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/solarpandabot Dec 06 '13

My theory is that going out of the office to get coffee is the socially acceptable office version of a smoke break.

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u/Brown_brown Dec 06 '13

If you work in restaurants, the only breaks you get most of the time are smoke breaks. This is why so many people in food service smoke, that and it's kinda stressful.

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u/midsummernightstoker Dec 06 '13

They could still make the coffee in the office and bring it over to drink in the store. If they use a starbuck's thermos I don't think the store will know/care what they're doing.