To not put the toaster in the cupboard?!

[CeruleanSal]

Obviously not a serious topic but…

I keep my toaster on the side in the kitchen. I regularly visit my brother and sister in law and they keep theirs in a low cupboard. I find this insane. Like me they use it daily (if not multiple times a day) and they’re forever getting it out and putting it back. Their kitchen is not tiny or anything, it’s probably larger than mine.
I just want to know… is this normal and am I a weirdo for having my toaster out all the time?!

YABU - I keep my toaster in a cupboard
YANBU - what is this lunacy, my toaster is out on the side!

That's exactly what I was going say.

Now that is cool. Although you would have to remember not to put stuff on top of where they appear.

I think we need the Pope to comment

Little did I know as a naive English atheist!

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Worktop - think it was part of Vatican II.

Ours is in a cupboard because we barely use it and need the space.

I agree! I hope Papa Francesco's next encyclical is on where to keep your toaster to stay onside with the big man

Bit boring, that. 🤣🙈

It was rude because you said it was tat and that she should throw it away.
It's one thing to disagree on what you think should be in a kitchen, but 'stuff' isn't 'tat'.
What if you don't have room in a drawer? What if you quite like a pot if different colour biros within easy access? You might not like that, but it's rude to suggest someone should throw them away.

I want to be your sister.

I know someone who kept their tv remote control in a drawer under the tv stand. Every time they wanted to change channels they had to get up, walk over to it, get the remote out, change channels, put it back in the drawer again and go and sit down.

I've just had my kitchen refitted and I wanted a 'gadget cupboard' where the toaster, food processor, coffee grinder etc all live. The rationale behind it was to clear lots of stuff from the counter tops as there's not a lot of actual work space. Everything is plugged in there too, so there's no cord clutter.
But what is still needed is a sliding bottom/tray to the cupboard so I can easily pull the various items forward onto the adjacent counter top.
As it is i have to just grab and pull forward which is ok for the toaster, mini-chopper etc but the processor is a beast. So a work in progress.

I didn't say she should throw it away, but 'stuff' did sound like junk to me as the other items were listed Certainly didn't mean to be rude

Now that’s just brilliant 😂

I assumed it was a posh name for extension sockets !

OK, I've had to scroll back and check the attribution.

Someone else said it should be thrown away, I said that this was rude, you challenged me on that and I explain why it was rude, thinking you had said to throw it away. Sorry. The usernames got put in a cupboard lost along the way.

I'm a neither a catholic nor a protestant..

I was the one who said it should be thrown away. Someone else said they have a bowl of hairbands on the kitchen counter. Bleugh. I stand by it, no need to have bowls of dusty crap in the kitchen!

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It's an old joke Scorchio - are you a Catholic Muslim or a Protestant Muslim. The joke is very much on NI's obsession with the old divide, not on you. Ochon didn't mean any offence.

Appliances live in thr cupboard. Apart from the kettle. And the kitchenAid mixer which is beautiful

I have 3 containers of hair bobbins and clips on the worktop, as well as two hairbrushes belonging to the DC, not to mention the microwave (obviously with all of the important paperwork in the house precariously piled on top), toaster, container of wooden spoons, butter dish, weighing scales, bottles of squashand sundry other crap. And that's before you get to the windowsill.

As others have said, for an item that is used once a day, for about 5 minutes, it seems mad to have it sitting out taking up worktop space. I always keep it in a cupboard.

Oh absolutely no offense was taken, I'm aware of the whole Catholic/Protestant running joke with toasters, it's very much a trope 😆Ireland is renowned for them