The Frugal Lifestyle

[citybutch]

AND that is $3,640 PER YEAR!!!

We have those sandwich boxes too... I tend to bring meals as opposed to sandwiches, so I use tupperware.... It is actually my beautiful bride who uses those sandwich bags... I don't know why she doesn't use the boxes! LOL...

I have to admit that I sometimes surreptitiously throw them out when she would keep them and continue to wash them out... I just have too...

We recycle all of our recyclables (city pick up) and use paperbags to collect them through the week... A couple weeks ago I actually saw my wife empty the paperbag into the blue recycling bin... she was recycling the paper bag for re-use... I have to admit it was a good idea when you take into consideration all the paperbags that places like Trader Joe's hands out on a daily basis...

Originally Posted by Medusa

I did an experiment a while back to see how much cash I was spending eating at work.

Coffee from Starbucks and a breakfast snack at work = $7 per day
Lunch at work = $5.50 per day
Afternoon juice, Diet Coke (when I was still drinking them), or bottled water from the vending machine at work = $1 a day.

That was 13.50 PER DAY or almost $70 a WEEK!

Holy crap did I ever give myself a nice raise by bringing all of my food and drinks from home!


City - Jack takes her lunch every day for work and it *also* drives her crazy when I wash out Ziploc bags and reuse them so we compromised and I bought a couple of those plastic sandwich-shaped boxes to put her sandwiches in instead of using Ziplocs. We just wash them out and rotate and it has saved about $5 a month on buying new bags