Where on earth do you find a $9 coffee pot? I am very frugal and even at the thrift stores near me in Columbus Ohio, if you can find a working one, it’s priced at $10 or more. Meijer and Walmart’s lowest price is around $20. I’ve never seen coffee pots at yard or rummage sales, and believe me, I go to a lot of them.

Similarly, only $1.50 a year for coffee filters? Do you reuse them? Because again, at Meijer, a pack of 180 or so is $2. I recycled mine after one use for worm food (I have a worm farm). There was no way they would have held up to another brew cycle anyway.

Also, don’t forget electricity use for the coffee pot in your calculation. And if you are using a travel mug vs disposable cup to transport it in.

Really, I brewed my own coffee when I drank it and took it to work in a Thermos and I agree there is a cost savings. Since I’m pregnant, I haven’t drank coffee in many months.

However, I think you’re underestimating the cost of making coffee at home.

And these comments come from somebody who feeds her family of a DH who works out, a 3yo DD, pregnant mama and 2 cats on $30 per week (we’re all healthy and eat a balanced diet).

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From our recently published book:

“Over the course of a year, doing it yourself saves you 1187½ minutes over Starbucks. Subtract your 2-minute investment in the coffeemaker, plus the one minute a year you’ll now spend buying coffee, and that’s 19 hours, 44½ minutes.

So brewing your own saves you
$335.12 in money
19 hours, 44½ minutes in time.”

Great timely article, seven of your ten ways to save ten bucks also reduces you impact on the environment. Not only do you have more green to save but you are making the planet a little greener as well.

I did the math one time for eating out vs. taking a brown bag lunch for an entire working career, and the amount of savings is insanely huge!