You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....

Looking for tea every time the post comes. Finding fun excuses to drink to, like trying to see what tea goes with Stargate SG-1.

You FINALLY get yourself a Breville One Touch tea maker and scour the forums for the appropriate thread to get your brag on. I love it! I just love it! I’ve wanted one for so long…it was a total fluke that we could afford it.

You inventory your tea and realize you have about two times more than you thought you had.

After realizing how much tea you have, you decide not to buy more tea for a while. But then buy other tea related things like pots and cups.

When you spot some small cast iron bubble mugs & say you want them, even your 6 year old tells you “Mom, you already have some!”
Ummm no kid, not these ones!!

What a cute discussion :D

… your friends roll their eyes at you as you speak “tea” to them.
… your appetite for tea comes before your appetite for food.
… half of your pantry consists of tea.
… half of your kitchen equipment is dedicated to tea.
… you carry a thermometer and a teaspoon on the go.
… you have two thermometers: one on the kettle and one in your mug.

You know you spend too much time on Steepster when you habitually copy (aka command-A, command-C) every written comment you make, anywhere, on any site (and even sometimes in non-Internet applications), before you hit “post”. Because Steepster eats things often enough that this is necessary, and therefore it is now ingrained in your habits. (cue highlight all, copy)

I feel like a newbie to the whole tea world compared to most of you here. Then moments happen and you realize that while I may not have the knowledge, experience, or cupboard that most here have, I defiantly have the addiction.

I was in two tea shops today. I bought nine different flavors of tea (I also have an online order due any day now). I got home, was trying to fit all the new packages onto my tea shelf, when I moved the tin of chai. My first thought was OMG I’m almost out of chai. How am I going to get through the week without chai. What I meant was how am I going to get through the week without Marsala chai. I do have coffee chai, pumpkin chai, and samples of chocolate chili chai, and coco chai rooibos.

You know you’re addicted when four varieties of chai aren’t enough…..

Water is refreshing, but it lacks flavour. It’s better hot with rooibos.

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