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Why Giving Up Starbucks Won’t Make You Rich
It Won’t Make You Happy, Either
I read a lot, and I write a lot, and it seems that both of those go hand in hand with coffee.
So okay, I confess — I drink a lot of coffee. Good news is, I drink almost exclusively decaf. The coffee snobbery among us would lament, “what’s the point?” while they feign fainting dead away, while I would sneer and point out that I do get good sleep and my heart rate remains stable.
I’ve been known to be a Starbucks devotee, not because their coffee is superior (it isn’t) but because they are consistent. I know that the drink I order will be the same, every time — unless, of course, I am ordering in a Starbucks or Safeway, in which case all bets are off.
The only thing they will usually get wrong is my name. Which is hilarious. Because my name is Susan. It’s so NOT difficult. But I digress.
I used to go to Starbucks almost every day, especially when I had a 44-mile one-way commute. That commute sucked. And I drove a damn minivan. Talk about horrific. If I wanted to salve my totally battered image by buying a daily dose of pricey coffee, so be it. And so I did.
That $5 boost to my ego did not send me over the financial cliff, I assure you.
