Spreadsheet Savings: Calculate Lunch Costs

If you find yourself running out of money before the end of the month, maybe a spreadsheet can help. If you don’t have the strength to put together a detailed personal budget, you could start by keeping track of your lunch costs.

I saw this posted in Twitter last week:

“My friend in a local CBS special about brown bagging his lunch. I am fairly certain he does not keep a spreadsheet”

At the end of that post, there was a link to a CBS video, with a news report from 2008. In the video, you can see one frugal worker, who estimates his lunch costs  in an Excel file.

CBS estimates that he’ll accumulate over $100,000 by making his lunches for the next 20 years, and investing the savings.

So, are you making your lunches, and keeping track in a spreadsheet?

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