Laina Turner-Molaski

You can pick up any newspaper or turn on any news program on the radio or TV and you hear at least one or two things that pertain to the recession with all the foreclosures, job losses etc. etc. On the other hand there are still such long lines every morning at Starbucks. Is it all the people who still have jobs and homes that can afford a $5 dollar a day/$25 dollar a work week habit? Are we being fiscally irresponsible spending $100 dollars a month on something as trivial as coffee and just slowly pulling ourselves down into fiscal despair as well?

If you had to choose between electricity and lattes would that would be easy decision? As much as I love my lattes I need electricity to do my hair. Cable and lattes may be a bit more difficult to decide between at least for me (as long as I still had internet the world would be at peace). When did we become so spoiled in needing branded coffee when regular coffee from McDonald’s did us just fine for years? Speaking of McDonald’s they have found a way to capitalize on the market in providing coffee worth of competing against Starbucks at a much more cost effective price (not to mention their iced coffees are pretty amazing). So, then it comes down to having the Starbucks cup, which is as much of a status symbol as Prada and Gucci, versus the plain ol’ cup from McD’s.

Solution- just buy one Starbucks on Monday and rinse out the cup. Purchase McDonald’s Tuesday through Friday and then pour it into the Starbucks cup with no one to the wiser. You can be fiscally responsible AND branded. Now if it were only that easy to pass of my payless shoes for Jimmy Choo’s.

Laina

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