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How much do you spend on coffee and cake a week when you go to coffee shops or drive thrus. I was shocked when sorting some paperwork yesterday how much it all amounts to now with all the ptice hikes. Coffee over £4 a pop, a slither piece of cake around the same and more and even a couple of little biscuits will cost you a couple of quid at least. A little mince pie was nearly three quid. As for those toasties or sandwhiches, you pay enough to have a 3 course meal at home with or without a bit of limp lettuce that most of the time there is not even a little dressing on it. On ocassions they will also shortchange you by as much as an inch or more by not filling the cup to the top which did not use to bother me as what's an extra inch after all. Nowdays though I will ask for the missing inch whether they like it or not. Such little pleasures should not really cost the earth, should they. I am off to get my press cafetiere into action and enjoy your coffee, tea or other beverage, wherever you are having yours today  |
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By *CLM87Woman 52 weeks ago
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Prices are getting ridiculous.. we have a employee discount scheme per sei, so if I buy a costa voucher through the site, I get 13% back in points. I can then use those points to buy any gift vouchers I want.
Makes it a bit more affordable |
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Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental |
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By (user no longer on site) 52 weeks ago
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I have stopped buying coffee when commuting and taking my own cup of it.
It wasn’t until I looked at a monthly bank balance that I realised I was spending over £120. |
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"Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental "
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"Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental
I feel your pain. I really do "
We like what we like and hey, if we were dating we'd likely be spending a lot more lol |
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"As long as you enjoyed it all.
Life is for enjoying not dwindling on about the cost.
At work too much for proper cake  "
True but might have to tone it down just a tad by putting a little sensible hat on every now and then |
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I used to buy a coffee 5 days a week at anywhere between £2.50 and £3 a time.
I've never bought cake or anything with it but that still added up to £60 a month.
Now I buy a £6 jar of coffee and make my own every morning. |
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"Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental
I feel your pain. I really do
We like what we like and hey, if we were dating we'd likely be spending a lot more lol "
Unless you date a sugar mummy |
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"Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental
I feel your pain. I really do
We like what we like and hey, if we were dating we'd likely be spending a lot more lol
Unless you date a sugar mummy "
The dream man! Lol |
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"Oh man! I'm in this coffee shop I'm in right now, every morning for around 90mins before work. I have at least 2 coffees and sometimes(like today) a piece of cake. As I'm working everyday atm till almost Christmas, in that 40 day stretch alone I worked out ill have spent around £800(20 per day). Mental
I feel your pain. I really do
We like what we like and hey, if we were dating we'd likely be spending a lot more lol
Unless you date a sugar mummy
The dream man! Lol "
Keep looking at your inbox and good luck |
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We have a coffee date every Sunday when we spend approx £11 on coffee and cake. During the week we go to coffee shops at least twice and spend between £5 and £12 each time.
We enjoy it, it's a sociable thing to do and we budget for it monthly.
Some people drink, some smoke we drink coffee and sometimes eat cake |
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Don't get me started OP! I've done ³ High Tea / Åfternoon Teå sessions this week already! These Fab sirens and courtesans are hard work, demanding and unquenchable - and it's costing me a tidy sum. The silks threads of my man-purse are fraying away like lost hope.
The things we Fab Men have to do to get a shag... |
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I have never been in a coffee shop or through a drive through. I know I'm odd, I don't like coffee and refuse to pay their massive prices for tea or hot chocolate so I just go to work and make it myself for free. |
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"I used to be a regular coffee drinker when on the road and yes you're right when you add up the amount you spend a month so now its a Sunday morning treat .
I need to copy you "
Why? Can you afford it, do you enjoy it? If yes, carry on. All I would say is choose independent places if you can. Wherever you go you're contributing to someone's employment and if like us you're usually fairly local putting money back into the local economy.
There seems to be a guilt around spending money on coffee that doesn't apply to drinking beer for some reason. |
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By (user no longer on site) 52 weeks ago
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Why don’t people just make coffee at home and bring some cake from the shop? Literally like 10% the price
I know there’s a cost of living crisis but sometimes I look how crowded coffee shops are and wonder, is there really?
I make enough to put me in the top 4% of earners in the country and I’ll only get a McDonald’s coffee maybe once a month when I’ve been lazy |
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By *ing00Man 52 weeks ago
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i dont get coffee out very often - but i prefer starbucks / nero / costa chains. I find places like Bewitched, or other anonymous independents.
Their coffee may indeed be better (meh) - but i like the feel of the sb/n/costa stores - theyre broadly consistent - i like the coffee and the pastries are always good. (bakewell tart at costa is epic. although the chocolate twist in sb is pertty decent). |
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"Why don’t people just make coffee at home and bring some cake from the shop? Literally like 10% the price
I know there’s a cost of living crisis but sometimes I look how crowded coffee shops are and wonder, is there really?
I make enough to put me in the top 4% of earners in the country and I’ll only get a McDonald’s coffee maybe once a month when I’ve been lazy "
The same reason they go to the pub for a pint I suppose. |
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"Why don’t people just make coffee at home and bring some cake from the shop? Literally like 10% the price
I know there’s a cost of living crisis but sometimes I look how crowded coffee shops are and wonder, is there really?
I make enough to put me in the top 4% of earners in the country and I’ll only get a McDonald’s coffee maybe once a month when I’ve been lazy
The same reason they go to the pub for a pint I suppose. "
Pubs a little difference. It’s a social thing. People sending £4-6 on a costa that they could have made for £1 so they can drinking it in the way to work never makes sense in my head
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By *ugby 123Couple 52 weeks ago
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"^^ we're going out to drink coffee shortly and as it's sunny might even sit outside and look at the sea. "
I get this, stop off for a drink and people watch. What I don't get is getting coffee to take out and walk the streets drinking it..I like my comfort while having a cuppa
Having said that, I don't like coffee anyway but I like tea and cake  |
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"Why don’t people just make coffee at home and bring some cake from the shop? Literally like 10% the price
I know there’s a cost of living crisis but sometimes I look how crowded coffee shops are and wonder, is there really?
I make enough to put me in the top 4% of earners in the country and I’ll only get a McDonald’s coffee maybe once a month when I’ve been lazy
The same reason they go to the pub for a pint I suppose.
Pubs a little difference. It’s a social thing. People sending £4-6 on a costa that they could have made for £1 so they can drinking it in the way to work never makes sense in my head
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Oh, I thought you meant actually going into a coffee shop, sitting down, making conversation with the barista, the people at the next table and each other.
I don't know if people can afford it and want to do it I don't really care. In the 70s I commuted by train and bought a coffee from the buffet car every morning, a similar thing I guess |
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"^^ we're going out to drink coffee shortly and as it's sunny might even sit outside and look at the sea.
I get this, stop off for a drink and people watch. What I don't get is getting coffee to take out and walk the streets drinking it..I like my comfort while having a cuppa
Having said that, I don't like coffee anyway but I like tea and cake "
You can have tea
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"How much do you spend on coffee and cake a week when you go to coffee shops or drive thrus. I was shocked when sorting some paperwork yesterday how much it all amounts to now with all the ptice hikes. Coffee over £4 a pop, a slither piece of cake around the same and more and even a couple of little biscuits will cost you a couple of quid at least. A little mince pie was nearly three quid. As for those toasties or sandwhiches, you pay enough to have a 3 course meal at home with or without a bit of limp lettuce that most of the time there is not even a little dressing on it. On ocassions they will also shortchange you by as much as an inch or more by not filling the cup to the top which did not use to bother me as what's an extra inch after all. Nowdays though I will ask for the missing inch whether they like it or not. Such little pleasures should not really cost the earth, should they. I am off to get my press cafetiere into action and enjoy your coffee, tea or other beverage, wherever you are having yours today "
That coffee retail cost (not price) is only 40p taking care of materials (coffee, milk, sugar etc) and overheads (rent, wages, power etc).
It’s a rip-off. In the USA Starbucks spends more on employee health insurance than actual coffee. |
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"...I get this, stop off for a drink and people watch.
What I don't get is getting coffee to take out and walk the streets drinking it..I like my comfort while having a cuppa..."
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Oh come-come, this is the best of both worlds: you sit down for a short while with your piping hot beverage, watching the continuous 'footfall' of colourful patrons going about their business amongst the hushed whispers of the tea room. Then you get up and take in the champagne-fresh air that Autumn brings, kick some leaves, walking the cobbled streets and sipping your drink.
It's ok for you sprightly Mods, some of us have to exercise our creaky joints and maintain our daily step-count. |
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By *ugby 123Couple 52 weeks ago
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"...I get this, stop off for a drink and people watch.
What I don't get is getting coffee to take out and walk the streets drinking it..I like my comfort while having a cuppa...
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Oh come-come, this is the best of both worlds: you sit down for a short while with your piping hot beverage, watching the continuous 'footfall' of colourful patrons going about their business amongst the hushed whispers of the tea room. Then you get up and take in the champagne-fresh air that Autumn brings, kick some leaves, walking the cobbled streets and sipping your drink.
It's ok for you sprightly Mods, some of us have to exercise our creaky joints and maintain our daily step-count. "
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"^^ we're going out to drink coffee shortly and as it's sunny might even sit outside and look at the sea.
Yes be nice theres no battle planned for the day down there."
Just wait until we inadvertently sit in someone's favourite seat  |
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By *heelerMan 52 weeks ago
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"^^ we're going out to drink coffee shortly and as it's sunny might even sit outside and look at the sea.
Yes be nice theres no battle planned for the day down there.
Just wait until we inadvertently sit in someone's favourite seat "
May have sit on your lap |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 52 weeks ago
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"Don't get me started OP! I've done ³ High Tea / Åfternoon Teå sessions this week already! These Fab sirens and courtesans are hard work, demanding and unquenchable - and it's costing me a tidy sum. The silks threads of my man-purse are fraying away like lost hope.
The things we Fab Men have to do to get a shag..."
Oooh afternoon teå. So civilised.
I generally don't drink coffee, and there are so few decent tearooms.  |
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"Don't get me started OP! I've done ³ High Tea / Åfternoon Teå sessions this week already! These Fab sirens and courtesans are hard work, demanding and unquenchable - and it's costing me a tidy sum. The silks threads of my man-purse are fraying away like lost hope.
The things we Fab Men have to do to get a shag...
Oooh afternoon teå. So civilised.
I generally don't drink coffee, and there are so few decent tearooms. "
With a nice cup and saucer |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 52 weeks ago
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"Don't get me started OP! I've done ³ High Tea / Åfternoon Teå sessions this week already! These Fab sirens and courtesans are hard work, demanding and unquenchable - and it's costing me a tidy sum. The silks threads of my man-purse are fraying away like lost hope.
The things we Fab Men have to do to get a shag...
Oooh afternoon teå. So civilised.
I generally don't drink coffee, and there are so few decent tearooms.
With a nice cup and saucer "
Of course. It's a totally different experience to swigging it from a mug. |
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"Don't get me started OP! I've done ³ High Tea / Åfternoon Teå sessions this week already! These Fab sirens and courtesans are hard work, demanding and unquenchable - and it's costing me a tidy sum. The silks threads of my man-purse are fraying away like lost hope.
The things we Fab Men have to do to get a shag...
Oooh afternoon teå. So civilised.
I generally don't drink coffee, and there are so few decent tearooms.
With a nice cup and saucer
Of course. It's a totally different experience to swigging it from a mug."
It really is. As kids we used to colour the doily in afterwards that they’d seem to come on |
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"I make my own and use a flask, which covers a lot of mine. I don't take cake. I aim for about £2 for a latte when out.
You can find somewhere a latte for £2? Not sern that in a very long time. "
One of the regular places we go an Americano with hot milk on the side is £2:40. |
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Most places near me coffee is about £3/3.50 and cake is the same. I like when they do an offer, coffee and cake for a fiver. Usually my friends take it in turns buying, depending on who's got money. |
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"I make my own and use a flask, which covers a lot of mine. I don't take cake. I aim for about £2 for a latte when out.
You can find somewhere a latte for £2? Not sern that in a very long time. "
A great place for cheap coffees are the community cafes, in churches and the like. They usually have amazing home made cakes too. |
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Too much. I pay 3.20 for a good coffee and have no problems with that. It’s an independent and I get a nice complimentary slice of cake each time to.
I can’t justify 5£ for a Xmas themed one. That’s a joke. |
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The other thing that forgot to mebtion is that some of the cups in some shops, perhaps other than the big chains, seem to be shrinking. I asked for a regukar somewhere the other day and I could swear the cup was marginally bigger than an espresso cup. Even the server said to me when I commented about it that she gets a similar comment from customers all day long. So you are not only hit on price but on the size too. Vive la révolution |
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"Too much. I pay 3.20 for a good coffee and have no problems with that. It’s an independent and I get a nice complimentary slice of cake each time to.
I can’t justify 5£ for a Xmas themed one. That’s a joke. "
Wow, coffee and cake for £3.20. You do well |
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"The other thing that forgot to mebtion is that some of the cups in some shops, perhaps other than the big chains, seem to be shrinking. I asked for a regukar somewhere the other day and I could swear the cup was marginally bigger than an espresso cup. Even the server said to me when I commented about it that she gets a similar comment from customers all day long. So you are not only hit on price but on the size too. Vive la révolution "
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Although a lot of cups of coffee are a single shot plus variations on milk and water. |
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A few local retailers have a year long deal running when you buy any hot drink you can get a prepacked traybake or cake for £1.
Last time I looked a regular coffee was £2.80.
The coffee is decent but I've been reliably informed that the packaging tastes better than the contents. |
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"A few local retailers have a year long deal running when you buy any hot drink you can get a prepacked traybake or cake for £1.
Last time I looked a regular coffee was £2.80.
The coffee is decent but I've been reliably informed that the packaging tastes better than the contents. "
Yes, I find mass produced cakes etc to be really disappointing. I don't bother.
I don't know what it is about the commercial process that makes things like that taste so bland. It's not that hard to avoid! |
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I try and make my own, but when out and about it's nice for a social with friends or even just a bit time to yourself somewhere different.
Before my dad died, I took him to a coffee shop. And it was the first time in his life someone else had waited on him. My dad died a few months later, but he absolutely loved it and wished that he had of made time to do that more as it was like a little treat and break for him. I don't know why but he was always against takeaway and coffees etc but towards the end he realised it wasn't as bad as he thought.
But yes, I probably do spend too much, but life is short and we need to enjoy the little things in life. |
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"A few local retailers have a year long deal running when you buy any hot drink you can get a prepacked traybake or cake for £1.
Last time I looked a regular coffee was £2.80.
The coffee is decent but I've been reliably informed that the packaging tastes better than the contents.
Yes, I find mass produced cakes etc to be really disappointing. I don't bother.
I don't know what it is about the commercial process that makes things like that taste so bland. It's not that hard to avoid!"
Extremely cheap ingredients.
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"I rarely go out now but I used to go about 3 times a week
Coffee was about 3.50 and I never had cake. My mum goes every day its her treat"
Apparently you can use the apps tp have some of those coffees delivered. Tbh, this I don't get it. I get if you want to go out and enjoy yourself, share time with others etc. But to pay those sort of prices, and delivery charges, to have a coffee brought home? |
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"I rarely go out now but I used to go about 3 times a week
Coffee was about 3.50 and I never had cake. My mum goes every day its her treat
Apparently you can use the apps tp have some of those coffees delivered. Tbh, this I don't get it. I get if you want to go out and enjoy yourself, share time with others etc. But to pay those sort of prices, and delivery charges, to have a coffee brought home? "
Yes that's why I went to socialize if I want a coffee at home I will make my own |
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