Tea Buying Hiatus Support Group

Hmmm have you ever taken a photo of all your tea in one place (like the kitchen table)? That might help remind you how much you have :) Another thing I like to do is mix teas. It’s like creating a whole new tea for free!

If you want more variety, swap. You can even ask for specific things.

Taking photos of my tea all in one place might help. Plus I need to organize it better. It’s a mess in my pantry, minus what I’ve taken to work.

And swapping. I’ve been doing a little bit of that lately. Of course, now there are more teas I want to own because I had just a little taste of them. Or that taste makes me want to try a slightly different variety.

Sigh.

A couple more weeks and I should be okay to buy again.

Good for you! You can do it then. Maybe focus on the positive reward at the end then. Ie. If I make it to x I can reward myself with x purchase.

Yah, swapping is usually bad for my hiatus because you’re I right it just introduces me to new companies, or new teas, and now I want those! (instead of quenching a thirst)

In a couple weeks you’ll be trying a huge TTB full of samples :)

I find a TTB to be at least as fun as receiving an order. You can try dozens of teas, and when you send it out, it takes away some of your excess of tea with it! Win-Win.

So true! I think it’s more fun than an order. Much more tea to try!

I love tea boxes, but yes, it’s like swapping. I find more things I want to buy.

What counts is up to you. It’s your money and your tea.

I’m going to drink my samples for the rest of Summer, and not buy anything new.

Black Friday – wow, there’s no way I could go that long.

Once you see my cupboard updated you’ll see why…

I bought tea on Sunday. Someone was selling ThePuriTea Milk Oolong from their stash, and that’s my first milk oolong, and no longer available. Sigh. It was only $8 with shipping, and only a couple of days earlier than I was thinking I would break the hiatus. I’m probably going to hold off a little longer if I can.

I also subscribed to Golden Tips tea of the month club for a year right before I posted this. Because it was only $75 with the steepster code and um the well I neeeeded it. I’ve been wanted to try more indian teas. And the yearly subscription that gets you 10 grams of 10 teas each months. So 100 grams of tea a month! And it only comes to $6.25 a month.

Ok I should shut up about my justifications in this thread.

So even though I’m not buying any tea for over three months I’m still going to be getting a decent amount and variety of tea monthly. Plus I have kick starter rewards from Just Organic and Southern Boy Iced Teas on their way.

I need to be told that even spending $5 on whispering pines samples is breaking my hiatus. Cause I have a little voice telling me “It’s only $5, you’ve really wanted to try these teas for a long time, they’re only samples. I mean realistically I’m only paying for shipping not tea so that doesn’t really count right?”

So someone set me straight please. I’m struggling right now.

Thinking about how much tea I have helps (“boy I sure have a looooooot”). And “Do I reeeaaaaly need this?” That last might not be as effective.

The answer to “Do I reeeaaaaly need this?” is usually a yes from me lol. Of course I need this! How could I not need tea!

“Will I ever drink and enjoy all the tea I already own?” is more effective for me.

I usually ask myself that if the tea in question is from a certain group, like flavored teas or Chinese blacks.

I’m trying SO HARD to resist that Mandala sale…ugh

I was WONDERING where you were in all of that. Less than 24 hours. You can do it!!

I love their teas so hard but I have plenty of puerh, really plenty of tea in general…enough to last me months and months. Gotta be frugal!!

I have plenty to last me months too. I think I’ll only make two orders on Black Friday. Della Terra for dessert teas. And Verdant for mostly their masala chai (I won the $50 voucher from the Chinese New Year drawing but I guess that doesn’t count since it’s practically free spending).

who usually does black friday sales

Off the top of my head: Verdant, Della Terra, Teavana, Yezi, Butiki, Teavivre… You can search for the forum for other companies.

eh, teavivre I might do.

I’m fighting the good fight with you Steph! I ADORE their teas but i have enough puerh to last me at least a year lol

The word BUYING “Tea BUYING Hiatus Support Group” suggest to me the exchange of money. If the samples were free and the shipping was free – then you didn’t BUY it, so no it doesn’t count. If someone GAVE you tea for your birthday – that wouldn’t count either. LOL At least that’s how it works in my world….. ;))

Um they kinda cost a little bit of money (WP) not much though!

LOL – then they TOTALLY count ;)) (if you are going to break hiatus, at least you bought GOOD tea….)

I’ve decided anything less than half an ounce doesn’t count.

Heh, that’s what I’m saying when I justify the recent boxes (and one more to come) that have come in. “I didn’t buy all this tea, it came in a swap!” or “I bought this tea 2 months ago through Kickstarter” or “I’m being given this tea for free!”.

The nice thing is that now I have enough to redeem 1 free 50g back from David’s Frequent Steeper program, and that still counts!

Well I was going to wait till BF/CM to buy tea but if I didn’t try any WP how would I know what to buy on their cyber monday sale? I mean it’s just practical you know?

But now I must sit on my hands!

I think it all depends on what made you decide to go into hiatus, was it help! I’m drowning in tea, or my tea habit is going to drive me to bankruptcy.

I like the word swimming free style more ;-)

I think I’m in so much trouble that I’ve left the swimming pool behind, skipped the lake totally, and just dove right into the ocean…..

Dexter, you are a good swimmer ;-)
My biggest weakness is puerh. As soon as I sample and like it I buy a cake. Not tiny 100g, but 357g or 500g. I’m completely obsessed with YS. Whatever I try I must have it. That site is dangerous. Everything is cheap and they have sales too. Pretty often.

;-)

yeah, as soon as YS has a sheng or general Puer sale on their house brand, I’ve got about 3 or 4 cakes in my cart ready to go. If anybody sees that sale or has any codes they’re not using, please let me know.

boychik – I have pu’erh cakes, but none from Yunnan Sourcing. I’ve managed to avoid them until very recently – I have a TON of their black teas on the way. I’m more than a little afraid to start buying pu’erh there. I can totally appreciate how that can get you in trouble. :))

That’s my problem with aliexpress. Especially with new stores, where the mark down is often phenomenal.

YS is dangerous, I tiotally agree I already have a new cart all set up. So far I’m resisting but I love the white tea I bought, especially as a cold brew and I am going through it quickly….

weegeebee1 the us site is having a 48 hour sale that started tonight ( Friday)
48 hour sale on Yunnan Sourcing USA! Enter code: 15percent during checkout for 15% off everything on the site! yunnansourcing.us

Stop trying to get me to order things from Yunnan Sourcing.

I’m safe because even with the sale it’s cheaper for me to order from the .com site.

You are killing me!! Yunnan Sourcing on the way. I blame all the posts in this thread.

Rock on!!!! YYZ, many thanks for posting. I’m all over it.

I resemble that remark :)

I’ve yet to order from Whispering Pines and given my husbands recent layoff and the new check engine light on our car I won’t be BUT that Jabberwocky tea looks like so much fun!

I would offer to send you some, but I’m not sure that shipping to Canada makes sense for just one tea….I wonder how much cheaper it would be to send from within Canada. Not much, I expect.

Canada is apparently opposed to shipping anything anywhere. :)

I appreciate the offer, but I know I’m being silly. I have lots of tea, some of it new. I gotta stop checking out Steepster!

That’s the impression I get about Canada Post. It’s a shame. I’ve been trying to come up with a good excuse to get across to Windsor and go buy some wine that I can’t get in the states.

The sampler plus shipping?

I barely squeaked through on that one using my $6 gift card and the super slow shipping so I didn’t spend any actual money.

Who knows by the time it comes I may have forgotten about it and it will be a nice surprise.

I went for the slow shipping so I didn’t have to pay too, Frolic!

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I think the fact that you paid so little negates your “failure”.

That amount is actually for two orders.

That??? For how much tea? :O

Two anniversary samplers, and two regular samples. That is after the gift card. And I guess that’s actually three orders.

lol!

Another order from Teavivre, though I only paid shipping.

doh. sorry you’re in pain. welcome back on the wagon!