What does the math look like when comparing making coffee at home vs paying for coffee at your favorite cafe? Before we get started, take a moment to make a mental note of how much you think you'd pay over a year for just two coffees per day. Got that number locked in? Ok, lets go...
In 2024, the average price for coffee at a cafe is $5.50, but that can range from $4.20 up-to $7.00, depending on where you end up enjoying your coffee. Additional options such as alternative milks can add 50c to $1, and extra espresso shots are similar.
If you enjoy a morning coffee to get the day started, and a second coffee mid morning, then you'd have payed $11 out of pocket. If you're like me, you'd probably start the day with two coffees and an afternoon coffee to sit back and relax, or perhaps to get over that mid afternoon lul.
so, onto the math, assuming only 2 cups per day.
Let's just take a moment to consider that - $4,000 per year, for just two coffees per day, for one person - that doesn't include coffees for your partner, friend or business associates. If you enjoy coffee more frequently, like day 4 or 5 coffees per day, that's $10,000 per year,
With today's inflationary pressures and the cost of living crisis, every dollar saved is going to put you in a better financial position. When cutting out coffee from your daily life is not an option, because its a luxury you enjoy and a small reward you provide to yourself for all the hard work you do, you need to think of a better option.
Making cafe quality coffee at home is the answer! This can be achieved by investing in an Espresso Machine and complimenting that with cafe quality coffee beans, the same coffee beans that Bay Beans supplies to Cafe's all over Australia. When a 1kg bag of Bay Beans coffee costs only $39.70, delivered to your door, and 1 bag will make 144 shots of coffee (or 70 double shot coffees), that's only 57c per coffee. If you enjoy your coffee with milk, a premium milk is $4.50 per 2 litres, supplying enough milk for 14 large coffees, at a cost of 33c per flat white or latte. When we add the two costs together, that is only 90 cents per coffee!
the same math per year is $4,000 vs $657 - a saving of $3,343.
Sure, you'd have the cost of a machine to consider, but imagine the machine you could purchase and own as an asset for $3,343. Your machine could be completely paid for in no time from the savings alone, then all the extra savings could be put away for a holiday to Bali, or dining out at your favorite restaurants, splashing out on live performances or just to help ease the cost of living pleasures. What you decide to do with over $3,500 per year is entirely up to you to enjoy in whatever way you decide. When you further consider the income tax you've already paid on that $3,500, its like getting a payrise of $5,000!
In 2024, the average price for coffee at a cafe is $5.50, but that can range from $4.20 up-to $7.00, depending on where you end up enjoying your coffee. Additional options such as alternative milks can add 50c to $1, and extra espresso shots are similar.
If you enjoy a morning coffee to get the day started, and a second coffee mid morning, then you'd have payed $11 out of pocket. If you're like me, you'd probably start the day with two coffees and an afternoon coffee to sit back and relax, or perhaps to get over that mid afternoon lul.
so, onto the math, assuming only 2 cups per day.
- 2 cafe coffees per day @ $5.50 ea = $11.00
- $77 per week spent on cafe coffee
- $334.50 per month
- that's $4015 per year, for two cafe coffees per day.
Let's just take a moment to consider that - $4,000 per year, for just two coffees per day, for one person - that doesn't include coffees for your partner, friend or business associates. If you enjoy coffee more frequently, like day 4 or 5 coffees per day, that's $10,000 per year,
With today's inflationary pressures and the cost of living crisis, every dollar saved is going to put you in a better financial position. When cutting out coffee from your daily life is not an option, because its a luxury you enjoy and a small reward you provide to yourself for all the hard work you do, you need to think of a better option.
Making cafe quality coffee at home is the answer! This can be achieved by investing in an Espresso Machine and complimenting that with cafe quality coffee beans, the same coffee beans that Bay Beans supplies to Cafe's all over Australia. When a 1kg bag of Bay Beans coffee costs only $39.70, delivered to your door, and 1 bag will make 144 shots of coffee (or 70 double shot coffees), that's only 57c per coffee. If you enjoy your coffee with milk, a premium milk is $4.50 per 2 litres, supplying enough milk for 14 large coffees, at a cost of 33c per flat white or latte. When we add the two costs together, that is only 90 cents per coffee!
the same math per year is $4,000 vs $657 - a saving of $3,343.
Sure, you'd have the cost of a machine to consider, but imagine the machine you could purchase and own as an asset for $3,343. Your machine could be completely paid for in no time from the savings alone, then all the extra savings could be put away for a holiday to Bali, or dining out at your favorite restaurants, splashing out on live performances or just to help ease the cost of living pleasures. What you decide to do with over $3,500 per year is entirely up to you to enjoy in whatever way you decide. When you further consider the income tax you've already paid on that $3,500, its like getting a payrise of $5,000!
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