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Dropped $22 on a bag of coffee beans at a shop in Tulsa, and it lasted me 11 days of feeling like I had my act together
Back when I was pulling double shifts, I drank the cheap stuff from a can and never thought twice about it. Then a guy at a job site in Tulsa handed me a cup from a shop down the street, and I ended up buying a $22 bag of the same beans on my way home. Boiling water and pouring it over grounds in a french press took about four extra minutes each morning, which felt dumb at first, but those four minutes turned into the best part of my day. Eleven days later the bag was empty and I realized I had made myself a real cup of coffee instead of just drinking something hot and brown. Does anyone else have a small purchase like this that ended up mattering more than it should?
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corablack17d ago
Why does everyone act like $22 for coffee is some kind of splurge? That is like three lattes at any shop and you got 11 days out of it, so the real issue is how cheap the canned stuff trained you to think coffee should cost. Four minutes standing over a french press beats four minutes in a drive thru line, and the fact that it made you feel put together says more about the ritual than the price. Sometimes spending a bit more on the daily thing you actually touch every morning is just smarter money, not fancy money.
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