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 ?

i got my mum oven gloves a lot as a child
she always asked for them though

At least your Grandad is an equal opportunities unsolicited domestic present buyer

ah but SGM presumably that was to 2 of them? and you do get household items as wedding presents

I was given a teapot for Christmas.
He is now my ex husband

Get MIL some support hose or similar in return

OK SGM that is cheeky
they should have instant and be grateful
thanks justabout, glad i am tolerated!

MIL doesn't actually like tea that much herself tho she drinks it now and again
Maybe i should get her 240 PG Tips

i love tea. I don't have a teapot for several good reasons

1. i like my tea hot, as near boiling as possible. Only the first cup is ever really hot from a pot.

2. if i get distracted from tea drinking, then everything after the first cup is deathly cold sludge.

3. i realy really can't be faffed with cleaning the chuffing things

4. if more than one person wants tea, then i a tea bag per cup. easy-peasy.
   People use a teapot to skimp on bags. to me, this just results in weak tea.

My Mil keeps on offering to buy me a pot. i sooooo don't want one. At her house i try to make myself a cup with her out of the room otherwise she'll always make a pot (and ten mins later...i might get a cup of lukewarm weak tea with a whole pile of fuss attached...)

Not good if your caffeine addiction is as strong as mine.

Get her one of those 'selection of teas' gifts

My brother bought me a teapot for my 4oth. Ididn't have a teapot by the time I was 41

Well I think it´s kind of her as you mentioned that you could do with a new one.

But something personal as well would be nice!

count your blessing. we must all remember the poster who used to get elastic from her mil!

that's true! My MIL is lovely really, if a little old fashioned (she's the one who complimented me on my busy life: FT job, 2 DCs, housework and HUSBAND). Off to warm his slippers now.

stealth, really you are a super mum!

YABU to not drink tea .

What on EARTH do you do when someone is a little bit upset and needs a good old cheer-up and a cuppa ?

BTW, will any of you other tea drinkers out there support me in my campaign to have separate Tea and Coffee queues in cafes. I am fed up with waiting ten minutes behind someone ordering 3 decaff skinny lattes with froth on top (or something.....)

Jamie, the OP does have a teapot and will serve up tea - friends in need of cuppa will no doubt be well catered for.

I will support you for different queues in cafes though - it really narks me as well. Although, in my local cafe, if the staff stopped chatting and got their collective finger out, the queues wouldn't be so long anyway. If you work in a cafe and think I'm talking about you - I AM!

Sorry SPB, realised I've just made lots of assumptions about your tea proffering policy! Jamie, I can see from earier posts that SPB has a teapot (albeit leaky) and that her DH drinks tea. So presumably tea would be on offer if someone was in need.

Am now off to stalk someone else

Well I do make tea, in fact I made my husband one earlier, all part of the wifely duties. I make terrible tea though, so people onlyy tend to ask once

I Must read the whole thread ....

Stealth, my rule of thumb is - leave the tea to brew for as long as it takes to do a poo (assuming you are not a man ). I know you may think me a bit of a loon, but it works.

Of course, you do not actually do a poo, but if you do, please wash your hands ......

Der - meant to say "you do not actually have to do a poo"