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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: Perspective who wrote (223404)10/3/2009 11:12:16 AM
From: Think4YourselfRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
My parents bought one of those single cup coffee makers, or rather they got one for free when they bought 3 boxes of the single serving coffee packets. Bit my tongue about the incredible amount of trash such a wasteful method creates. I did some quick math and showed them their difference in price between that and instant, which they had used before, over a year at the rate they drank. After they double checked the math they gave the single maker away.

If memory serves me it was pennies per cup as opposed to 40 cents a cup. No wonder the manufacturers were happy to give you the coffee maker for free. If they each drank 2 cups per day that was an extra $1.40/day, which is an extra $500/year, or $5,000 per decade. $5,000 more a decade JUST for the (seemingly trivial) decision to use a single cup coffeemaker.

Suspect a lot of poor people have those single maker units.
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