We drink a lot here at our house. A lot of iced tea, water and juice. But we're spending a lot less than we used to because we make our own iced tea - by the gallon. I use 5 regular tea bags and two with a fruit infusion (current favorite is Stash white tea with pomegranate). We are using an English tea (Yorkshire) for the base. All together, it's less than $2.00 for the equivalent of 16 bottles of Snapple. We drink it at home and take to work or school in water bottles (which also save us a ton of $$$).

Yorksire tea $16.00 +/- including shipping for 80 bags: www.englishteastore.com/yoredtea.html
Stash tea: I buy at the local market for about $.50 a bag.

Does this work for sweetened as well as unsweetened tea?