Sunday TeaDay 2/08/09 TeaStorage issues?

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TeaStorage space. Have you found that your storage areas for tea somehow keep expanding or you never seem to have enough space for all your growing teas and teawares?

I always need more room, never seem to have enough
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I could certainly use more room
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More room would be nice
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Maybe
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I think I am pretty good spacewise
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No, I do need any more room
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Definitely not
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by JP » Feb 8th, '09, 15:47

I'm not heavily into collecting puerh (yet) so storing that is not an issue for me. Other types of tea try to keep down to levels that I can use up in a reasonable amount of time before they go stale.

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by olivierco » Feb 8th, '09, 15:52

GeekgirlUnveiled wrote:Never, ever enough space.

In the matcha thread, I mentioned I purchased a new chawan (so what else is new? they are quite the little addiction,) it arrived, and I used it yesterday and today in honor of my new 365 Project - 365 days of paper cranes. This is day 2. wish me luck.
Nice chawan. Where did you buy it?

Good luck with you 365 cranes project.

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by Victoria » Feb 8th, '09, 16:10

Wow Geek, that chawan is stunning!! I love cranes!
Both on teaware and of paper! I have a small gold one
sitting on my tea tray.

Good luck with your project!

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by cherylopal » Feb 8th, '09, 16:38

GeekgirlUnveiled wrote:Never, ever enough space.

In the matcha thread, I mentioned I purchased a new chawan (so what else is new? they are quite the little addiction,) it arrived, and I used it yesterday and today in honor of my new 365 Project - 365 days of paper cranes. This is day 2. wish me luck.

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Sorry but thought to ask you 2 questions- could you share where you got your chawan? I am way over budget but- as a newbie to the good stuff- in great need!

and could you tell us more about your 365 days of paper cranes? I've heard of 10,000 to cure an illness...

Thanks!
cheryl :)

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by brad4419 » Feb 8th, '09, 16:39

I definatly don't have enough space for tea :(

Im living with my dad while I go to college nearby and the only kitchen space I get is a tiny cabinet(smallest in the kitchen) thats divided in two spaces. I get the bottom part and people are always just stuffing junk in my space when they don't know where it goes :evil: so I have to clean it out all the time.

Most of my tea is kept under my bed or in my closet. On the positive side my room smells good :idea:

Salsero its always a pleasure seeing your pictures. The sunflowers look amazing with that dark background.

Thats a beautiful crane chawan GeekgirlUnveiled and good luck with your 365 days of paper cranes keep us updated.

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by caligatia » Feb 8th, '09, 17:35

Sal and GeekGirl take the prettiest pictures...

I don't have enough room for tea. I'm thinking about putting some in the Tupperware cabinet. But I'm not buying any right now anyway, so I guess I'm all right. I'm trying to drink what I have before getting more.

My legs are okay from yesterday's bike ride, although my knees are a bit sore. Not too bad, though. I'm drinking Ceylon Sonata over ice right now. Tasty.

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Feb 8th, '09, 17:46
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by danibob » Feb 8th, '09, 17:46

Evening everyone. Just got back from my test. I decided to retake it in a few weeks before my grad school deadline. Math was just fine, verbal..not so much. :roll:

Anyway.. as stated before, here is my teacase that is getting crammed with teaware
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Right now I'm firing up my zoji so I can try out another dancong.

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by Victoria » Feb 8th, '09, 18:00

In my cup this afternoon a green Puerh - Rishi Ancient Green Tuo Cha

Not a typical green tea taste since it is a tuo cha, but it is surprisingly
sweet and mellow.

Chip, I sent you a couple of these, did you ever try them?
They are green after all.
:twisted:

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by Geekgirl » Feb 8th, '09, 18:48

cherylopal wrote:
Sorry but thought to ask you 2 questions- could you share where you got your chawan? I am way over budget but- as a newbie to the good stuff- in great need!

and could you tell us more about your 365 days of paper cranes? I've heard of 10,000 to cure an illness...

Thanks!
Chawan was from ebay. EBAY, baby!!! whoohoo! (they should take away my ebay privileges.)

My 365 days of paper cranes is a photo project. One crane/one photo each day for a year. It's on my flickr account.

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by Victoria » Feb 8th, '09, 19:01

Nice set up danibob, thanks for posting!
Moving into some dancong myself this afternoon.

Great find Geek! Congrats!

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by silvermage2000 » Feb 8th, '09, 19:02

For me I have plenty of space for my teas. Well I just drank a cup of rishi's ancient moonlight white tea.
My name i's ashley I am a female and 21 years old.

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by murrius » Feb 8th, '09, 20:23

I started out with one kitchen cupboard shelf. I'm proud to say that my tea ware / tea now inhabits one whole cupboard and is sharing a second with some very nervous glasses. Enough space for now - maybe!.

Mao Feng in my cup this morning from Teaspring. Then some matcha Kaze from Den's this afternoon. I am sure it will be black tea tonight. Something Yunnan.........

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by daughteroftheKing » Feb 8th, '09, 21:20

Never enough room. The 2 tea-shelves I had built into my hoosier cabinet have overflowed onto a basket that sits on the counter of that cabinet, not to forget a few old biscuit tins filled with various bags in another cupboard plus a big stash at the office.
And the growing number of empty Adagio tins are taking up too much space elsewhere, but I can't make myself throw them away [somebody pay the postage and they're yours!].

And despite my "resolve" not to buy new teas while drinking down some of my stock, well, most of you can imagine how that's gone. :wink:
Just last week, a friend who sells for Lets Do Tea was having a sale as she's getting ready to go out of business - I came home with 4 more tins of tea. :roll: Good grief!

Today enjoyed Adagio's Irish Breakfast, then moved on to mango tea on ice.
"Top off the tea... it lubricates the grey matter."
(Jerry Ledbetter, "Good Neighbors")

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by Chip » Feb 8th, '09, 23:58

Victoria wrote:In my cup this afternoon a green Puerh - Rishi Ancient Green Tuo Cha

Not a typical green tea taste since it is a tuo cha, but it is surprisingly
sweet and mellow.

Chip, I sent you a couple of these, did you ever try them?
They are green after all.
:twisted:
Well, technically not green ... :lol: I will have to break them out this week.

Sencha Premier from Adagio earlier, and I am liking it more each time I have it. Finished the day with Den's Genmaicha which is still in my cup. Good genmaicha.

About to close the polls ... 8)
blah blah blah SENCHA blah blah blah!!!

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by chad » Feb 9th, '09, 07:58

I could use a bit more space. At work I use 1/2 of a desk drawer for my tea collection and have a "display" for my mug and bowls.

At home I have one cabinet for tea, pots, mugs, etc.

Basically, I need to drink the tea before buying more! :D

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