I need something from Texas, Flint. (coffee thread)
 

You're in Cowboys Country, I believe.

Up here, in the Dunkin Donuts, they have DD cards that have Eagles logos all over them.

I want a Cowboys one. Send me one. Hurry up before they're gone.

and for the rest of you, this is a thread about your coffee budget.

Now lets talk about how much coffee we drink and how much we spend on it. The reason I want a DD card is because you can recharge them and re use them. I'd like to see what jinx and I spend in a month at Dunkin Donuts.

I'm afraid to say how much i think we spend on coffee and lattes.....

So get an Eagles one. That will fulfill your purpose! :)

$50 will take care of my coffee needs for about 2.5 months. I order from a place that gives free shipping for $50 orders so I usually get $50 or so at a time. I have a "pod" style coffee maker at home and one at work. I usually have a cup first thing in the morning and 1 or 2 the rest of the day.

That doesn't include the cost of half-and-half... call that another $1.something every couple weeks. I

I'm using about a pound every two weeks. On top of that, I hit DD maybe once a week unless we're traveling. Goat milk shifted the cream expense over to the farm balance sheet...

You can recharge Starbucks' cards, too. Of course, lattes and such there are much more expensive.

The other day we had a client (a middle-aged businessman) who we offered to get coffee, as we were on a run to Starbucks. He said, "what's a latte?" My jaw about hit the ground. How can you not know what a latte is, in this day and age?

Talk about your coffee money: David Bach talks about the "latte factor." I.e., how those little untracked expenses can add up and screw your budget. And how being conscious of that, and saving that money instead, can add up quickly.

Well wtf is it?? :bolt:

i figure about $6/day on coffee.

i stop every morning at the gas station on the corner here for my tall machine made "french vanilla capacino". it isn't really any of those three things, but it's yummy. more importantly i stop and chat with a couple of old timers that hang out there BS'ing the morning away.

during the day i drink some gourmet mix of the day from the cafe that is part of my building lease agreement. that's in my rent so i'll pretend that there is no cost associated with it.

in the late afternoon i alternate days with Starbucks Java Chip, or a local specialty shop. Again, the drink is nice, but the real point is to chat with the regulars at each place. You wouldn't believe how many people are willing to talk about their money after chit chatting over coffee a couple of times.

you whore.....turning tricks at the mocciato counter. for shame!

*wipes chin* i does it for the satisfaction.


five buckee suckee suckee /cartman/

I'm not a coffee connoisseur. I zap some instant in the microwave for a morning caffeine kick, but thats usually about it. I have enough trouble sleeping as it is. It costs maybe 20 cents a day.

I grew tired of snobby waiters in coffee shops, so sometimes I like to mess with them. I have ordered, at various times, a short white, a black cappuccino, and an espresso with milk. No-one invites me to coffee shops anymore. :(

Well we used to be friends Zen.....This about closes us out!
:D

Good coffee is the only real standard I base my friendships on!!


But I can still agree about little snot coffee house staff...I only go to one place in town now, because they are friendly and remember my name, and give me free coffee sometimes. (the last place I regulared the coffee snot started to snatch the dollars out of my hand and give me crusty looks) wtf?

Coffee buying is not a heavy point of negotiation!

:bawling:

I'm sniff going to have a sniff nice cup of tea.

so...do they even HAVE Dunkin Donuts in Texas? I don't see any on the store locator. And i notice that the Eagles cards are a promo for the 75th anniversary of the franchise.
https://dunkindonuts.com/images/cont...ing/Eagles.jpg

I fear that I may have to custom create one.

lol! O.k. friends again.

Say ... did you see the description of the Tim Tam Slam we had a while back?

That goes better with coffee. Some use tea though, and Ali likes cold milk.

I'm pretty certain there's one a few miles from me (and it's the ONLY one I've ever seen in Texas...) I'll see if I can stop by and check about the card for you. :)


Edit: Scratch that. I just called them. They don't get the Cowboys-branded cards because it turns out they are the only Dunkin Donuts in Texas, so it's not worth it to print them. The guy suggested you make your own online.

damn. thanks. you still rock.

No I sure didn't. I just found out what a Tim Tam is! If you could see how much stuff I add to my coffee, you wouldn't ever suggest this. The cream and sugar is quite enough! I like my coffee like I like my men: white, tall, and sweet. Please ignore the last phrase.....
:D

The Tim Tam Slam demonstrated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzMfZ1FaqA
(good quality but the technique isn't quite right)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0N8Y34YNM
(How it should be done)

of course, creating a custom card opens up a lot more options, doesn't it?

oh, and thanks for YOUR help, too Flint. You were nearly as helpful as you were that time I was stranded in Irving with no rum.

You'd better be birthin a baby or something. That's all I got to say.

Zen! Quit drinking your tea with that organ -- it makes you look like an elephant. A pink one.

And Lookout -- get the latté mustache too.

:p

You don't have to trick me into posting by putting my name in a thread title; you should know I do Cellar Searches for "Flint" by Posts, not Threads.

Oh and I drink free, black coffee, at work. And the only Dunkin' Donuts I know of is in a bad part of town, over by where they're building that new stadium. But...sorry about the rum thing. . . . And no baby yet, btw.

I spend nothing on coffee. pretty much. I drink it once a week tops, with the "Ladies who Lunch" (formerly a playgroup but the bloody kids grew up).

I import my coffee from the UK (athough it's French by origin) -not because I'm a snob, but because it took me so long to find a blend I liked in the UK and there's so many types over here and none of them smell anything like what I like...... so I stuck my head in the sand and went "wibble", and instructed my MIL in the art of buying the right coffee from Sainsbury's. The sniffer dogs at the airport love her :D

But I sell gift cards as a fundraiser for the school and I have many customers who use $25-$50 Starbucks cards/week. :eek: That's almost my entire grocery bill for the week! They are reloadable, but if they reload them, we don't get the 7%. So I sell lots.

Oh, and I've never bought coffee from a coffee house. I wouldn't have the faintest idea what to ask for. I think a latte is to do with milk or cream -and maybe frothy crap. I take mine black, no sugar. I only ever buy coffee when driving long distances in the night, and even then beest has always got it for me while I pump the gas and/or pee (often at the same time -those little buckets with the funny squeegee-shaped bogbrushes right by the pumps are so convenient). It's not the caffeine that keeps me awake, but the disgusting burnt taste. it almoste tempts me to add that creamer stuff. almost.

WTF? There are at least two in my town, and it's been in Texas for the 20 years I've lived here.

I don't drink much coffee. Usually one cup of instant in the morning, and occasionally another one during the day. I drink tea more often during the day.

If I go out for dinner and they serve good coffee, I like a short black to finish things up. Specially if I'm planning on staying up for a few more hours. ;)

i thought you were in NM?

I dunno. Maybe he meant the only one in Austin, or maybe he's a damned liar. Donuts are disgusting, so I'm really not current on my donut store locations. :)

I'm in El Paso. Technically, that's still Texas. There are 2 DDs on my side of town alone.

Inexperience of latté does equal regrettable cultural lacuna, though. Starbuck's does all these cute seasonally flavored lattés this time of year, though. The pumpkin pie spice one is surprisingly successful.

ooh, yeah, that's a particular fave of mine