All tagged drink what you own
This year in the spirit of drinking the teas that I already own, I DIYed my own tea advent calendar with teas from my collection. I got a large envelope and decorated the front with a dot for each day leading up to Christmas. I’m very proud of myself because I reused scraps of paper I had saved from a previous DIY project. Then I selected 24 teas from my collection, printed out each one on a separate strip of paper and put all of them into the envelope. Each day I was randomly drawing one and voila’, I had my DIY tea advent calendar. Each day I posted on Instagram what tea had been randomly selected.
In times of chaos and uncertainty, I find decluttering, cleaning and organizing extremely therapeutic. There’s something comforting about having things under control, especially when everything else is beyond my control. I had already embraced the “drink-what-you-own” approach to my tea stash a while ago, because while some teas age well, some others don’t and when you have a lot of them, chances are, many are getting stale and it breaks my heart to be wasteful. Decluttering also means making room for new teas and restocking old favorites. Therefore, in order to find my favorite teas and understand what other teas I might want to try, I had to adopt an analytical approach to the content of my tea cabinet.
