r/AITA Do I Ruin My Friendship Over a $500 Teapot?
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
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| 0:34.4 | From rags to riches. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm so sick of this. |
| 0:57.1 | Working like a dog and being treated worse. Yorkshire to New York. Poor climbers, you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4. Stream now. Welcome to R slash Am I the Butthole, where O.P. has a fight with her friend over a $500 teapot. Am I the butthole because my friend ruined my Yiching teapot and I want her to replace it or give me 500 bucks? When I went to China, |
| 1:03.4 | I bought myself a Yiching teapot. This is a clay unglazed pot that gets seasoned the more you make |
| 1:09.7 | tea in it. Kind of like a cast iron pan. |
| 1:12.4 | Since it's unglazed, you can't wash it with soap or any rough sponges. You clean it by |
| 1:17.6 | using hot water and then you let it air dry. Nothing else. This is the issue. I left for a work |
| 1:23.3 | trip and my friend watched my cat. I paid her. I told her she can use anything in the kitchen. |
| 1:28.4 | My Yishing tea pot is not in the kitchen and neither are any of my fancy loose leaf teas for it. |
| 1:34.9 | I have a normal kettle in the kitchen for guests to use. I came back and found the Yishing teapot |
| 1:40.4 | in my sink and it smells like soap. It also has multiple scratches on the inside. I called her up |
| 1:47.0 | and she told me she used it because she loved the tea that I make with it. She then washed it with a |
| 1:52.3 | rough wire sponge and used soap. She didn't know where my sponges were and didn't want to put it in the |
| 1:57.7 | dishwasher. I tried to fix it, and I couldn't. Anything |
| 2:01.2 | brewed inside of it comes out with a taste of soap, and the scratches are just getting bigger with |
| 2:06.3 | every boil I try. It's ruined. I called her up and asked her to replace it since she ruined it. |
| 2:12.5 | She told me to just clean it, and I told her I tried. She agreed, and I sent her a link to the teapot from the same |
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