We Finally Joined the 21st Century …

… and purchased a Keurig. :)

In fairness, this is a much faster adoption process than we employed in our quest for iPhones (which are now, of course, attached to us 24/7), in purchasing a new printer (the old one had been out of service for 8 years), and in upgrading to new laptops (we wait until our current models have either slowed to a stop or lost their screen visibility first).  But this is different.  This is coffee we’re talking about, here.  And we were losing money in allegiance to our addiction, so something had to be done!

Our existing coffeemaker is still in fine form (and, with the help of a gift card, cost us a whopping $5), but in these busy days, we found we either didn’t have time or energy to use it before work, or we did use it and wasted half a pot of coffee because only one of us ended up drinking it while the other dashed out the door.  Or, worse, one or both of us would stop on the way to work and purchase coffee at a shop!  Heresy.  So when I saw that Target had a sale – not a huge, Black Friday sale, sadly, but a sale nonetheless – on Keurigs recently, LeeLee and I took the plunge, and so far, we are thrilled with the results!

(I should add, I don’t mean this to be an add for Keurig.  They haven’t contacted me.  They are not paying me.  In fact I am paying THEM.  Hee.)

But, as usual, I had to make sure I was getting a good deal for the long term, so I did a little calculation, which went a little something like this:

Sixteen-count K-cup, Macadamia Nut flavor: $10.99

Each cup: $0.69.

Sixty-nine cents!  Instead of $2 out someplace, or wasted dollars in wasted, undrunk coffee at home.

But Hope, I hear you ask.  What about the Keurig itself?  Where does that factor into the mix?

I admit, it pained me to fork over about $100 for that coffeemaker when all was said and done.  But then I thought of the last coffeepot we purchased for $5 (that we’ll still use when both of us are home on weekends, etc.), and I remembered other instances when I’d purchased less expensive kitchen appliances – especially in the coffee/espresso arena, strangely – only to be disappointed that they either didn’t function as advertised, or quit working within a month, or just calmly spat coffee all over the kitchen counter instead of the carafe no matter what I did to try to stop it from happening.  (I won’t name company names, here, but you’d think a business with Coffee in the name would do better with, well, making coffee.  But I digress.)  Sometimes, you have to pay for higher quality.  And our caffeine fix is nothing to play around with.

I’ll report back in a month or so with how we’re faring on the Keurig front!  With any luck, our coffee budget will be back in the normal range again soon, and all will be right with the world. :)

:)