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Coffee grind and frugality

Many a finance wiz has ground the topic of kicking the coffee habit to death. Their logic says that by doing so many of the indebted Americans will begin to start saving substantial sums of money and therefore collectively be better for it.

While I understand that in principle, writing about it in every possible media and channel seems to imply how stupid the entire community has become. On the one hand they continue to imbibe whatever they want, when they want and as many times as they want thereby improving the stock price of certain purveyors of caffeinated (or non) beverages.

At times these purveyors get punished for not meeting their stock price trajectories is also seen as a criminal act, when people really could not go and afford to drink the brew.

All in all people will keep whining because they feel good about it. Absolute happiness is a myth and if there were tons of people who found it we would have a very quiet planet. Now that just would not do.

So just get and consume that first morning cup of brew at the local Planetcents or Stardollar store and at least save me the aggravation of having to deal with your withdrawal symptoms that almost drove me off the road on the way to work.

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