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

[StealthPolarBear]

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.

Im also having wine...can you tell :)

Yes please do delete Stealth - and in fact I have reported this thread.

You know I've always liked you but I think I'll avoid any threads you're on from now on.

That's OK, because the parmesan will go with the cream dogs. Just say that your plate matches or co-ordinates with the rest of your crockery?

There was a poster in MN, years ago, who gaffa-taped oven gloves to the door frame so that her baby wouldn't bang its head on the door frame when it was in one of those jumperoo-thingymajigs. I wonder if they matched the kitchen?

My tea towels do not match either, and I do not care, because the best one has Swindon's magic roundabout on it. I think Basingstoke should learn about this, but they only seem to have a book about their roundabouts.

The house hasn't collapsed because I haven't got matching kitchen linen. Though if you hear about it in the news, you'll know the root cause.

God, I had lovely tea towels before I moved in with DH...
Clean for starters. Had ones for nice occasions, everyday ones, worker bee ones.
Now I just have a load of scraggy old things used for God-knows-what...
No sooner than they come out of the washing machine, they go back in.
Also had to remove the towel rail from the kitchen wall as that was getting destroyed too.
I just don't understand it...

Oh. My kitchen matches.

It's all black and white with "pops" of red.

I thought I'd arrived

We have brightly coloured, non matching beach towels in our bathroom. Long story, but basically it's all DHs fault.

We can't get rid of them though, however much I might pine after tastefully coloured coordinating towels. The DC have developed firm attachments for the beach towels and whine whenever they vanish into the washing basket to be cleaned.

Just have everything black then the whole 'problem' goes away.

Josephine, think back to your own childhood, do you remember the matching,modern tasteful stuff?
Do you remember that tatty flea-ridden ornament you picked up for 10p at a car boot sale?
Do you remember the slightly yellowing antimacassars on your great aunts sofa?
I know which I have fonder memories of :)

My kitchen is white and pale blue. But I have these www.johnlewis.com/masterclass-silicone-oven-mitt/p231808863?sku=231808863&s_kwcid=2dx92700013378317082&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CJDDzM_07s8CFc9KGQod1zQOUg&gclsrc=ds

amazing oven gloves. They are so much effective than fabric gloves

My childhood was a screaming mix of orange, purple, green and brown - until the 80s came along and mum went all Scandi on us

I think I might need to unregister with mumsnet as am clearly a failure. I didnt even realise they were supposed to be coordinated!!

(and have never made more than one meal from a chicken....

and still own a toilet brush...)

The Pils kitchen was orange and brown until very recently and I still miss it.

Snap Ralph. :)

Just getting the garlic bread out ooh these unmatching oven gloves with sheep on are sooooo warm

I find the class element to this interesting. Both my parents grew up very poor and working class, think mismatched, worn, jumble sales, hand-me-downs, keep things till they've fallen to bits.

As a result, when I was growing up in the eighties, they had everything brand new, matchy and co-ordinated.

I've rebelled and gone back to the ways of my GPs!

But not worryingly warm, you understand

But what do you do at Christmas? I have holly on the handtowel and reindeer on the teatowel (sale after Xmas).The oven gloves match the teacosy and tablemats with deer on too.But only in late December. Costco otherwise.
Do people really buy duvet sets with Santa on?

Eat mince pies. Exchange presents...

I have an odd addiction to tea towels and buy them on holiday regularly. Nothing matches anything else but they are nice memories.

We currently have Shaun the sheep Bristol trail oven gloves and a map of the Lake District tea towel.

I've got map of Wales tea towels dating back years and I love to get the out. The are really tatty but remind me of fun times and a Lot of rain!

Matching stuff is overrated IMO.

My mum always brings me back a tea towel from places she has visited so they not only don't match the kitchen, they don't match each other! They have a selection of things on from breeds of sheep to a recipe for Welsh cakes. I cannot care enough to spend money replacing them with matching ones!