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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So last night I got a wild hair and decided to calculate just how much it costs to drink a home-brewed cup of coffee, what with coffee prices having gone up about 40 % in the last few months.  
I came up with 32 cents per cup.
A 25.9 ounce can of store brand ground coffee costs $13.  There is enough in the canister to make 9 pots of coffee.  My coffee pot may have lines on the side of the carafe that say it will make 12 cups of coffee, but that is for 5 ounce cups.  The carafe holds 60 ounces if filled to the 12 cup mark.  I drink coffee out of a 12 ounce coffee mug.  Which means one pot of coffee makes 5 cups.  Which means the entire canister will make 45 cups of brewed coffee.  That comes to 29 cents per cup.  Add in the cost of water, coffee filter, electricity, cream and sugar, and that comes to 32 cents a cup.

Also, there are 3 adult coffee drinkers in our household, and we go through a pot of coffee a day.  So a 25.9 ounce canister of coffee lasts 9 days. One person drinks from a smaller coffee cup than mine, and one drinks from a larger coffee mug than I do.

TL;DR -- A cup of coffee at home costs 32 cents.
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I drink more chichi coffee and just did some rough math and at most it’s .84 cents a day. Perhaps up from like .77 cents a day. As it’s a major source of pleasure in my life no, the added dollar a week isn’t going to cause me to alter my behavior.[/quote]

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