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How Long Can You Go Without Spending Money?
Most people spend money every single day.
I’m not talking about your day-to-day necessities like house payments and fuel for the vehicle. I’m talking about those little impulse buys that most of us make without thinking twice about them.
We spend more money on silly things than we realize. If you spend money on the following, you could go a lot longer than you think without spending.
- Drive-thru coffee
- Delivery or takeout pizza
- Lunches out with friends from work
- Buying a drink while you are out
- Buying magazines
- Going for manicures/pedicures/facials
- Driving places just to have something to do
It’s these little things that add up and can take an enormous chunk out of your budget. We’ve become a nation of consumers that think nothing of plunking down 5 times the value for something because we’re out and it’s convenient.
Instead of the above, you could…
- Bring your own coffee in a thermos from home
- Make pizza from scratch
- Organize a workplace potluck
- Keep a small cooler in your vehicle with drinks from home
- Read online
- Change to a simpler beauty regimen
- Stay home
By doing this, you could save thousands of dollars per year.
My favorite calculation is this: If you went to Starbucks every morning before work and purchased a $5 coffee, you spent a whopping $1300 on that morning routine.
One thousand three hundred dollars.
And that is just for one frivolous expenditure. What if you added them all up? My guess is, you’d discover you were spending far, far more money than you realized.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/07/how-long-can-you-go-without-spending-money/
