Let's calculate how much money Russians spend buying coffee from an average coffee shop at the rate of one cup a day.
A decent espresso now costs an average of 100 rubles, but all coffee houses keep their own statistics, and according to it, the most popular coffee is cappuccino; standard price - 150 rubles. Those who have been drinking coffee for a long time and regularly know that one cappuccino a day is, to put it politely, “completely calm”, but in reality it is not enough. Coffee lovers drink 6-8 cups of espresso or ristretto a day (only a day, not a day), but for example, let's take a figure more than a vegetarian one - let it be one cappuccino a day. Then it turns out that a person buys about 30 cappuccino a month.
Attention, coffee lovers with experience and intending to become such, we think: 30 cappuccino for 150 rubles each is 4500 rubles per month, and 54000 per year, rounding up - 55000 rubles per year for coffee.
And 55,000 rubles a year - it could well be your vacation, it could very well be your sea, and not necessarily domestic.
Do you, for example, have a passport and an open multivisa? A passport costs 23 cappuccino (3500 rubles), and a visa - another 16 (35 euros on average fees). Are your kids completely ready for the first of September? Or did you prefer to drink coffee every day for a month? Gym membership - 2 months of daily cappuccino. By the way, how do you rate your physical fitness now?
Thus, a coffee lover with 15 years of experience drinks 825 thousand rubles, and this is without taking into account the increase in prices. And the price increase is as follows: espresso cost 50 rubles in 2006, that is, in 15 years the price has more than doubled. And in the example above, the price increase is not even taken into account.
Here is the simplest example of how a daily habit deprives you of 800,000 rubles in the long run, and this is, for example, a car. A machine that was ground and put through an espresso machine. Accordingly, as you might guess, the daily habit of not drinking coffee in the long run brings you 800,000 rubles in income, and saves at least 4,500 rubles a month. Do you think you have where to spend the "extra" 4500 rubles? Women will definitely find what to spend this money on. Men, how long have you bought flowers for your beloved woman just like that, for no reason? If you recharge your coffee every day, you have at least 4,500 rubles a month for flowers. And all this - not counting the desserts!
In a similar way, you can disassemble any habit that would be more correctly called addiction, but it also happens that there is no obvious addiction, but the habit is. For example, a person likes to drink a bottle of wine at dinner once or twice a week. There is no addiction here, you cannot call him an alcoholic. But this habit of his, on average, costs him 1.5 million rubles in the long run.
Someone may not drink or smoke, but regularly buy games. Someone may not drink, smoke or play, but regularly spend on empty books.
Brodsky said that a person is the sum of his actions. You can take into account - daily actions, that is, habits. What are your habits that pull money out of you?
