Where do you get your morning cup of coffee – at home? At the local coffee house? That morning pick-me-up can get costly if you buy a cup a day.

"Well, it's fast, it's fresh and there's always a friendly face for you every morning," says Nannette Moses, the fresh food manager at a local WaWa.

No matter where you drop your dollars for coffee, it adds up quickly.

"Wow, definitely over $20,” admits Kaylea Heckman.

"I try to make it in the morning, but if I don't, it's probably about $12, no, a day," says Sheletia Hudson.

“A day? Maybe $1.50,” David Bradshaw calculates.

Barbara Wright is a specialist with Clearpoint Financial Solutions, a non-profit group focused on helping people eliminate debt.

"When we look at a budget and I ask people about the eating out and the stopping for coffee, (they say) oh, well, I didn't think about that."

Wright says cutting out the morning coffee stop could save you hundreds of dollars a month.

"You can easily go into 7-Eleven, WaWa, wherever, and buy a soda, buy a cup of coffee, buy a candy bar, buy chips, buy a newspaper, buy a magazine and boom, your money's gone."

13News priced a 16-ounce cup of coffee at several popular stops.

It costs $1.19 plus tax at WaWa and 7-Eleven; $1.85 plus tax at Starbucks

So, figuring if you bought just one cup of regular coffee a day, five days a week, you’d spend just under $310 a year at the convenience stores and $481 at Starbucks. That’s not counting the tax.

Making coffee at home doesn't cost as much and many people take it with them in travel mugs.

Many offices keep the coffee pot going all the time and often it’s free.

Of course, that favorite brew can be more than just something to drink and many people say the pleasure is worth the price.