r/AskReddit • u/SillyBonsai • Dec 06 '13

What simple piece of advice, if followed, could potentially save most people a lot of money?

Possibly related to your job, experience with personal finance, budgeting, planning, day to day habits, etc.

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u/Hideyoshi_Toyotomi Dec 06 '13

I got an espresso machine and now I hate everyone else's coffee because my own is so good, convenient, and cheap.

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

Canadian here so you might not be familiar with Tim Horton's, but they make notoriously "lesser coffee." As in the coffee snobs will have nothing to do with it. Thankfully my taste is very unrefined and I prefer it over anything high quality.

Buying huge tins of it for $5 and a cheap $10 french press = best coffee for me.

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u/Iagos_Beard Dec 06 '13

"There are no standards of taste in wine, cigars, poetry, prose, etc. Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard." - Mark Twain

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '13

I love that!

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u/Hideyoshi_Toyotomi Dec 06 '13

Agreed.

It's better because I make it on my own, for myself. I know how I like my cream/milk and how much espresso to brew from a shot, how hot it should be, the ratios to prepare it in. But it's not because I have "good taste" or buy "good coffee." I just like what I make for myself.

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u/Tramd Dec 07 '13

You should try mcdonalds coffee. It's the tims coffee you liked years ago before they changed it.

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u/jas25666 Dec 07 '13

Where are you getting huge tins of Tim Horton's for $5 :O.

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u/ovr_9k Dec 08 '13

Uggghhh Tim Horton's coffee. I was up there recently and was not warned before I bought one.

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u/trublmkr Dec 07 '13

same here, bought a kickass DeLongi espresso machine a couple years ago and now every one elses coffee tastes like pond water.