Posted on 04/11/2019 9:35:32 AM PDT by simpson96
"Paying for a tiny dose of luxury doesnt make me an irresponsible millennial."
Im in Starbucks right now, drinking what I always get: a venti iced coffee with hazelnut, soy, and caramel drizzle. Its 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 youre at the airport.
I order it every day, except when the temperature falls below zero, or if Ive earned a free drink on Starbuckss rewards app. With a reward, I get the latte version of my drink: a triple venti hazelnut soy latte with whipped cream. (If its not triple, it just tastes like milk; the hot venti is Starbuckss 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 Im in the final year of an MFA program, and my annual stipend is $18,120 before tax
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what an inane article
I visit Coffee Bean and have the rewards card for it. They’re not anti-gun either..Starbucks F NO.
Do not be tempted by anything else on the menu. The food does not look it does in the pictures and it tastes like the bottom of a shoe.
But the coffee is outstanding.
The article is a complete waste of time.
“Paying for a tiny dose of luxury doesnt make me an irresponsible millennial.”
Yeah, it does!
And stupid to boot.
Can’t stand Starbucks. I grind my fresh coffee beans every morning. I enjoy flavored coffee, and have been buying from Jelk’s in Louisiana for a long time.
It’s not “a” coffee, it’s “coffee”.
It’s not “a” coffee, it’s “coffee”.
My guess is she’s thin because she makes herself throw up 1000s of calories a day.
Master of Fine Arts. With luck this idiot can get a job handing out coloring books in an "urban" daycare center.
Actually, she will be qualified to get a job at Starsux. Maybe get an employee discount on that crap she drinks.
I don't drink coffee at all so luckily I don't have to spend at Starbucks....
It shows your stupidity and laziness, because not only do you depend on someone else to prepare your daily coffee for you, you don't mind getting screwed out of large sums of money for a crappy product.
Exactly. For a place that prides itself on so called gourmet coffee it has by the worst regular coffee I have ever had bar none. McDonald’s coffee is much better and a lot cheaper also.
That poor person blew a lot of money on Starbucks.
Speaking of a naval ship,
This author has wasted his/her/its life. I mean seriously, there are about a few million people out there doing far more important things.
Starbucks is just horrible and not just for the price, the quality of their beverages is just horrid.
He’s a moron. Make it at home for what, a nickle?
That’s a hipster Yankee thing.
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