To think budgeting culture has become joyless?

[ByNattyFinch]

Budgets are good.
Financial literacy is good.

But AIBU to think some people treat buying a hot drink like a moral failure? Life shouldn’t feel like a spreadsheet.

You don't have to buy or drink one. It is snobby to look down on people who do though. Don't yuk other people's yum.

Probably best to assume people would rather choose their hot drinks to suit their own preferences, rather than yours.

But they’re vile and the amount of money wasted is foolish.

I think it's just because it seems like such a crap thing to spend a grand a year on. Getting your hair done can make you feel and look great (not that it's something I do tbh) and is an occasional treat/necessity.

I have to admit I wouldn't spend a grand a year on either, I'd be 'wasting' it on flights abroad. But if a coffee a day gets you through the day and you can afford it, then that's fine too.

I don’t think they are. My little weekly treat is £4 and it makes me happy on a grotty Friday afternoon. Every week.

I’m so glad I don’t have anyone in my life who would consider buying a hot drink a “moral failure”! You need to reassess the company you keep OP 😂

Money enjoyed is never wasted.

Ok but being fleeced and wasting money on cheaply made drinks that are priced way above and beyond what they’re worth is something that others can mention.

And I think your pretentious coffee thing is a waste of money

One of my treats is an oat milk latte from Coffee#1. They are the best part of a fiver, but they are something I look forward to and the actual cafes themselves always have a nice ambience anyway.
Sitting in my cold house with an instant coffee does not cut it.

You're not paying for them and you are not drinking them so why do you actually care? It seems bloody weird.

How else would she tell everyone else she’s a coffee snob

It isn’t desirable TO YOU and therefore it would be a waste of YOUR money. Clearly people who buy it are looking for something different to you, as that affects your own choices in no way whatsoever, it’s a really odd thing to be taking issue with. Do what you like. Others can do what they like.

Arguing that people are wrong to like a certain type of coffee is about as meaningful as getting cross about a stranger’s favourite colour.

And yes, it absolutely is snobby to sneer at other people’s taste, regardless of what that taste is.

A waste of money it is not. A 90% mark up on poorly made , high calorie,over sugared drinks is. A Bialetti is hardly pretentious, takes
little effort to use and most of Italy own one, they cost next to nothing

Exactly. 💯

I’m WFH today and I walked to a cafe that’s sort of an adjoining cafe to a large deli and I bought an oat latte and a toasted pumpernickel bagel for more than the cost of the exact coffee beans as the latte and the exact bagel if I were to buy them from the deli next door. But consuming a freshly made coffee and a freshly toasted bagel while sitting at a window seat watching the world go by is worth the extra cost TO ME.

That's it. People have been going to pubs for decades when you can buy a can of Stella Artois in Tesco. I appreciate if I want to sit with a coffee, hot, that I haven't made then I'm paying for the premises, power, staff, tax, delivery of milk/beans etc to the store, a cleaner, liability insurance etc. People are so literal.

Likening a colour isn’t chucking money away on vastly overpriced high sugar drinks dressed up as something necessary and luxurious. That is the patter and falling for it is foolish.

They are rarely clean, hot or staffed.

Again, it’s not a waste of money for people who are enjoying them and it’s nonsensical to think they are wrong to consume the things they prefer.

Anyone who thinks their own personal taste is a benchmark of correctness and that everyone should therefore do things their way has an ego the size of Brazil and is unbearable to be around.

Do you think they should sell the coffees for cost price then? How would they pay their staff or the bills?

See how we have different opinions and different things we want to spend our money on?

Ok but one of us is chucking money away on poor quality, high sugar/ high calorie over priced drinks - the other isn’t.

It’s not about personal taste but wasting money.

You’re chucking your money away on coffee machines instead.

I get a skimmed milk cappuccino with 0 sugar caramel syrup. Not awful for the waist line but brilliant for my mood!

Why do you care? It is not your money or taste buds.
Have your coffee at home. I will have mine in a nice cafe with a group of people.