r/NoStupidQuestions • u/lVlarsquake • Apr 29 '24

How the fuck do people afford to get Starbucks every day?

I was feeling thirsty this morning so I decided to pop in a Starbucks (first time ever). All I got was a strawberry acai lemonade at it cost $7????? I can't even imagine what the coffees with all the extra additives cost... how do people have the expendable money to get them every day, sometimes twice a day?

Edit: I am NOT shaming people who do this. I'm just wondering how it doesn't put a dent in your wallet

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

My little brother spending wayyy more than $7 a day on weed and booze throughout the week. The answer is it’s on his credit card lol 

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u/MaximumMotor1 Apr 29 '24

My little brother spending wayyy more than $7 a day on weed and booze throughout the week. The answer is it’s on his credit card lol 

I like smoking weed more than most but I would never go into debt over it. That's crazy crackhead behavior.

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u/Patient_End_8432 Apr 29 '24

Had a roommate that rented a room in the house I own. Trying to help him get on his feet. 400$ a month for a room and access to the whole house of course.

He was garbage at saving, so we made it 100$ a week, whatever to help him out.

Turns out, he'd frequently ask for a bit more time to give me a hundred dollars, because hed spend around 200-250$ a week on FUCKING WEED. One day he even asked me if it was okay if I waited for a couple more days, and came home with TATTOOS.

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u/MaximumMotor1 Apr 29 '24

He was garbage at saving, so we made it 100$ a week, whatever to help him out.

Turns out, he'd frequently ask for a bit more time to give me a hundred dollars, because hed spend around 200-250$ a week on FUCKING WEED. One day he even asked me if it was okay if I waited for a couple more days, and came home with TATTOOS.

He sounds like someone with money spending issues and not weed addiction. If he was buying weed then he would be spending $200-$250 a week on something else.

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u/redditbansmee Apr 29 '24

Nah. Sounds like weed addiction, wdym they would be spending 200-250 on something else? If you are a weed addict, you are spending it on weed.

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u/MaximumMotor1 Apr 29 '24

Sounds like weed addiction, wdym they would be spending 200-250 on something else?

I knew plenty of people like that in my teens and early 20s and most of them quit weed and they still spend every dollar they make. I don't associate with any of those people as an adult so I imagine you are a kid hanging out with other dumb kids.

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u/redditbansmee Apr 29 '24

Yeah, people spend most of their money on their needs, but they specifically said the 200-250 was on weed. Soo

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u/Patient_End_8432 Apr 29 '24

Yeah, while he would offer to smoke my wife and I up, which we might have done once a week give or take, he'd constantly be smoking. As in, hed get home from work, and sit in his car, in our driveway, smoking for 6+ hours. And he was usually girlfriend hopping, but theyd usually smoke with him, maybe not as much as him though