the bin when they first came on sale incase they caught fire !!!!

I thought this was normal behaviour and am surprised by the people saying YABU. It saves drips across the kitchen.

YABU about the maggots.

Your DP is NBU to think it looks yucky and messy.

I do this, although in a ceramic wide-mouthed frog rather than a ramekin. My DM has a frog too and it seems to me the only reasonable place to put teabags

The retaining of old tea bags is grim

Total over reaction by darkblueeyes
Perfectly normal thing to collect your teabags in a little pot or saucer by where you make the tea.
Never heard of the maggots theory.

Totally agree DarkBlueEyes, makes me feel queasy.

DarkBleEyes agreed. If you must use teabags what on earth is the point of storing the used ones?

If you keep your bins closed then you'll stop flies getting in - which lay eggs = maggots. They're not heat seeking missiles.

What's so disgusting about a used tea bag? People put them on their eyes don't they?

museumum Not sure but a collection of used teabags just sounds revolting.

I generally am at the lower end of the scale on domestic hygiene (e.g breakfast feels odd if there isn't at least one cat on the table ; use by dates are meaningless) but this makes me squirm.

To be honest it's because it means tea has been made in a cup using a tea bag. I really don't like being offered tea made that way.

My gran used to open them and put the tealeaves round her houseplants.

I use one of these salt pots, and keep shoving tea bags in until they are spilling out then they go into the compost.

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I put teabags in my used pod holder and empty when full ( 3 times a day)

i do it too, no nasty wet hot teabags in my bin even though i have a tiny bin and empty it every day cos i have a small phobia of mould