Eleanor Tiernan: Are takeaway coffees really keeping us off the property ladder?

Of all the bad financial decisions I made, it was the double espresso that really killed me

Eleanor Tiernan: "Property deals until they are done are so very fragile and it seems very likely that I’ll have my heart broken at least once by this process."

I read an article this week about how millennials will never be able to afford property as long as they continue to spoil themselves with daily takeaway coffees. Like all the others I’ve read, it made me spit out my double shot of espresso with embarrassment. I’m a coffee fiend, and I am still renting.

The problem with people like me though, is that we don’t have the same pitiable position as the millennials. Unlike them, we can’t even blame the boomer generation for hoarding all the wealth at the top. Because my people are not millennials. I am of a class of human called Generation X.