Howdy, I am a native english speaking college graduate. I am attempting to sell my words at a rate of just one cent each. This is proving difficult however as apparently every writer on here is a native english speaking college graduate even though they like this write. Hence, below is an example of what you get when you hire me. My current availability is 2,500 words per day. I accept daily payment via Paypal. Due to my lack of feedback, I don't require payment up front and feel free to return it unused if my article makes you sad. **************************************************************** False Economics and the Espresso Machine Recession, recession, recession. Kind of gets annoying after a while. What gets even more annoying is the shocking level of false economics that most people consider financial logic. Kind of makes it pretty obvious why these people are broke in the first place. Have a few cans before you head to the pub, this makes sense. Make your own alcohol, this does not make sense. So, anyway I’m a big fan of ways to save money that does not result in a loss of pleasure, does result in more money in your pocket and does not land you in hospital. So, if you’ve got a coffee habit, you’ve probably got a Costa habit, and it probably costs you a lot. You see for some reason, some clever guy in a suit realised that by adding a paper cup to a cup of coffee triples its value, therefore that’ll be 4 dollars for a double espresso please. Of course, people get a little bit sick of this, they head to the supermarket, buy their own coffee and laugh to themselves in a slightly odd way until they get home and actually taste the tar that the supermarket swore was coffee. So, I’m not made of money but I have always refused to go down that route so I’d head into Costa every day, grit my teeth, glare at the smiling face of the coffee girl and ask for my double espresso without saying please, leaving a tip or holding the door open for any of the other sheep. This was my daily routine and I was unaware of any other option. Then I hear this guy at the office, you know the type, every story he has is a slightly different version of how great he is and he’s ranting about his espresso machine and I’m trying not to listen but I can’t help thinking that this brick of a man may have actually just said something clever. So I read a few espresso machine reviews. I did my research. Apparently, if you put up four to five hundred dollars, you get a magical machine that meets the industry standards of the coffee shop machines and makes identical espresso. Interesting, I think to myself. My logic was simple, four bucks a cup, five days a week, two hundred and eight days a year. That’s eight hundred and thirty two dollars per year. And these guys are saying if I spend half that up front for the machine, I get the same coffee for a fraction of the cost for life. This is exactly the type of saving I agree with, no reduction in pleasure, but real reduction in cost. So I was a little bit suspicious of these claims and you probably are too. Ever tried making your own Chinese food? Ever tried rolling your own cigarettes? But, let me tell you one thing, I love my doubles espressos far too much to consider a poorer substitute and I haven’t set foot in Costa Coffee for eight months. **************************************************************** Ari Chatz