Podcast Episode Details

Yes That $7 Coffee Really Does Matter - Ep 954

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Season 4 Episode 954

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Today, we will discuss the long term impact of small decisions and why that $7 Starbucks really does impact your future. Well it does and it does't but you will find out on today's show. I will also discuss our usual sessions: Tales From The Prepper Pantry, The Weekly Shopping Report, Operation Independence.

Featured Event: AMAZING Workshops at the Self Reliance Festival:

• Sonny Puzikas, The Best Guy To Learn Self Defense from - Mindset and physicality
  • Fight Hacker: Escapeology (Adapted to your level of fitness):
  • The SCIENCE and ART of DE-ESCALATION - You always win the fight that never started:
• Homestead Medical: Advanced Wound Closures, go home with your practice kit:
• SRF bootcamp: We start with processing some rabbits and go from there. 7 instructors:

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Livestream Schedule

Tuesday Coffee with Angry Prepper and Shawn MIlls, 9:30am CT

Thursday: Great American Preparedness Tour Live, 6pm CT

Friday: Homestead Happenings with the Tactical Redneck, 9:30am CT

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

• Meat flies out fo the freezer when doing carnivore! Spent $52 per person on "groceries" counting meats we grew here at fair market price, or actual cost.
• Planted a bunch of swiss chard for late fall $30 total in purchased plants

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

Dollar Tree: Stock levels were good, and she commented again about the holes she saw last week at Hobby Lobby.

Home Depot: A 2x4x8 was unchanged from last week, at $3.85.

Aldi: They again have the Cornish hens (essentially very small chickens). We like those. We found everything we wanted except Nutella. This included the new variety of wet cat food. Staple prices were: bread (20 oz. white): $1.39; eggs: $3.76; whole milk: $2.85(-); heavy cream: $5.39; OJ: $3.45; butter: $3.99; bacon: $3.99; potatoes: $4.49 (-); sugar: $2.99; flour: $2.35; and 80% lean ground beef: $4.39.

A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.599.

Operation Independence

• Im paying off my mortgage right after this show

Leveraging your home to build something that gives you ongoing resilience, especially when money costs less than inflation is a tool that people have used for a long time to get ahead.

But there is also a trap in there.

If you leverage, and leverage, and leverage, and then fail, you can lose the home you are living in.

One of the amazing things about the US is that home and property ownership is relatively easy, even now when things have gone up, interest rates have gone up, etc. Bi we can buy our homes, outright. And if we organize them right, they can become a source on livelihood. Still. To this day, in 2004.

But I was supposed to talk about the $7 coffee at Starbucks and that it does, on fact, matter very much when you build your financial foundation. Bluntly, if you don;t fix your income problem, that $7 coffee may not change your life – but if you can use it to change your mindset, it can be the catalyst.

Why? I mean, every penny pincher article about getting a handle on your spending starts with the coffee. We really should call is scoffee because it seems so ridiculous.

But here is the thing:

• I had already planned to pay off my mortgage ahead of schedule - my plan was September 2025
• I rounded up by $3-9 per payment the whole time, along with added

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  Published on 1 year, 3 months ago