Last year I tried to buy a tea infuser from a so-called normal shop in Helsinki. The product I was sold was produced so cheaply, the infuser doesn't keep the tea inside itself. While the store selling these infusers undoubtedly makes incredible rising profits, I put in a request through a friend to a ceramic artist who lives in the countryside for a tea diffuser set. My new hand-made set cost 8 € more than the factory made one, which I suppose exists now as a reminder that large businesses exist to extract profit, not to sell people things that are useful or needful.(I am still pissed off, if you can't tell. Returning the infuser would have required me to buy HSL tickets that would have cost the same as a buying a new one, and would have wasted a couple of hours of my life, since I don't have a season pass, so essentially it was more cost-effective for me to just find a new one elsewhere and be passive aggressive about it.)But I'm REALLY HAPPY with my new set, the tiny plate thing is something I hadn't even realised I could get. It's pretty, and a ceramic artists made it, because my friend asked her to make more in pink. Whole ordeal reminds me to get all my home items now and forever from craftspeople (like I love my hand-made wooden spatula so much that is made from a tree that fell during a storm in a park in Helsinki, it's just so incredible that they took this fallen tree and made something out of it, unlike IKEA who go into 600-year-old forests and brrhhh now we have a cabinet that can take all of 7 years of use before it falls apart aahhhhh this world is so messed upppppp.)#tea #teainfuser #shopping
