Thought you all might enjoy this...

Pretty much what I said. I once found a few Bigelow bags that were possibly a decade old. They were sealed and were amazingly still pretty good. So you never know.

I begged him not to throw them out without trying them. Kind of hoping he might offer me the tins to ‘check out’ for him. I’m not entirely sure he plans to do anything with them at least yet. His mom has been in a nursing home for a couple years so I think if he was going to try them he already would have. Maybe emotionally he isn’t quite ready to deal with it. I hope to at least get a look at them for a better idea of what they are. At minimum it is an opportunity to talk about his mom and her love of tea.

Understand that. Got weepy last weekend over a fruitcake tin of buttons.

g my mom has been asking for a long time, what she could give me of hers that would mean something to me. I finally relented and pointed out her cabinet full of tea pots. I asked for the story behind some of them. She gave me one that dad bought her on their honeymoon and a set that was her mother’s from their 50th wedding anniversary. Neither set has ever been used for tea but the stories are priceless. Yeah, I was a little misty myself.

I agree. He does read my blog occasionally but never talks about tea.