Anonymous wrote:Several people mentioned getting lunch out daily for less than $10. Where are you eating? Do you have cafeterias? I like healthy stuff and salads generally get very close to $10 or more if sit down. Personally I'd rather eat out once or twice a week at a nicer casual place than five days of something cheaper.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the specilaty drinks as much as anyone. But have you ever looked at their nutrition chart? Forget the money. The calories! Some of those drinks are like 400 cal for a small. When I see people chugging the bigger drinks, I always wonder at how they are fine with ingesting 1000 calories in their drink.

I'm sitting here reading this thread and completely jealous that people can drink lattes and frappes every single day and not gain weight or have other health issues.

I don't drink at Starbucks often, but when I do it's typically a brewed coffee or Americano.

It's not exactly that simple. I dronk a grande latte every morning, but I only get one pump of syrup and no whipped cream. The rest of my breakfast os a kind bar or Heritage Flakes. Then I don't eat until lunch. Don't assume people are drinking 1,000 calories per day and not gaining weight. There is more to the story.

Anonymous wrote:My DH does every day, makes me mad as hell. He buys lunch too. I bring my lunch, pack my kids lunch and never ever buy over priced coffee. But he spends way more than me on everything.

Anonymous wrote:I like the specilaty drinks as much as anyone. But have you ever looked at their nutrition chart? Forget the money. The calories! Some of those drinks are like 400 cal for a small. When I see people chugging the bigger drinks, I always wonder at how they are fine with ingesting 1000 calories in their drink.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the specilaty drinks as much as anyone. But have you ever looked at their nutrition chart? Forget the money. The calories! Some of those drinks are like 400 cal for a small. When I see people chugging the bigger drinks, I always wonder at how they are fine with ingesting 1000 calories in their drink.

I'm sitting here reading this thread and completely jealous that people can drink lattes and frappes every single day and not gain weight or have other health issues.

I don't drink at Starbucks often, but when I do it's typically a brewed coffee or Americano.

It's not exactly that simple. I drink a grande latte every morning, but I only get one pump of syrup and no whipped cream. The rest of my breakfast of a kind bar or Heritage Flakes. Then I don't eat until lunch. Don't assume people are drinking 1,000 calories per day and not gaining weight. There is more to the story.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the specilaty drinks as much as anyone. But have you ever looked at their nutrition chart? Forget the money. The calories! Some of those drinks are like 400 cal for a small. When I see people chugging the bigger drinks, I always wonder at how they are fine with ingesting 1000 calories in their drink.

I'm sitting here reading this thread and completely jealous that people can drink lattes and frappes every single day and not gain weight or have other health issues.

I don't drink at Starbucks often, but when I do it's typically a brewed coffee or Americano.

It's not exactly that simple. I drink a grande latte every morning, but I only get one pump of syrup and no whipped cream. The rest of my breakfast of a kind bar or Heritage Flakes. Then I don't eat until lunch. Don't assume people are drinking 1,000 calories per day and not gaining weight. There is more to the story.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the specilaty drinks as much as anyone. But have you ever looked at their nutrition chart? Forget the money. The calories! Some of those drinks are like 400 cal for a small. When I see people chugging the bigger drinks, I always wonder at how they are fine with ingesting 1000 calories in their drink.

I'm sitting here reading this thread and completely jealous that people can drink lattes and frappes every single day and not gain weight or have other health issues.

I don't drink at Starbucks often, but when I do it's typically a brewed coffee or Americano.

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Anonymous wrote:"You can't latte yourself to bankruptcy. The bladder won't stand for it" - Katie Porter in Helaine Olen's Pound Foolish

I'm generally a pretty frugal person and avoid unnecessary expenses, including Starbucks. But I can't be too judgmental on those who choose to indulge. If your morning latte is the thing that gets you through the day, or one of the few things you reliably enjoy and look forward to, I don't think it's nearly as destructive as some people imply.

Let's say you spend $5 at Starbucks every day of the year. That's $5x365, or about $1,800 per year, or about $1,300 if you only go on weekdays. I don't want to imply that's a trivial amount of money. But it's not going to make or break your household finances. It's the big lifestyle decisions - car, houses, vacations, schools - that determine your big picture finances. Latte's aren't quite small enough to be dismissed as a rounding error, but they're definitely at the margins of your financial health.

It kills me to see my millennial staff do this. They are in their mid-20s and that $1300 put into an IRA would be worth so much in 10, 20, 30 years!

I was talked into EE savings bonds in my 20s for $50 a pay period or $25 a week. 15 years later I cashed them in and was able to buy a house because I had the down payment. A small amount of money saved routinely and dollar-cost-average invested over time with compounding is like magic.