Right up there in expensive habit land with cigarettes and booze is Starbucks.

I love a 3 O’clock coffee pick me up as much as the next person.

And come summer, I’m completely obsessed with their iced green tea.

But one iced green tea a day for every working day in July comes to about $70.

That’s a new shirt at JCrew!

If you carry that habit over to August, two months of tea = 1 month’s cable bill.

Take it across the whole year… well, you see where I’m going with this.

So today, my world was changed when I learned this: you can cold brew iced tea!

What?

I was buying iced tea at Starbucks because of the convenience factor. I didn’t have time at the office to brew a pot of tea, then ice it, then sweeten it.

But I can cold brew it?

For seriously?

I don’t know why I didn’t think it was possible. I had just assumed that making iced tea required boiling the tea bags, letting them steep and then chilling.

But really you can fill a glass with ice, add two tea bags, fill with water, and let it cold brew at your desk.

Add sweetener to your taste, and BAM! Starbucks habit kicked.

Sorry Starbucks.

There’s a shirt I really want at JCrew.