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Jen.... you took the words right out of my mouth.

I saw this on Dave Ramsey's frugal boards.... I guess this is a way you can really count down on the expense.
We get generic tagless tea bags - 100 bags for a dollar. It will make about 33 gallons of iced tea. Fifty cents a month on drinks for DH while he's at work isn't bad at all! He used to spend about three dollars a day getting Mt. Dews from the machine.

I boil a pot of water and a teakettle of water. When the water is boiling, I put 3 bags in the pot and let it boil for a few minutes, rather than turning it off right away. Then I pour the tea into a pitcher and put water from the kettle on the bags and let it go again. I repeat the process until I have a gallon of tea, andthe tea bags go into the compost. No need to add extra water to the tea. I add half a cup of sugar, pour it into his bottles (empty, rinsed-out soda bottles) and put them in the refrigerator. He takes up to three a day. I only have to make tea every few days.