I stopped buying coffee on my way to work for one month and my bank app actually scared me

Taylor Hayes · 2026-09-25T21:25:04.357067+00:00

I always figured my morning coffee was like $3, no big deal, so I never looked at it. Then last month my card got declined at a gas station in Modesto and I had to stand there while the guy behind me sighed. I opened my banking app that night and added up every coffee run from the past 30 days. It came to $147. I was buying one almost every workday, sometimes two on Fridays because I was tired. That number hit me hard because I only make about $2,100 a month after taxes. So I switched to the free pot at the office and put that $147 into a jar labeled 'car tires' because mine are bald. Two weeks in and the jar already has $68 in it. What stuff did you cut that turned out to be way more money than you thought?

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