Dive Brief:

• A Seattle mom has completed her year-long quest to eat only at Starbucks. The experiment cost her roughly $500 a month.
• The woman, who bears the unusual and wonderful name Beautiful Existence, cooked a variety of foods for her family, but kept to Starbucks-only fare for herself. It's not quite as limiting as it sounds. She also allowed herself food from three other Starbucks brands: Roy Street Coffee, Tazo Tea and Evolution Fresh.
• When the challenge ended, Existence celebrated with a non-Starbucks meal of fish and chips from local restaurant chain Ivar's.

Dive Insight:

We just love stories like this. There's nothing much to be learned from them. But we love them nonetheless. And no one provides more of them than Beautiful Existence. She doesn't get the same level of exposure of folks like "The Year of Living Biblically" author A.J. Jacobs, or "A Year of Biblical Womanhood" author Rachel Held Evans (at least we've never heard of her before) but apparently she's an old hand at the get-obsessed-for-a-year thing. In 2012 she followed all the advice she read in Parenting magazine. The year before that she did all the clothes shopping for her family at Goodwill. Next up is an REI-inspired quest to learn 80 recreational sports.