What's on your "Tea Do" list?

Likewise I’d like to finish off my tidbits of teas. I’d like to organise my “staple” teas (the ones I drink regularly and always replace when I finish them). Lastly I want to get some more teas (such a hardship), since I’m making progress on finishing my tidbit teas and running low on options.

Short term
- Sipdown all of the teeny samples I have
- Review what I’ve been drinking
- Get rid of teas I’ve found I don’t love. Can’t decide how to get rid of them though.
- Buy tea from the long list of vendors I’ve been wanting to try, and stop making impulse purchases.

Long term
- Organize cupboard with matching (or at least complementary tins) that stack properly

p.s. sent you a PM but I don’t know if the system is woking.

Hehe-I just love the term “tea-do list”. Makes me smile whenever I read it!
Short Term:
-Finish trying all of my samples from swaps/tea orders
-Sip down all of the small teas (smaller than 1oz)that I have
-Sell/swap all of the teas and samples that I didn’t like or want

Long Term:
-Decide which teas I want to keep on hand at all times
-Sipdown all of the teas that I don’t want to buy more of
-Put all the teas I want to always have on hand, into tins.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. But still loving this idea of a tea-do list. :P

1. Find more time to write tasting notes.
2. Cut down on tea purchases and only buy the “good stuff”.
3. Organize my cupboard.

-Try and review my three remaining Teavivre samples they sent for free.
-Get in some gongfu time – ideally with one of the Mandala samples I haven’t tried yet.
-Finish up some more of the older teas – this was going well, but now the beau is wanting to replace everything we get finished off. Not helpful!
-Keep exploring puerh and learn more about it.
-MAYBE try branching out beyond Chinese black teas. That’s a pretty serious maybe.

I’ve been drinking tea for years and had finally reached a point where I didn’t want to buy all the tea but Steepster is obsessed now with companies I have never tried and it’s making me envious. There are serious trends around here, haha. I remember when 52Teas and then Della Terra were the highest ranked teas and as someone mentioned the other day it is almost all Whispering Pines right now with a hint of Butiki, Teavivre and Mandala. Interestingly, those are all companies with a lot of unflavoured or delicately flavoured teas. Maybe we’re all on similar tea trajectories. :)

My to-do list mostly is about getting my stored puerh teas ready for colder weather. Need to bring the tea fridge in off the 3 season porch. Already brought in the ceramics. Need to add additional humidity with the drier weather.

My super short-term goal is getting through the Lewis & Clark TTB.

Short-term:
- Drink and review the remaining teas from the Mandala shu sampler and the teas I won from Teavivre’s contest
- Actually try teas I ordered last month (mostly Simple Loose Leaf)
- I probably should organize my grocery bag full of teas, but I have no other way to put them…
- Finish off samples from swaps

Long-term:
- Familiarize myself with more shu and use my yixing that I bought myself for Christmas (which I shan’t season until Christmas)
- Put a soul into Georgie Pie, my piggy tea pet
- Slowly, slowly drink and swap out teas I’m not fond of
- Read more about tea

Short-term:
-Finish samples from swaps
-Finish teas in my “sipdown” box
-Start keeping track of how much I’m spending on tea
-Sell or swap the teas I don’t like that I’ve been keeping
-Think of a good holiday gift to send my Steepster friends! :)

Long-term:
-Continue doing tons of swaps! :D
-Develop a tea budget and continue to track spending
-Try tea from all the companies in my “tea queue”
-Become more familiar with Indian black teas
-Experiment more with adding my own ingredients to high-quality teas
-Blend my own teas?

Taste everything ONCE and then rehome everything I don’t love. It is a massive undertaking especially since I’ve been terrible about mailing things out that I’ve promised.

My main goal is to get back around 100 teas. I want to sip down some not so favorite teas, or give them away, so I can restock my cupboard with ones I love! And I need to sip down summer blends as winter is coming and they will sit and go stale all winter :( lol. Also, I need to get reviews up for some free samples I have received! Just need to get in the mood to drink those types of tea again! Haha, lots to do, and all I want to drink is chai. #teaworldproblems