Advice to All You Graduates: Let's Start With That Daily Latte . . . - New York Times

"This is the season for giving advice to graduates as they enter the workplace. Instead of listening to yet another recitation of the usual admonishments to "change the world," "carpe diem," or "wear sunscreen," those graduates ? unless they are already trapped on the nonpaying internship hamster wheel ? need to hear how to manage their paychecks."

Make your own coffee You probably know you spend a lot at Starbucks, a company that collected $6.4 billion from coffee drinkers last year. You probably don't have any idea how much of that total came from you. A calculator at www.hughchou.org/calc/coffee.cgi let's you figure that out and also forecast how much you will spend over a decade of coffee breaks. (This Web site contains a treasure trove of financial planning calculators.) Say you spend just $3.50 every workday for your latte. If you drank the free office brew instead, you'd have more than $11,500 to play with after 10 years."

Some intresting tid bits, maybe I would save some money if I did not have to drive 33 miles to work and 33 miles back home!

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