>> A warm place to sleep, good health, good food (and coffee) and nice, caring people are priceless. Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving

>> A warm place to sleep, good health, good food (and coffee) and nice, caring people are priceless. Dropping $5 you don't have on overpriced coffee is proving that it has no power over you. In modern society, money has power over us no matter how we act. That is, we're forced to make money to sustain a satisfactory quality of life. Wasting $5 on a coffee will actually increase the power money has over you because you will be forced to make more money down the road. It seems like you're wasting money as either 1) a training mechanism to prevent yourself from developing an attachment to money, or 2) an expressive mechanism to express to yourself/others how much you hate the fact that you have to make money. I'd suggest finding a healthier mechanism for expression/change than wasting money. Lots of people learn to value things in life other than money without digging themselves into a financial hole.