Get More Coffee for Your Dollar

Is the mass population being trained to spend more and get less? Of course, that's the new American way of the greedy. Turn 'em upside down until all of their change falls out on the ground.

Thinking with your head, instead of just using your hand to grab a credit card, that solves all problems for the moment, means slow down and ponder reality. Ask yourself: Why have I been lured to buy throw away paper coffee filters, that will require buying more filters, a few days or weeks down the road?

In fact, the metal coffee filters, included in coffee pots of the past, outlasted the life of the coffee maker itself. In addition, the metal filters often outlast the buyer. The first sly change was offering plastic filters, instead of metal filters. This slight modification at least gave a filter a possible chance to tear before the coffee maker burned out.

Yet it is doubtful the change to plastic filters offered any realistic hopes of a coffee filter salesman getting rich. Then of course, you already know the solution. Let's sell them filters that are only good for one to three pots of coffee. Right?

So now we are waking up to the theme of the greedy. Correct? Naturally a remedy is to make sure any future coffee maker purchases have a permanent filter included. Another alternative is to buy an old fashioned coffee maker at a thrift store. (Isn't it amazing how many people assume prettier modern made coffee makers make better coffee)?

At this point in time, after the above read, we are thinking greener, but there is more. Old style percolators require less coffee per pot. (Have we been trained to run water through a filter filled with coffee one time and then throw both away)? The answer appears to be yes, and for whose benefit, the coffee salesman and the paper filter salesman?

Another question to ask yourself, if buying a coffee maker with a glass pot. Is the transparent plastic or glass pot breakable? (As luck would have it, after seeing a thin flimsy transparent glass looking coffee pot dropped on a hard floor and a concrete block, without a chip, crack, or break. The thought occurred, maybe it was made by Timex).

Instant coffee drinkers can save money too and here is how. Have instant coffee drinkers been trained to spend more money for higher priced coffee, labeled instant? Yes. Actually, regular coffee can be added to a cup or pot of hot water, then stirred and drank, just like instant coffee can. The only thing to watch out for, is a few coffee grinds, that will be waiting at the bottom of your cup for that last swallow of coffee. Caffeine lovers might even appreciate that last gulp. (In addition, when using regular coffee for coffee made instant style, you only need half as much coffee as you would need of instant style coffee per cup. That's another coffee savings for instant coffee drinkers).