The Money I Saved on Coffee Is Less Than My Coffee Bill
I've been carrying a tumbler for three months to save 120,000 won a month on coffee. I've saved 80,000 won.
Bought a tumbler, bought beans, bought a cleaning brush... lol. This is so pointless.
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It's not that it's pointless—it's just because it's only 3 months. The expenses are front-loaded while the savings keep going, so over time it flips. And buying beans is way cheaper than buying coffee, isn't it? Including the tumbler in the coffee-cost calculation seems like a stretch.
Hahaha, ah, I can totally relate to this.
Got a source? The 120,000 won figure seems a bit exaggerated... but if it's two cups a day at 4,500 won, that does add up to about that much.
I was the same lol. Once I got into home cafes and bought beans, a grinder, and even a machine, I actually ended up spending more... I only came to my senses after buying all of it.
If it’s 80,000 won over 3 months, you definitely saved, lol. Once you recover the upfront cost, everything after that is pure profit. The tumbler and brush are one-time purchases, and the beans replace what you’d spend on coffee. If you stick it out for just 12 months, the difference will really show, right? The usual reason this calculation fails is that people divide the machine cost across each month, but if you ignore that and just look after 6 months, it works out.
Still, the tumbler is left and the brush is left too lol. My assets have grown.
I don't agree. The problem starts with targeting 120,000 won for coffee as something to cut back on in the first place. You should tackle the big fixed expenses first; coffee is a small but certain happiness, so what's the point of cutting that out? If the stress relief you get from spending that money is greater, isn't it actually a net gain?
In my case, it was the opposite—I saved about 400,000 won a year with just one tumbler. But I've got a bad habit of buying and collecting multiple tumblers, so that's a separate expense... Just be careful about that.
Well, I don't know about that. If the goal is to save on coffee, isn't the answer just not to drink it, rather than using a tumbler?
For real, coffee is just something you drink because you want to. If you drink it just to be frugal, it only stresses you out.