Coffee to go

Goodness me! I also regularly buy a coffee from my local independent coffee shop which I carry to and drink at work! At weekends I often meet friends for coffee and breakfast/brunch in a coffee shop! It never ever occurred to me that there would be people busy totting up my purchases and judging me for them?
I work hard for my salary and choose to spend some of my disposable income in eating and drinking out and damn the calories in my latte! I don’t judge other people who spend their money on other things even things I would consider a waste of money for my self! It’s live and let live in my book!
This post has been an eye opener to me as I really never considered that anyone would judge another (unknown passerby!) for their coffee purchase!!!

I don't think the issue is with drinking in coffee shops jenpax but rather the thoughtless impact on the environment by those who use take-away cups.

That would be a fair point but there were a number of comments about how much money she “wasted” instead of having her coffee at home and these were the ones I objected to! I have a reusable coffee cup which I take to be filled and no problem. If the post and replies had confined them selves to that topic in might have been better

The awareness of the environmental impact of non-disposable cups is surely relatively recent , Nanny27 so I think we should not rush to be too judgemental!
OP did however stress her disapproval of the perceived waste of money with a passing reference to the environment
why pay for a cup of coffee every morning, carry it home when one is just 7 minutes away from home, where she could make one herself? To me it seems a waste of money and not good for the environment

Frankly what other people spend their money on is none of our business and with a few exceptions most of us seem to feel this is a non-issue

Yes, it’s definitely a non issue......but it got me thinking about
The fact that I have never ever bought ‘coffee to go’( or anything to go, come to that) and have never had pizza delivered either.?

I never have a drink or eat in the street but it goes back to my grammar school days. It was a school rule that you should not eat or drink in the street while wearing the school uniform - or on the bus as we all used London Transport! This has simply stuck with me and it is just something I choose not to do - but I have no issue with sitting at a pavement café eating and drinking!! Silly really but just how it is.

I don't know MawBroon. I often disapprovinly watch people fill their trolley with rubbish food and as someone said I wonder about all those people in Corrie eating breakfast a few steps from their house most mornings and spending so much in the pub. We are only human after all. Perhaps it's as well we don't always say what we are thinking lol. Oh I do love gransnet ?

We stopped buying instant coffee.
We have a nespresso coffee machine, make our own coffee.
We also like a Costa coffee when we go shopping. Which we drink in, can’t stand those throwaway cups.

Sounds to be as if this young mother has such a stressful time of it getting her six year old up, dressed, breakfasted and taken to school, that she needs a cup of coffee she doesn't have to make herself before facing the rest of her day.

We surely all have known times when anything was better than just getting on with the next job on the list.

I know I have often wondered how other people can afford the things they can and do, but I am sure they wonder the same about me!

My husband never drinks coffee at home. Tea is his comfort "I'm at home at last" drink.
He works very long hours and daily he travels across the UK.
Mcdonalds coffee is quick to buy on drive through, lone cup daily is his morning saviour.
He won't buy Costa or the other main coffee outlet because he's read something about the ethics of the companies.

I am conscious of the old biddies I knew I my childhood who were so easily outraged by the “younger generation” Never watched Corrie but I believe Ena Sharples and her buddies portrayed them well.
Perhaps that is why I do all I can not to be disapproving or judgemental, whether trolleys are full of junk food or pushed by hipsters buy avocafoes and organic sourdough! What would my trolley say about me?
It is soon enough after losing Paw for me still to be self conscious about buying single portions, small sizes and things which scream out “on her own” but I can at least make it round the supermarket now unlike in the early days when I would abandon my trolley and sit and sob in the car.
Other people’s indulgences are their business, if takeaway lattes had existed when our 3DDs were tiny, what a godsend that might have been! (With or without George Clooney!)

Avocados! ? not what my iPad wrote [blysh]

[Blush]

At least she’s not buying a packet of fags as she might have been 50 years ago.

I thought you were going to say that she chucked her cup into your garden everyday Mabon!
Maybe she has a stressful morning every single day getting her family ready for the day and this is her sigh of relief.
Sorry but it really isn’t any of our business what others spend their money on.

I can't understand it either!

This is maybe her one daily treat/luxury that she chooses to drink at home. Perhaps the type of coffee is something that she otherwise could,nt afford. Each to their own.

Long ago I read a book in which the author was at pains to stress that it's allright if other people don't understand your behaviour. There will always be some who don't. Sometimes rather a lot. His argument was that it doesn't matter and, in any case, you often won't understand the actions of other people either.

It really is nothing to do with you. If it irritates you so much, make sure you are not watching when you know she will pass your house.

Well said MawBroon!! It's no-one's business but her own whether she buys a coffee on her way home or not!

At least it's not a can of special brew

Oh dear, the friendly Gransnet spirit seems to be disappearing, people are very brave these days writing on here, as some answers are not friendly.
The coffee cup business is just a modern day thing,I am glad I dont drink coffee and wouldnt be seen dead carrying one of these cups.Each to their own!

On another thread people have been laying into drivers of large cars! so it seems that there are always folks ready to make judgements on other people’s purchases. As I said before it’s no ones business what others spend their money on as long as it’s not illegal or damaging to others! I don’t take an annual holiday in the sun only going every 3 years away and I don’t run a car! Both these have a heavier environmental impact than a solitary take away coffee. I wish the people who criticise others spending habits would consider just not being so judgemental

As annep said, this thread is just chat- the OP asked for suggestions why this mother might want to buy a takeaway coffee and got lots of answers. Have none of you ever noticed someone doing something you thought odd and even inwardly wondered why?

It does seem sometimes that some gransnet members are looking for something negative to say. I’m very wary of starting a thread- even on a ‘harmless’ topic as I’d be nervous of the responses I might get. ?

“Why pay for a cup of coffee every morning, carry it home when one is just 7 minutes away from home, where she could make one herself? To me it seems a waste of money”

Was the part of her “chat” that I had an issue with, had she said I don’t see the appeal of take away coffees and would love to know why other people might consider them a worth while purchase or what pleasure they get from them it might have been a chat thread! As it is it was, in stead what is this young woman wasting her money on this for?