What are your tea goals?

LOL I know I didn’t make much headway into my list, but I’m ok with that.

To make a blended recipe that I will actually share with others. My knowledge is so small with doing the blends, not as small on drinking them haha

Also, I want to learn the finer notes of tea. I want to be able to not only distinguish between greens, but also the whites and blacks and their origins. I feel limited in my palette!

Putting it in writing so I don’t buy anything:

1. No more mail orders until Black Friday.
2. Organize my tea cupboard (I’m in the process of transfering teas to glass bottles and putting them in a spice rack.
3. Try more plum teas! (and try them as hot toddies)
4. Read more books about tea!

So I have been thinking a lot lately. About tea of course. I have been kind of starting this for a long time, with a lot of starts and stops. But I think one of my main tea goals for 2014 is going to be getting rid of the teas in my cupboard that I do not consider a staple. I have come to know which teas I really like and want to consistently keep around. So I want to drink up some of those teas that are still good but mostly just hang around the cupboard because they are not favs. Then I want to keep my cupboard under control by slowing down on the buying random teas to just try them. A lot of it is to do with impulse control – ha ha. We will see how it goes.

Late Edit: One other goal is to try to drink what is open before opening other teas. I don’t need to have 15 different straight blacks opened at one time, I might want to, but don’t need to. I think this will help me to keep my cupboard under control, to know what I have in the cupboard, and to not buy so much tea all the time.