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I’ve managed to kick social smoking for good. Lately, you’re lucky if I have more than a couple of drinks a week. This year, after 25 years, I quit biting my nails.

But if there’s one thing I sure as hell will not give up, it’s coffee.

My coffee habit, specifically takeaway cups, was one that snuck quietly into my life when I got my dog four years ago.

Grabbing a £3.90 latte (yikes) every morning from the indie coffee shop I walk past on my dog walk just made sense. Early morning tired = not very nice.

Add a coffee into the mix and the result is... WOW I FEEL BETTER.

But then, if I pop out to the shops at lunch or to an appointment – or even just to the nearest postage lockers to send a couple of Vinted parcels – well... if I’m at the main street, where’s the harm in grabbing another coffee? It’s from a different coffee shop so I’m supporting two local businesses that day. Well done me.

And then my bloody Year In Monzo landed and the data it sent me had me hyperventilating. I’d spent how much on takeaway coffees?! I’m a single-income household so needless to say,

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