The Wednesday Morning Weekly
(I will be brief with today’s article as I have some things going on today.)
This isn’t for everyone but it works for us. We switched from coffee & heavy cream to Walmart Great Value black tea and it is saving us $670 annually.
We each drank around 4 mugs of coffee w/ cream per day and now drink about 6 mugs of black tea instead. Great Value black tea bags are $2.12 for 100, or a little over 2 cents per mug of tea. This is incredibly affordable.
Interesting math: For a quick caffeine fix, 2 cents per mug sure beats the $10 per Starbuck’s coffee — a single Starbuck’s coffee costs as much as 500 mugs of black tea! Also 1 typical Keurig K-Cup costs as much as 25 mugs of black tea!
I understand many will scoff at the suggestion and quote lines from Ted Lasso, and I totally get that. (Btw, we love Ted Lasso — one of our favorite shows of all time.) Again it’s not for everyone, but for us we like it and get our caffeine fix just the same — while saving almost $700 annually. (We thought we could never switch but ended up doing so — we like it.)
We do occasionally buy a small amount of coffee and cream from time to time — maybe once every other month — for a treat but aren’t disapointed to go back to the black tea because we like that as well.
Regarding the expensive teas and preferences, I respect that. But we personally find this Great Value Black Tea to be as good as any other black tea we have consumed.
Btw, we sweeten our black tea with homemade liquid stevia using stevia extract powder at a 84% discount. We also use filtered water from our Berkey for the tea — filtered water at 2.5 cents per gallon.
If you like black tea and can do it, perhaps try it out!
a penny saved… is a penny earned… I drink Kroger Green Tea on a Day-lee!
Thanks for commenting on my blog John! Love your Bank Account Bonus Central youtube videos! If you click on Frugality under categories — top right of blog — you’ll see many more substantial frugal money saving ideas. I plan on adding dozens more over time.