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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I learned that one on the lap of my British mother.
But she was better at quoting it than following the implied advice. She drank enormous amounts of tea, and would get occupied doing something, forget about the teapot, and suddenly the pot was boiled dry and ruined.
Because she did it so frequently, she bought the cheapest, flimsiest Japanese teapots she could find. (This was decades back when Japan was the source of cheap junk.) I said "You know, mom, if you spent a bit more, you could get a good teapot you wouldn't ruin if it boiled dry, and you would save yourself aggravation now and money, long term." She never did get it.
But then, decades in IT made me familiar with the issue of blank looks when I talk about life cycle costs...
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Surely kettle, not teapot?