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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...

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...

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...

Happy Earth Day  At Good Life Tea, like everyone else, we care about mother earth. Here are some of the things we have done. All our lighting is LED - Saves tons of electricity.  Added benefit - The old light bulbs were hot and in the summer our A/C does not have to work as hard - saving on peak electricity - the most polluting kind. Our suppliers pitch in too.  Our Canadian supplier generates most all their electricity through solar panels.  Another gives 1% to to organizations to protect our earth.  We stock organic teas.   Organic teas are more environmentally friendly...