I spend $150 annually on coffee, tea, and soda. The bagel shop on the ground floor of my building sells an unlimited free-refill card.

Thanks, Breuggers!

As a musician this pisses me off. People won't spend $10 on an album but will buy 3 over-priced lattes in 2 days.
/grumble

My wife gave her boss a coffee maker for Solstice.
Only because her cubical is too small for it ...

Coffee in my office is free for employees, but I think it's being subsidized by someone studying just how robust human stomach lining is.

Most people work about 250 days a year (or less). That's $4 a day. Kind of high but not unreasonable. I only go once a week or so but it's a nice little break to head over to the local coffee shop mid-morning.

Reverend Monkeypants: As a musician this pisses me off. People won't spend $10 on an album but will buy 3 over-priced lattes in 2 days.
/grumble

Don't bother arguing about it. People are more protective of their coffee than their Apple product purchase.

I drink at least a pot a day at work but it's free. Go thru a bag at home ever other week with the wife, about ten a bag. And often buy coffee when out instead of a drink, so I'm prob near 1k annually.

Could there be an underlying problem with our working lifestyles being so shiatty we need stimulants to get through the day?

My office has a Starbucks. I bought a thermos to bring coffee from home instead.

I brew all my own coffee at home. Cost comes out to about $250 a year. I could spend less, but my wife won't drink Folger's.

Add in beer and wine and the amount I spend on drinks in a given year is staggering.

/very much trying to cut back on the spending, making coffee at home before work
//can't do much about the beer and wine though

We buy whole beans @ Costco. 5lbs/month, so about $300/yr. I grind some each week and bring to work for the french press pot I have at my desk. Good coffee whenever I want, which is usually once or twice per day (not counting cups at home).

The french press probably doesn't work as well if you like the mochas or whatever, but I drink black coffee.

$7/lb at the grocery store for me. Go through about 2lbs/month at the most. $7*2*12 = $168/year. Not so bad really.

I'm so glad I never got hooked on coffee. Apple juice with breakfast, water the rest of the day.

Reverend Monkeypants: As a musician this pisses me off. People won't spend $10 on an album but will buy 3 over-priced lattes in 2 days.
/grumble

If I could download a tall white mocha everyday, I would.

Coffee is free at work.

We go through about 1 lb of beans / week, at about 11 or 12 bucks per pound from the local coffee joint.

I will occasionally hit up said joint or a Starbucks for a latte... so I probably spend less than a grand every year, but fairly close.

/I should probably cut back a bit.

bemis23: $7/lb at the grocery store for me. Go through about 2lbs/month at the most. $7*2*12 = $168/year. Not so bad really.

Hate you. Peets is 8.99 at Wegmans

squegeebooo: bemis23: $7/lb at the grocery store for me. Go through about 2lbs/month at the most. $7*2*12 = $168/year. Not so bad really.

Hate you. Peets is 8.99 at Wegmans

Albertson's puts it on special every now and then. I try to grab a few lbs when they do and freeze them till needed.

I am the other 50%

I've never in my life paid for office coffee.

I didn't believe this, then I realized that stopping at Starbucks every morning would get you there.

I'll spend $4 on one pumpkin latte per year. Then it's back to saying fark that shiat for another year.

kab: Coffee is free at work.

I don't understand why more managers/owners don't grasp this simple concept. BUY YOUR PEOPLE COFFEE and supplies. Fark gratitude, they will get to work earlier and be more productive, and won't go skating off for coffee when they should be working or dealing with loose change and a 'coffee pool'. It's the best money you can ever spend as a boss. Hell, get some Yerba Mate or whatever for people who don't drink the Java.

And don't buy it and then be all "coffee is for closers". Duh.

tricycleracer: I've never in my life paid for office coffee.

If you'd ever had some of the dreck that passes for coffee in my office you'd bring your own too.

Lord Dimwit: I work from home. It's amazing how much money I save on gas, coffee, and lunch now. Seriously, it's several hundred dollars a month. It's nice.

If I may ask, do you have kids?

Yeah, it's amazing how it adds up. If you get a single soda out of the vending machine every work day, assuming a can costs $1, you're spending about $2,400 a YEAR on soda.

Nogale: Yeah, it's amazing how it adds up. If you get a single soda out of the vending machine every work day, assuming a can costs $1, you're spending about $2,400 a YEAR on soda.

...

Nogale: Yeah, it's amazing how it adds up. If you get a single soda out of the vending machine every work day, assuming a can costs $1, you're spending about $2,400 a YEAR on soda.

So you could set up a store selling medium to low quality coffee for 3 dollars a cup and make a killing.

Considering it costs a few pennies to produce (including the cup and slack-jawed college drop-out barista) that would still be a handy profit.

watson.t.hamster: So you could set up a store selling medium to low quality coffee for 3 dollars a cup and make a killing.

Considering it costs a few pennies to produce (including the cup and slack-jawed college drop-out barista) that would still be a handy profit.

Why has no one tapped this potential goldmine yet?!

jst3p: Reverend Monkeypants: As a musician this pisses me off. People won't spend $10 on an album but will buy 3 over-priced lattes in 2 days.
/grumble

If I could download a tall white mocha everyday, I would.

What's that? You never heard a song that got your blood pumping? Sorry to hear that.

Teenwolf: watson.t.hamster: So you could set up a store selling medium to low quality coffee for 3 dollars a cup and make a killing.

Considering it costs a few pennies to produce (including the cup and slack-jawed college drop-out barista) that would still be a handy profit.

Why has no one tapped this potential goldmine yet?!

you mean the slack-jawed college drop-out barista? oh it's been tapped all right ;)

You're really a sucker to buy coffee. Making it is infinitely cheaper and pretty simple.

I do it all with an electric water kettle, french press and hand crank burr grinder (which does a better job grinding than any sub $200 grinder). I can grind the beans in the time it takes to boil two to three cups of water. The brewing process takes 4 minutes. Total time: about 6 minutes. For beans I buy whatever is freshest at Whole Foods, typically $8.99 to $12.99/lb. And it tastes much better than what places like Starbucks sell -- not nearly as acidic.

I_Am_Weasel: I spend $0, annually, on coffee.

Me too. What a waste.

Elzar: $25 for the best coffee maker in the world:
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Then $6-9 a bag therafter. Coffee light years better than the best fancy coffee machines money can buy (including what you might be able to pickup at your local coffee shop).

/ Also shout out to Peet's Major Dickinson Blend and Seattle's Best #4
// Might be able to convert it into a poor man's bong, but haven't tried yet

Drug dealing is a big business.

I buy green coffee beans in bulk - cheap, and they last forever. Each week I roast a batch in a popcorn popper, and grind what I need immediately before use. I carry it to work in a big thermos, and then watch as my co-workers give their wages to the company cafeteria.