The article misses the point of the proverb competely. It erects a strawman by taking the advice at face value.
The coffee stands for any and all small, regular and avoidable expenses, where minor lifestyle adjustments add up to major savings.
Using a family plan on subscriptions and phone plans, cooking your own meals, weighing the actual cost of owning a certain car / carpooling...... All of these are things are very small, yet regular expenses in a person's life. These things add up.
The lack of mindfulness of such expenses leads to fast and untracked lifestyle creep. The proven also warns against that.
My peers living expenses went up 5 fold, and each of them claims that nothing has changed.
The coffee stands for any and all small, regular and avoidable expenses, where minor lifestyle adjustments add up to major savings.
Using a family plan on subscriptions and phone plans, cooking your own meals, weighing the actual cost of owning a certain car / carpooling...... All of these are things are very small, yet regular expenses in a person's life. These things add up.
The lack of mindfulness of such expenses leads to fast and untracked lifestyle creep. The proven also warns against that.
My peers living expenses went up 5 fold, and each of them claims that nothing has changed.