credit crunch coffee!!

[cupsoftea]

"I just put instant or tea in my flask - why payout all this cash for a machine????"

I hope her dh doesn't work in finance, he's forgotten to factor in the cost of the coffee and electricity at home in calculating his savings over the coming year.

lol sitdownpg - times are hard when a top of the range coffee machine is the answer to money troubles !!

Yes, thats the way to save money - buy more stuff!

My DH thinks much the same way, sadly.

It is a peculiarly male way of thinking isn't it.
"I can't possibly give up the luxury taste of expresso to save money or cut down from 3 expressos a day. No, we'll buy a gadget and make them at home."

No deprivation at all and wifey has to dust and clean the thing so she is doing all the hard work to save the money.

Or you could just avoid overpriced retailers like starbucks and stop at you local, friendly, independently run coffee van who hasn't put their prices up for 2 years, despite rising costs, and still does a regular cappuccino for £1.50

A 'story' straight out of the press office at KitchenAid m'thinks.

oh ffs this is a feature?

look kids, you can make coffee yourself

Well more sensibly, DH has one of these bodum thingies for work which cost £7 from their outlet shop. He does drink too much coffee at work and was costing us a fortune.

or buy a box of aldi's mocha or cappucino sachets !

good god, it is hardly news that making your own coffee is cheaper than buying it from a shop who want to make a profit

And you can buy a really good Gaggia coffee machine for about £130, that article does look more like an advert.

But it's the take-away coffee addicts that subsidise those of us who spend an entire rainy afternoon languishing on a squishy sofa over an Americano. Sitting on a park bench with a thermos flask trying to balance umbrella, feed baby and pour coffee is not a worthwhile way to save two pounds. The masses must be stopped from discovering the lost art of boiling a kettle.

lol at closedforcleaning

you can get a variety of milk frothers

you don't need to spend hundreds on a machine - a stovetop and a milk frother will do the job

take heed of my words, for I am a frothy kind of a drink

you can get a jobby that does the same thing as washer's dh for about £1.30

we have one for camping

what the article should have been about was where to buy a nice mug

I hate Starbucks but I do love their bucket-of-coffee cups