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Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« on: May 22, 2014, 08:38:24 AM »
Woo hoo!

I've gone three weeks (i.e. since the beginning of this month) without a Starbucks run... without starting my day off right by treating myself right with the small luxury that is my slightly sweet, foamy, delicious Starbucks latte and an old-fashioned doughnut. 

I swear they pump heroin into that stuff to make it so addictive.

Money saved: $5.15 x 21 = $108.15

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2014, 08:46:29 AM »
Congratulations!

I swore off the stuff when I discovered MMM and my rear end and wallet have thanked me ever since...I think there should be a coin for 30 days free of S-bucks


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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2014, 08:47:19 AM »
Congrats! I am glad I never got that habit, but I feel the exact same way about my no longer existing smoke habit. Keep it up; after a few months of keeping up with money saved it gets big enough to feel like it will take insanity to go back to how you used to spend. :)

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2014, 09:08:00 AM »
I swear they pump heroin into that stuff to make it so addictive.

Money saved: $5.15 x 21 = $108.15

Not heroin, but sugar.  Added to the caffeine already in the coffee it's potent drug.  Dr. Wifey says sugar used to be kept in locked cabinets at drugstores. Now it's in all our "food products".

Also, good job.  That's $1300 plus a year.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2014, 09:43:30 AM »
Nice job--congrats.  I still buy their bags of coffee beans from the grocery store ... FYI, you get a free tall brewed coffee when you turn in the empty bag at any Starbucks! 

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2014, 09:47:33 AM »
Yes, but then you are in there, smelling the Salted Caramel Mocha goodness.  I can demonstrate badassity and can stay away from the green sign, but if I were in the store, not so much

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2014, 09:51:27 AM »
I used to be guilty of iced chai lattes + pumpkin bread. Those days seem so long gone! There's no looking back now ;-D

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2014, 09:54:15 AM »
I did a double take on that savings from 1 month of single category badassity.

It's tough to break a habit, especially one that you routinely found yourself relying on to get the day rolling.  Your only problem now is that your bank account will be too full! What the heck will you do with all this spare cash!?

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2014, 09:59:10 AM »
Good for you! My husband and I find ourselves there way too often in the afternoons. Maybe trying to cold-turkey it for a month would be a help!

It's definitely addicting for so many reasons.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2014, 02:33:10 PM »
This is great. For me it's not so much the coffee as being there.  I'm a morning person and have this need to get out of the house. Unfortunately it's the only thing open with people around on a regular basis.  I'm currently trying to find alternatives...or just get over my need to be out of the house so often.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2014, 04:21:25 PM »
If the average person stopped drinking Starbucks and put every dime of their newly saved money into buying the company's stock, they'd be millionaires in 20 years.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2014, 06:16:26 PM »
Congratulations!  Starbucks runs really add up.  It is huge savings in three weeks ($108.) and now the savings will keep adding up for you.  Way to go!  That's a lot of money to be saving per month. 

I used to buy a coffee at McDonalds every morning before work myself.  Plus i'd often seem to end up in a Starbucks on the weekend buying a coffee or a cookie.  When I wasn't working last year it was also somewhere to go to get out of the house. 

That all stopped when i got here, thank God. 
« Last Edit: May 22, 2014, 09:07:12 PM by pachnik »

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2014, 06:41:46 PM »
Great job! The green tea latte is good, but not $1,300 a year good! I'll pass.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2014, 07:12:19 PM »
Good job!

Starbucks is still a weakness for me.  Just looked at YNAB and saw that i've spent $137.07 at Starbucks in 2014.  To be honest, i thought it might be more.  Here's to doing better for the rest of the year. 

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2014, 04:07:09 PM »
Good job - you'll probably live longer, too! ;-)  That stuff is nasty, IMHO.  Over rated and over-priced!   Keep up the great work! 

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2014, 09:33:45 PM »
Congratulations! You can keep it up. I think I am at about 4 years and counting. I used to have a two a day large Americano habit....I now make my own coffee using slow pour goodness. :)

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2014, 10:25:51 PM »
I did a double-take on that 3-week savings figure, too.  Eventually the whole thing will seem silly and like a hassle.  I got $100 in Starbuck's gift cards for Christmas, and challenged myself to make them last all year.  I think I still have $70 left.  The other day I stopped in with a coworker to refill my mug, and it was just a bit PITA because the woman in front of us was trying to get $ loaded onto her iPhone app using Canadian funds and a coupon or something, making it akin to a rocket launch in level of complexity.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2014, 10:43:59 PM »
Geesh I can't remember the last time I've been to a Starbucks. I brew my own at home and at work there's always a pot going.

Way overpriced.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2014, 06:18:06 AM »
I'm happy to report that I made it the whole month of May.  Total savings: $5.15 x 31 = $159.65

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2014, 07:11:36 AM »
Congratulations on the one month Starbucks-free!  $160 is a lot of money especially if you think about it over a few years.  I can't really talk I spent a lot of money on snacks and coffee at Starbucks in the past myself.

Actually, someone gave me a Starbucks gift card about 2 months ago and i still have it.  i am saving it for pumpkin spice latte season in the fall when I will buy a few of those and that is it.  once the money is gone, I am gone from Starbucks!

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #20 on: May 31, 2014, 09:44:58 AM »
If you like steamy/foamy milk (which is the only reason I ever used to go to Starbucks) you can buy a hand steamer that you can use at home to make the milk foamy. It's $20.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #21 on: May 31, 2014, 10:02:28 AM »
Good job. I am a coffee addict but I've been making my own espresso-based drinks for decades, still with the same machine, a Gaggia Baby (middle-of-the-pack home espresso manual machine), for much cheaper than any coffee shop, and much better IMO. Most friends who come visit now forego the beer or wine and go straight for my coffee. I have not figured out the price per serving, but I am darn sure it is under $1 a cup. I'll say up front that I make espresso at home because it saves me time. By making it at home, I get espresso that tastes better (to me) than the best shops I have access to, all day every day. At a 30 minute round trip to bike to those shops that produce the kind of quality I want to drink (but not the kind of variety) I'd spend over 12 hours a week just getting good espresso. With this kind of equipment and beans at home I spend about 4 h/week. Irrespective of how I value my time, I don't have an extra 8h/week to spend getting espresso. Plus coffee has become a very interesting hobby that goes well beyond drinking it. And a few months ago, I made a cappuccino for one of my friends who only bought coffee when it was on special at $4.99 a can at Wal-Mart. You should have seen the look on his face. He just forked $1000 for his first home espresso setup, a nice Rancilio and a Gaggia grinder.

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #22 on: May 31, 2014, 11:19:24 AM »
I'm happy to report that I made it the whole month of May.  Total savings: $5.15 x 31 = $159.65

Embarrassed to say that in the months leading up to my discovery of MMM, my monthly expenditure was much the same.  I find it enormously empowering to turn my back on this careless waste of our hard earned resources...

My CheapskateKiddo is getting in on the game too, and is openly discussing not asking me for things that cost money (like Slurpee's after school) so we can save up for our vacation this summer and other better things....if he stays still long enough, I'll draw a mini mustache on him and make him my avatar, because he rocks!  Don't be afraid to talk openly with your kids about changes you are making.  It makes for some really interesting debate!

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #23 on: May 31, 2014, 02:25:50 PM »
ha ha, I thought this was a thread about getting starbucks items free of charge for 3 weeks. 

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #24 on: May 31, 2014, 02:44:22 PM »
My husband and I spent $58 on Starbucks this past month. aak!! We're going to try to limit ourselves to just once per weekend this month and see how we do. It's just such a nice place... Sigh...

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #25 on: May 31, 2014, 03:02:02 PM »
I use to get be a Starbucks addict but that changed after I realized it was costing me up to several hundred a month.....  Now I enjoy nice home brewed black coffee.  Never going back!

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #26 on: May 31, 2014, 03:36:32 PM »
ha ha, I thought this was a thread about getting starbucks items free of charge for 3 weeks.

You're not the only one! 

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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #27 on: May 31, 2014, 07:33:07 PM »
ha ha, I thought this was a thread about getting starbucks items free of charge for 3 weeks.

You're not the only one!

Wouldn't that be "Free Starbucks Three Weeks" or "Three Weeks Free Starbucks"?


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Re: Three Weeks Starbucks Free
« Reply #28 on: June 03, 2014, 09:28:41 AM »
Hi, my name is Joy, and it's been 7 weeks since my last Starbucks fix.  Keep it up!

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!