The $7 spreadsheet trick that killed my daily coffee shop habit

I was spending $220 a month at the Starbucks on 3rd and Main, and I knew it was killing my debt snowball. So I started tracking every single coffee purchase in a simple Google Sheet with a red cell that turns green when I hit $0 spent for the day. Turns out, just seeing the number go up every morning was enough to make me brew my own Folgers at home. Has anyone else used a dumb visual trick to trick their own brain into saving money?

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miawalker5d ago

Omg same @walker.andrew! I literally wrote "NO" in big red letters on my debit card lol. But what really worked was putting my actual savings goal on the spreadsheet too - like $220 a month is a vacation fund or something. Seeing that red cell turn green felt way better than any latte ever did. It's dumb but my brain totally fell for it.

walker.andrew5d ago

I can barely get my spreadsheet to add right, let alone shame me out of a latte.