Can you afford to buy coffee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You really should never buy coffee daily can't you make it at home.

Beef has gotten a bit expensive but still that's a once a week item anyway and you should only be eating about 6oz a serving it should not break the bank.

Punctuation is free.

[Anonymous]

Switch to tea. Buy a whole box of tea bags for a couple of bucks! All you need is boiling water!

[Anonymous]

I have always only bought coffee to make it home. But even at Costco, the prices are incredibly high. The same bag that cost $13.02 years ago is now $20.

I’m not sure what my tipping point will be but I won’t buy them if they get to $25. I can’t justify that. I’ll just go through caffeine withdrawal for a few days and reset my body. It will probably be healthier for me in the long run.

[Anonymous]

Yes I prioritize it.
I drink coffee from home though. I get Starbucks about twice a week in the afternoon.
I don’t eat meat so no buying beef.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy Bustelo-type espresso and make coffee at home. It's a very small expense and not something I'd cut out...

I do this too, and won't cut it either, but it has gotten soon expensive. The bustelo bricks used to go on sale 2 for $5 and now they are on sale 2 for $10!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My suburban neighborhood bakery/cafe sold short little 8oz cups of drip coffee for $2.75 for YEARS. I walk the dog past there once a month or so. I stopped in last weekend and the owner rang me up and told me the tiny cup was $4.50! I sarcastically said "Are you sure?" and he felt so embarrassed he created a new button on his touch screen to revert the price back to $2.75.

"You're right, that doesn't sound right, let me fix that."

Sorry but who in the heck is going to pay $4.50 for a tiny cup of drip coffee in a normal suburb? To top it off, I walked out and the coffee was luke warm! I wouldn't have wanted it for free.

You sound like a b. Just stay home. He shouldn't be embarrassed for trying to keep his small business afloat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can still get 2.5 lb of coffee beans at Costco for around $18.

how expensive is it? It used to be that you could get a god bag of beans from Whole Foods on sale for sub 20 bucks. I have a few types I like like high trouble from counter culture etc and just switch through them or buy 2 weeks worth at a time. when I was really on a budget I got a bag from Costco of this coupe ciffe- it was in a white bag with woodland creatures on it and it was pretty good but got stale before we could go through it. it things are really tight you can always split the bag with a neighbor. we do grind our own and make our own coffee, I haven't bought coffee since my kids were little and we lived near chinatown coffee co (RIP)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My suburban neighborhood bakery/cafe sold short little 8oz cups of drip coffee for $2.75 for YEARS. I walk the dog past there once a month or so. I stopped in last weekend and the owner rang me up and told me the tiny cup was $4.50! I sarcastically said "Are you sure?" and he felt so embarrassed he created a new button on his touch screen to revert the price back to $2.75.

"You're right, that doesn't sound right, let me fix that."

Sorry but who in the heck is going to pay $4.50 for a tiny cup of drip coffee in a normal suburb? To top it off, I walked out and the coffee was luke warm! I wouldn't have wanted it for free.

You sound like a b. Just stay home. He shouldn't be embarrassed for trying to keep his small business afloat.

I didn't tell him to create a new button, he did because he realized the price was ridiculous for such a small cup and was done in error. He even emphasized the small cup is tiny, I said I know, that's why I popped in. An 8oz short at Starbucks is made to order and is less than $3, why would anyone pay him $4.50 for 8oz of stale drip?

[Anonymous]

I drink a lot of coffee and a couple weeks ago I switched to the big tin from Aldi. $10 for 2 lbs ground and it should last me weeks. It's not amazing but it's fine. I like light roasts best anyway and they're almost impossible to find pre-ground (my second grinder but the dust, I give up) in addition to being "fancier" and therefore pricier.

[Anonymous]

We used to be daily Starbucks drinkers.

We have an espresso maker and make it at home now. It’s far better and cheaper. Starbucks has gone so downhill. It’s a shadow of its former self.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used to be daily Starbucks drinkers.

We have an espresso maker and make it at home now. It’s far better and cheaper. Starbucks has gone so downhill. It’s a shadow of its former self.

I agree but Starbucks blonde roast coffee and blonde espresso is pretty good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know OP is trolling based on the other thread about food inflation. But will say I buy coffee beans for basically $10 a pound from Mom's and it lasts about two weeks as I drink two cups in the morning. Very affordable.

Will mention I did have a coffeeship cappuccino a day habitat for years and when Covid hit I stopped it and was surprised by how much I preferred coffee at home. And of course it is much better for the pocketbook.

Are you saying there is no food inflation?

If so learn math and economics fool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know OP is trolling based on the other thread about food inflation. But will say I buy coffee beans for basically $10 a pound from Mom's and it lasts about two weeks as I drink two cups in the morning. Very affordable.

Will mention I did have a coffeeship cappuccino a day habitat for years and when Covid hit I stopped it and was surprised by how much I preferred coffee at home. And of course it is much better for the pocketbook.

Are you saying there is no food inflation?

If so learn math and economics fool.

The "fool" poster. Who hurt you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know OP is trolling based on the other thread about food inflation. But will say I buy coffee beans for basically $10 a pound from Mom's and it lasts about two weeks as I drink two cups in the morning. Very affordable.

Will mention I did have a coffeeship cappuccino a day habitat for years and when Covid hit I stopped it and was surprised by how much I preferred coffee at home. And of course it is much better for the pocketbook.

Are you saying there is no food inflation?

If so learn math and economics fool.

The "fool" poster. Who hurt you?

I pity da fool!

[Anonymous]

I assume this is about grocery bills not Starbucks. Our grocery bill is pretty
high, but it’s been that way since covid. Higher price seems to fluctuate between eggs, cheese, coffee, meat. Overall our bill is probably 20% higher but it’s hard to tell how much of that is from our growing kids eating more. We spend about 1800 month on a family of five mostly boys. We shop at Aldi and giant.