I’ve taken so many of the low hanging fruit for frugality in my life. As for coffee, I make all the obvious savings choices, wholesale beans, grinder I’ve owned for 23 years, etc. Coffee is one of my last little luxuries.
Tonight I was setting up my coffee maker for the morning - grinding three cups’ worth of beans, anything more is excess that disrupts my sleep and makes me jittery, thinking of how good it smells but how it was making my work-related jitters worse, and how I need to buy another $28 bag of beans that may last me until June, and I thought, ‘is this more trouble than it’s worth?’
It seems like a good idea to stop drinking coffee altogether. My nerves would be calmer. It would force me to go to bed earlier and focus on restful sleep. I wouldn’t be hooked on another recurring payment obligation.
I am excited because I found a new level of frugality right when I had run out of ideas. I know it’s going to suck for a few days and I need an accountability partner who has been there. #finance source