To buy a Teasmade?

[Kelsoooo]

Morning routine is this:

Anywhere between 6 and 7am I get up.
I go downstairs, get cold and cranky and wait for the kettle to boil.

Make DH and I a cup of coffee....go back upstairs and start getting ready.

Whole process takes fifteen minutes....

Now see, I could wake-up to a coffee and use that 15minutes to wake up nicely and read the news (mumsnet)

DH always has his coffee cold anyway cause I get up way before him.

So aibu to really want something that went out of fashion in the 80s (when I'm less than 30.....)

My nan has one and as a child when I lived with her it was our routine to have a cuppa in bed before facing the world (i co slept with her because she had a snuggly double, I had my own room with my own bed but it wasn't as warm). If I had room in my bedroom now I would get one for sure.

We've got one, don't use it anymore because we've trained the kids to make us a cup of tea/coffee in the morning now, but at the time it was brilliant. I could lie in bed with my tea and mumsnet with no risk of waking the kids up.

Just used to have the milk in a cup on the windowsill.

I just take a flask of hot water up. Although I have hot Ribena so perhaps the water doesn't need to be as hot?

I got one a few years ago, and while it is convenient in theory the actual product was a bit disappointing. There's only one company making them and it's so cheaply made and designed!

There's a really bright light on the (massive) clock which you can't turn off, so I have to have it permanently covered by a thick book (which makes the clock bit pointless). It's really, really noisy when it comes on. The pictures on the buttons wore off really quickly so you have to remember what the functions are. And the alarm part of it is clunky to set which is a pain if you have different start times on different days.

BUT I do love having tea in bed in the morning, without having to get up in the cold and go downstairs. And although I don't have milk in my tea, I've heard that some people freeze it in ice cube trays and put one in the cup at night so that by the morning it's slowly defrosted and still ok.

I love having it and it's definitely worth it, but really wish that there was a better made option. I suppose they may have improved the design a little since then. One good thing is that on mine the top is a little tray, which you can put the cups etc one and use to take things up and down to the kitchen the evening before. Also it saves bedside table space!

Also, I got a lot of jokey flack for getting one at the time (also less than 30 when it was purchased) because it was so naff and dated, but don't let that stop you! I was less concerned about that because I hadn't even heard of them so I didn't have any personal old-timer associations with them. It seemed like a cool gadgety thing - which it is!

We were given one for a wedding present by Dhs late uncle. Circa 1972 and still in the cellophane . He was a bit of a hoarder. 10 years on we still haven't tried it out.