I was inspired by the lovely and wise VariaTEA to figure out which of my teas are the oldest and sip them down. So I went back through all of my tea purchase emails and order histories and added all of the data to my spreadsheet (also a recent thing). Added a filter view for oldest teas and put the first five into a separate sipdown box to work on!
This happens to be the oldest tea in my cupboard, and it’s from December of 2016! Not only am I slightly embarrassed by that, but also shocked that this still has this much flavor left! I still love this tea, it has such a nice tart cherry flavor that reminds me of the dried cherries I love to eat with cheese and olives. There are pops of other red fruits as well, notably raspberry, and a hint of sakura. Apparently there is blackcurrant here as well, which makes total sense as it does have a dark syrupy note to it.
I have a good amount of this left, so I’ll likely be working on it for a little while. But it’s nice to have such an old favorite in the sipdown box! ❤
Flavors: Black Currant, Cherry, Earth, Raspberry, Sakura, Smooth, Tart, Wood
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Spreadsheets are the best. Also, I’m so excited to try this one!
I also love spreadsheets, my husband always makes fun of me when I make them for video games… XD
Sorry it’s so old, definitely past its prime. Still yummy though!
That’s a-okay, I’m just happy to try it! Hahah, I have spreadsheets or lists for everything — they’re just so handy!
I’m impressed with your spreadsheet dedication and organization! I’d love to do that, but it seems like a really big project.
It wasn’t so bad! And I have over 350 teas… ;)
I don’t keep my old order e-mails around, but I do have a tea spreadsheet and when I add new teas onto it, I put in the Date field the month and year I received said tea. I am still working on sipping down my 2017 teas but after this year there aren’t very many of them left!
I generally archive all of my emails unless it’s actually spam, then it gets deleted. So everything is still there from a few years ago!
I have 4 teas from 2016 and then it’s on to the 18 from 2017! x.x
Most of my 2017 teas have been 50g bags, so the fact I’ve worked through as many as I have so far is still quite an accomplishment for me!
I found making my spreadsheet relaxing. It allowed me to rediscover teas I forgot about and inventory everything so that I knew what was going on. Hopefully it helps you get your sipdowns in too.
I’ve done a pretty good job of sipping down smaller packages, so I’m sure most of mine will be 50+ grams (originally) as well unfortunately.
I just use Steepster and shuffle by recent to tell me what is the oldest. I like your idea of putting the 5 oldest in a sipdown box! I might put my 10-15 oldest in a sipdown box….
Yeah that works too, my issue is I emptied my cupboard and redid it at least once so that metric isn’t accurate for older teas. :P
I don’t even use the Steepster cupboard for “inventory”. It doesn’t have the kind of sorting features I’m really after. I exclusively use my spreadsheet (which is linked on my Profile and public!) and yet I would still get “requests” for things “in my Cupboard on Steepster.”
Spreadsheets are the best. Also, I’m so excited to try this one!
I also love spreadsheets, my husband always makes fun of me when I make them for video games… XD
Sorry it’s so old, definitely past its prime. Still yummy though!
That’s a-okay, I’m just happy to try it! Hahah, I have spreadsheets or lists for everything — they’re just so handy!
I’m impressed with your spreadsheet dedication and organization! I’d love to do that, but it seems like a really big project.
It wasn’t so bad! And I have over 350 teas… ;)
I don’t keep my old order e-mails around, but I do have a tea spreadsheet and when I add new teas onto it, I put in the Date field the month and year I received said tea. I am still working on sipping down my 2017 teas but after this year there aren’t very many of them left!
I generally archive all of my emails unless it’s actually spam, then it gets deleted. So everything is still there from a few years ago!
I have 4 teas from 2016 and then it’s on to the 18 from 2017! x.x
Most of my 2017 teas have been 50g bags, so the fact I’ve worked through as many as I have so far is still quite an accomplishment for me!
I found making my spreadsheet relaxing. It allowed me to rediscover teas I forgot about and inventory everything so that I knew what was going on. Hopefully it helps you get your sipdowns in too.
I’ve done a pretty good job of sipping down smaller packages, so I’m sure most of mine will be 50+ grams (originally) as well unfortunately.
I just use Steepster and shuffle by recent to tell me what is the oldest. I like your idea of putting the 5 oldest in a sipdown box! I might put my 10-15 oldest in a sipdown box….
Yeah that works too, my issue is I emptied my cupboard and redid it at least once so that metric isn’t accurate for older teas. :P
I don’t even use the Steepster cupboard for “inventory”. It doesn’t have the kind of sorting features I’m really after. I exclusively use my spreadsheet (which is linked on my Profile and public!) and yet I would still get “requests” for things “in my Cupboard on Steepster.”