Fimela.com, Jakarta Changing old habits is not easy.Changing bad habits into good habits sometimes takes a long process.Making changes in everyday life and life always has its struggles.Through the Change My Habit Competition, Fimela's friends share their stories and writings about new perspectives and habits that are built for a better life.Based on personal experience, the biggest challenge of being an adult is managing finances.Moreover, the name of working in a big city like Jakarta, there is just a temptation.Since graduating from S1, I have an office on the 23rd floor in the Sudirman area, Central Jakarta.Fun colleagues, a cohesive boss, and a team that loves to snack, make the office atmosphere really fun.Every time for lunch, we as a team would crowd into the elevator and then go to our favorite snack place next to our office building.Siomay, batagor, ketoprak, nasi uduk, you name it, it's all there.Lunch time is like a 'little party' for us.After lunch, do you go straight back to the office?Uh, no.We would be busy lining up at our favorite coffee shop on the ground floor of our office building.Ah, a glass of cappuccino or caramel frappe feels so right to accompany the piled up office tasks!After completing my master's education in the land of Kangaroos, I decided to settle in the city of Melbourne, Australia.Incidentally, my boyfriend, who is an Australian citizen, has firmly asked me to step up the aisle.I thought that having an office in Melbourne would get rid of my snacking habit because the prices for food and drinks in Australia are not exactly cheap.One small cup of coffee costs an average of 4 dollars, and the cheapest lunch portion is about 10 dollars.But it turns out, again, I slipped into the habit of snacking.The mixed one-division team from Vietnam, Iran, Sri Lanka, Greece, Israel, China and Nepal, made us so excited to try food from different countries every lunch time.Incidentally our office building is located in the Collins Street area, where various international restaurants are located.In the center of Melbourne, almost every 200 meters there is a tavern.After lunch, we will be busy going to the juice or milk tea shop, raiding each other's favorite drinks.One year working in Melbourne made me think, one cup of coffee for 4 dollars multiplied by 20 working days in a month alone has cost me about 80 dollars.Multiplying a year, that's about 960 dollars!I can buy a return ticket back to Jakarta with the best airline in our country, that's still left over.Finally, I decided to put the brakes on my coffee habit, and started bringing my own tumblr glass.In the office, tea, coffee, sugar have been prepared, and don't forget that there is a fairly sophisticated coffee machine.I asked a colleague to teach me to use the coffee machine.Incidentally, when he was in college he was a barista, so his knowledge of making coffee was very good.I limit the habit of eating coffee to a maximum of only once a week.A year later, I finally really went home to Jakarta with money saved from the habit of eating coffee!Don't forget to buy my mother's favorite souvenirs, namely honey macadamia nuts, lamingtons, and hanuka honey.Ah, I'm happy that my bad habit has turned into a sweet smile on my beloved mother's face.