Six months of packing lunch instead of buying it, and I finally saw the numbers

I used to drop $12-15 a day on lunch near my office downtown. After I started making sandwiches and leftovers at home, I figured I was saving maybe $50 a month. Then I actually added it up after six months and it came out to $1,860. That's basically a car payment I was throwing away on turkey subs and sad salads. Has anyone else run the numbers and been shocked at what they actually saved?

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angela431mo agoMost Upvoted

Ngl that math hurts worse than a cold sandwich ever could.

mary_patel591mo ago

And @angela43, you're not wrong. It's funny how we'll sit through a cold sandwich (which is basically just sad bread and limp lettuce) without complaining, but five minutes of numbers and we're ready to tap out. It's like our brains have a 'math is dangerous' alarm that goes off the second they see a fraction. I've noticed this everywhere, not just in school. Even at the grocery store, people would rather guess the price of an item than do a quick calculation in their head. Maybe we all just need to admit that math is the real cold sandwich of the mind.