We love Starbucks coffee, but during the recession, make your coffee in your own comfy dwelling. You can still buy ground coffee or beans at Starbucks (save on your electric bill by having Starbucks grind it for you), but do get your lazy Earthling ass out of bed 15 minutes early to prepare it. If you absolutely have too many lazy bones in your body to do it, then either get your mate to make the coffee or pay yourself a tip after you make it.

Please do not get us wrong. We are absolutely, positively addicted to Starbucks. However, $4 cappuccinos will cost you $120 per month, and $1,440 per year just in cappuccinos ... and that doesn't count donuts or other delicious cakes. There is also the cost of gas to get there: one gallon is another $3.00 or more. No wonder Earthlings cannot make their house payments. Do the math.

Earthlings, reduce your trips to Starbucks if you are going to survive the recession.

Alien calculus is never wrong. You can buy Starbucks coffee for $10 per pound, which makes 256 ounces. That is 32 eight-ounce cups. This will save you $54, since a small or what they call "Tall" Starbucks coffee costs $2.00. It will vary according to whether you drink it strong or on the weak side.

If you are reluctant to reduce your "Starbucks experience" and are wanting, needing and missing going to Starbucks for their trained barista to make it, then pacify your needs and desires by putting the $1,440 savings toward a trip to Venice, Italy. There they are happy to charge you $10 per cup of cappuccino.

The simplest solution, only if you are single, is for you to find a mate who works at Starbucks as a barista and marry them or have them live with you. This will ensure you of high-quality service 24/7. If you are not single, we highly encourage you not to cheat on your other mate just to be served coffee.

Take classes to become a barista. If you are not talented at these things, perhaps you can get your mate to take the classes.

Making coffee at home makes you green like us since you are not using gas to go to Starbucks. Be even GREENER, Earthling, when you purchase Starbucks organic coffee. Be GREENEST if you use a reusable ceramic cup instead of a throw-away paper cup and sleeve. Be GREENER-EST-EST if you use organic milk in your coffee.

If all else fails, plan Starbucks coffee nights at your dwelling. Ask your human friends to bring Starbucks coffee. Make sure one of your guests knows how to be a barista. Please do not tip your friends for making cappuccino, otherwise it will give away your reason for holding the party at your dwelling.

One additional money saving recession tip: use your old coffee grounds for compost in your garden.