Coffee Or A Motor Home?

Starbucks sells approximately 4,000,000 cups of coffee a day in the United States. Based on a 24-hour day that is an astounding 166,666 cups an hour. Or 2,778 cups a minute. Or if you really want to get specific it is 46 cups of coffee every second of every day.

The average price of a cup of  'standard' coffee at Starbucks is $2.50. Which calculates at $115 every second. Or $10,000,000 a day. Or for those really wanting to know $3,650,000,000 a year. Or for those that really have nothing better to do than look at zeros it is $36,500,000,000 over a decade. Yep, $36.5 Billion over a decade.

But what if you just care about your own coffee costs. Well for starters it is a 5-day week, which will weigh in at $12.50 per week. Now, if you have 4 weeks of vacation that means you are spending $600 a year on 240 coffees.

If you start work at 18 and carry on until you retire at 65 you have 47 years of work in you. If you have a coffee every day and the price never goes up (fat chance of that) you will spend $28,200 on coffee.

But that is just the morning coffee on the way to work. But what if you get a snack every lunch, and have an after-work drink at the end of each day?

The average fast food lunch is going to cost you $5.50 a day. $1320 a year. For your whole career you kiss goodbye to $62,040. And that much needed after-work drink is going to cost you (if you drink a beer) $4 a day. 47 years later you will have spent $45,120.

Add it all up and for your whole career you have spent $135,360.

Instead of being addicted to caffeine, a few pounds heavier, and wasting a couple of hours each week at Alcoholics Anonymous you could have purchased something to enjoy your retirement in:

And still had $18,000 for gas.