"If you're one of the many people who have trouble making it through the day without your morning cup of coffee, you likely spend a small fortune on the stuff every month. Admit it, you start every work day at the local coffee shop where you spend $4 on that cup of latte. "
Their math shows over $1000 a year spent on this $4 latte. They recommend this K-Cup coffee brewer to make your own coffee at home and save.
So a quick look at their suggested alternative. $199 for the machine. $20 (includes shipping) for 24 K-Cups individual coffee servings. So this alternative costs you only $500 for the year. Not bad. Half the price. Ahhh, but wait. We're talking apples and oranges here. Instead of getting a 16 oz latte you have only a "7.25 oz regular cup" of brewed coffee. Ignore the fact that you aren't getting any milk or froth in your coffee beverage and just assume you want at least the same amount of liquid as you were getting with your $4 latte. Now it's going to take 3 K-cup single servings just to brew that 16 oz coffee and a whopping $1107 a year to feed your K-cup addiction. Top that off with a little cream or sugar and its no longer even close. Oh, but you're right it takes gasoline to get to your local coffee shop on your way to work and that gasoline is not cheap. But we will stick it to our local Starbucks and show them we don't need their lattes and their mochas by simply quitting our jobs, saving on the gasoline, and start brewing our K-cups. Brilliant. I already have a hundred ways I could be spending that extra $300 saved in gasoline expenses.
Their math shows over $1000 a year spent on this $4 latte. They recommend this K-Cup coffee brewer to make your own coffee at home and save.
So a quick look at their suggested alternative. $199 for the machine. $20 (includes shipping) for 24 K-Cups individual coffee servings. So this alternative costs you only $500 for the year. Not bad. Half the price. Ahhh, but wait. We're talking apples and oranges here. Instead of getting a 16 oz latte you have only a "7.25 oz regular cup" of brewed coffee. Ignore the fact that you aren't getting any milk or froth in your coffee beverage and just assume you want at least the same amount of liquid as you were getting with your $4 latte. Now it's going to take 3 K-cup single servings just to brew that 16 oz coffee and a whopping $1107 a year to feed your K-cup addiction. Top that off with a little cream or sugar and its no longer even close. Oh, but you're right it takes gasoline to get to your local coffee shop on your way to work and that gasoline is not cheap. But we will stick it to our local Starbucks and show them we don't need their lattes and their mochas by simply quitting our jobs, saving on the gasoline, and start brewing our K-cups. Brilliant. I already have a hundred ways I could be spending that extra $300 saved in gasoline expenses.
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