Pearl - She’s Broke — But Still Buys $6 Coffee Every Day

00:00:00.000 If I'm gonna criticize this, I gotta, I am guilty, okay, guilty as Charles, I do love

00:00:06.060 expensive coffee, but I recently just found McDonald's coffee is just as good, so I might

00:00:11.920 quit Starbucks soon, probably not.

00:00:14.920 So, I'm living in Queens, which is fabulous, love it, but I go to school at the New School,

00:00:21.240 which is in, like, Lower Manhattan, in Greenwich Village, right by Union Square, it is, like,

00:00:28.740 so expensive it's it's unfathomable like you walk off campus you want an iced coffee eight dollars

00:00:36.820 it's it's insanity so here i will be sitting in my apartment drinking my iced coffee made

00:00:42.820 with instant coffee coffee for the win yeah so some of these lattes guys they get expensive they

00:00:53.300 It can be like $8, your order.

00:00:57.480 And if you get that every day, it's $2.50 a month times 12.

00:01:02.000 It's $3,000 a year you're spending on coffee.

00:01:04.380 I'm not saying it's the worst addiction in the world,

00:01:06.720 but especially if you're getting multiple people, it can get expensive.

00:01:11.060 Am I in the wrong for telling you?

00:01:13.060 Okay, let's go.

00:01:14.160 My friend who constantly complains about money to stop buying expensive coffee every day.

00:01:18.320 I, 29 female, have a close friend, 31 female,

00:01:21.480 who constantly complains about being broke

00:01:23.420 and not being able to save money.

00:01:24.840 She's always stressed about it.

00:01:26.220 We're close enough that we talk about finances often,

00:01:28.340 so I know a fair amount about her situation.

00:01:30.720 I'm not judging her financial decisions,

00:01:32.440 but one thing she does every single day

00:01:34.180 is buy a $6 coffee.

00:01:36.180 I suggested that maybe cutting out this habit

00:01:38.360 could help her save a little extra,

00:01:40.100 especially if she's really feeling

00:01:41.200 the cost of living crisis.

00:01:42.820 She got really defensive

00:01:43.840 and said that her coffee is her only daily splurge

00:01:46.520 and accused me of being condescending.

00:01:48.540 It got pretty heated

00:01:49.340 and now she's barely speaking to me.

00:01:51.480 Her friend's barely talking to her because she said to stop buying coffee.

Pearl - May 23, 2025