The best place to buy rarely used espresso machines is garage sales. Shop around, you can find a quality coffee maker, new, for less than $30.
If you buy one used, check inside the tank for mineral deposits and run a mixture of 1/4 vinegar and 3/4 water throught to remove any deposits.
Coffee prices fluctuate as the price of coffee beans go up and down. For big savings on coffee, consider roasting your own in a hot air popcorn popper. It's surprisingly easy to roast your own, just be sure to do it outside. Susan (from ThriftyFun) and her son even wrote a book about!
We are creatures of habit, especially in the morning, change your habits and the savings will come easy.
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I was surprised to learn from my daughter that you can buy coffee cups with lids in the grocery store. She makes her coffee at home and brings it to work in the disposable cup -- so she looks just like everyone else but she's the Thrifty One!
You can order OH My Chai tea from www.tastefullysimple.com it's $9.99 for a 10 oz. can it saves to order two cans for the price 3 or 4 latte's in the morning.
My favorite homemade morning drink is a cup of hazelnut coffee with 1/3 C. dry milk powder and about a tablespoon of presweetened cocoa powder, topped off with some cream or evaporated milk (at 55 cents a can!). It's rich, yummy, and everyone I give one to begs for more - I love it and it's CHEAP! Cinnamon, vanilla, or any other flavor I want to add gives variety, too.
Mr. Thrifty's Instant Coffee with French Vanilla coffee added for flavoring.
1 heeping Teaspoon of instant from a 99 cent very small jar of coffee Estimated cost 7 cents a cup
my daily latte if bought comes out to $4.35 each, and i drink 2 lattes a day! so at close to $70 a week i had to find something better. i buy a new espresso machine every 6 to 8 months because i use them to death(the home ones are not meant to be used 2or 3 times a day) for a cost of $20-$30, i buy 2 gallons of milk a week for a cost of $4.50, and a pound of beans a week for a cost of $5 to $8 (depends on if they are on sale) my weekly cost just went from $70 to $12 to $15:) with the money saved, i am hoping to pay off my student loans about 6 months sooner:)
Be super thrifty and buy your own insulated coffee mug. Starbucks and other chains regularly have them on the clearance table for $5-7 dollars. The insulated disposable cups are hard on the environment and within a couple weeks, you have spent as much on them as an reusable insulated mug.
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