Save money by buying Trader Joe's Cold Brew Concentrate
Recently, in rebudgeting my life, I realized that I was spending $30 to $40 a week on cold brew at craft coffee shops around the city. I thought about it. Sure, I need coffee, but did I need coffee at four to six dollars a pop? I realized that a lot of it was the ritual for me. The act of going to a coffee shop and writing everyday was such a habit that I didn't consider my options. The other day, for the first time in a while, I had the time and energy to go to my favorite food store, Trader Joe's and their coconut cold brew concentrate caught my eye. Inspired by my recent budgeting discoveries and the cute label, I decided to give it a try. I wasn't disappointed.
Adjusting my bad coffee buying habits weren't just resolved with buying the magic $5 cold brew concentrate from Trader Joe's. I had to adjust my daily life and my way of thinking. There was one morning that I considered not taking the two minutes to prepare my coffee and in lieu of it take a fifteen minute to walk to the coffee shop a couple of blocks down. Habits are insanely hard to break. I literally had cold brew at my fingertips, but my instinct was to go out of my way and pay. Instead, I reassessed. What about it made me drawn to drinking coffee out? I liked the morning walk because it sharpened my mind. I also like the atmosphere of the coffee shop. Without submitting to my old habits, I solved this problem by walking around the park across the street from my house to wake up my mind for work and then fixed my cold brew and sat on my building's roof deck to create the illusion of physically going somewhere. I'm all about separation of work and home and that can be hard when you work from home. I realized that had a big hand in my spending habits. I found this was super successful and as I got myself into this new habit, I saved lots of money.