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Have you ever seen a product and though, “Sure that’s cool, but I’d never need it.”?  Well, that is how I felt about the Keurig coffee brewers when they became uber popular about three years ago.  They definitely seemed cool, modern, and life simplifying but I never really thought that I needed one.  Funny thing is, that Christmas, my mom bought Scott and I one.  I was pretty excited about it but still had my reservations.  We’d always been traditional coffee pot brewing people and already had a pretty sweet coffee maker with programmable features.  I didn’t realize on that day just how much the Keurig brewer would change my life.

Scott and I latched on to it pretty quickly.  We loved the ease of it and the ability to brew just a single cup of coffee whenever we wanted in the “flavor” of our choice.  I had always been a French Vanilla lover while he preferred Hazelnut (gag!).  But with the traditional coffee maker we always just brewed regular coffee and then sometimes added a flavored creamer. The Keurig changed all that.  It pretty much changed our lifestyle in terms of home coffee brewing.  We used to prepare our coffee maker the night before by measuring the coffee and water and setting the programmable timer to have it brewing as we were waking up.  Now we simply choose our preferred blend, pop in the KCup, and within 60 seconds, we have a fresh cup of coffee.  Now that is genius!

You can imagine our heartache when this morning Scott went to brew his morning commute tumbler of coffee and the Keurig did not work.  It was as if a part of us had died.  We both just looked at each other not knowing what to do.  Then we fumbled with the machine to try to get it going.  We refilled the water reservoir, changed the KCup, unplugged and replugged in the machine, powered it on and off… nothing worked!  We felt truly defeated.  With no other coffee option in the house, Scott left empty handed.

After being out for the morning, I came home determined to get the Keurig working again.  I searched Google for help and consulted the owner’s manual, but nothing has worked.  I called Keurig and they really were not much help either.  I was told that the machine is out of warranty and that I really don’t have any options.  Someone is supposed to call me back and I was told that they may offer me a discount on a new brewer but seeing as it’s an “older” machine, it may just be done.  So is that it?  Three years out of the coffee maker and time to buy a new one?  I was hoping that we’d get more life out of it.

Now I sit here, unable to have my afternoon coffee fix, wondering what to do.  Should we buy a new Keurig or go back to the old days of brewing coffee in our traditional coffee maker.  We’ll likely go back to the old coffee pot for the time being as a new Keurig just isn’t in the budget right now.  It’s definitely not going to be easy!  I might cry.