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I finally tracked every dollar for 90 days and the $6 coffee habit wasn't the problem
Turned out $340 of my monthly spending was just delivery fees and forgotten subscriptions I never even used. Did anyone else find their real money leak was somewhere totally different than they expected?
Wow, so the $6 latte was innocent this whole time and we've all been blaming the wrong guy. I mean it makes sense though, those delivery fees sneak up on you way worse than coffee ever could. A $15 burrito turns into $24 after fees and tip and you don't even blink, but somehow the coffee gets all the blame. And the subscriptions thing is so real, I found like $60 a month of stuff I signed up for during a free trial and just... never canceled. It's wild how the small stuff feels guilty but the sneaky automatic charges fly under the radar. Good on you for actually tracking it, that takes way more patience than most people have.