I LOVE lattes, so I pay $3.50+ for coffee and soy milk way too often. Starbucks is often my latte-provider of choice. I do love independent coffee shops (not necessarily for the coffee), but for a quick in-and-out, it’s Starbucks. I often take my own travel mug with me. But until my collection of travel mugs was augmented by the Hazon Food Conference mug, the only one I had was often in the wrong location (at home when I needed it at work, in DC when I needed it in NYC…)–which means that I have used more than my fair share of disposable cups and their sleeves.

The sleeve on my latest latte (only one this week! I’m doing well on my new year’s resolution!) is advertising Starbucks’ latest promotion: TeaTime at Starbucks! The tagline is “The only handheld device you’ll need is this.”

I like it.

It reminds me of shabbat. It’s tea time: The only thing you need to be doing right now is drinking your tea. It’s shabbat: Turn your phone off.

On that note, shabbat shalom!

P.S. Before you judge me for using the sleeves (which were created to reduce the materials being used because customers were taking a second cup to insulate their hands from the heat of their drinks), I usually have one in whatever bag is with me at the moment, and when I don’t have one with me, I collect them, to be returned later. This picture is all of the sleeves I have collected in the past year, seriously, from January 2008. I’m taking them all back to Starbucks next week!