Skip Starbucks and Save $500

Here’s a quick little savings tip for all you coffee lovers out there.

Do you stop and get a cup of coffee everyday? Whether it be from Starbucks or McDonald’s all those coffees add up. If you get one cup of coffee every single day of the year, at an average price of $2 per cup, that’s 365 X 2 = $730. Now we know you won’t have a cup everyday, but wherever you get your coffee probably doesn’t cost $2 per cup either. We’re guessing it’s a little more.

Now lets say you instead buy a single coffee cup maker like the one pictured here for $35. Now you buy a pound of Starbucks coffee from your local grocery store, ground, at $12 per ground pound. We’ll now say you can get 30 cups of coffee out of a pound of coffee. Now 365 / 30 = 12.16, So you’ll need 13 bags at the most, 13 X 12 = $156 +35 = $191. 

That means you’ll save $730 - $191 = $539 a year if you just spend the money on a coffee maker.