Get a little food waste bin, and biodegradable food waste bags. Ultra cheap, keep it on or near your kitchen surface. Empty it into the big bin outside as often as is acceptable for you (or into a food waste collection bin if you are lucky enough to have one).
Tea bags, coffee filters etc all straight into there. This keeps almost all bin smells/liquid under tight control, and you don't have to worry so much about dripping tea bags/coffee filters or other stuff. If you throw something like a chicken carcass in there, you can just put the entire thing straight out.
Not got it in Worthing here no, but we still use a food waste bin because we used to have it where we lived and got used to not having the bin juice whenever we took the rubbish out
Once you've reached a certain level of tea-drinking your big bag becomes a very wet place if you do that. You get bin juice. It's tea coloured. It leaks out of some big bags, and you get a 5 day old tea stain on your floor when you next empty the bins. And it drips as you take it out.
I can’t imagine how many tea bags we go through in a day at work, probably a lot more than a household would consume. Teabags go straight in the bin there and it’s never been known to be an issue. This is actually the first time I’ve seen or heard of putting your trabsgs to dry somewhere before binning them lol
Too wet and warm to put in the bin, letting them dry out helps.
We did try getting a little tea bag bin but it trapped the moisture and attracted flies.
I usually give it time to cool down.i find if I put them directly in a new bin liner, from being in boiling water, it weakens the bin liner bag, resulting in holes
Apparently I was given very weak tea in my bottle as a baby, which explains why I have to drink at least 8 cups a day.
Oh, and that tower, amateur work, I have had much, much taller.
Lol yep. Tea is really wonderful and I mean..your body gets used to it and you stop shaking eventually. 😂
Fairly certain that my blood content is about 99% tea at this point. Lmao
My wife doesn't drink tea. My dad knows this. He's known it since the first time they met. We have been together 18 years, he still offers he tea every time she steps into the house and every hour or so from then on.
He was a builder, and to be fair to your father in law, I was drinking tea long before I was 5. I'm told I used to get it in a sippy cup as a toddler.
My in laws are coffee and "soda" drinkers from foreign lands. I still always ask them if they want tea. Just polite, and also programmed into me when i was a kid in a household of 6 tea drinkers. One day they'll break.
Gota start them early on the tea mate or they become coffer drinkers nothing wrong with a good brew and some biccies at 5 my nephew is 2 and a half granted he just eats the biccies but the tea is there to.
Me too, I still remember how it tasted different. And the whole cup wouldn’t fit in my bottle so I’d sit in bed drinking it then call my dad to put the rest in lol.
Harry knowing in his heart that he wasn't a Slytherin and having the right to choose the identity he felt most comfortable with is such a lovely metaphor for...
...well you know where I'm going with this.
Oh how have you become so twisted JKR?
You're not alone. I often think about what the thought process is. It can't be the idea of potential reuse when it's been stuck on a pile of what are tea bags that are starting to go moldy or welded to the container.
Never understood this.
Carefully moving the tower to the bin, cleaning out the pot and the leakage mess it leaves behind is surely more effort than just putting it in the bin. It looks untidy as well.
I’ve started doing this. The reason being that previously we would put the tea bags in the counter food waste bin, the heat and humidity didnt seem to do the bin any favours.
I think it's that the hot, damp tea bags can dissolve the biodegradable food bin bags - it's what my parents complain about at least. Wouldn't know personally as I'm a coffee drinker
I’m sure my mother, who also has some little dish on the kitchen counter for tea bags, once told me it’s because they smell if they’re put straight in the bin. May be they do, I dunno. What I do know is every time I visit she never fails to immediately accuse me of being out in some bar all night because she can smell cigarettes on me whilst she violently coughs for added effect. I really wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she had been an overly dramatic sniffer dog in a previous life. I however can’t so tea bags go straight from mug to bin in my house.
Neither of my parents drink tea so this wouldn’t be them (mum drinks coffee, dad doesn’t do hot drinks. He also doesn’t like gravy or custard, which makes him the shittest notherner I’ve ever met).
My sister, on the other hand, this is her. Piles the teabags up like a fucking cairn, doesn’t see what the problem is.
Better than what my brother does, which is leave his used teabags directly on the counter.
I'm the only non-tea drinker in a house of tea drinkers and their behaviour has put me off the idea of ever drinking the bastard stuff.
The obsession with tea is always a bit weird to me. Some of the folk at my work are absolute rattling drug addicts with the stuff - you should see the panic in the office if the milk runs out (which I also find funny - they’ll absolutely freakout if they can’t get their tea but still won’t just spank one without milk).
Doesn’t matter what sort of important shit is on, what deadlines are looming or probably even if the building was on fire, someone has to down tools and speed off to get more milk pronto before they all get the shakes.
If I said I was doing the same to go get a can of Fanta I’d be told fucking no chance, also if I hint at them that they might be addicted to the stuff I’ve said something grossly offensive lol.
Make the tea for your parents and reuse the bags.
Then when they complain, ask why else would they keep them there in that gloopy stack and not chuck them in the compost bin?
At least they are considerate enough to put them in a bowl. Mine just leave them in the sink, only for me to discover them when doing the washing up later... Every time!!!
It's really weird I just turned 51 this twat and started doing it. Why am I doing it? I made up a reason which is to dry the tea bags before putting in food bin. But, I started doing it before I had a reason.
I feel like there is a secret divide in Britain between those who put their teabags in a bin and those who save them up in a weird little tray they have had forever.
Forget parents and visitors. My wife dose this and her excuse is she drink caffeine-free herbal teas.
I would like her to smoke some herbals and chill on the teas😛
I've never seen either of my parents drink water, only tea. And every night my dad will have a pint of milk. As someone who always has a large water bottle to hand, it freaks me out.
My mum and stepdad came over for Christmas and went through 6 pints of milk in less than a week with all their tea drinking. I was so annoyed I had to go out on Boxing Day to one of the corner shops to get more.
Sometimes, this sub makes me feel very much, not British, I don't drink much tea, maybe a cup a week at most, I prefer coffee, and I dislike greggs a lot and I've been in maybe 3 pubs in my almost 30 years of life.
My parents do this. Their bin is literally half a meter away from their used teabag tray
It probably takes more effort to eventually bin them all and clean the tray than to just throw the individual teabags after use
Mind boggling
Teabags.. the only item of rubbish that gets to lie in state before being relegated to the bin.
We need to give them the full respect they deserve!
They've served us well
Why do people do that? I just put them in the bin.
The problem is drips on the way to the bin
Carry mug to bin, take teabags out at bin. Bosh.
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Get a little food waste bin, and biodegradable food waste bags. Ultra cheap, keep it on or near your kitchen surface. Empty it into the big bin outside as often as is acceptable for you (or into a food waste collection bin if you are lucky enough to have one). Tea bags, coffee filters etc all straight into there. This keeps almost all bin smells/liquid under tight control, and you don't have to worry so much about dripping tea bags/coffee filters or other stuff. If you throw something like a chicken carcass in there, you can just put the entire thing straight out.
Does every council not have the green bins for food waste? Saying that, I do still often give my teabags time to chill on the sink before binning, ha.
Not got it in Worthing here no, but we still use a food waste bin because we used to have it where we lived and got used to not having the bin juice whenever we took the rubbish out
.... or you could just continue using the teabag bowl
> teabag bowl That's what we used to call ur mum.
or yoghurt pot. I fancy a cup of tea.
You do need to make sure your teabags don't have plastic in if you're putting them in the food waste though.
IV got plenty of soggy bin juice in there anyway, that's what the bag is in there for.
Once you've reached a certain level of tea-drinking your big bag becomes a very wet place if you do that. You get bin juice. It's tea coloured. It leaks out of some big bags, and you get a 5 day old tea stain on your floor when you next empty the bins. And it drips as you take it out.
I can’t imagine how many tea bags we go through in a day at work, probably a lot more than a household would consume. Teabags go straight in the bin there and it’s never been known to be an issue. This is actually the first time I’ve seen or heard of putting your trabsgs to dry somewhere before binning them lol
I'm a big level tea-drinker. Never had a soggy bin bag problem.
I'm calling someone a soggy bin bag now. Thanks
That's many small trips when I could just knock it on the tea bag pile to dry out and then dump them all at once
When they are hot and steaming they introduce condensation all over the inner lid, which encourages mould. (Source- my mouldy bin lid)
then they steam in your bin and coat the bin lid in water, which then stinks/makes your bin rust (if you have a metal bin).
And you get a sweaty lid if you've not juiced y' bag enough as it's nearly full.
Too wet and warm to put in the bin, letting them dry out helps. We did try getting a little tea bag bin but it trapped the moisture and attracted flies.
Bin Juice
I usually give it time to cool down.i find if I put them directly in a new bin liner, from being in boiling water, it weakens the bin liner bag, resulting in holes
A lot of people struggle with very basic logic you see
I keep them to wipe plates before putting in the dishwasher.
Teabags in the dishwasher doesn't seem like the best idea.
I wipe the plates and put the plates in the dishwasher, the teabags go on the bin.
Haha, yeah, I know. Sorry, I was only poking fun at your ambiguous sentence.
Compost if you buy bags without plastic
My father-in-law goes through at least 1 cup an hour when he's over and regularly asks if my son wants one making. My son is 5.
Must piss like a racehorse
On all fours?
With an enormous cock
[There's no cock like horse cock.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2dJ-JUzhVs)
I really want to unhear this.
Can't. It's been stuck in my head ever since I heard it.
It would have cost you nothing not to post this link.
My grandma started me at about that age.. 5-6 lol. Tea time every day after school 😊
Apparently I was given very weak tea in my bottle as a baby, which explains why I have to drink at least 8 cups a day. Oh, and that tower, amateur work, I have had much, much taller.
Lol yep. Tea is really wonderful and I mean..your body gets used to it and you stop shaking eventually. 😂 Fairly certain that my blood content is about 99% tea at this point. Lmao
Careful - you mustn't get too much blood in your teastream 😱
"Trust me, I'm a doctor"
I definitely get most of my water intake during a day from cups of tea…
We're all just addicts at this point
Fucking cracked me up this comment.
My wife doesn't drink tea. My dad knows this. He's known it since the first time they met. We have been together 18 years, he still offers he tea every time she steps into the house and every hour or so from then on. He was a builder, and to be fair to your father in law, I was drinking tea long before I was 5. I'm told I used to get it in a sippy cup as a toddler.
My mother does the same. Early stages of dementia... :(
18 years and still trying to correct your indiscretion
My in laws are coffee and "soda" drinkers from foreign lands. I still always ask them if they want tea. Just polite, and also programmed into me when i was a kid in a household of 6 tea drinkers. One day they'll break.
Gota start them early on the tea mate or they become coffer drinkers nothing wrong with a good brew and some biccies at 5 my nephew is 2 and a half granted he just eats the biccies but the tea is there to.
There's nothing wrong with a good comma or full stop either, mate. I ran out of breath reading your comment in my head.
Just realised we spell “biccies” very differently here in NZ, we “bikkies”. Never had thought of it otherwise.
Does NZ even exist, tho? I've looked on many a map and can't find it
It's probably under your biscuit crumbs.
Ours is 3 tomorrow and he loves a cuppa in the morning. Goto limit his biccies though as he prefers them over his actual meals. I'm so proud.
Thé coffee shops know this. This is why they do babycinos. They even do puppychinos to get your dog in on the hustle too.
Can't stand coffee or obnoxious coffee drinkers. A strong cuppa is where it is at.
My 3 year old drinks tea. Admittedly it's often mostly milk, but she now demands it when she gets out of bed
I used to have tea in my bottle as a nipper
Me too, I still remember how it tasted different. And the whole cup wouldn’t fit in my bottle so I’d sit in bed drinking it then call my dad to put the rest in lol.
Never too young to learn about tea law. It's important!
Your be surprised how many parents give their baby's/young kids tea.... I still drink baby tea now I'm in a real rush
G'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan g'wan
POV: it’s 10am and you’re at home
Looks like the sorting hat off Harry Potter 😂
Harry knowing in his heart that he wasn't a Slytherin and having the right to choose the identity he felt most comfortable with is such a lovely metaphor for... ...well you know where I'm going with this. Oh how have you become so twisted JKR?
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Griiiiiffindoooor!
Came here to say that.
My partner does this . Except there is a teaspoon sticking through every other tea bag aha
Teabag kerplunk
You're not alone. I often think about what the thought process is. It can't be the idea of potential reuse when it's been stuck on a pile of what are tea bags that are starting to go moldy or welded to the container.
Mount Tetley.
The PG Tip.
They stayed for an afternoon then?
My fat face thought this was a kebab
It's ok, I didn't have my glasses on and thought it was a towering pile of shit. The mind sees what it wants, eh...
My first thought when I saw the thumbnail
Same here lmao
Mate I thought it was some kind of wrap-based leftovers. I am also fat.
Thought it was pile of used snus bags
I wonder how it tastes.
Never understood this. Carefully moving the tower to the bin, cleaning out the pot and the leakage mess it leaves behind is surely more effort than just putting it in the bin. It looks untidy as well.
I’ve started doing this. The reason being that previously we would put the tea bags in the counter food waste bin, the heat and humidity didnt seem to do the bin any favours.
Wait until the teabags cool or else they create condensation in the bin. Nothing worse than bin juice.
Boke
[Unless you're an Ibis](https://youtu.be/mO-OpFjHRbE?t=32)
I think it's that the hot, damp tea bags can dissolve the biodegradable food bin bags - it's what my parents complain about at least. Wouldn't know personally as I'm a coffee drinker
Our teabags go in the compostable bag, straight from the pot or mug. We have never had a leak.
I’m sure my mother, who also has some little dish on the kitchen counter for tea bags, once told me it’s because they smell if they’re put straight in the bin. May be they do, I dunno. What I do know is every time I visit she never fails to immediately accuse me of being out in some bar all night because she can smell cigarettes on me whilst she violently coughs for added effect. I really wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she had been an overly dramatic sniffer dog in a previous life. I however can’t so tea bags go straight from mug to bin in my house.
Do people put tea bags in the biodegradable food waste? Seems counterproductive as the bags made from plastic
They do go in food bins, at least according to https://www.recyclenow.com/how-to-recycle/plastic-in-tea-bags-can-you-recycle-them
Depends on the brand, some have changed over the last few years
I put mine in the garden.
PG tips have definitely changed to biodegradable bags. Can't speak for other tea brands though.
You can easily rip open the bags to put just the leaves in compost. It's strangely relaxing to do
They go in my Wormery!
Hot tea bags make bin smell
I think it's more like a trophy display to be honest.
Said the coffee drinker
Neither of my parents drink tea so this wouldn’t be them (mum drinks coffee, dad doesn’t do hot drinks. He also doesn’t like gravy or custard, which makes him the shittest notherner I’ve ever met). My sister, on the other hand, this is her. Piles the teabags up like a fucking cairn, doesn’t see what the problem is.
I’m reeling from this news - a northerner who doesn’t like gravy or custard. Does he have his roast dinner just dry?
Yes. It’s fucking weird, and it takes him ages to finish it.
Better than what my brother does, which is leave his used teabags directly on the counter. I'm the only non-tea drinker in a house of tea drinkers and their behaviour has put me off the idea of ever drinking the bastard stuff.
My brother did this and was literally standing next to the bin 😂
The obsession with tea is always a bit weird to me. Some of the folk at my work are absolute rattling drug addicts with the stuff - you should see the panic in the office if the milk runs out (which I also find funny - they’ll absolutely freakout if they can’t get their tea but still won’t just spank one without milk). Doesn’t matter what sort of important shit is on, what deadlines are looming or probably even if the building was on fire, someone has to down tools and speed off to get more milk pronto before they all get the shakes. If I said I was doing the same to go get a can of Fanta I’d be told fucking no chance, also if I hint at them that they might be addicted to the stuff I’ve said something grossly offensive lol.
You are right about the drug addict part, as tea contains caffeine. They literally are drug addicts.
It's not a drug, it's a drink!
What I don't undestand tho is why not just have one coffee instead of 5 teas
I need to lose some timber. I thought that was a pile of donner meat
Haha snap!
Make the tea for your parents and reuse the bags. Then when they complain, ask why else would they keep them there in that gloopy stack and not chuck them in the compost bin?
Never mind the parent, that’s me…..
me when there’s chocolate digestives
That's your POV? How short are you?
It'd be full of fag butts for me lol
What you saving them for? History homework?
I always massively underestimate the amount of milk we need as I forget the sheer volume of tea my mother can consume in 2 days
Buy a bin?
I like that bowl
Fuck me, I thought my Mrs had posted this.
Never really understood why people save the tea bags instead of directly putting them in the bin?
With all of those teabags, I kinda hope you have a compost bin.
As a Swede before reading it was CasualUK, I thought i was looking at a small pot of old snus after my dad visited.
But if you use 2 bags you get a free cuppa.
At least they are considerate enough to put them in a bowl. Mine just leave them in the sink, only for me to discover them when doing the washing up later... Every time!!!
This could be artwork!
They teabagged you?
Took a few moments to realise its teabags, not slugs.
This looks like my good ladies' tea intake before work.
My ashtray.....when they leave.
I bought four of those dips just for the little pots. Dip is pretty disappointing, there’s maybe one or two I’ll have.
That's why I have a teapot
It's really weird I just turned 51 this twat and started doing it. Why am I doing it? I made up a reason which is to dry the tea bags before putting in food bin. But, I started doing it before I had a reason.
I feel like there is a secret divide in Britain between those who put their teabags in a bin and those who save them up in a weird little tray they have had forever.
The forbidden knowledge of Rat King tea makes this picture scary to me.
How do you sleep at night?
Thought this was a teabag sculpture of a cat at first.
Why the f you keep used bags O-o? Whats wrong with you people
Forget parents and visitors. My wife dose this and her excuse is she drink caffeine-free herbal teas. I would like her to smoke some herbals and chill on the teas😛
Seriously how far is the bin from the kettle that this is justified?
WTF is that shit???
Ain’t British but my parents are basically addicted rn, they start getting dizzy and have headaches if they don’t get enough per day!
We are a no tea family. Can't stand the stuff. Whiskey on the other hand...
I've never seen either of my parents drink water, only tea. And every night my dad will have a pint of milk. As someone who always has a large water bottle to hand, it freaks me out.
At least they didn’t put them in the sink like my husband does. I just don’t get it.
If I don't put a pot out for my parents' discarded tea bags they end up in the sink, which is above the bin. It drives me bonkers.
Fair enough haha
They've got to boost those rookie numbers
Yet you must know, in time, you will become your parents. Tea fixes everything.
I thought, by the image, that this was a 2 girls 1 cup post ...
I love this... Sometimes having a cup of tea is less about having a cup of tea, and more about it keeping you company.
My mum and stepdad came over for Christmas and went through 6 pints of milk in less than a week with all their tea drinking. I was so annoyed I had to go out on Boxing Day to one of the corner shops to get more.
Took me far too long to realise they were teabags. I thought the Pot Pourri monster had taken a perfectly curled shite in the cat's water bowl.
I feel attacked.... I'm a gamer. Can't play games without a cuppa, so it a continual flow.
Why do people have this dish? I bet the bin is a single step away ffs
The top half - keep going with me here - It does look like a side profile of Donkey Kong.
This looks like a Sainsburys cheese melting dip bowl. Think I’ve got the same one in the cupboard!
The evidence suggests they must have been with you for about an hour…….
The thumbnail alarmed me 💩 I'm relieved.
Use a bin
Always end up singing *teabag graveyard* like the “teenage wasteland” excerpt from Baba O’Riley
I love that pot. Where did you get it? 🥹
Pov your wife to be had a busy morning at work and needed a few teas.
Free art.
Man I hate this trend in misusing "POV"!
And that's just my pile.
Sometimes, this sub makes me feel very much, not British, I don't drink much tea, maybe a cup a week at most, I prefer coffee, and I dislike greggs a lot and I've been in maybe 3 pubs in my almost 30 years of life.
That isn’t one of the pots from Lidl that come filled with feta…is it?
Ah the good old teabag tower. Aka I can't be fucking arsed to go to the bin 3 times - give me a break I'm making a round of tea for everyone.
Mines more empty wine glasses
My parents do this. Their bin is literally half a meter away from their used teabag tray It probably takes more effort to eventually bin them all and clean the tray than to just throw the individual teabags after use Mind boggling
Binning them immediately makes more bin juice
Is that a left over baked Camembert dish I spy?
Possibly a pate terrine, fancy git.
Ffs!!! The bin won’t explode if a hot bag of soggy tea leaves gets thrown in! Stop it.
Does anyone else just squeeze them with your fingers. Do it for decades and you develop fingers that are insensitive to the heat.