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c/budgeting-wins•river190river190•2mo ago

My gas station coffee hack saved me $80 this month

I started buying a cheap thermos and filling it at the truck stop diner for $1.50 instead of grabbing a $5 drive-thru latte every morning. Anyone else have a simple swap that added up fast?
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evanr79
evanr792mo ago
Honestly used to think stuff like that was too much work for small savings. But tracking my own takeout lunches was a real eye opener. Swapping just three restaurant meals a week for homemade stuff saved me over a hundred bucks last month. It feels silly now that I ever argued against it. The small changes really do add up way faster than you'd expect.
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the_julia
the_julia2mo ago
Right evanr79, it's the little leaks that sink budgets.
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cooper.viola
But is it really that big a deal? A hundred bucks is like one night out.
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