2024: How Much Will You Spend on Tea This Year!?

Definitely keeping it low this year. I will likely be moving this year and one of my favorite things about moving is paring down possessions. Sorry to my favorite vendors.

January
Mountain Stream Teas – $55.00

Matcha March!
Rishi Tea – $94.40
Breakaway Matcha – $252.38 ooooof

May
Song Tea – $76.00
Liquid Proust Teas – $112.35
Taiwan Tea Crafts – $148.45

June
Yunnan Craft – $318.00

August
The Essence of Tea – ?

Sigh.

I went a little overboard with tea purchases last year. This year, I’m not necessarily trying to spend less, but I’m trying to buy tea that I’ll actually drink during a reasonable timeframe or that’s supposed to age beyond a year or two. Sometimes I feel like I’m already buying tea I won’t get to until 2025!

January:
Ethan Kurland: US$178 (215 g)

March:
Teavivre: US$55.10 (100 g)
Treasure Green: $179.50 CAD (115 g)
Daxue Jiadao: US$245.10 (200 g tea, teaware)

April:
Seven Cups: US$175.94 (150 g)

June
Bok from TeaForum: US$426 (750 g, teaware)
Teavivre: US$22.93 (125 g)

Totals previous years:
2019: $1351
2020: $685.23
2021: $856.92
2022: $704.71
2023: $700 ish

I discontinued my subscription to the White2Tea club. I never got to any of those teas in a timely fashion. There are two un-opened packages from them in my living room. Additionally, a lot of pu-erh came in the sub, more than I could ever drink. I like shou fairly well, but don’t much like sheng. I’ll try to work through these eventually.

This frees up some money. Looking at my last several years being under budget and having too much tea, I’m going to set my tea budget at $500 for the year. Tea-ware budget is $0 unless I see something that I absolutely have to have. However, since I’m also a potter, that doesn’t tend to be much. I usually decide I can make whatever I need. :)

My cupboard on Steepster and my tracking spreadsheet are wildly out of date. I have no idea how much tea I actually have!

April: White2Tea $73.94
Tea-sipper told me one of the teas I recently reviewed and loved was still available on the site. I had some restraint on this order. No cakes!

Total: $73.94

450 $

Well, I do not plan to spend anything on tea this year. Because I have so darn much already filling my cabinets which I need to drink I guess you could say “my cup runneth over”. However, after a year of drinking coffee, I am back to tea, and loving it! Have completed a few sipdowns, and now starting to catch up on my reviews.

UPDATE:
Actually, I did spend $16 on a new all-glass 1L “cordless” electric kettle having a nifty blue light ring to let me know when it’s on. This replaces my 25 yr old plastic 1L kettle whose heating coil was corroding, probably poisoning me with heavy metals. And boy-oh-boy, it heats water fast!
Also, I bought a box of grocery store teabags for $3 while traveling, and chucked the leftovers.

2024 TOTALS: $16 + $3 = $19.
Cheers!

I’m doing so well this year!
$60 at DavidsTea
$35 at Granville Tea Co
$40 on bubble tea sets from HomeSense and Marshalls
-two different flavouring syrups (lychee and taro) that came with sets that include pearls or jellies and cups + straws

$20 brown sugar boba pearls x2 (frozen at Fairways)

$155 this year is prety good