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I've started making my coffee at home and bringing it to work in a (not Stanley) thermos flask. I worked out it saves me $67 per month. If it was a streaming service I'd have already cut it by now, but I still feel like some kind of traitorous unmelbournely bastard. Still, $ is tight and I've got to make cuts π
Great idea! Guarantees a certain level of coffee as well, sick of paying 6 bucks for a bullshit one.
You ask for a large but they're so fkn small. There's only a few places that do a proper large coffee that I know of: Macca's, the cafe near my work in Port Melbourne (literally a proper 500ml cup with 3 shots), and maybe somewhere I've forgotten lol
Coffee is so worth making at home these days, we're spoilt for choice with good coffee beans + great tap water and there's a million billion methods readily available with guides. If you buy a coffee every work day, a mid range espresso machine pays for itself within a year, if not a grinder + aeropress + metal filter pays for itself in like less than a month. Pretty decent & reliable cuppa at a fraction of the cost. Highly recommend. It won't feel like you're cutting back on nice things!
It's a great way to save money as I made the transition some years ago.
Also helped me teach myself how to make coffee via various methods as well and introduced me to different coffee blends.
Yum!
Yeah, at the rate Iβm buying coffees lately 1k+ for the year wouldnβt be a surprise.
I have a stash of ground coffee in my desk drawer and a small plunger. I buy the first coffee, and make my own second around 11am. Which is now. π
A thermos would probably produce better coffee, but they're heavy. I ride a bike to work. I also probably couldn't fit it in my small commuting backpack.
Thatβs the way I went.
I decided to go the plunger route, first one of those bodum glass ones at home and for work I bought one of those stainless steel ones for the durability.
I have a stupid amount of ground coffee at work and at home.
Only catch would be the amount of time it takes to make and then clean up when Iβm at work.
The other thing that I invested in are long arm coffee spoons for scooping out the coffee out of the bag.
Unpopular but I like the coffee machine at work. Put in a nespresso pod, gives me coffee. I add some chocolate powder to make it a mocha. Surely saves atlwast $5 every time! π€·ββοΈ
Same here. Free coffee on work from office days!