Earlier this year, I was living in a spacious room with four other girls in gorgeous townhouse right on the beach. We had an amazing view of the hang-gliders drifting over the ocean, the sunsets, and the palm trees; our apartment dynamic was fantastic; and we had a Keurig coffee maker, thanks to one of the roommates’ moms who had bought it for her for her birthday a couple of years ago. Life was basically perfect back then.
Yum... free trade coffee beans taste better
Sadly the lease ended sometime in the middle of summer and we knew we were going to have to split up and go our separate ways. Some of us moved to the city, some to the country, but me? I stayed. I did a quick search of apartments in the area and sign the documents for the first one I could find, even though I didn’t know the girl I would be living with. Needless to say I didn’t get to keep any of the wonderful things about my old apartment, including the ocean view and the incredible Keurig coffee maker.
We have a simple one that brews 12 cups at a time that we bought for maybe $15. I miss that Keurig so much. It just doesn’t make any sense to me why a two-person household (or really any size household, for that matter) would need 12 cups of coffee at one time. No one drinks that much coffee, and if they do there is probably something physically wrong with them.
My roommate and I barely ever get up at the same time, so if I brew the coffee first she doesn’t get it for hours later, and by that time it is either cold or burnt– but always stale. Let’s face it: coffee tastes best within the first few minutes that it is brewed. Anything longer than that and you might as well not drink anything. I can’t even count the number of times my roommate left the house earlier than me, and left the coffee maker on thinking I would grab a cup, only for me to come home from work hours later and smell burnt coffee throughout the house because I failed to check the kitchen that morning. Trust me: it’s just as unpleasant a smell as it sounds like it would be.
The other thing I hate about having this cheaply-made coffee maker in our kitchen is that there aren’t very many varieties of coffee that I can buy at the supermarket. One of my favorite things about the Keurig were the cheap K cups that came in a whole assortment of roasts, made with coffee beans from all over the world. Not only were they super convenient in that I could make exactly the serving size I would need (and not eight times more than I needed), but the selection of flavor is amazing. I can only find a few different brands available for purchase in the coffee aisle at my local grocery store, and I am tired of all of them. Variety is the spice of life, and I am tired of drinking the same flavored coffee, day in and day out. I want more!