This is gonna be a long vent. Pardon my whining, I just need to write :P
Ugh. You ever feel like your tea cupboard owns you?
I keep drinking and sipping down samples, yet somehow my stash never seems to decrease. People give me tea or I break down and make an order(kickstarter 52teas only so far, since black Friday!). Or David’s lures me in with their enticing blue signage… (which only happens every few months and no more than $7-8 at a time. but I do like to keep abreast of their offerings).
I was doing quite well for awhile. And then I don’t know what happened, it just started slipping! eeesh. Without making any purchases at all my cupboard seems to have increased?! I found a bag of tea that I’d forgotten about, and then got a few things as gifts… then the travelling tea box… and voila, cupboard progress destroyed. Sighs.
I so badly wanted to make a new purchase soon… but with my 52teas kickstarter splurge coming in soon (yay for that!) and a few other things from way back… errr that just doesn’t seem feasible. I really need to update with some fresh stuff, most of mine is a bit stale… doesn’t help that I keep drinking all the new stuff first haha. Anyhow. Rant is over.
On the bright side, this is a sipdown!! a rather tasteless one. Seems it lost all flavour even though it was in a box without sun exposure in my cupboard. Bah.
On a personal level… the doc my GP referred me to, who was supposed to call me for an appointment? I was told to call them if I didn’t hear back within two weeks. Except they rarely answer the darn phone. Finally got ahold of them today and guess what? turns out he isn’t accepting patients. GP wasn’t in today, so now I’m back to waiting all over again. Ugh. I just want to get this over with so I can finally move on. Why must it take forever… (I started the process in March. In the meantime I haven’t been able to work).
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I totally hear you about the cupboard thing. Everytime I get anywhere near getting close to where I want to be I end up buying more lol.
Exactly!! There are atleast three places I reallllly wanna order from now. But when the teas I ordered with some friends come in (a few months ago) well my cupboard will be bursting. Literally. gack!
Ok so I literally just made a $54 purchase online to DAVIDs tea despite me working to decrease my collection. My justification?
1. One of their teas that is long gone from their stores which I love (lemon myrtle) appeared out of nowhere. I guess they quietly snuck that in to get rid of the last of it and I wasn’t going to let that go.
2. I’ve been using up some of my plainer herbal teas (i.e. lemongrass; I have too many herbals) by mixing them in with fruit teas and making 2L pitchers of iced tea. 50 grams of a fruit tea will only last me 2-3 pitchers once I mix in the other tea with it. I just bought 50 grams of goji pop not even a week ago and it’s gone.
So, to be fair, 4/6 of the teas I bought will be gone within a couple weeks. Since I mix the other herbals I’m not crazy about in with it, by the end of those same few weeks I will actually have fewer teas than what I started with. So, in a way, buying those 6 teas is actually productive in the long run in helping me reach my goal of decreasing my collection, lol.
Haha I hear you on that. Funny, I always feel guilty drinking my good teas, because I have no problem sipping those down! and I justify repurchases so easily. Like Assam black teas, my weakness… I have trouble keeping enough in stock while the rest dwindle soooo slowly. Sighs.
I should know better than to make new purchases though! Lucky I’m not a huge fan of iced teas, I only have those once a week or so in the summer, maybe twice. Rarely in the winter.
My tea cupboard seems like a revolving door! Hope you find some resolution with your dr. referral and that you are on disability in the meantime?
I completely understand! I’m trying so hard to sipdown and clean out but every time I turn around I’m getting tempted by new teas. It’s hard! I just got invited to a “Steeped Tea” party in a week. I think I’m going to decline the invite just so I’m not tempted to buy more. One of these days my collection will be back under control… I hope.
Ooo I like steeped tea. I have quite a few of their teas although I am trying to use them up. The one thing that stops me from shopping through them more often is the fact that I can only buy 50 grams minimum of a tea (unless it’s part of a collection of 6 teas where you get 25 grams of each tea). Maybe it’s different if you are at a steeped tea party but I just order through a consultant
Yeah as far I’ve seen so far, it’s only 50g that you can buy at a time.
TeaBrat, unfortunately no such luck. I need to see a doc for the official opinion and by that point it’d only be a few months before I’m back on track. That said, I’ll see what happens after that first appointment :)
50g minimums are the suck!!
I really want the Lemon Cheesecake Bar Houjicha from 52teas. Just made an inquiry to Anne about it. Sighs.
I totally hear you about the cupboard thing. Everytime I get anywhere near getting close to where I want to be I end up buying more lol.
Exactly!! There are atleast three places I reallllly wanna order from now. But when the teas I ordered with some friends come in (a few months ago) well my cupboard will be bursting. Literally. gack!
Ok so I literally just made a $54 purchase online to DAVIDs tea despite me working to decrease my collection. My justification?
1. One of their teas that is long gone from their stores which I love (lemon myrtle) appeared out of nowhere. I guess they quietly snuck that in to get rid of the last of it and I wasn’t going to let that go.
2. I’ve been using up some of my plainer herbal teas (i.e. lemongrass; I have too many herbals) by mixing them in with fruit teas and making 2L pitchers of iced tea. 50 grams of a fruit tea will only last me 2-3 pitchers once I mix in the other tea with it. I just bought 50 grams of goji pop not even a week ago and it’s gone.
So, to be fair, 4/6 of the teas I bought will be gone within a couple weeks. Since I mix the other herbals I’m not crazy about in with it, by the end of those same few weeks I will actually have fewer teas than what I started with. So, in a way, buying those 6 teas is actually productive in the long run in helping me reach my goal of decreasing my collection, lol.
Haha I hear you on that. Funny, I always feel guilty drinking my good teas, because I have no problem sipping those down! and I justify repurchases so easily. Like Assam black teas, my weakness… I have trouble keeping enough in stock while the rest dwindle soooo slowly. Sighs.
I should know better than to make new purchases though! Lucky I’m not a huge fan of iced teas, I only have those once a week or so in the summer, maybe twice. Rarely in the winter.
My tea cupboard seems like a revolving door! Hope you find some resolution with your dr. referral and that you are on disability in the meantime?
I completely understand! I’m trying so hard to sipdown and clean out but every time I turn around I’m getting tempted by new teas. It’s hard! I just got invited to a “Steeped Tea” party in a week. I think I’m going to decline the invite just so I’m not tempted to buy more. One of these days my collection will be back under control… I hope.
Ooo I like steeped tea. I have quite a few of their teas although I am trying to use them up. The one thing that stops me from shopping through them more often is the fact that I can only buy 50 grams minimum of a tea (unless it’s part of a collection of 6 teas where you get 25 grams of each tea). Maybe it’s different if you are at a steeped tea party but I just order through a consultant
Yeah as far I’ve seen so far, it’s only 50g that you can buy at a time.
TeaBrat, unfortunately no such luck. I need to see a doc for the official opinion and by that point it’d only be a few months before I’m back on track. That said, I’ll see what happens after that first appointment :)
50g minimums are the suck!!
I really want the Lemon Cheesecake Bar Houjicha from 52teas. Just made an inquiry to Anne about it. Sighs.