Coffee!

 My mother was Swedish and the coffee was the beverage of choice.  I started drinking it when I was a teen and have been a coffee lover ever since.  Now I connect with writing.  I write while I have my morning coffee-- sometimes it's writing in a journal where I dump all my feelings and complaints.  Better to say on paper than bore somebody.  Paper never blinks an eye at all the repetition.  Sometimes it with a yellow legal pad and write long hand for a book.

I drink different coffee at different times of the day.  Morning I have coffee that has lion mane and chaga mushrooms in it.  It is supposed to be good for your brain, memory, etc.  I make that by the cup with one of those little pour over things.

Then when the four o'clock slump hits, I make a pot of whatever other coffee I happen to have. Sometimes, I make more coffee in the evening.  It does not keep me awake when its time to sleep.  Maybe all the coffee I've drunk over the years has made me immune to caffeine.

I'm always interested in different coffee pots.  I have tried several that use those cups, though I mostly, filled a reusable one with my current coffee.  The Keurig lasted a couple of years and then stopped working.  I got some other imitation one that used the same cups and could be a drip coffee maker.  It was hit or miss with the cups.  It ended up in the giveaway box.

I have resisted getting any more of the single cup makers, despite all the sales that Keurig has and the other brands.

Until recently.  I started getting ads for Nespresso machines on Facebook. Over and over.  I'd seem the George Clooney ads.  The coffee looked good on TV.  There was one that was on sale.  But nowadays nobody seems to buy anything without doing research. It became very confusing with the Nespresso machines.  There were all these features to consider and the kind of capsules to used to make the coffee.

I was this close to buying the one Costco had until I discovered that the capsules Costco sold would not work in the machine they sold.  There was a different line of Nespressos that worked with the capsules that Costco sold, but Costo didn't have that machine.

It was getting so confusing that I thought of the keurig machines, but when I read the reviews, it seemed universal that Keurig machines only lasted a short time, but for some strange reason people kept buying another one.

I had become so caught up in the whole idea of the single cup makers that it felt like I was compelled to buy one.

And then I stopped to think how ridiculous it was to have it so complicated to use a machine to make a single cup of coffee.  My little pour over thing basically works the same.  All it takes is a paper filter, some coffee grounds and hot water.  There's nothing to break, no capsules to worry about fitting and I already have it.

It's crazy how we get caught up in thinking we need something we really don't.