Pouring half your coffee down the kitchen sink would still be cheaper than buying Keurig K-Cups. Would you like a felony with your coffee?

About half the people I know have a Keurig in their house, even though these things are a disaster for the environment due to little plastic pods with aluminum lids, and coffee that isn’t even good (like Maxwell House) ends up costing over $40 per pound, even as you can buy it in two pound cans for less than $7.

Some people say “I’m the only one in the house who drinks coffee and I don’t like the waste.”, but that doesn’t hold up financially or environmentally.

Comparing Great Value Donut Shop in a can to the K-Cups, the result is you’re wasting $100 per person in your house per year that drinks coffee if you use K-Cups, assuming you just start your morning with it.

In 10 years, and for just one person, that’s enough to cover your mortgage payment twice in some parts of the country.

How convenient is earning $1,200 where you work vs. using an auto-drip coffee maker?

Most people are drowning in debt and hate their jobs. It’s always easier to conserve money than to earn more, and even the guy who invented the Keurig system says he wishes he hadn’t because he meant it to be used in offices and stuff, not everyone’s house.

To make matters worse, when Keurig’s design patent expired, they tried to foist a machine that checked for a copyrighted design on their lid (copyrights effectively don’t expire anymore), and threw an error message instead of making coffee.

Some people figured out how to jury rig a bypass, which might be a felony under the DMCA, but that seems a bit extreme (and inconvenient, regardless).

Boycott Keurig.

Still other people, confronted with the ridiculousness of the Keurig system, go further, to compare it with buying coffee at Starbucks. Which is even dumber and more pointless.