I rarely waste money on the likes of $tarbuck$ coffee, and he’s sort of right while perhaps exaggerating a bit. Let’s say that you waste $6 per workday on overpriced coffee. How many workdays per year? approximately 250? That’s like $1,500 per year. It’s something, sure, if you don’t make a lot. And, yes, if you plow that $1,500 into your retirement account, it might turn into real money 40-50 years from now. On the other hand, we all need to waste money on a few things we enjoy just to deal with all the crap, so if you like the damned coffee, then buy the damned coffee.
Yesterday I got charged $6.00 for a cup of black coffee. It was at a trade show. Captive audience. It was also on expense account.
I spend company money like it’s my own. My colleagues and I worked out a plan to include a coffee pot at our next show.