degringolade

I wrote a little comment over at what is becoming my favorite JMG day “Frugal Friday”. I was trying to discuss the price of coffee and the techniques I am using to keep up with this increasingly expensive pleasant habit.

I like coffee, I like the taste and I like the effect. A couple of cups of good coffee, with a splash of half and half in the morning really brightens my day. As far as habits go, it is probably my most expensive. It seems only a year ago that I could by a big canister of cheap coffee Maxwell House of Bustelo) for $8.00 to $9.00. Now I am spending $17.00 to $20.00 for the same canister.

The other habits (?) are beer which I homebrew and have one 22-ounce every 2.5 days or so. A lot of the time I forget to drink one. I do make my gummi bears. ⅔ CBD and ⅓ THC (7 and 3 respectively) A batch of these (approx 100) cost me around $25.00 and last two years or so in the freezer.

So I wrote about my most expensive and least offensive (so I thought) means of stretching my supply of coffee. I merely wrote of adding some chicory and stretching the coffee supply. I even put this request

(to tea-drinkers, please don't preen. Tea has gone up about as much and it is all imported as well)

Well, one of the first things that happened is I got a bunch of tea-drinking folks ignoring my requests and telling me (at least in my overly sensitive opinion) that I should come over to the tea-drinking side and wallow in the virtue pond of non-coffee drinkers with them.

I suppose that this is kind of indicative of the nature of writing online and expressing an opinion. The first thing that happens is that people will take time out of their busy day to tell you how you are going about it all wrong. That their means of adapting to a changing world is somehow superior.

Look, I am going to keep writing and explaining about how I am attempting to adapt to the changing world around me. I write about decisions that need to be made and compromises with reality that work for me.

The wind is changing. Please don’t think that your way of handling the change is somehow better or more virtuous. We’re all doing the best we can.