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-Bring my lunch to work. I can count on one hand the number of lunches I buy in the cafeteria in a year.
Forgot that one. I used to buy lunch pretty much every day @ $5-7 a pop. Now my wife packs my lunch every day. I am pretty spoiled that way.


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-Discuss major purchases with the spouse. This goes both ways, and we often remind each other of other big expenses coming up and may decide "we don't need that right now".
Yeah we are working on that. I have to admit I'm the spender in the house. We put EVERYTHING on the Visa, then pay it off every month. Makes budgeting a lot easier, and makes it easier to go back down the list and see where we're overspending. Usually it's trips to the convenience store for snacks, but often it's "scope creep" on household DIY projects. I have a hard time stopping once I get started on a project.

Biggest budget buster lately is gas in the 4runner. It's a pig
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