Little Terri's Long Awaited Ultimate Sipdown Extravaganza!!!

Happy New Year! When I first started this page, 2 years ago, I had 492 teas in my collection. At the beginning of 2016 I was down to 360 teas.
This year I’m at 210!!
Progress, not perfection, right?
It feels good to be whittling things down, and of course, I did allow myself a few orders over the last couple of months, but believe me, my tea purchases (including Paraphernalia) have been very conservative this year, mostly black teas, because that’s what I love the most!
I’m not going to weigh out my teas, but I will give a breakdown on tea types, just for a reference point to start the year right. The numbers listed are varieties, not quantities. So although I have 15 oolongs, for example, each variety could be anything from a single serving to 100 Grams, or whatever (I don’t have 100 G of any of them…well except some puerh).
Oolongs – 15
Black – 47
Shu – 51
Sheng – 82 (how in the hell did this happen?)
Other Heicha & flavored Puerh like Sichuan Caravan (Yes I do, Sil, LOL) – 9
Tisanes – 6

Regarding the Puerh, some are cakes, but most are samples.
To start my year right, I have a sipdown to report!

209. Pure Bud Bi Luo Chun Yunnan Black tea – aut 16 – YS

Goals for this year…once a month I can place a small order, if my total is under 200.
My overall goal is to drink up all my teas! I especially need to drink up all those oolongs, because some of them are from 2013, and to get serious about whittling down my puerh stash, especially all those samples.

Here’s to another productive sipdown extravaganza year for us all! Yay us!

I’ve been avoiding this topic. I don’t have year end numbers – I’m guess-timating 150 tea 8500g ball park. My tea drinking totally collapsed this year – I went months in the summer drinking NOTHING.
I’ve gotten frustrated, bogged down, dis-interested in the whole process of keeping track. I need to start over, go back to basics and that is just to drink more tea.
I’ve started posting a tea a day on Instagram. That’s my goal for the year to post as many as possible throughout the year. If I drink tea and keep spending under control then the numbers will take care of themselves………

I totally need to join this self-help group. No idea of the numbers I am starting with, but ouf, immense.

I too have been sipping down my collection. I found when it reached over 170 in 2015 that was way too much for me. I like to think – what would Dalai Lama say about having too many teas? Maybe he would say : Keep it simple. Just enjoy. Don’t stress. :-)

Terri , I too have too much pu-erh in my collection. It just seems such a waste to brew only a couple of infusions from the leaves and that’s why I don’t brew it as much as the other teas. I think I will try to get a pu-erh in every day (or every other day) too.

I’ve been kind of lax in logging sipdowns this month, mainly because I really haven’t had that many. But here they are:
206. Org Dragon Pearl – Teavivre
205. Yunnan Black Gold Bi Luo Chun Aut 16
204. Bee Wrangler – Winter Woods
203. Centennial Chai – Winter Woods
202. Northern Twilight – Winter Woods
201. Smoke & Juniper – Winter Woods

Those last 4 are from a kickstarter tea company. They aren’t actually empty, but they are in a box, destined for Canada, so that Sil and my other Canadian friends can sample them too. I also received 3 other teas from another kickstarter, which I’ll share a little of with Sil (they are smaller quantities). So unless my math is wrong, my end of the month total is 204….

I’ve let 30g of tea into my house this month. I have managed to post a tea everyday on IG – but in full disclosure two of those days were not MY teas. That doesn’t really bother me, it’s more about being aware of drinking it. I still don’t have numbers but I have drank some pu’erh this month. I’ve actually drank a little of this and a little of that. I’m ok with my progress so far…..

Oooh…January is here again. I ended December with 58 teas 3440g. Given that my black friday orders still haven’t shown up, i’m pretending like that tea is here for my weight goals. So I’m essentially going from 4000g of tea…with a goal to get to 30 teas and only 1250g by the end of the year. Not sure it’s doable unless i get my drink on with my puerh collection…but it’s always good to have goals!

January coming to an end, i’m at roughly 107 teas 3475g (+600 enroute) so i’ve essentially gone UP in january haha. Oh well, that tends to happen with the tea festival here in Toronto. Either way, this is just the first month!

And now it’s February. Might as well get a jump on the month, right? :)
204. Org. Superfine Keemun Fragrant – Teavivre
203. Yunnan Dian Hong golden tip – Teavivre
202. Imperial Feng Qing Dian Hong – YS
201. Imperial Pure Gold Bi Luo Chun – YS

you started with 492… wow……

I thought I had too many without about 40..

February coming to and end and I haven’t really made any progress since all my orders showed up late. So February i’m ending at about 4000g and i’m still at about 100 teas (haven’t counted) since i just got a new load dropped off thanks to variaTEA I’m not worried though since i DO drink things relatively quickly and i’m not really making any purchases these days outside of the LB restock from Nov that showed up in Feb.