A second white man? Of course I noticed you.

As a single person:

For a cube of an apartment: 625$(free parking, utilities/internet/tv included)
Cell phone: 40$
Car insurance:64$
Car gas:180$
Groceries:200$
Eating out:255$
Daily 'Drive-through' coffee:155$

...And I am just realizing now I waste around 1520 monthly. SecondCup has all my money.

Now that you have realised, will you do anything about it?

Probably not, I don't have the required discipline to cut back on caffeine. All my attempts to substitute SC coffee for tea(70$ a year of David's Tea if drinking one cup per day) have failed. I usually swallow a medium-sized coffee in the morning and drink herbal tea just before going to bed. In the few months I have switched to 2 cups of tea a day, I had an extra dose of crankiness at work.

Is it not $1860 per year?

Yes.

It probably would improve my long term health(and err, polish my bank account) to completely drop coffee, but as an easily addicted person, I am afraid I will turn to nastier alternatives if I can't access my caffeine fix. After all, I only turned to coffee when I wanted an exit strategy for my '2 bottles of Pepsi a day' habit in my late teen years. Now I rarely drink Pepsi, but it's not like coffee has done wonders for my system. I am fortunate that I have disliked every alcohol beverage I ever tasted, but who knows how that dislike would change if in a coffee withdrawal mode.

can you get free refills at SC?

I wouldn't think so as it's only a coffee shop, not a restaurant(although they do sell a variety of salads and sandwiches).

Could you not make the coffee at home or drink it at work, and then treat yourself to an extra holiday once a year?

was thinking take the 'empty coffee cup from the previous day'. For today a drive through, empty contents into yesterdays cup. Park the car walk inside SC and get a refill for free or at half price today's cup.

Not saying I would ever do this at McD's for me & the wife ...

One other point - is cut down on eating out, or try to get someone(a friend) to feed you 2-3 days a week

If it's the caffeine that one needs, seems easier and cheaper to just take a caffeine pill and save the rest on coffee.

I drink coffee very rarely as I have to add so much milk and sugar to it to make it drinkable it becomes just as bad if not worse then soda, but seems buying coffee from a shop is just tossing money out considering how cheap coffee is to make at home.

Yeah, I really need to start shopping for another coffee maker. Mine is designed for prepackaged coffee pods only, and as far as I am aware, SecondCup only offers a selection of beans. Should give myself a December deadline.

Genius way of cutting corners, if I didn't have such absurd morals, I would probably try it somewhere. The way my inner compass is set, however, I would probably denounce myself out of guilt.



I have a reasonably small appetite, so restricting myself to a smoothie/Shirley(virgin) Temple instead of a whole 20$ plate would be an idea.

In these days of designer coffee bollox, that is an original suggestion !!

saving money is moral, no guilt required ....

I recommend one of these:

Bialetti : moka express