Dinosara

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Dinosara drank Good Morning Sunshine by Butiki Teas

Sipdown, 248. I put all my single-serving-left teas in one box this morning, so I can finish them off quickly and feel extra good about stash reduction. As it is, this quantification is making me feel pretty good. More than 10 teas in less than a week, yay!

I am extra tired this morning and could really use a boost. This tea seemed like just the ticket! And it is extra delicious today. Citrusy and sweet and very creamy. Sometime after I have stash-reduced more, I will certainly make an order for more of this tea. It is nice to have something besides strong blacks in the morning that I know will wake me up.

2013-02-13 09:29:37 -0500

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Sil 2013-02-13 10:03:07 -0500

i did that a coupld weeks ago and it feels so nice to clean up the little reamining teas..

Terri HarpLady 2013-02-13 11:50:06 -0500

yeah, I’m working on that myself :)

LaFleurBleue 2013-02-14 04:53:31 -0500

I’ll have to change my stash reduction accounting method (based on quantities) to yours: it’s easier to make a difference and feel good about it…

Dinosara 2013-02-14 10:24:01 -0500

Yes, I had a quantity-reduction plan before, but it never felt like I was making any progress. This has been great!

LaFleurBleue 2013-02-15 02:18:39 -0500

I have estimated to have about 26 months consumption stocked in my pantry and I have not included the samples and lone tea-bags that stand in a little (uhm medium) box on my kitchen counter.
My next decision should be to finally throw away some teas I do not like and will obviously never finish or maybe never drink again. This would make the biggest improvement ever in my stash.
I’ll add a basic number reduction plan to my quantity one to be able to include some good progress when necessary!

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I am tea obsessed, with the stash to match. I tend to really enjoy green oolongs, Chinese blacks, and flavored teas with high quality bases, especially florals, bergamot-based teas, and chocolate teas.

I’m a grad student and in my free time I am a birder, baker, and music/movie/tv addict.

I have an Adagio Teas UtiliTEA kettle and a Tea Forté Kati cup for brewing. I also have a Chinese Ru Kiln tea set for gongfu brewing.

Here are my rating categories, FYI:
100-90: These teas are mind-blowingly good to me.
89-80: I really really like these teas and will keep most of them in the permanent collection, but they’re not quite as spectacular as the top category
79-70: Tasty teas that I enjoy, but definitely won’t rebuy when I run out.
69-65: Teas that I would probably drink again, but wouldn’t seek out. They don’t quite do it for me in one aspect or another; often just not quite my style
64-60: Teas that I don’t really enjoy all that much and wouldn’t drink another cup of.
59-50: Bleh. I usually choose not to finish the cup because life’s too short to drink tea I dislike.
49 and below: Mega yuck. This tea is just disgusting to me.