How to have a hot drink, desk space and free wifi for 30p a day with a £9.99 investment.

How to have a hot drink, desk space and free wifi for 30p a day with a £9.99 investment.

The title is fairly self explanatory, I am going to tell you how you can get, what is essentially a free office space for 55p per day, then I am going to tell you how to make that 55p shrink to 30p per day with a small initial investment. For the ballsy amoung you I will not hide the fact that this offer, minus the hot drink can also be obtained for free.

If the above sounds good then bookmark this article or share with any friends or colleagues this could benefit.

Coffee shops in the UK are now worth a staggering 8 billion pounds. BILLION! That could buy an awful lot of instant kettles but as is life, we choose to pay for everything with our time or our money and coffee making is now something that the majority of consumers choose to spend their hard earned cash on.

I frequent coffee shops for meetings, tutoring sessions, time with my spouse and for checking off my to-do list. Essentially life isn't about what we can and can't afford, it is about what we want to spend our money on. I disagree with the fundamentals of the coffee shop culture so I have found a way to spend hours and hours inside all of the market leaders outlets and pay next to nothing, or nothing at all for the privilege of undisturbed desk space and free wifi.

It is common for people to think that when you walk into such a place the first thing you must do is buy. I don't. I sit down and set up, sometimes I buy but often I just do what I need to and leave, it is worth mentioning that I have never been confronted by staff members if this is something that may worry you.

It is a lot cheaper for any start up or mobile business to do this than to pay for an expensive office, trust me, I have paid for expensive offices!

If you still feel too rude to take a bit of free wifi and desk space from a multi-billion pound industry then these companies love you! Good news is there is another way. Go into your nearest Costa and pick up a loyalty card and one of their reusable cups. The cups are priced at £9.99 (cheaper on eBay of course!). Taking this cup with you each and every time you go will knock 25p off of any hot drink.

So the question is "did you even know costa do a 55p hot chocolate or warm milky drink?" Probably not. The drink is called a babychino and they are designed for young children. Great to get them hooked on sugary milk early, seems to be pretty good for the economy; anyway, use this to your advantage. Order a babychino (chocolate or plain) with either a marshmallow or chocolate flake, ask your barista to make your babychino at the same temperature as a regular hot drink for adults. They will do so, no questions asked. A babychino is the size of a big espresso and you can be creative with it. Caramel sauce is free to add, as is cinnamon, raspberry sauce and a host of other flavours and sprinkles.

Get a babychino in your reusable cup and it's 30p! Not bad for the environment either. Always use your loyalty card and you will save enough points to get other freebies along the way (ecspecially if you see other people have left their receipt behind and not used a loyalty card for their purchase as you can take their receipt to the barista and they will add the loyalty points to your card). As an entrepreneur from a sea side town in a family full of manual workers I had to find a way to make my life work for me, renting offices was a bad move in a "fake it til you make it" scheme and I strongly discourage you from making the same mistakes I did.

In return for sharing this information and saving you from a lifetime of £3.50 hot drinks and type 2 diabetes, all I ask is that you help make raping cows and stealing their young so grown ups can consume the calfs growth formula an abnormality rather than a normality. How? You ask. Order the plant milk alternative in your drink, soya is on the menu and nobody got hurt or exploited in the process, it doesn't contain hormones and male calves don't get their throats slit because they are unable to reproduce. Compassionate daily choices from all of us will change the world! Pick soya every time and give your flake or marshmallow to a homeless person - you don't need it. If you will save now you have this new information but could have comfortably afforded that expensive latte then pass your change on too.

Thanks for reading and enjoy your free desk with wifi or your hot drink, sweet side, desk and wifi for 30p or 55p.

Ian McClure

I support Charities, Community Interest Companies and Other Social Enterprises to Thrive

7 年

Charlotte never has an article made me smile as much. You have a lovely and alarmingly frank way of writing I like it. Thank you.

Charlotte Jessica ?

Business management mentor

7 年

UPDATE: Some Costa branches stock reusable cups for £3.

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Oran Blackwood

Supporting Families with Special Educational Needs

7 年

I love my Starbucks office, but never looked at it like this! Great article, thanks for sharing????

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