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Giveaway & Review: Keurig Coffee Maker

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Photo by Once & Forever

Photo by Once & Forever

I love my coffee. Love, love, love.  I think it’s genetic. I come from a family of coffee lovers~well except my brother Doc. We always say that we don’t fully trust anyone who doesn’t drink coffee.

Lately the coffee from my pot at home it hasn’t been tasting so fantastic.  I’m not sure what the reason is. Have my tastebuds changed? Is there mineral buildup on the pot? Is it just the cruddy bargain basement sale coffee I’ve been drinking?

I keep finding myself doing the totally un-frugal thing and, *gasp*, buying coffee out.

Yes, I know. After all I’ve written on how that can dribble your money away.

So enough was enough. I needed to change something. I had owned a espresso/cappuccino maker back in the early 90’s, but honestly I had barely used it. It just seemed like too much effort. The regular coffee pots didn’t seem to brew right, even when I tried different brands of coffee. I started researching different options. The one that jumped out at me over and over again was the single cup coffee maker.

I balked. After all, a single cup anything doesn’t sound very frugal.  And did it even taste any better?  Although I don’t mind spending money on an item that I will truly use regularly and contributes to the quality of my life, I don’t like buying an item when I’m not really sure I’ll use it.

So I wrote the kind folks at Keurig and explained the situation to them, and asked if there was any way I could review the Keurig Coffeemaker and give one away on my blog.

Keurig Platinum Brewer

Keurig Platinum Brewer

They agreed, not only sending me one of their Keurig Platinum Brewers (valued at $169) but also 4 boxes of the coffee K-Cups.  They also  generously offered to give the same to one of my readers.

In order to give you the full flavor of my Keurig experience, I made a Whrrl story.  Don’t worry, by clicking through you do not have to create an account or anything~it’s just a very slick & easy way to do a slide show of pictures & text! Just click on the picture below and a new window will pop up with the review:

Long story short? The Keurig makes an great cup of coffee~although in using the same exact brand of coffee so did the standard pot. The Keurig coffee was much hotter & retained it’s flavor longer. The coffee is more expensive than standard coffee, but at about $.54 a cup, it’s still much less expensive than the coffee shop alternative.

Now, on to the giveaway!

This giveaway runs from today, August 1st through Midnight EST August 8th.

To enter you need to go to the Keurig site and check out all the different kinds of K Cups (coffee, tea or cocoa).  Come back here and tell me in the comments which kind you like the most.

This giveaway is only available to folks in the US (sorry!).  My family members, as always, are not eligible. Sorry Mom!

But wait! There’s more!

There are additional ways to enter once you’ve completed your initial entry (each requires a SEPARATE COMMENT or it doesn’t count).

#1 Subscribe to Frugal Upstate or let me know if you already are.

#2 Subscribe for the joint newsletter Lynnae from Being Frugal.net and I publish over at Frugal Coast2Coast under the “Never Miss a Show”

#3-Tweet about the giveaway sending folks over to the review.  Use this link: http://budurl.com/b3x6

Good luck!

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Comments

  6. I’m not much of a coffee expert so I’m thinking the variety K Cup pack would work best to start.

    What a fun and great giveaway!

  8. yummy! Ghirardelli hot chocolate! I am a big coffee love, but also love my hot chocolate during the winter. how cool!

  18. Oh- I LOVED the keurig, my Dad had one- when we went to visit, I just loved putting the little cup in, it was just as much fun as changing the ink in my printer, only WAY CHEAPER. There’s something magical and gratifying about breaking that seal every time. My favorite k-cup would probably be the hazelnut or the dark mountain extra bold. I realy wish they were recyclable. I love the stainless steel pot.

  20. wow, it makes coffee, tea, or cocoa?!? Thats awesome! I guess i would pick tea, 🙂 Thanks for the chance!

  23. I am a big tea and cocoa drinker so I’d love the Twinings tea or the Bigelow. I saw this machine demo’d at Macy’s and I’ve wanted one ever since. A great cup of tea helps me get going in the morning and I love one in the afternoon.

  24. Perfect Iced Tea Sweetened Lemon by Celestial Seasonings would be my pick. Iced Tea by the glass, what could be better?!

  28. The Ghirardelli Hot Cocoa would be delightful! What could be better. But the Celestial Seasonings Teas look interesting too.

  32. Definitely the variety pack for me. I love flavored coffees and hub definitely does not. A coffee variety pack and single cup coffee maker is a dream come true!

  33. Coffee People is my cafe in real life … It will be great to bring in their coffee into my kitchen. I like “Black Tiger Coffee by Coffee People”.
    And who can go wrong with hot cocoa.

  45. Caribou! Yippee! They have Caribou. That would save me a trip across town! Thanks, Jenn!

  50. So here is my story. We are not coffee drinkers, but I am a huge tea drinker. Iced, hot doesn’t matter. So we had my family in who are coffee drinkers and so I went out to buy a small maker. I bought it and you know what…it helps to buy coffee. So hubby went out to get coffee and filters and came home with 1000 filters (seriously) and coffee but instant. Needless to say the company laughed at us all the way to the nearby Starbucks and we returned everthing to the store. I would love love this for me for the tea (raspberry iced-yum!) cocoa for the kids (perfect after building that snowman) and to impress the fam next time they were in with a darn fine cup of coffee to rival the coffee chains.

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