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Indulgences for Broke People
When cheap coffee doesn’t cut it
We all understand that poverty is relative. There is fly economy broke, no vacation broke, can’t make enough to pay the bills broke, have to live in a car or a tent broke and broke AF and starving broke. I used to be in the fly economy class because I am a terrible money manager. Now I fall firmly into the can’t pay the bills category.
As I sat at my kitchen table today, I granted myself the luxury of buying a branded two litre bottle of Coca-Cola because it was on sale and the weather was warm. It helped to get rid of a headache that was badgering me all day. It stood head and shoulders above the own brand instant coffee I’d been drinking.
As I was contentedly sipping on my drink, I ate toast laden with a cheddar cheese spread I had bought on sale. Now that was a false economy. It was vile.
Before my personal financial crash, which is a temporary situation, I rethought my Coke Zero drinking habit and switched back to coffee. I mused over real and false economies I have discovered in the last year or so since all my savings ran out and my income was reduced. You all know this was partly due to the downturn on certain platforms.
False economies when I was in the ‘fly economy’ class were buying: own-brand orange juice; detergents; toilet…
