Great Canadian Tea Box Round 5! Sign ups CLOSED
I’m also new to Steepster and interested in joining.
Hi Liz. You don’t seem to have any activity on steepster such as tasting notes or teas in your cupboard. Did u just join steepster?
Yeah I joined a few weeks ago (mid-December). I’ve been reading some of the other threads about Tea Boxes and I thought it would be a good way to try some new teas.
One of the things that has happened in the past with other TTBs (so far ours has been good) is they have gone missing mid-route. That is why in the guidelines for this box we ask that participants have some activity on steepster so that the participants in the TTB are familiar with eachother.
Perhaps you could have a bit more activity on your account so we can learn more about you. Write up some tasting notes, expand your profile a bit. I’m not saying no you can’t participate, but we just want to know a bit more about you. We do want to include as many people as possible in the box.
Hey Lala, I totally understand where you’re coming from. If I saw an empty profile like mine I wouldn’t necessarily trust that person either :) I meant to flesh out my Steepster profile when I joined, but then I had exams, then the holidays….and now here we are in January. Oops.
I’m interested and as I have no classes this semester I should be a lot quicker about mailing the box.
Sign me up! I have never participated in a box and have always wanted to!
Roswell Strange is also signed up, so between the two of you we can decide who wants to start and who wants to end with the box :)
For the record I’m totally impartial to whether I start things off or end them :) Though either way I think it’s a good excuse to meet up and have tea in person some time!
Just bumping as this thread appears to have magically disappeared and wouldn’t even pull up in the search discussion :S I had to wade through all of the threads that just contained the word Canada.
Just don’t want it to get lost :)
A question—what do people usually package teas in to prevent contamination with other teas?
It really depends on the type of tea. Most teas are put into a ziplock type of bag. Some teas are left in their original packaging. If it is a smelly tea, for example a lapsang, it is recommended to be double bagged to avoid scent contamination. Some people recommended tin foiling the zip lock which helps with scent. Some fragile teas can be wrapped in a bubble wrap type of packaging. It is no different then what you do for a mail swap.
I have foil zip bags now since after going through a few swaps and tea boxes, i found contamination to be challenging to avoid otherwise. If it’s going to be going out for a long haul versus a short swap, i try to make sure things are bagged properly. In swaps, occasionally i’ve used ultra thick dollar store craft bags, as ziplock bags (unless they’re freezer quality) tend to leak odors.
Thank you both. I haven’t yet done any swaps or TTB happenings, and I’ve been both curious and shy to ask how this all works.
random aside but if you’re planning on possibly hitting up the toronto tea festival – there’s an opportunity to do an in person swap with a few of us who are going/meet up haha
I’ll be at the Toronto Tea Festival on the 30th if anyone wants to meet up for a swap or a cup of tea :)
Off the top of my head, Christina; Indigobloom; Kitenna; Cavocorax; Evol Ving Ness will all be there. i think closer to the festival we can maybe start a thread to get folks connected. I know my loose plan, provided cavo cooperates, is to get there when it starts on sat so that we can be gone before the crowds are stupid.
Yes! I am going. I don’t know how long I will be able to stay, but I will be there for at least a bit. And yes! I’d love to do an in person swap. You and I seem to have mostly the same likes, as far as I can tell. It’d be lovely to meet up and swap with and have cups of tea with all the few who are going. Yes! Thank you for suggesting it, Sil.
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