You can always add more whipped cream and syrup.
Starbucks sells (used to sell) these blueberry scones. Sounds good right? They were the blandest things ever. That made me assume they were healthy. Nope, lotsa calories and IIRC, 55% of your daily saturated fat.
I am SO glad I never started drinking coffee.
I gotta tell you, while it’s good advice, the people who most need to hear it are the ones who won’t listen to it.
My brother-in-law has quit yet another job. Never mind that he’s in debt up to his eyeballs, never mind that he has absolutely no savings, never mind that his retirement plan is “hit the jackpot in the lottery”, he just decided that he’d had enough of working. Mind you, he CLAIMS to be a libertarian, but he’s willing to take advantage of every entitlement program that he can. And I’m a liberal/socialist/pinko commie scum, but I’ve NEVER taken advantage of entitlement programs. Ever. There have been plenty of times when I qualified for various programs, too. But he goes around, hat in hand, wanting whatever he can get. And then he bitches about the government intruding in his life.
Somehow, he manages to hit Starbucks and get a cup of coffee several times a day. He has a coffeepot at home, but apparently it’s too much trouble to make a few cups in the morning, and definitely too boring to drink coffee at home. He needs to get out and drive to the coffee shop and pay out the nose for some coffee, and for a snack, too. The thing is, he won’t consider cutting out this cost. And he won’t consider cutting other costs. Something’s gotta give…so usually, what happens is that he just doesn’t pay back the loans that my husband has given him.
Well, time is money. Why spend an hour+ of your time and effort doing something that, as you yourself put it, is going to last 2 days before it’s a mess again.
I’d rather spend $12, take the 10 minutes at lunchtime and get it done. And instead of washing my car that weekend, I can spend that time doing something else with my wife.
I guess it’s always an equation for all of us. The time and effort of hand washing my car is worth to me about what I pay to have it washed quickly, by a machine.
To you, maybe not so much. Perhaps you find the time relaxes you, perhaps you use it to chew the fat with your neighbor/son/spouse, etc.
to me, it’s just a waste of time.
For the folks this ad is targeted to, what they don’t have is money. If you don’t have much money, trading money for free time is a poor choice. What they should be doing is strategically trading their free time for money, not the other way around. Trade an hour of free time to replace a $12 car wash, you just earned a tax free $12/hr, and didn’t have to leave your driveway.
It takes less than 5 minutes of your time to make a cup of coffee, and you probably save at least $1 per cup. That’s another $12/hr without leaving your kitchen, using time you probably would have spent doing nothing worthwhile, or particularly enjoyable anyway.
It’s like having a job opportunity, $12/hr, 5hrs per week, work from home, work as much or as little as you want, when you want, with no boss, no deadlines, just money in your pocket when you do these little odd jobs. Not a bad deal if times are tough.
Cheeaesteak. Thats a darn good way of putting it and looking at it. Good post.
Heh, mrAru makes 2 thermos of coffee and lugs them to work with himself. [his previous job didn’t have a coffee mess, you had to go to the cafeteria and buy it by the cup.] He also takes his lunch every day - typically leftovers from the previous evenings supper. That has to be what, almost $20 a day he isn’t spending? Not to mention we rarely use convenience foods - with my food allergies and sensitivities I would rather just make it from scratch than have to juggle ingredient panels.
$2.89 for a large coffee in the Starbucks in my building, just went and looked, when you start calling a Mocha a “coffee” it gets worse fast.