Lupicia Grab Bags

Yeah mine sat all day in Vernon, CA yesterday. I really don’t like UPS I prefer Fed Ex.

I live in the same city where UPS is headquartered, and it never fails to amaze me that they don’t even try to look good here. I always hate getting tea sent UPS because it always ends up looking like the box was dropkicked across the country. Sadly it’s probably too expensive for companies on the west coast to send any other way.

Yeah I’ve received packages like that before too. I almost never let anything fragile get shipped UPS for that reason… I get stuff delivered in better condition by USPS.

LOL I saw that! Never even heard of the random place it sat for all those hours. I haven’t been checking the tracking info much though.

I am the person who tries the number as soon as it’s given to me, hahaha.

Thats me too I check it as soon as I get it to make sure its correct.

YAY!

60.00 Bag
Photo: http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p135/Azzrian/photo-6_zps59175b26.jpg
Items
Amanatsu Oolong (never heard of it excited!)
Strawberry & Vanilla
Jasmin Mandarin Special Grade
Matcha Kirara Rice Tea
Sencha Matsuri
Grapefruit Green
Lychee
Momo
Sakurambo
Mate Roasted
Peach Melba
Morning Tea
Assam Calcutta Auction
Momoko in Tin
Champange Rose’ Bagged Tea
Momo Oolong SUper Grade Bagged Tea

I am very happy to have got some I already know and love and several I have never had a chance to try.
VERY happy with my Happy Bag.
No canvas bag – kind of a bummer but still pleased with this!
No tea ware but really I don’t need anything in tea ware am happy to have more of the value in tea itself! :)

I’d actually prefer not to get teaware or a bag… easier to split teas!

So true! You would have to do a drawing to see who gets the bag or tea ware!

Awesome! This looks pretty tasty :) Now i’m even more excited about our bag heh

I am just as excited to see what everyone else gets! I love these Happy Bags! What a fun thing. I am already excited for next years lol. Now that I see how it works better, and have more views of what they offer I may save up for the 100 bag next year!

What a nice surprise on a cold Winter’s day!

Luckily for me the weather here is absolutely perfect 52 degrees and sunny but indeed a lovely surprise (not that I wasn’t stalking the tracking lol) and so many amazing teas! Just had the Morning Tea! Review is up!

The teaware looked pretty junky anyway, like one of those ingenuitea type steepers but way cheap. And meh who wants a teaball unless it’s a novelty type thing just so you can look at it and be like “haha a pineapple.” (true story)

Indeed! Pineapples are cool though.

We got exactly the same bag, looks like. I’d bet they were packed together!

Nice are you happy with yours?

Very! Each tea is new to me, so they’re all an adventure. So far I like most of the ones I’ve tried. Strawberry vanilla is a little too strawberry-Quik for me (I liked it on the second steep—maybe I can trade it with someone?), but everything else has been nice. Do you open them all pretty quickly or do you make yourself wait until you use up some? I can’t decide whether to show any restraint.

What is this thing you call restraint?
I love the strawberry vanilla one but yes I do see where it is a bit candy like.
I have no doubt you can find someone to trade with you. I will if someone does not grab it up in the mean time but I need to see which ones I may want to trade you for. :)

Those all sound delicious! So glad you like your happy bag! I agree, I think next year I’m going to try for the $60 or $100 bag!

You’re encouraging me to open all the teas at once! My mom thought I was crazy not to. “Don’t you just want to smell them ALL?”

I’d be more than happy to trade if you wanted some extra strawberry, but don’t feel like you must! Everyone seems so nice and generous around here, I love it.

I like the way your mom thinks! :)
I will let you know if I come across any I don’t care for to see if you do or want to try it and we can trade HOWEVER if you find someone who wants to trade before I get back to you by ALL means go for it! Don’t save it for me. I’m not hurting for tea here :)

Ahaha, it doesn’t sound like any of us are!

Yay!!! So happy for you! :) Pineapple Oolong sounds nice! Can’t wait for your review of it!

So glad yours arrived! Enjoy!

I’m glad to hear you like the Pineapple Oolong and the Grapefruit Green…I received those too but haven’t tried either yet :)

Yay! Congrats!!

That’s exactly what I got. Anyone want a ball infuser? :p

Here http://steepster.com/teas/lupicia/6372-piccolo

That sounds really good.

Haha! #Ilovehashtags

Kinda sad that the bags are all seemingly the same for the most part. :( Still looking forward to our bag since I’ve only tried a few of lupicia teas but i’d rather see more randomness if that’s how they position it.

Yeah, at least the $60 bags seem to have a little variation. Oh well, now I know to go big or go home. :D

Yeah, not quite so excited about receiving my $30 bag as I was; the $60 bag sounds a lot more interesting. I’ve never tried Lupicia, though, so it’ll be a decent introduction. I guess they figure anyone who orders a $30 fukubukuro must be a tea newb; it would explain them throwing in a silly tea ball.

I wonder if you can return it. If I’m splitting one and they’re both the same, I don’t want 1 1/2 of the same teas.

ooooh just thought about that momo. bah that’s not cool :(

yeah. had I known I was gonna end up getting two or that they don’t even try to be a surprise, I would have just gotten one $60 one.

Personally I think the “magazine” is terribly over rated. Sure you get a sample bag with it each month but its not really a magazine – just a full color four page (two pages front and back) advertisement more or less of their recent tea releases or whatever they are featuring. No industry info, noting really about tea itself or brewing etc – basically – your not missing much. Sorry about your bags being duplicates though that is just not fun at all. I wish we had known this before hand.

If I have to keep some tea in cardboard boxes for the time being I would like that paper to decorate them, I really have nothing at this time otherwise since Upton’s the only ones I get and they’re not the type to do that well :/

I’m also pretty sure Sil and Kittenna’s bag is short at least 3-4 teas compared to all the other $60 bags posted but I want to ask them if I can open it to add everything up first. Just by weight it feels off.

Hummmm MAYBE that is because they got more of the 50g loose packets rather than a tin or something? Dunno but it seems very curious to me! I would be dying to know myself! What did you get in your bag? Did you list them and i missed it?

If you’re looking for free and pretty tea catalogs/magazines, Republic of Tea has one that’s free to sign up for and is very nice (plus it comes with a sample). I think they’re like every 2 months?

I got the same one everyone else on this page got. (twice) I’ll sign up for the RoT one too then. worse thing that happens I still have a ton of stuff cut out from Bon Appetit that I used on my dining table. Not tea, but better than brown box.

I went to the Lupicia site and added each tea from the happy bag into my cart, to see how the value stacked up. Full price, the teas I got would have cost me $113, which I’d consider acceptable for myself (others may vary, especially if you got several teas you don’t care for). I don’t know if doing so might make you feel a little better about the situation or not, but it could be worth a try.

I’d be sad if I got two identical bags, for sure.

$71.50, nowhere close, I already emailed them.

I am happy with my bag BUT when I get home from taking my daughter to a doc appt I am going to add mine up just to check it out since others have had problems.

My bag that I paid 60 for came out to 131.00 so that was more than expected.

Ouch, momo! Yeah, I’m sure they will fix that for you. It’s nowhere near what was advertised.