Why would I need to have unattractive writing on a bread bin

[Mydogisagentleman]

I really dislike labels and patterns on clothes and accessories.
I am in the middle of planning my kitchen and we are going to paint it next weekend.
The the place where I work got a new bread bin and I really want the same.
I went to the range and they don’t have blue or white.
I’ve checked out eBay and Amazon and all the ones I like have bread written on the side.
Essentially AIBU to want a plain metal bread bin

I think you are YANBU. It's not just bread bins, so many things have got writing on them. I ordered some Emma Bridgewater mugs as a present for a friend and had to pay an 'admin fee' to get plain rather than personalised ones. They do do plain mugs, it's just that more and more of the designs are personalised by default.

The OP was not saying that plain bread bins didn't exist, just that the ones she likes have got writing on.

I could buy the exact same one as the work one, but it’s grey and I want white or blue.
I have seen a couple that are ok (thanks for the links) but not exactly what I want.
I think my fixation is a result of being tired.
I cried at an extract from a book written by an ITU doctor yesterday.
Who knows what today will bring

I also hate writing like this.
Just turn it round so the offending side cant be seen. I keep various little kitchen knick knacks in a tin marked "dishwasher tablets"

@Weedsnseeds1

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Wow, that’s ugly.

@NewScone

I'm a rebel and keep the sugar in a "tea" jar

I was just going to ask if anyone else rebels and puts different things in them. I bulk buy coffee bags and store them in my 'bread' bin

@Eleganz

I feel your pain. It is quite limiting when you don't want to have half the containers on your counter to have what they contain in large goofy font proclaiming that they contain 'bread', 'tea', 'sugar' just in case you forget...

Only thing I can say is keep looking and try and keep an open mind on what may work.

I have plain kilner jars for that sort of thing. I don't even have a label to tell me which contains caster sugar and which contains granulated #livingontheedge

I want some seed trays made out of wood rather than plastic but the only ones I can find have "seedlings" engraved onto the sides. I know that there are seedlings in them, I don't need some wanky sign telling me!

I have a plain metal one... it came from Ikea

Yes. Yes, you are being very unreasonable. In fact, this is the most unreasonable thing I have ever read on MN.

@LubaLuca

If you get one with a lift up lid instead of a rolling front one, you could just turn it round so the lettering isn't visible.

I had to do this with my peg tin. For some reason it says Utility Room in fancy shmanzy writing on one side so ridiculously not even telling me what’s inside, just telling me what room it should be in. Madness, to think someone went to college and did a degree in design before coming up with it. I don’t even have a utility room. Waste of paint. An angrier person would have got a sharpie, scribbled out “utility room” and written pegs.

But I just turned it round.

Whatever the OP is you pp are BU for this

"I think you are YANBU"

Since when was YAYANBU a thing?

I have found my tribe!

We have a lovely bread bin...but for the hideous labelling. We’ve turned it around and popped in a corner - 4 months on, and I had forgotten (until reading this thread) all about the letters!

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Why DO they write bread on it, it's obvious its a bread bin. You don't have a bath with the lettering bath on the sides do you? Arghhhhhh

Tbf I have seen lots of ‘bath’ signs and letters in home stores. Bath, Soak, Dream, Eat, Love, Laugh etc

@tywysoges

I have a plain metal bread bin, it’s a brabantia one.

I have this as well. It is the one with a drop down lid in metal. Think you can get shiny nor Matt.

I didn’t care if mine said bread or not but just looked at it there and it doesn’t say anything.
I have the grey one, but they have it in blue too which seems to just say the brand name in small writing. The grey one has no writing on it at all

Swan SWKA1010GRN Retro Bread Bin, Metal, Grey, 18 Litre Storage Capacity www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01DA3CLXW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_D1C993HERWSKA1J90B7X?psc=1&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I really dislike labels and patterns on clothes and accessories

I agree. YANBU.

I am always on the look out for nice ceramic jars, but I really do not want a jar that says "Coffee" or "Sugar" as if I"m an imbecile and need signs on things in my kitchen. Such jars are naff.

@08user18467425798532

"I love that on a thread about bread bins posters are conducting independent research before posting, but on a thread about something hyperbolic on a public health subject? Nah."

So true 😂🤣

I think some PPs have slightly misunderstood: the OP is asking why all the ones she likes have been spoiled by having the word written on them, not whether it is possible to find any unsullied bread bin to buy.

Fair enough that some folk might like them (same as those signs saying 'Live, Laugh, Love' that some people find helpful as reminders not to die, be grumpy or hate), but I'm definitely on Team No Label. I sort of see the idea when it's a set of identical looking pots for coffee, teabags etc., but even then, it's unhelpful if, say, you don't drink tea but you like to have two pots for white and brown sugar, or don't drink coffee but wanted to store hot chocolate in it.

It's twee enough if it does say exactly what you intend to store in it, but I really don't get why manufacturers would limit their market so unnecessarily. They're pleasing those who insist that their storage containers must be labelled and also want to use it for their predetermined purpose, whilst excluding all of those who want to use it for something else, those who don't like labels on anything and those who don't care one way or the other.

To those saying just to turn the label to face the wall or just to ignore it, why should you have to? It's on display in your kitchen/living room or wherever - you wouldn't want a calendar from last year with the dates and days crossed out and replaced with the right ones!

I do think in general there is too much of this writing on things.

I’ve just searched on amazon and there are tonnes of bread bins to choose from that don’t have the word bread on the container

To be fair, whenever I have a breadbin I always end up eating less bread, as I forget to look in the bread bin and check what state of mouldiness it's in before I go to the shops. So maybe someone needs to do a breadbin that says "Bread (possibly mouldy)" just for me.

YouTube home accounts are full of women rushing out to buy the stick on labelling that is available in Pound Land at the moment, reminding us ditzy wimmin where the pasta, flour and sugar is.

On a side note I keep bread in the fridge. As a child we always kept it in the bread bin and I remember going to a friend's who kept theirs in the fridge. Hers tasted so much better. Bread bins provide the optimum conditions for mould.

Love this thread. It’s making me LOL and reminds me of the olden days of mumsnet when it was all green fields and sharp-witted humour. There’s even statistical analysis on this thread.

I have a brabantia breadbin that is plain stainless steel....

It must also be a bit weird if your surname is Broad or Coffey or similar (or your first name is Thea). It would just always look to your guests that you tried to get a personalised one (for some reason only known to yourself), but either you or the maker stuffed up somewhere along the line!

There's probably already a painfully modern one out there labelled with #bread or @bread or similar. It just looks to me like things are labelled with a purpose to help people with dementia, or possibly young children or foreign language leaners. It just seems so pointless for anybody over 7 without memory or cognitive conditions - like an adult (without any additional needs) having a bright 'learn to tell the time' or 'this is how we tie our shoes' poster up for no other reason than that they think it looks funky.