Posted on 04/11/2019 9:35:32 AM PDT by simpson96
"Paying for a tiny dose of luxury doesn’t make me an irresponsible millennial."
I’m in Starbucks right now, drinking what I always get: a venti iced coffee with hazelnut, soy, and caramel drizzle. It’s a case study in dribbly brown, a drink both Elle Woods and Dr. Evil would order, but it tastes great and costs less than $5 in the Twin Cities, unless you’re at the airport.
I order it every day, except when the temperature falls below zero, or if I’ve earned a free drink on Starbucks’s rewards app. With a reward, I get the latte version of my drink: a triple venti hazelnut soy latte with whipped cream. (If it’s not triple, it just tastes like milk; the hot venti is Starbucks’s most milk-diluted beverage size.)
If I paid for it, that latte would cost about $7 — as much as my normal iced coffee and a toasted sprouted grain bagel with cream cheese. I would never spend that amount on coffee alone. I have been spending some money on coffee, though, every day of my adult life. Even when I worked as a barista at Starbucks, I came right back after my shifts to drink Starbucks coffee. In the 12 years since I turned 18 and left home for college, I have spent about $20,000 at Starbucks.
Personal finance guru Suze Orman recently compared coffee habits like mine to “peeing 1 million dollars down the drain.” Multiple online calculators will furnish you with more precise dollar amounts, if you want them. My $20,000 expenditure seems especially extreme to me right now because I’m in the final year of an MFA program, and my annual stipend is $18,120 before tax
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vox should be banned here
kidding - partly
Whoever wrote this is a complete idiot...Not just an idiot...Not a lowdown idiot...This person has achieved he stage of “complete” idiot...There is nowhere else to go...
The Bitter Brew, possibly the worst coffee ive ever had.
If a young man plucks his eyebrows he’s gay.
PERIOD.
Starbucks every day of my adult life
No, but dropping 10% of your salary a year, every year, on coffee certainly does.
Starbucks? Overpriced swill.
Drink coffee. REAL coffee. Hot, black, STRONG in a well seasoned cup. Like the coffee one would get on the mess deck of a Navy ship.
THAT’S COFFEE.
Quit coffee for lent.
More energy. But Starbucks coffee is absolute trash.
I have a lower end but quality espresso machine, two burr grinders, and a milk frothing appliance. Total outlay ~$1k.
I make two lattes most days, one for me, one for the wife. Call it $8 if bought at Starbucks. So 125 days to pay for the hardware, maybe 200 with buying milk and coffee. So ~10 years later, hardware is long paid for, fully amortized, and my costs have been buying the milk and coffee, which is a heckuva lot less than $8/day. Maybe $1.50 a day max, and that’s buying organic milk, which froths up better. Plus I don’t have to go to Starbucks or similar.
Spending $20k at Starbucks is just moronic, plain and simple.
Wish I had $5
I see the problem, Soy Boy.....................
Concur.
LOL!..................
"They" say that the longer your coffee order, the bigger the A-Hole you are...
See what too much soy will do.....................
“Mae Rice
Mae Rice is a Groupon Guide staff writer who writes about eyelash extensions, French food, what “business casual” even means, and other style and food topics.
30.
I don’t have lots of hopes for her unless she marries a wealthy man - or woman - or some other species, depending on which of the 57 genders she prefers, or zer prefers.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE PEOPLE???????
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