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Rethink Your Coffee Habit
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The price of everything has sky-rocked, no news there. A trip to the grocery store has tripled for basics. One basic, well essential, is coffee. In 2022 the price of coffee went up by 20%. Even the cheap stuff was getting into the “rethink your coffee habit” realm.
I’m not a casual coffee drinker. I’ve been “on” coffee since I was three. My family moved to Costa Rica as part of my father’s work. The company provided day care for myself and my little brother. “Day care” was my father’s secretary’s mother’s house. Mamma A became a big part of our young lives.
One of my first memories in this six decades life is sitting at Mamma A’s kitchen table having a coffee (dash of coffee in a cup of hot milk and sugar) while eating a butter and sugar sandwich on white bread. My baby brother’s first word was azucar (spanish for sugar).
The point being, I’ve had a relationship with coffee since I was a toddler. So quitting is unrealistic at this point. However, looking at the prospect of a fixed income for the next phase of adulthood, I’m concerned that I won’t be able to afford my coffee addiction.
The first coffee economics transition I made was ditching the electric 12 cup drip coffeemaker. I went back to my French Press coffee pot. I noticed my…