Sooo how much do you spend?

allowance?

Yep, as part of our household budget the husband and I each get an allowance that we’re allowed to spend, guilt free, on anything that we want.

This way we don’t feel deprived of getting small pleasures, but it does put a limit on how much we spend towards that stuff.

That’s how we do things too. Initially my husband bought my argument that tea was a food item and should be treated that way. Then he saw my tea bill from last month (which shall remain unnamed) and he’s now thinking that either the tea bill gets under control or that we re-classify it from the food budget to allowance.

Oh ok. Sorry, that word has a bad conotation w/ me. I watched too much I Love Lucy as a kid I guess. Simple solution- get your hubby to drink it so it can go in the groccery budget too.;)

Tea=food…. I sometimes sneak that one by (usually when we’re at Teavana and BOTH getting stuff).

Though… I just realized that I bought stuff for him in my recent Stash order and it came out of MY allowance. HRMPH!

Cofftea – that doesn’t work, since my husband also drinks tea but thinks we have PLENTY.

Sure we have tea, just not this one and that one and OH, look at that one…..

Then consider that part of his Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate) gift.:)

Haha, you can never have enough tea in the cupboard. There are just too many to try!

Ricky – I know! Though I should really start trying to rehome some of the stuff I’m not fond of.

Already ahead of you. I was going to start a thread next week to do a holiday tea swap / give away. I figure that way we could ship it out by the 15th. I definitely have a few tea that I don’t really enjoy but I know other members would enjoy more. cough white cucumber.

@Ricky, yeah you can if it causes you to go into debt, you become a hoarder, you just plain run out of room to store it (in my case a small house w/ little storage means just because I run out of room doesn’t mean I’m a hoarder), or you have so much tea that it doesn’t get drank before it looses its peak freshness.

@Ricky, you need to be quiet now. LOL j/k. White cucumber is my FAVORITE, but I really don’t need anymore- I have an 8oz tin that’s still half full. But if I was running low I’d be practically begging for it!:) Have you tried it cold?

I have, I can drink it cold, but it isn’t my favorite. I have to try it sweetened though since I usually drink cold tea sweetened. Actually, I have a really weird idea. I’ll have to try it on the weekend. White Cucumber Lemonade Sweetened =D

The idea of it sweetened makes me shutter… How about a mojito made w/ cold white cucumber tea instead of lemon lime soda.

Ricky – I’d love the idea of a swap, but I’m hesitant about giving out my contact info on an open forum like this.

That said…. I have some MISTAKES that I wouldn’t mind seeing go to new homes (Sweet Lily White!).

Basically my idea was everyone who was interested would add an reply listing tea they have to give away / an email address to contact the person. No side chatter on the thread. Basically you edit your initial post if the tea is taken or if you have more tea to add. When a person has received the tea, they could reply to your thread and say thanks, etc. That would be reputation, which we could build up until Steepster implements a swap system for us.

Now for the concerns about giving away your contact information. Well, I guess it’ll have to be treated like Ebay or criaglist. Check the person’s taste notes, comments, etc. and judge for yourself whether or not you want to disclose your information with them.

As for me, I’d be more than happy to provide my ebay feedback / another forum’s feedback when the time comes.

Excuse my nose, I’ve been considering something like a travelling teabox for a while, which I think might be fun and would be a way to share far and wide. I wouldn’t mind starting one and send it across to America, as long as at least one person was willing to send it back to Europe again. As long as it can wait until january. :)

I love that idea. We can make a list of people who would like to participate. We could send it to people within Europe first then out to the states to minimize shipping fees. We can try tea within the box and add more, add notes, pictures, whatever. Sounds interesting =D

I’ve tried it once before and the waiting for it to get to me was almost as good as actually getting it. Of course it can get out of hand when people add more than they take out, so there would need to be some discipline there or it will get really expensive to send. Anyway, that was over at LJ and people posted pictures of the stash when they got it so everybody could see how it was growing. There was a little notebook in where people could write what they put in and what they took out.
I figured it would have to be planned so everybody could send it the shortest possible way and crossing as few as possible borders, and everybody would only need the address of the person they were shipping to. This should really be a new thread, shouldn’t it?

That’s funny… you ask how much other people spend a month, but you won’t tell how much you spend…

Isn’t it? I need to set an “allowance” so I can purchase without guilt. ;)

I meant ironic. I actually think it’s pretty hypocritical that you ask a question you aren’t willing to answer.

Haha, well initially when I started this post I was trying to log onto Adagio to check my purchase history. I gave up when the site didn’t load. If you insist, I must have spent an average of almost $20/week (this includes teaware).