Little Terri's Long Awaited Ultimate Sipdown Extravaganza!!!

I hate when numbers are off. :(( But it looks like your numbers went down not up. :))
I have an issue right now too. The tea I was drinking last night wasn’t on my spreadsheet at all, and today I was looking through my steepster cupboard and I have a tea listed that I know I don’t have…. I need to print my spreadsheet and compare to cupboard here and find the errors… Hoping for numbers down not up….

i need to do a cupboard clean up next weekend…once the dog is gone. Need to know how out of wack things are heh

There was at least one tea on my spreadsheet that has been gone for awhile…
I really want to re-organize my entire stash…sigh…somehow setting it up so that teas & their corresponding teawares are somehow together…I know there is a way…
and by way of confession, I spent my entire playpal balance on my YS order…a new gongfu table (still a small one, but not leaking like the one I have now, and a little bigger), a Celadon gaiwan & 2 cups, because…well…there was a sale…and…I didn’t have anything Celadon in my collection…and…anyway, I also got all my favorite black teas, plus a few others that I never tried before…cuz I’m starting to run low on YS black teas, and we can’t let that happen, right? Plus I hadn’t bought any of the 2015 teas. No huge quantities though, just the 50G size of each.

You totally deserve some new teaware – can’t have a leaking table, and well with the sale and lack of celadon, seems like the perfect opportunity – especially if you had PayPal money.
I hear you about YS blacks. I bought a bunch of 2015 and got some through the last subscription box – now I don’t have any 2015 and only a bit of 2013 ZSXZ and some 2014 JJM. How is that possible? How can I only have TWO YS blacks?
I’ve decided that shipping charges are my biggest obstacle in having a balanced cupboard. You have to buy so much to hit free shipping OR you have to buy so much to make shipping worthwhile. I wish you could just order a tea or two as you need them rather than not buying any for a long time then placing huge order….. I know first world problems.
Yay!!! You have new teas incoming!!! :))

dex..solution to that problem….move to toronto :)

oooor…… we reinstate the BBB box. heh

I don’t think moving to GTA is a realistic possibility. :(( I need to firm up my travel plans before I can commit to any sort of boxes. I need to keep reminding myself Africa > tea ….

that’s why we should reinstate the BBB box heh. sharing is caring!

I miss our Badass Bitches Box!

And thank you Dex for cosigning my binge!

When it comes to YS, there is no such thing as free shipping, so I always go with the cheapest option, although that means I might not see my stuff until new years…

Yunnan Sourcing – Autumn Lao Shu Bai Cha Old Arbor Raw – 194
Treasure Green – Yunnan Golden Bud – 193
Chinese Market (?) – Yunnan Black – 192
Teavivre – Fengqing Arbour Tree Ripe Puerh Cake 2010 – 191

Wow, you’ve been busy this weekend! :)

Finished off a couple more this week:

65. Black Pearls – Clipper Ship Tea Co.
64. Khongea Encore Assam – Butiki

My sip downs have also really been slow, but I did manage a few, not because I drank them, but because I gave them away. My friend Lisa came for breakfast & I gave her a Gaiwan & several teas to try out in it. Each of the teas I gave her were basically at sip down level.
249 Hand Picked Spring TGY – Verdant
248. Light Roast Anxi TGY – Verdant
247. Ten Year Aged TGY

Maybe next week I’ll try to shift into full Sipdown extravaganza mode :)

nice! i’m hoping to finally get to 100 again before my order..s…come in lol

That’s right, Sister, Flaunt your sip down awesomeness! ;)
It would be great if I could polish off all the odds and ends before my YS order comes, then maybe I’ll still be below 250 :)

lol terri. my main problem atm is that i don’t have many small quantities of teas. so sipdowns are slooooooooww…

And my problem is I have way too much tea, so it’s hard to decide what to drink next :)
246. Shiguping Wulong Rincer – Camelia Sinensis
245. Mi Lan Xiang Reserve Dancong – Verdant
244. Wang Yanxin’s Jin Jun Mei – Verdant Reserve (might be from 2012 Sil)
243. 2007 Boyou shou – Puerh shop from Tea Explorer

63. Amaretto – David’s Tea

Slow week for me…
O5Tea – Old Cultivatar Shui Xian – 186
Camellia Sinensis – Ali Shan 1999 – 185

241. Snowy Mountain Handmade Plait – Ebay – sample from a friend :)

I hate when that happens (the flavor loosing thing).

I know, right? :(

Making progress!

59. Plum Brandy Cheesecake
58. Raspberry Jam & Cashew Butter (really going to miss this one!)
57. Plum Compote & Cashew Cake

yay!

nice. I’ve got to do a reweigh before the end of the year as well to come up with next year’s goals in number and weight haha

ugh yes..that weight thing is a problem. I can’t wait for rental dog to leave so i can get organised and join in the “fun” :)

Yep. But if I drank one puerh (or oolong!) every day at 7g per, that’s 2.5 kilos less tea I’d have in 1 year.

OMG – you always have a way of putting things in perspective.
If I drank 7g of pu’erh everyday for TWO years I would still have pu’erh in my house. That’s not going to happen and if it did I pretty much wouldn’t drink anything else other than black at work.
NO MORE PU’ERH……

It’s a scary perspective, isn’t it?! O.o I am only allowed to replace things I drink up IF I REALLY REALLY LIKE/LOVE/ADORE them! Jeepers.

i can’t imagine drinking 1 puerh a day.. i’m lucky if i manage to do one a week…seriously need to figure out my goals for next year haha

I can’t even think about drinking one pu’erh everyday, but the alternative if I drank it once a week…
7g x 52 weeks = 364g/year
5000g/364= 13.7 years to drink my pu’erh assuming I ONLY have 5KG (I’m quite sure there is more than that)
I’m suddenly very afraid – even twice a week is almost 7 years…. uggg – so much for the strategy spreadsheet I made to keep me on track with drinking my older stuff first – “THE PLAN” to get back on track didn’t take this into consideration….

Even my small Puerh collection would take me over a year to consume if I drank it every day at my current rate of consumption if that makes you feel better. I’m still in denial with regards to my volume of other Teas. On the other hand I didn’t buy as much Tea as I had budgeted for this year either which is probably a good thing:-).

LOL yyz – ummm that doesn’t really make me feel better :)) Yay for staying under budget for last year!!!! Ummmm my word of advice is not to get into a denial situation – learn how much you have of those “others”. The first time I weighed my cupboard and it came out just over 14kg!!!! I didn’t buy any tea at all for about 5 months (that’s HUGE for me). Just do it – face reality (the shock wears off and you get used to the numbers). :))
I’m actually feeling ok (not great but ok) with my volume of other teas – pu’erh is a big problem – how did this happen? Why did I forget that you can’t drink as much pu’erh as you can other teas? I need to learn how to drink pu’erh at work. If I could stop drinking black and start drinking pu’erh at work that would really help this situation. I need to work on that figure something out…

I chose 7g because that’s what I generally like in my little pot! If I used my Yixing, it would be 4-5g. If I used a bigger pot, I’d scale it. :) I’m not so sure about Western steeping shengs, but I’m going to try with some of the other teas I have, so I can bring them to work.

Edit: Also, think of how delightfully aged your puerh will get as you slowly drink it up! ;)

LOL – for my pu’erh do be delightfully aged – I will need to find a better storage situation. It’s too dry here, would need to get some humidity happening – not sure how to go about that…