Beware the Latte of Death

Good morning, can I get you your regular? You bet a double latte, here is the $5 and see you tomorrow or I might sneak by on the way home. Sound familiar? If so you are suffering from late stage Latte-melanoma and if you are not careful you can die from this. Die of poverty I mean. There are plenty of studies on the Net about how the average coffee house drinker can drop $1000-1500 per year! Holly coffee beans that is a whack of money for coffee. I researched a franchise of a well-known chain and got to look at the numbers, folks that stuff they sell is not that expensive for them to make. We are giving them huge profits and when that happens we suffer. There are several solutions to this health menace. My favorite is stop! Well if that is unlikely, can you go and get yourself a really nice mug and your own machine? I have seen plenty of good quality espresso, latte, cappuccino or even plain old coffee machines for a lot less than what you would spend in a coffee house. As I think about it, $1500 buys a really nice vacation in a tropical location. Is that coffee in the morning really doing it for you versus a week in an all-inclusive resort on the Riviera? Oh I know you need that little “pick me up” in the morning. Did you know an apple has more “pick me up” than a cup of coffee? It’s okay, I did not believe it either until I tested it out in my clinic with patients for a year or so. It takes a month or more to detox from the coffee before the apple can kick in, yes most coffee sold in America is fairly toxic stuff I know from working with lots of people in debt that the habit of going into the coffee house can be a hard one to break. Once they do it, they miss it for a while and then they wonder how they got convinced to spend that kind of money in the first place. They are normally wondering that while on a nice vacation. When you see what those little expenses add up to and you compare it to what you could do with that money, it is easy to curb the spending. For some of us our “Latte” may not even be a latte. It could a bottle of Pepsi or Coke. The point is to be aware of all your little or not so little daily habitual expenditures. Of course for many people they are burdened with consumer debts, these expenses are just piling on more debt. This creates more stress and the desire to have a little luxury or treat to take your mind off your money problems. Unfortunately the downward spiral of debt continues. Ask yourself would it be nice to be debt free and able to go on a nice vacation knowing you paid for it with your Latte money?. Take today and look at the ‘little’ expenses you have on a regular basis and add them up for a year. What do you think about that amount of money being spent? Can you afford it, do you get enough enjoyment from it compared to the cost? Are you being Latte’d to death? If so do whatever it takes to stay out of the store and take that money and do something with it so that your next Latte is in some exotic location.