I was inspired by the other thread where beekeeper gave up coffee:
https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/share-your-badassity/gave-up-coffee/I realize this isn't for everyone, but for us it was a great idea because we were simply abusing coffee, drinking it all day and not feeling that great from it either -- side effects.
We were spending about $80 per month on coffee, mainly due to the cream & stevia we used. The two of us each drank about 4 large mugs per day.
Now we switched to PG Tips black tea (imported from England) and well you can get 480 bags of it for $21 off Amazon.com. We each drink 2 cups per day at 4.3 cents per bag. It comes to about $5 per month between us. About $75 per month less than coffee.
https://www.amazon.com/PG-Tips-Black-Pyramid-240-Count/dp/B001EQ5JLEWe feel great too.. we still get that caffeine withdrawel.. but much more subtle now and the tea gives us our fix.
More about PG Tips: I learned about this from a friend of mine who is a chef in England. He said it's the favored tea there and I can see why. I compared the flavor to Twinings and well I like it much better as well. He also gave me a recipe for making the perfect mug of black tea, which I'd like to share here -- try it sometime, absolutely no bitterness! :
1) boil enough water to fill your mug twice.
2) fill empty mug with boiling water and let rest 30 seconds or so.
3) empty out that mug into the sink -- the mug is now very hot and won't suck the heat from the new water poured in.
4) put a tea bag into the empty mug.
5) fill with rapidly boiling hot water
6) count to 30 seconds .. dunking bag maybe three times along the way.
7) fish out with spoon or fork and discard
8) let cool to a safe comfortable drinking temperature -- it's very hot be careful!
Regarding the above process, the whole idea of brewing black tea is to do it as fast as possible as hot as possible and this achieves that. The longer it brews the more bitterness which comes out. This method makes perfect tea for us every time.. nice and sweet with no bitterness at all.
EDIT: we ran out of PG Tips yesterday and bought some Lipton tea bags as a temporary fix and well I wish we didn't.. it tastes so nasty compared to PG Tips! Gonna order the 480 bags of PG Tips from Amazon for $21 now.. glad I found it there as affordable solution to, imo, the best tasting tea.
EDIT #2: If one could drink coffee black, it would be much more affordable as most of the expense for us was the cashew milk, heavy cream & liquid stevia drops we used -- it was about $60 per month for those alone, not including the coffee. Unfortunately, we couldn't drink the coffee black. However, we prefer our tea plain, so this is the main reason it works out well for us.