{"id":112,"date":"2010-07-21T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/spreadsheet-savings-calculate-lunch-costs\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:15:10","slug":"spreadsheet-savings-calculate-lunch-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/spreadsheet-savings-calculate-lunch-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Savings: Calculate Lunch Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image1.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"88\" height=\"130\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> If you find yourself running out of money before the end of the month, maybe a spreadsheet can help. If you don&#8217;t have the strength to put together a detailed personal budget, you could start by keeping track of your lunch costs.<\/p>\n<p>I saw this posted in Twitter last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My friend in a local CBS special about brown bagging his lunch. I am fairly certain he does not keep a spreadsheet&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the end of that post, there was a link to a CBS video, with a <a title=\"news report from 2008\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/video\/?id=38169\">news report from 2008<\/a>. In the video, you can see one frugal worker, who estimates his lunch costs\u00a0 in an Excel file.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"CBS Video\" href=\"http:\/\/cbs5.com\/video\/?id=38169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"lunchcost\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lunchcost.png\" alt=\"lunchcost\" width=\"371\" height=\"283\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS estimates that he&#8217;ll accumulate over $100,000 by making his lunches for the next 20 years, and investing the savings.<\/p>\n<p>So, are you making your lunches, and keeping track in a spreadsheet?<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find yourself running out of money before the end of the month, maybe a spreadsheet can help. If you don&#8217;t have the strength to put together a detailed personal budget, you could&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day","category-spreadsheets","tag-lunch","tag-savings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}