I like to keep a variety of tea around as well, but I don't have a lovely wooden box to keep it in. And a wooden box wouldn't necessarily work for me; because some of the tea I enjoy comes in untagged, unwrapped bags, I'd have a lovely wooden box full of Mystery Tea if I just dumped it all in there.
How would I be able to tell the Celestial Seasonings Lemon Zinger from the Bewley's Irish Breakfast?
I have a couple of glass jars on my counter where I keep black tea. The small jar is for decaf tea and the larger one is for regular. Only unflavored black tea goes in these jars, so it doesn't matter if brands are mixed up.
Beyond that, my cabinet was getting overrun with boxes of delicious-flavored tea bags. Chai, Zinger, and Bengal Spice boxes were everywhere. And being
So I found a way to repurpose a baking pan. A 9X13 baking pan is the perfect size to hold several boxes of tea. I've got plenty of 9X13 pans in varying conditions--so I used one that's a little past its prime, a little scratched and battered, to hold my tea bags. Tea bags don't care if the pan is no longer completely "nonstick." I can keep my tea-bag pan on the second shelf or even the top shelf; when I want a cup of tea, all I have to do is reach up and slide the whole pan out. It's neat. It's tidy. It didn't cost me anything. Win!
Love your solution. I have a basket sitting on top of my microwave that holds the tea bags that are individually wrapped but I also have boxes taking up space. Now I will have to search for a pan to round up all of those boxes. I'm vertically challenged, too, so a pan will come in handy for me - and save me from my son tossing the boxes to the back of the middle shelf out of his way but where I can't see them without getting a chair to stand on. lol! He's taller than I am now so he can see and reach things that I can't!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use a worn out pan. Now if I can just think of what to do with the skillets!
ReplyDeleteAwesome re-purposing! Love it!!
ReplyDeleteLaura