to not want a teapot?

[StealthPolarBear]

OK I'm going to get flamed.
Have found out that I am being given a teapot for Christmas. I don't like or drink tea, and don't want a teapot. It's not even a novelty one!
AIBU to think ?

Just give it to charity. How did you find out anyway?

think it - yeah sure, but keep your mouth shut

would rather reveal that by stealth later on

I think I would find out whether someone like tea before buying them a teapot, so yanbu though.

YABU

nice making a pot of tea for friends and family

lol
you can put flowers in it

ooh ooh

I guess 100 posts in you are going to say you have bought it for mil who never makes you a cuppa when you visit

Remy, she knows I hate tea!
And yes, it's MIL but the other way round. I didn't want to start this as a "MIL thread" though.
DH told me so I could get my "ooh lovely just what I've always wanted" face ready, apparently.
He loves tea.

Now YABVU

think of all the pleasure you'll get from making your DH and MIL lovely pots of tea!

at Avril

Oh god, I can imagine my (future) MIL doing that!

YANBU at all!

Get your response ready - ahh how kind, DH will enjoy making himself a cup of tea in that...then smile and hand it to him

Point made without being rude

lol
This is good, having written this I am now thinking of all the arguments in her defence and so convincing myself IABU!

oooh Pheebe...good idea, not sure I'm brave enough

Teapots are a bugger for taking up valuable space in cupboards. YANBU.

I think it's really mean to get you a present that you aren't going to make any use of yourself. If your DH likes tea she should be giving it to him.

Is you MIL married or with a partner? Perhaps you can give her something that's more useful for them instead and see how she likes it.

ahhh but DH is getting an ipod A teapot would just be too much.
As for the space, that's not too much of a problem, we have a dirt cheap one that leaks everywhere that I'll throw out. DH also has one that I bought him in the shape of an elephant.

But still IANBU am I??
present for FIL? good idea, will have to think about that one

If you already have a servicable novelty teapot (not a sentence I have much call to type ) why would she be buying you another one? YA definitely NBU.

drip drip drip
(the thread and the teapot)
We are always wingeing that both our teapots leak, so I assume that's why she's bought us another. I'm getting it, I assume, as the woman of the house. I did kind of already address this - she got me a tablecloth for my birthday and I suggested DH would love one in another colour for Christmas. She laughed like a drain.

well it doesn't leak so much as spurt out of the trunk so goes everywhere

Why do people think that women want domestic items as unsolicited presents? I'd just start doing the same back to her - I bet she'd hate it.

my grandad does this - he has in the past got me an ironing board
does the same to men though - think my dad has had a hosepipe from him in the past

Yeah, get her a chopping board or some oven gloves.

What are you giving her for Christmas - hope it's not too late to choose something appropriate

Maybe she is thinking, 'Poor Stealth, she has to put up with that horrible leaky teapot making a mess all over the kitchen, I will buy her a shiny new one so she has less cleaning up to do' which is nice if a bit sexist.

I would be chuffed with a DECENT (ie. Denby NeverDrip) teapot but I do drink a lot of tea.