I have just read a motley fool article entitled ‘the true cost of your caffeine addiction’.
I was interested – as we are coffee drinkers. Were they looking at the cost itself, the effect on your body or perhaps the effect the coffee industry has on the third world, fair trade etc.? Nope
So help me, the article suggests… get this.. that I could save hundreds of pounds by not buying my daily latte from a coffee shop every morning. Hello? These journalists do not move in the same world as the rest of us mere mortals…. apparently, what with the credit crunch we need to ‘tighten our belts’ by cutting down or even completely giving up that daily treat.
We don’t do it! we don’t walk past a coffee outlet on the way to the office.. there isn’t any on their handy table of coffee shops in my village or even the next town (thankfully). And if there was, I wouldn’t buy it! – I don’t know anyone who does.
After some calculations over how much you could save off your mortgage, or put towards your savings or pension (hello? I’m not spending it….so its not a new saving to me…) the article then moves on to suggest that you could save lots of money by buying a sixty quid coffee machine. At this point I am banging my head on my desk.,.
We like coffee.. we have real coffee in the evenings.. this is an indulgence. We make it with the use of a kettle, and a cafetiere. If feeling posh, we might even heat some milk using the cooker or micro, .. it is not rocket science..
I think the author is a little out of touch with reality. This under the heading of ‘money saving tips’.
It worries me that people need to informed of such tips such as not spending three to four hundred pounds a year on take out coffee.
Here, Here!!!
I don’t actually drink coffee, but I whole heartedly agree. Unfortunately I think I may have met a couple of these people who do need such tips. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
I feel the same as you, who really does that?
However, when I was younger and volunteering ‘in the city’ (I mean Gloucester) I did know some of the other volunteers wouldn’t use the office kitchen but had to ‘just pop out for coffee’ and no there wasn’t anything wrong with the kitchen either.
yeh – sometimes it is very worrying how other people think….
Mind you, with all the Starbuck’s going west (I shed not a single tear: the gloop they sell has only the most distant relationship with the sacred bean) clearly a lot of people were swilling the stuff.
On the upside, perhaps people will realise that they can buy a half pound bag of fair trade Ethiopian, Rwandan or Guatamalan (my personal fave) coffee for the price of one latte milkshake and make their own instead.
And that would be good.
Mind you, all those derelict Starbuck’s aren’t going to do anything to improve town centres…