Day 47 - The Old Bag Must Go

Now that I am spending more time at home, I have begun once again to drink tea. Not Lipton, Salada or Earl Grey, I am more of an herbal tea kind of gal. On an overcast chilly afternoon a cup of tea warms me up just right. But I hate the tea bag. Once you place it in the cup, pour the boiling hot water over it, and dip it up and down to get all of the herbal deiciousness out of it, getting rid of the bag is just plain messy. When I pull it out it is boiling hot, so I am not going to touch it, instead, I try balancing it on the spoon with my right hand, while trying  not to drip any of the tea now  filling  the bowl of the spoon onto my floor, and with my left hand I try lifting the lid to the waste basket. What usually ends up happening is that I drip tea from the counter, onto the floor and onto the lid to the waste basket. This happens every time I make a cup of tea, so it occured to me that perhaps it is time to invent a new tea bag. Why not have something that actually sits on the rim of the mug or cup, and allows you to pour the tea through it, and it self drains right into the cup. No fuss, no muss. Until some tea company starts doing that, I am leaving the bag in the tea and once it is cool, I will dispose of it - of course using this method means you end up drinking some mighty strong tea, but hey no spills to clean up. And that makes me happy.