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I added up what I spent on lunch for one school year and the number made me sit down
I grabbed food on the way to work almost every morning last school year. Nothing fancy, just a breakfast sandwich and a coffee, sometimes a burrito at lunch if I forgot to pack anything. Last week I finally added it all up out of curiosity and it came to $1,340 from August to May. That is basically a car payment, or a decent vacation, just gone. The thing that got me was the small stuff, $6 here and $9 there never felt like anything in the moment. Now I make a batch of egg muffins on Sunday and keep a thermos of coffee in my bag, and I am already saving around $50 a week. Has anyone else actually done the math on their own food spending and been shocked by it?
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finleyk876d ago
Wait, you spent over thirteen hundred dollars just on food you grabbed on the way to work? That is wild to me, mostly because I used to do the exact same thing and never once stopped to add it up. The part that really got me was the $6 and $9 amounts, because you are right, those never feel like real money in the moment. It is only when you stack them all up that you see how fast it adds up. I started making a big pot of oatmeal and keeping coffee at home, and it is crazy how much that alone changed things. Good for you for actually doing the math and fixing it.
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