How much do you spend on a coffee per day/ per week?

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Only recently became a coffee drinker, mostly just at home to accompany DP. Went along on the coffee run at work and it's cost me £4.50 for a standard sized coffee. Good grief. I've been taking packed lunches as to not spend ~£3-3.50 each day buying lunch. Most people I work with do at least 1 if not 2 coffee runs each +/- buying lunch. Is this standard and I've just lived a sheltered life?!

Zilch.

We have a coffee machine at work, free usage.
I just have a cup of instant on the mornings I work, but never drink coffee apart from that. Nor tea.

Nothing. I make a cafetiere of coffee in the morning & take a cup with me. It's crazy the amount people spend on coffee.

That seems like a lot. I pay for coffee when I sit in £3.20 in exchange for somewhere warm to sit for half an hour while the kids have lessons a day free coffee seems fair.

Back in the day a couple of coffees a week. Now - nothing.

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I buy 20 sachets to take with me for the week. Costs me £2. Very occasionally I will have a posh coffee at work but I really begrudge paying £4 for something that doesn't taste much different to my sachets

£0. I'd consider it a complete waste of money. However I'm sure there are other things I waste my money on

A couple a week. But only if I happen to be having lunch or coffee and cake whilst meeting a friend sort of thing.

Isn't this where the idea comes from that if you just stop buying takeaway coffee you'd have millions in the bank and could afford a house?

I have a Tassimo machine at home so it costs me about 25c for a standard coffee or €1 for a fancy one with foamed milk. I go out and drink coffee with friends in a coffee shop about once a week.

£5 in the supermarket to last the week and I consider that a little luxury since DHs tea costs a tenner every couple of months...

For commuters etc the Pret subscription model looks quite good value though... £25 a month for up to 5 a day.

I have a pret subscription so £25 a month. Works for me!

This - I don't regularly get a coffee but when I do it's always a sit down whe meeting someone so taking into consideration the cost of washing the cup, sitting in the heated shop etc £3-4quid doesn't seem as bad. I usually get something a bit different to just a standard latte too so it feels a bit more "worth it!"

Eight quid a day for 2 takeaway coffees that rarely taste anything better than something you can make at home/in the office seems like such a waste to me. I wfh now but when I was in the office yeah I knew people who used to get several coffees a day from the shop over the road despite the fact our office provided hot drinks for free!

Cross post @PuttingDownRoots !!

My office has a nespresso machine so it costs me nothing to have nice coffee in the morning when I get there

I have the Pret subscription so can have 5 drinks a day for £25 a month. I rarely have 5 but certainly 2-3. At home I have an nespresso so buy pods for that.

I like coffee and often have a takeaway as a little treat when I'm WFO or at the weekends. Would say probably 1-2 times a week, generally a flat white or an Americano. I'm trying to use the students' union café (work at a university) as they're only £2, but otherwise Pret (£3ish with a reusable cup) or the nice independent place (bit more but they're nice). £3.50 edging towards £4 seems pretty standard now so I'm cutting back. It's not an essential spend, but it's an affordable treat so I'm not in a rush to cut it out completely.

I work self employed from home and buy Tassimo Costa Latte pods. I buy them when Tassimo has a 30% discount, so they usually cost me around 52p a mug.

When I used to work onsite at clients offices I used to make Latte's up and take them in an insulated bottle, so cost me £1.04 rather spend £2.30 at the machine at the garage on the way there. (One client didn't always make coffee so I started to take my own in).

I take dried coffee to work and drink there. I contribute to the fresh milk kitty.

I wouldn't pay that much for a single coffee, I'd likely go without.

I get maybe one or two a week at most and generally go to Greggs or McDonalds because they're half the price of coffee chains or independents and I actually prefer them to Costa and Starbucks anyway. But at least one of those I'm getting on expenses as part of what I can claim if I'm travelling for work.

I know people say 'it's only a few quid' but it really does add up if you do it regularly and even more so if you're also buying lunch and it can take a significant amount out of a small to medium budget.

Eg £5 every working day, so a cheap coffee and lunch is £25 a week, £100 a month or £1200 a year, so a nice holiday, or £12k in a decade, or a decent small/medium new/nearly new car.

If you have a chain coffee and a Pret type lunch, that's more like £10 a day, so double the above figures.

Worth thinking about if you never seem to have enough money for bigger purchases/emergencies like car repairs etc.

£2 for a latte in Greggs. I get a free one every so often as well with the app. I used to buy a Costa latte but now they're about £4 so I just transfer the difference to an instant saver account when I do get a Greggs coffee.

When the DC were in primary school I used to pop into the community cafe at the church next door most mornings because their coffee is delicious and I avoided the rush hour jams. They didn't charge exactly but the suggested donation was €2 for a coffee. I never had change so I used to drop €50 into the honesty box once a month.

Since Covid my habits have changed and I only occasionally have coffee out, maybe €10-€15 per month, but I spend €28 per kilo on coffee beans to make coffee at home which lasts me about 5 weeks.

I don't drink coffee every day, I'm more of a tea drinker, but we have a machine at work, plus free tea, milk and biscuits, so I spend nothing. I take my lunch in, too.

I'm not a fan of coffee shop chains, so if I'm out and meeting up with a friend or something, I'll go to an independent cafe (better tea, nice cake). But I don't do that every day.

I'm like @BarbaraofSeville , tend to go to Greggs or McDonalds for cheaper takeaway coffee/tea.

I agree with @BarbaraofSeville - as it really does add up on a daily/weekly basis. I noticed when I first started my new job back in May and commuting I'd take a coffee/tea from home in the morning but as I had to interchange onto another train I'd often buy a coffee (plus snack) at a cafe. And same on way back, if not coffee then cold drink. I soon realised I could use my takeaway coffee cup and fill up with a hot drink from work and take on commute home or fill bottle with water etc. Saved me so much money. If I wanted a snack I'd bring them in my Bento box and save them for hometime commute (fruit, bars etc).

When I worked in London, I would have spent about £50-75 a month on coffee. But I could afford it and didn't really spend on any other 'vices' like drinking.

Now I am wfh I have a coffee machine here and spend about £100 every 8-12 months on beans and syrup. With the cost of the machine as well, that makes it about £12 a month.

About £10-15 a month, but that's for the household, and I drink a LOT of coffee. We have a bloody nice bean to cup machine that does frothy milk and all sorts. We also have a few good travel cups, so I rarely buy coffee out.