How many teas in YOUR cupboard ?

I’m at 28 kinds of loose leaf and 2 tisanes, but only 7 are full size bags or tins, the rest are sample sizes. I also have about a hundred teabags at work and 5 or 6 boxes of teabags at home. I have to talk myself out of buying new things to try or full size bags of things I’ve liked every single day.

I’m still at the sample everything in the world and figure out what you like stage of tea drinking, but looking around this site, I think that’s a stage I might not grow out of (and it might even get worse).

Exactly 187. I recently added every tea I own, even if its just a one-cup sample, to my cupboard here on Steepster so that I can keep track of them. It was a bit sobering when I did that. I am trying to cut down; it is slow going but being able to remove things from my cupboard regularly makes me feel better about my progress.

According to my tea cupboard on Steepster which I update regularly I have 444 teas. I just got some new ones arrive today so I will be adding to that in a few minutes. Addicted? Sure but at least it’s a healthy one. :)

According to Steepster, around 150. Realistically, something in the realm of 200. I have been working on sipdowns for the past six months or so and am slowly making progress, but I have a number of old teas that I still have 50 – 100 grams of which I don’t know if I will ever get through. I think I should go on a kick of finishing up samples so I can decrease the numbers but I still have pounds of tea. Lots of them.

I get the sense that any ‘intervention’ for this particular group of addicts would include politely offering a nice cuppa to all those in attendence…. ; )

Well, I’m very new at my new obsession and I have plenty of time to build my reserve stock. Honestly the reviews here are so helpful to chart my course.
Thanks all

I remember when I had maybe 12 varieties (it was boxes of bags back then) in my drawer and everyone I knew thought I was crazy. I have 124 at the moment. I have been working hard lately to sip down the easy ones. Less than a dozen are in the 100g range. Every thing else is under 20g with most in the 9g range. Only 12 have not been opened and reviewed. That no longer sounds like a lot of tea – but it will last a very long time because I resteep almost everything… and I have 5 or 6 samples on the way. I think it is impossible to ever regain control.

I tend to be the type that’ll find a scant few favorites, and then just have excessive amounts of each so they last for a while, and a small amount of one or two more to have now and then.

But the reality is I have no space for it all, so I kinda have to be that way. I don’t have that many, and yet four of my pouches (about four or five more varieties in total) are sitting on the counter since there’s no space in the cupboard. =/ I live in a TINY house with three other people, so…

uh….likely be over 200 teas after this weekend’s swaps. And “excessive” for me becomes anytime i’m over 225…

In my actual cupboards at home and at work I have well over 300 (home) and 100 (work). It’s sick, I know! I’ve been doing this for almost 10 years though, and I’m sure some of my loose teas are pretty old.

Swaps contributed to the high numbers too.

And I just ordered more yesterday and today.

Incorrigible? I am.

Probably around 70 or so. And I had to hide about half of them today because my boyfriend’s parents came to his place and I didn’t want them to think I was a crazy lady LOL they know I like tea, but I don’t want them to see my stash, they might think it’s a bit…abnormal…lol