Took me 18 months to realize my grocery budget leak was the 'quick grab' snack bin
I finally mapped every single $4 to $8 impulse buy at the gas station near my office in Austin, added them up to $1,230 for the year, and that number alone convinced me to keep a granola bar stash in my car, so has anyone else done a real audit of small daily purchases like this?
Kept a stash in my car too and honestly it just became a second snack bin I raid on autopilot, so the leak moved instead of closing. Fixing the habit itself, not the location, is what actually saved me money.