Save $1000 per year just by taking coffee at home!

[crazybuddy]

Friends,

If you start avoiding buying your coffee at Tim Hortons or Starbucks or any other such place, you can save significant money just by this small change in your life. Whenever you buy your regular coffee at these places, I am sure you buy more than the coffee.

You can read the full article here:

http://instantsavingsolutions.com/saving-tips/save-money-daily-coffee/

I have started doing it and want to realize this 2009 resolution!

Cheers:hi:

[Audrey]

We don't subscribe to the newspaper. I don't get my nails done. But I love my Starbucks :)

[crazybuddy]

Audrey:

I like your response. I think it's all about the priorities in the life. There are few things in life which one person may decide to sacrifice whereas the other one may decide not to. I love to read newspaper daily and I am happy to prepare my own coffee to keep reading the newspaper in place of taking coffee outside.

Cheers

[Audrey]

Yep, each of us has a different set of priorities. That is so important to remember in business. Excellent response.

[valg]

The costs really do add up. If you're a latte drinker like myself, my espresso machine has paid off in spades.

[Audrey]

What a neat gift to yourself, an espresso machine.

[wahm]

this would save a lot of money, I drink a lot of starbucks...

[eapoosmama]

I gave up buying coffee out when I made a job change years ago.
I also am not a supporter of Starbucks that buys from a set number of farmers yet only supports 2% Fair Trade Farmers -- then they ride the we support fair trade train as if they are doing the world good while they make about $36.00 lb for their non fair trade coffee.

So now I get affordable Great Organic Coffee brewed at home and people get to feed their family for their hard days work. Just by making a change in what I drink and drinking it in stainless steel.

[Lori]

Wow Mary Beth -- thanks for the education on Star Bucks.

I'd like to give up coffee. More for my husband's benefit than my own... he's got high blood pressure.

But I do love it. I drink Green Mountain most the time, I like to grind the beans myself :)

[eapoosmama]

Oh I love it too. I did scale down to one travel mug a day or 11/2 mugs in the morning. I usually drink Lavender and Yarrow herb teas for the rest of the day.

There are many good fair trade coffee's out there. Those that support non fair trade coffee's continue to help them dominate the commodity market and keep the Etheopian farmers from getting their fair trade contracts in place. I firmly believe people who harvest all day with such great care, deserve to be able to eat at the end of the day, many can't under the current non-fair trade conditions. I walked in ignorance for a very VERY long time until a friend from church went to Costa Rica and lived with a coffee farmer and his family of 7. It is a very hard lifestyle and the people who are fair trade farmers have so little. I can't imagine what the non fair trade live like. :(
We as American's and the world's largest consumers of coffee take our good Premium coffee for granite. The farmers who harvest never keep the best beans for themselves it always comes here. They get the much lesser selected beans to drink.