to not have oven gloves or tea towels that match the kitchen

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Well to sone extent they match - old and a bit tatty, like the kitchen.
But it never occurred to me that even when we replace the kitchen we'd get oven gloves and tea towels to match. I've just discovered this is a thing, thanks to mn.

You are being more unreasonable than all the other AIBU put together and timesed infinity

I hope that you at least have the decency to keep them hidden away?

We don't. Mum usually buys us some occasionally, i dint regift them .I don't even remember the last time I bought them.

Sorry sir, I'll hand my mn badge in on the way out

There's a MIL on here who could regift some to you...

Hang on a minute ...... you're seriously telling me that there's people out there who insist on coordinating their oven gloves and tea towels to match their kitchen?????

Well our oven gloves are grey, as are the kitchen cabinets, but that's entirely coincidental.

The tea towels are all different colours, because they came from a Costco multipack, and as we have a dishwasher, so only get very light usage, are likely to outlast us.

People deliberately match these things? .

Bruce surely you must have some though? We couldn't manage without (esp tea towels!!) But don't really care how they look

Now, this really is the giddy limit. Non matching linens? Tsk.

I believe so

And we don't really need to keep them hidden away...as I said they go well with the kitchen in some ways :)

The ultimate in shabby chic. Emphasis on the shabby.
actually that's the posh tea towel.

My sister has moved into a new flat everything is all lovely and matchy and she almost had a heart attack when I went to dry my cup on a towel on a hook noo not that 1 .so not only do people have matchy matchy they have tea towels for "show" what's that about

Sorry thought it had attached

For goodness sake, pull yourself together. You must also have an apron and utensils to match too.

Just seen the regifting MIL/matching oven gloves thread .

That's an exceptionally clever way of subtely letting your MIL know that you hate her, by giving her crappy household items as a Christmas gift. I wonder if there is a hirearchy?

Hate her a little bit - tea towels, really hate her guts, vacuum cleaner?

Next you'll be saying that some people coordinate their toilet brushes with their bathrooms.

Troy in my head I'm still a student. Sorry.

My oven glove is black with white stripes my work tops are black so that's sort of matching right ?

MrsJayy I knew someone who found brand new Cath Kidston oven gloves in a charity shop which are not to be used, but purely for show .

I don't even use an oven glove... folded over tea towel in this house il sit in the corner and hang my head in shame

In fairness I used to buy my mum oven gloves. I think she was always desperate for stuff for me to get her as a teenager that didn't cost too much so suggested them. And she liked the single ones and pre Internet they weren't easy to find.

Sister had an oven glove. Next to the show towel I don't think it's for use either

Yes, people deliberately match these things! What's the point in having a lovely co-ordinating kitchen and the hanging mismatched tell towels or oven gloves up?

I actually get quite twitchy when DH hangs the non- matching oven gloves over the oven door handle - I may actually kill him dead one of these days. It makes me feel calmer if things match.

Nothing in my kitchen matches never kind the teatowels... I wish I could say it had a shabby chic accidentally on purpose mismatch vibe but it doesn't. It has limited money take what we can get vibe.

THAT TEATOWEL IS NOT ONLY UNMATCHING BUT UNIRONED!!!
forgive the shouting but really