To ask if this is normal re teabags??

[LazyJayne]

When I make a cup of tea, I put the used teabag straight in the compost bin. All other members of the household leave them in the spoon rest (like the attached) until there's a tower of teabags.

I would prefer them to go straight in the bin as I find this unsightly, but apparently this is highly unreasonable request and would add unnecessary steps to the (apparently highly complex and exhausting) process of making a cup of tea.

AIBU?

Just count your lucky stars that they're not piled up on the corner of the sink instead OP.

I let mine cool off first, because I've found that a hot, wet teabag can melt the already sensitive plastic of the composting bags.

(Cringing at the words 'hot, wet teabag' but there you go.)

Move the spoon rest and put the bin there :)

Job done

If they're hot when they go into the bin, they make condensation on the inside of the bin lid. So yes, they need to sit on the spoon rest and dry off / cool down a bit first. We've got a little pot by the kettle for teabags to go in before the compost bin. Sort of a tea-bag departure lounge.

I put teabags straight into the compost bin too.

DH leaves them in the sink I wonder sometimes if it's classed as unreasonable behaviour and therefore grounds for divorce.

I’m interested in your wee tea pot tea bag rest. I have one just like it! Curious to know what design is under the tea bag?!

I'd get rid of the spoon rest. Or write PUT IT IN THE COMPOST BIN YOU TWAT on it.

But then I've spent the last week taking photos of stuff people have dumped on top of, instead of within, the dishwasher and sending them to our family WhatsApp with my laminated sign in the back ground that says "it is not illegal to put stuff inside the dishwasher."

I am a compost obsessive, but even I don't require a trip for every tea bag! Fair to complain when they resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but not fair to require every single tea bag to be taken.

I put my teabags in a small pot by the kettle and then empty that once a day

Saves me dripping tea across the floor

I would expect people to leave it there until it's cooled, probably when they finish their tea, then put it in the bin.

I would be annoyed if they were left to pile up.

I have no idea why people insist that teabags should lie in state, but DH is one of them and I love him so I bought a tiny plate for the purpose. These acts of selflessness keep a marriage together ❤️

HE IS WRONG AND ONE DAY I WILL SNAP AND DUMP THE WHOLE FESTERING MOUNTAIN ON HIS PILLOW AND SHOVE THE TINY PLATE SOMEWHERE EYE-WATERING

Teabag departure lounge 😁

I have the same little rest as you, I like to put the tea bags on it to cool down before they’re binned. I have no idea why I do that, just a habit!

I'm sorry, I stack the bags on top of each other in a little pot next to the kettle, then get rid of them all at the end of the day 😂

Let them dry a bit first
Everyone should be capable of emptying the teabag receptacle into the appropriate bin though. My 11yo has mastered this, but still working on her father

Buy loose tea

My compost bin is outside at the bottom of the garden.

Rather than walking the length of the garden every time someone has a cup of tea, they get taken out all at the same time usually just once a day.

They do tend to live in the spoon rest until then & get put out in one go along with veg peelings etc..

We don't have one of those little plastic bins that live in the house though, if we had one of those, that is where I would expect them to be put.

yabu
warm teabags create steam which makes the bin manky.
I'm with your family on this one. put the teabags in the bin once cooled down.

(plus most teabags contain plastic and shouldn't go on the compost.

😂😂😂, made me spit my tea out.

(plus most teabags contain plastic and shouldn't go on the compost)

I use Clipper for this reason - particularly for when the leaning tower of teabags gets emptied in to the wormery instead of the compost heap, don't want my wee worms eating plastic! 😆

Same! I put them straight in the compost bin and DH let’s them pile up on the spoon rest.

I put them straight in the compost bin too. I hate them hanging around, what's the point?
Everyone else who makes a cup of tea in my house does the opposite and leaves me to get rid of them 😐

I disagree as a hot wet teabag(!) doesn't stay hot and wet for long.
I know this as I threw one at someone's retreating neck once when I was an extremely grumpy teenager and they told me later - I thought I'd scalded them!

My mum bought me one of those little plates. I do t drink tea though so it's for her benefit when she visits. She leaves the teabag on there to reuse if she wants a second cup of tea!

In our house if you are male you (Inote - I am only female human and the only other female in the house is a cat and she hasn't grown opposable thumbs or developed a taste for tea)

Make eleventy billion cups of tea and use eleventy billion tea bags and eleventy billion spoons. Tea bags and spoons make a massive pyramid that grows as the day goes by.

Until the tea bag and dishwasher fairy comes along (that will be me then) and they magically disappear.