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Aubrey Simonson
4 Reasons Why You Should Use Tea Tins

4 Reasons Why You Should Use Tea Tins

SOME OF OUR TEAS SMELL DELICIOUS  That’s a lie.  I would say that all of our teas smell delicious.  However, those delicious smells tend to get into everything you store them around, in much the same way that your high school pizza shop job likely made everything you owned smell strongly of french fries and garlic.  I personally kept a bag of marshmallows next to a bag of Hot Cinnamon Spice for a few hot summer days, and while the effect was delicious, it was pronounced and certainly unintentional.   In addition to making all of your food smell like...

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Aubrey Simonson
Haven't Decided on a Father's Day Gift Yet?

Haven't Decided on a Father's Day Gift Yet?

Hello friends! This blog post was done by the lovely, Aubrey Simpson, when she worked here! All of it still holds true today & we want to repost it to share it with you. As I never had the pleasure of working with Aubrey at Good Life Tea, I figured I would add my two cents to this Father's Day post as well!  My dad; the amazing, hilarious, crazy, & hardworking man that he is, is just like his daughter in that, he has grown to love our Roasted Yerba Mate. He may even love it more than I do...

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Aubrey Simonson
Tea--The Perfect End-of-the-Year Gift for Teachers

Tea--The Perfect End-of-the-Year Gift for Teachers

Teachers deserve the gift of loose leaf tea Everyone knows the importance of their children's teachers in their lives.  These are people who have likely spent more of your child’s waking hours with them for the last nine months than you have.  After your child forms that sort of a bond with another adult, it feels only appropriate to thank them with some sort of gift.     End of the year teacher gifts in many ways aren’t unlike thank you cards--a traditional show of politeness and gratitude whose cultural significance has fallen out of favor in recent years.  This...

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Aubrey Simonson
32 Signs That You Might be a Tea Addict

32 Signs That You Might be a Tea Addict

Some people like tea.  Some people care about tea.  Some people are passionate about tea.  But here are 32 signs that you’ve gone past all of these stages and become a tea addict. Tea is your social glue. If you haven’t seen someone in a while, you invite them over for tea.  You, of course, know their favorite kind of tea, and have it in your stash. You have a favorite mug. No one else can drink out of it.  It’s yours. You judge “microwave tea”. Because you can taste the microwave. You have a collection of oversized mugs. For...

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