The best $20,000 I ever spent: Starbucks every day of my adult life (millennial barf alert)

Vox ^ | 4/9/2019 | Mae Rice

[taxcontrol]

Agree 100%. I cant drink the coffee so when others insist on going to SB, I get a tea or a cider.

[Drew68]

(millennial barf alert)

Why? Who cares? She likes Starbucks. So what?

I probably spent $20,000 on Marlboros over the 30 years I smoked them. At least. I don't regret it. I enjoyed smoking.

And now I enjoy not smoking.

We should enjoy life and not worry what other people do with their money.

[Reily]

I can just hear the wind whistling through her ears!

[Innovative]

If it makes someone happy and won’t hurt him that he won’t have the money for other, more important things, then there is no problem.

Just need to have your priorities straight.

[TnTnTn]

Never had a Starsucks product....never will...the coffee shop for the delusional....

[GreyFriar]

The regular brew is the worst coffee I’ve ever had. In fact, I never had a cup of Army coffee, include that brewed in the field that tasted as bad and bitter as the normal Starbuck’s blend. I’ve probably had fewer than a dozen cups of their product, including those at a conference where it was provided to the participants.

[FenwickBabbitt]

Overpriced corn syrup, caffeine, chemicals, empty calories, and plant estrogens. Some luxury. And we wonder why lifestyle diseases are on the rise.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“”Spending $20k at Starbucks is just moronic, plain and simple.

Earn $2 million a year, and it is chump change.

Earn $200k and spending it is just a choice, a hobby.

Earn $25,000 and you are in trouble.

[wbill]

Hunh. I thought that it would have been a dude.

And, I did the math. 18+12 = 30 years old, still in college, living off an 18K a year grant. Coffee habits aside, THAT actually might be what makes her an irresponsible millennial.

At 30, I was a college grad, working as an exec for a Fortune 100 company, making a whole lot more than 18K a year, travelling the world for the job and for fun, married, owned a house, and was thinking about having a kid. That's (to steal a millennial term) "Having Life Experiences", right there.

Not dropping $1600 a year that I didn't have on coffee helped pay for it.

[Red Badger]

I have never bought anything from a Starbucks.

I did get a FREE plain coffee once when they were giving them away to people who voted on election day, 2012, with their ‘I Voted’ stickers on..................

[JBW1949]

I will admit I went into a Starbucks once...I was in DC and stopped by a bank...Across from the bank was a Starbucks...I thought I’d just get me a coffee...
I went in and this little pencil-necked geek kid asked, “May I be of assistance, sir?”

I said “I’d like a coffee...”

He asked “What size?”

I said “Regular...”

He said “Tall?”

I said “NO...Regular...”

He said with a sigh “That IS regular...”

I said “OK”

He said “What would you like?”

I said “Damn!! Coffee!!”

He said “What would you like in it?”

I said “Just coffee...”

He said “But, but, but...You just want PLAIN coffee????”

I walked out....

[wally_bert]

Despise coffee.

Hot chocolate for me.

[wbill]

I tried it, said "Meh", and really haven't been back. Tried a few of their iced drinks with much the same response.

If people enjoy it, more power to them. Frankly, it was this irresponsible millennial that started the entire essay with, "I'm not irresponsible" that got my attention....

[Teacher317]

In the 12 years since I turned 18 and left home for college, I have spent about $20,000 at Starbucks.

Add in the time and gas spent going there and back... Add in the fact that you probably have most of your meals away from home, since you cannot be bothered to brew your own at home... and that $20k figures blooms.

Most American adults can eat pretty nicely for about $7/day, simply by cooking at home for your meals, eating leftovers, and splurging on the ribeye only once per week (when it's down to $8/lb).

According to this 2014 chart, $210/mo covers almost all of the per-person food needs for just about any female of any age, either being thrifty, or just low-budget... it even gets close to covering the family of 4 on a "moderate" expense plan ($7x31x4=$868 of their $895 food budget).

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m surprised she is thin.

Drinking 1,000 calories of crap every day is not healthy.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

per article: "I’m in the final year of an MFA program"

Master of Fine Arts. With luck this idiot can get a job handing out coloring books in an "urban" daycare center.
 

[ThanhPhero]

I drink the best coffee in the world for less than a dime a cup at home. It is Vietnamese coffee sold at Dollar Tree prepared the Vietnamese(originally French, I’m sure) way. VN coffee is cheap because there is so much of it produced but it compares with Kona and Ethiopian. The reason Kona has come down so drastically in price is the advent of Vietnamese coffee on the market VN coffee is from the best growing conditions in the world. It is mixed into instant and store brands and has made them much less bitter than they once were because those use the cheapest coffee on the market.

[fruser1]

Venti is 20oz. which is the amount I make for myself with each cup. I actually computed that it costs me 16 cents a “cup” (technically a cup in coffee or tea is 6 oz not the 8oz liquid measure cup).

Anyway compared to her 20k$ for 5$ cups I get the same volume of 4000 cups for 640$.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Frankly, it was this irresponsible millennial that started the entire essay with, "I'm not irresponsible" that got my attention....

From which I inferred that they are trying, first and foremost, to convince themselves, not us.

[steve8714]

I bet she’s an up-talker with a glottal fry.