What’s the best cup of coffee you have ever had?

I will admit that a lot of my blog is very objective. I think that most financial decisions and information should be objective. However I realize that we as humans are not very objective. That’s why every once in a while I like to write something that is purely subjective.

Ill start out the meat and potatoes of this post with a simple idea. Price does not correlate with enjoyment. I think a lot of times we equate the quality, and therefore the enjoyment we will have with a certain product with the price we pay for. For many people like me the two biggest culprits of this are coffee and booze.

I could not even begin to tell you how many cups of coffee I have had in my life. From the awful scorched tar they serve on Naval Amphibious Base, Little Creek to a 10 dollar gourmet cup at Safari Coffee in Escondido, CA. I would venture to say that I am in the thousands of cups of coffee in my life so far. But do I remember all of them or even a fraction of them? Absolutely not! Of all of these cups I only remember a few cups. One cup I remember was the cup of cheap Aldi brand coffee I had on my back porch in Escondido the day after I found out I was having my second son. I remember the way the avocado groves looked and how happy I was and the how for some reason the coffee that day tasted amazing.

Its the same way with beer for me. From discount $1.25 bottles of malt liquor to limited edition release bottles of founders breakfast stout. The beer I remember the most is the Tusker I had at the bar 11 Degrees on Camp Lemoniear, Djibouti. I remember having the beer along with a hot dog I brought from the galley and sitting with my buddy Chris.

The point is that sometimes we get so obsessed with having to spend a certain amount in order to be able to enjoy something and to be honest it can effect our financial health. Its kind of like the phrase “Keeping up with the Jones’s” . Are you really spending that much more on that cup of coffee because its a better cup or is it because of other reasons? Remember with certain things it can be possible to have your cake and eat it too.

You don’t have to spend an obscene amount every day on coffee or let you beer budget break the bank in order to enjoy these things. Having a rich life is more than just your finances.