Save Money: Make Your Own Coffee

If you’re an avid coffee drinker, especially gourmet coffees, you know that buying one or two cups a day can put a huge dent in your budget. If you don’t know, pull out your calculator and add up how many cups you buy a day and the number of days you buy it in a month. Surprised? Well, there is something you can do about this, make your own coffee at home.

I know what you are thinking, “Making coffee at home just isn’t the same as buying it from Starbucks or the little coffee shop down the street.” It can be though!

Recently, I bought the Keurig machine. It’s ready to make coffee whenever I am ready for it because it has a reservoir of water that is already at the right temperature. All I do is pop in one of my gourmet coffee k-cups and press, ‘brew’. It’s fresh because the coffee grounds are sealed in the k-cup. Not only that, you don’t have to measure anything out or put in a filter. You have the perfect cup of coffee every time.

You might be wondering how much k-cups cost and if it would really save you money. The k-cups are around 50 cents each depending on where you buy them. Coffee isn’t the only thing you can buy, you can buy hot chocolate and tea too.

If you are still stuck on wanting Starbucks, you can buy a filter for the Keurig machine and use Starbucks coffee grounds from the grocery store. It will still end up cheaper than actually going to Starbucks.

If this still doesn’t sound ideal to you, when it comes to your personal finances and saving money, you have to do what you have to do.

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August 5th, 2009 by Marcelina Hardy | Posted in Saving Money | (0)