Tea bags do not go in the sink!

[RoomOnOurBroom]

I've just cleaned the sink. DH has just made us both a cup of tea but left the tea bags in the sink. Why would anyone do this?! It gives me the rage. We have a pot on the side for used tea bags because it's a faff opening the compost bin just for 1 tea bag. It's right next to the kettle and the sink.

DH just huffed when I asked him not to leave the tea bags in the sink. AIBU?

There are 3 adults in this household.
2 of them not only create a pile of used teabags on those little teabag saucers, but also start a new pile rather than throw the old one away.
It used to annoy me, now I just think "not my circus, not my monkeys" and put my teabags straight in the bin in a very superior manner.

My DH does this, drives me mad. Even worse when people put washing up on top of them so you don't notice them until they float past whilst you're washing up!

DH, is that you?

We've a porcelain caddy for tea bags and veg scraps which is emptied into the compost bin every morning. Never in the sink!

I'm livid for you. It's just so gross and lazy. I get a major rage when dirty cups/spoons are left on the draining board. I feel your pain.

DP does this and it drives me insane. He also puts dishes in the sink without scraping them, so I have to fish soggy bits of toast out of the sink. Drives me mad!!!

LTB

Can I add carrot peelings to the list? Dh peels them into the sink. I used to cean it up but no more. If he wants to use the sink like that then he can clean it.

how do you clean a sink with one of the items most likely to stain it, samphire?

I'm not too bothered about the odd spot of black tea on the way to the bin - in a stroke of sheer genius I chose a floor in a lovely warm brown colour. if you carry your mug to the bin and then fish the bag out there's no problem.

I'm afraid I do this but living alone there's no one else to get annoyed about it. I do it so I can give a handful of used tea bags a good squeeze to get the residual water out before putting them in the compost caddy. If they go straight in the caddy it ends up with foul "tea water" slopping about in the bottom and the bottom of the bag falls out when I empty the caddy. I have a stainless steel sink so clean any stains with spray bleach which works a treat.

The sink just doesn't stain!

Gather them together, scrub the sink, they get the waste really clean. Squeeze and bin.

Rinse your now shiny clean sink.

Works on Belfast and stainless steel sinks.

I see your sink and I raise you putting tea bags in used mugs. And then when one is filled starting on a second one and, occasionally, a third mug 🤮

We drink a lot of tea but there is a tea bag bowl and it gets ignored.

My husband gets annoyed with me because I sometimes leave tea leaves in the sink. I think I have cleaned them all up but some stick to the frigging washing up bowl.

My husband doesn't drink tea but has a tassimo coffee maker. He leaves used pods on the side. Annoys me a lot. But considering I cannot control my tea leaves I call it a draw.

I chuck mine in the sink cos I normally give the teapot a quick rinse before making another one ( I only drink herbal tea) and the bag usually stuck to the side so swish some water and it plops out easy and then end of the day I'll chuck all the teabags in the bin.

Its only me so I'm not bothered

Can I add Cif cream is really good on tea stains?

when I asked him not to leave the tea bags in the sink
you should have told him you needed the sink and he needed to move his crap to the bin as he is the one who left it there.

I do that with my kids when they leave an empty glass or other somewhere. As they are summoned to the kitchen, the guilty one is not very popular with the others, especially when they (used to) have friends around. I am not the paid cleaner, I don't put things away for other people.

Why can't people use a bin instead of giving themselves more work is beyond me.

I have the same issue, habits die hard. Reluctance to use the food waste box too. As it's his only faults I will forgive

I put mine in the sink, because our bin is in the cupboard and the steam from the used teabags makes the cupboard wet. BUT if you have a container, then put it in the container, we don't have a container...

What you could do is leave the teabags in the sink and see how long it stays there.

DH does this and it drives me mad.

You have to walk past the bin to get out of the kitchen - JUST PUT IT IN THE BIN.

If there was ever a thread for the vote function, OP...

YANBU. DH does this and it drives me batty.

I agree op. When I first moved in with oh I noticed he did this and irritated the crap out of me. He doesn’t do it anymore 🤣🤣

He gets it from his mum. She came over to have the kids once as I needed to be somewhere (before lockdown) and she does it too. Doing it in your own house is one thing but at someone else’s house.. I was so annoyed but didn’t say anything!

Goes straight in the bin here. We don’t have food caddy’s in my area.

😬 guilty as charged!!
Obvs I don’t put them in the sink if there’s water or dishes in it but yes I do chuck them in there then squeeze them out when I’m doing dishes

why don't we have sink disposal units in most of the UK? In a country of tea drinkers, that would save a lot of grief

It wouldn't solve the problem of dirty dishes, I give you that.

Omg I’ve just realised, is that what those ‘mini sinks’ in the middle are for?!!! 🤦‍♀️