AIBU to change my kitchen colour scheme

[IlsaLund]

About ten years ago I bought a spotty red and white table oilcloth for my kitchen table.
Ever since then one of my friends has purchased me red and white spotty kitchen stuff for nearly every birthday - jugs, table mats, biscuit tins etc.

My actual kitchen is very neutral so, fancying a change, I decided to go for a blue and green theme and have just purchased a blue and green table cloth and removed donated to charity many of the red and white spotted items. This was also part of a major decluttering so it was a case of two birds with one stone.

My friend has just called round for coffee and she is obviously miffed - ironically I have a beautiful jug in the middle of table that she gave me (before the red and white spotted phase came into being)

So, WIBU to change the colour scheme? In truth, the only reason I stuck it out for so long was because I ended up with so much matching stuff!

She's annoyed you've changed your theme in your kitchen ? confused]

Good grief, let your friend be as miffed as she wants to be. You have every right to change your kitchen. If she is upset, she's being ridiculous.

I think she's probably panicking about what to get me for Christmas now - or, perhaps she's been unreasonably organised and already purchased me something in a red and white spotted theme

Would she have wanted to be offered any of the stuff?

Other than that, she is out of order. She might have been miffed that you didn't discuss the change that you were going to make.

Hadn't thought of that Birds - I shall have to direct her to the charity shop!

I can see why she is a bit embarrassed/disappointed but a tablecloth is not a very long term basis to keep buying someone spotty stuff so she was being a bit silly in the first place.

Its not as if you had your kitchen cabinets in spots.

If your friend is expecting you never to change your kitchen colour scheme so she can obsessively buy you a certain type of gift every year to match one tablecloth you bought TEN YEARS AGO, she is barking mad.

You say she is 'obviously miffed' - how did she make this clear? Did she come straight out and tell you?!

'Obviously miffed' 😂