Yum, it’s been a long time since I’ve had one of my Russian Blends teas. This one in particular is the “Lady Grey” of the bunch, in my opinion – light to medium bergamot level with lovely lemon flavor. A perfect accompaniment to me lazing about on the couch, watching The Fifth Element for the hundredth time!
So I decided to go through all of my tea and separate it out into what I consider “permanent” residents and then what I consider to be “try-me” teas, whether they be from sample orders or swaps, or simply teas that I don’t love enough to keep around on a regular basis. Then, I put all of my “permanent” teas into the cupboard and closed the door. I’m going to allow myself one cup from the cupboard per day, and only one cup. The rest of the tea I drink must be from the more temporary tea selection, which is on the counter and in a couple of small cardboard boxes. There’s quite a variety here, so I don’t see it being a problem until I start to make a lot of progress on it. I do also have a very small box for teas that I dislike enough to not be willing to drink them – these will be for swaps or whatever eventually.
Hopefully this system ends up working out! I was a good girl and put all of my untasted new Butiki teas in the cupboard! Come on, willpower…
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Great idea!
I hope so! It sounds good in theory, we will see how it comes out in practice. :P
I need to reorganize my teas too…my cupboard space for tea is officially too small. ;)
I think you can do it! You seem very determined. I think I should do something about my teas too. I do have a lot of samples. And I don’t want to try them , mostly flav teas.
Not into them anymore.
Yeah, I’m just going to separate out things that I don’t like and potentially put up a swap/rehoming post when all is said and done. I have a couple of TTBs in my future too, so I may put some of those in there. :)
I don’t think I want to swap. Swap brings more teas. Dangerous path. Ppl who interested in pu and Yancha won’t want to swap Della Terra or Davids
You could probably sell a lot of it, I know a lot of people like those two brands. If nothing else, rehome it and just ask for shipping cost. :)
You are right. Should do something abt it.
Big ba-da-boom…
I tend to give away teas I don’t like anymore to get them out of my cupboard…one of my coworkers is the main benefactor and I don’t think she minds one bit…haha!
Nicole, LEELOO MULTIPASS!
I have one side of the cupboard which is my “I know I like” stash, the other side is the “Unsure, need to try again to be sure” stash, and my sample/sip down pile. And then I had my “I know I don’t like, swap/TTB pile” which I just put into a big box to free up space because its also my bagged tea/“some how I ended up with two packages of the same tea, so the unopened package is going here”/yixing teapot cabinet. And then I have the “I still haven’t tried these yet” boxes on my counter to encourage me to sample them before I reach for anything in the cabinets.
But my first two cabinets are bursting, and I can’t fit anything else in them. I really need to find another way to organize and store them.
Great idea!
I hope so! It sounds good in theory, we will see how it comes out in practice. :P
I need to reorganize my teas too…my cupboard space for tea is officially too small. ;)
I think you can do it! You seem very determined. I think I should do something about my teas too. I do have a lot of samples. And I don’t want to try them , mostly flav teas.
Not into them anymore.
Yeah, I’m just going to separate out things that I don’t like and potentially put up a swap/rehoming post when all is said and done. I have a couple of TTBs in my future too, so I may put some of those in there. :)
I don’t think I want to swap. Swap brings more teas. Dangerous path. Ppl who interested in pu and Yancha won’t want to swap Della Terra or Davids
You could probably sell a lot of it, I know a lot of people like those two brands. If nothing else, rehome it and just ask for shipping cost. :)
You are right. Should do something abt it.
Big ba-da-boom…
I tend to give away teas I don’t like anymore to get them out of my cupboard…one of my coworkers is the main benefactor and I don’t think she minds one bit…haha!
Nicole, LEELOO MULTIPASS!
I have one side of the cupboard which is my “I know I like” stash, the other side is the “Unsure, need to try again to be sure” stash, and my sample/sip down pile. And then I had my “I know I don’t like, swap/TTB pile” which I just put into a big box to free up space because its also my bagged tea/“some how I ended up with two packages of the same tea, so the unopened package is going here”/yixing teapot cabinet. And then I have the “I still haven’t tried these yet” boxes on my counter to encourage me to sample them before I reach for anything in the cabinets.
But my first two cabinets are bursting, and I can’t fit anything else in them. I really need to find another way to organize and store them.