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Pro tip: I tracked every dollar for 90 days and my grocery bill dropped $212 a month
So back in January I finally got sick of wondering where my money was going every paycheck. I downloaded a free spending tracker on my phone and logged every single purchase for three months straight, even the $1.50 vending machine stuff at work. The first month was rough and honestly kind of depressing because I had no clue I was spending $340 a month just on lunches and coffee runs near my office in Sacramento. By month two I started packing leftovers on Sundays and making cold brew at home in a big mason jar, which took like 10 minutes. The weird part is I did not feel like I was missing out on anything, I just stopped grabbing stuff without thinking. My grocery bill went from around $480 a month down to $268 by the end of March and I was actually eating better food, not just cheap junk. The biggest change was meal planning on a whiteboard on my fridge, which sounds cheesy but seeing it right there made me actually stick to it. Has anyone else done the full tracking thing and been shocked by one specific category? I want to know which one snuck up on you the most.
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drewr1527d ago
Tracking stuff is a pretty universal thing, the second you write it down the magic kind of wears off. Same reason people put a scale in the bathroom or a timer on their phone. Funny how a whiteboard on the fridge works better than some fancy app, because you actually see it while standing there hungry. The category that always gets me is the small stuff, the $4 here and $7 there, because it never feels like real money in the moment. Lunch and coffee are basically the classic sneaky ones for anyone working near a bunch of options.
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