I drink two or three cups of coffee a day. I drink them hours apart. Making a pot is not as good for me as using pods. Sorry about adding to the landfill. My pods cost way less than the ones you used in your examples, I buy them by the box of 100, was 96, is now 100. I found to get similar coffee flavor it takes more grounds in a pot than in a pod. I have used reuseable pods but convenience matters. Like you said from start to drinking a pot takes longer than a pod. You can program a pot to make coffee to be ready at a particular time, but I am retired, I don't know when I am going to want my morning coffee.

There is no way I could save the kind of money you suggest and any saving I would get would come at a price of convenience. I bought a bag of coffee last trip to the store because I thought I was maybe going to have house guests, I still have a drip coffee maker. I also have a small percolator that I take camping since you can make coffee on a campfire with it. I have a French press, but it is glass, so it does not go camping. Makes fine coffee but not convenient. Take it from me, I have made coffee about all the ways it can be made. For me from a total value proposition, pods are the way to go.

One last consideration, not everyone likes their coffee the same flavor or strength and you can get tea or Hot Cocoa pods or flavored coffee or decaf.

Your story is valid and meaningful, but you did not give pods their due. You gave them short shrift.

For people who want to follow your advice, I would suggest you get a thermos and after the coffee is brewed put the coffee that is not immediately consumed in the thermos and not leave it on the heat. Take my word for it, I have done this rodeo before. Talk about rodeos, I wore out an espresso machine back when it first became a thing. Used it until the heating element died. I don't really like Capaccino enough to bother getting another. I am very satisfied with my donut shoppe coffee from a pod. If I am paying 30 cents a cup instead of 15 cents, that extra $15 a month does not bother me.

One more thing, I promise. How many pots of coffee go half unused, wasted. Pretty much all pod coffee made gets drank. How many people who make drip coffee use way more grounds per cup than is per your story.

TEK