$4,000 a year comes out to roughly $11 per day, give or take.
How many of you have checked your own spending habits? Doing Uber Eats, Door Dash, ordering food on weekends, downloading apps for fast food restaurants for "the savings"??
$11 a day won't ring any alarm bells until you step back and add it up.
To be sure, inflation is impacting everyone and wages are stagnant. I'm not saying that other factors aren't at play when it comes to why people are struggling financially. But that doesn't mean that people don't bear some responsibility for careless spending, either.
This redditor's solution is to invest in a coffee machine to get his fix at home. But the broader point of eating out for the convenience is worth thinking about.
How many of you have checked your own spending habits? Doing Uber Eats, Door Dash, ordering food on weekends, downloading apps for fast food restaurants for "the savings"??
$11 a day won't ring any alarm bells until you step back and add it up.
To be sure, inflation is impacting everyone and wages are stagnant. I'm not saying that other factors aren't at play when it comes to why people are struggling financially. But that doesn't mean that people don't bear some responsibility for careless spending, either.
This redditor's solution is to invest in a coffee machine to get his fix at home. But the broader point of eating out for the convenience is worth thinking about.
