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how often do you have days where you don't spend any money?

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I probably only spend money 3-4 times a week. I cook, so I often bring my own lunch to work, I fill up my gas tank once a week, we buy 2 weeks worth of groceries at a time, and we really only go out on weekends.

Yet, somehow, I'm always broke 😀
 
KeithTalent said:
Almost never these days. I can't recall the last time it happened.

KT
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Same here. Every work day I buy at least one meal. And the only time I don't buy at least one meal on the weekends is when we are snowed in so I'm guessing the last time this happened was during the blackout after Superstorm Sandy.
 
75% of the time.

Only time I really spend money is every other weekend for groceries or bar runs and a meal out or two during the week.
 
2-3 days a week I won't spend a dime. I eat breakfast and dinner at home. I don't buy soda or coffee at work. I'll bring leftovers or a can of soup for lunch a few days a week. Otherwise my lunches run me $2-$4 at work depending on what I want. I'm hesitant to call that "spending money" because it's no different than buying a microwave meal on the weekend and then leaving it in the freezer until Wednesday. It still cost me $3 to buy it, the day doesn't matter. I need to eat and shifting the money to one day vs. the other makes no difference.

I fill up gas in the car once every 3 weeks or so. Go out for dinner once a week with the family. Do most of my grocery shopping on the weekends. Every other week my wife and I get out to a bar for some board games and beers with friends so that costs some money.

Other than that...I don't spend much money on a daily basis. I'm pretty frugal when it comes to micro-transactions in my daily life. I tend to save up for bigger stuff...typically tech purchases or putting in a big $100+ order at Cool Stuff Inc for board games.
 
blackdogdeek said:
Same here. Every work day I buy at least one meal. And the only time I don't buy at least one meal on the weekends is when we are snowed in so I'm guessing the last time this happened was during the blackout after Superstorm Sandy.
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Yep, during the week I just don't have the time nor the inclination to bring a lunch, so I end up buying something. On the weekends I am usually out and about, so end up eating out then as well. It's also very important to me that I support the local economy.

KT
 
4-5 days a week.
Buy groceries for the week on Sunday, pack a lunch for work each day.
Maybe go out to dinner Friday night if the wife and kid are in a good mood.
 
z1ggy said:
0%, and unless somebody here lives in a homeless shelter or something, I'm not quite sure how it's not 0% for them either. Any day that you use water, heat, electricity or the like, you are running up a tab of some kind. You may not be paying for it on that day directly, but you are still using resources (which cost $$).
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KlokWyze said:
I mean, even if you go a day "without spending", those bills are always racking up. Electricity, mortgage, etc. Eating food, driving your car, etc. is spending money. Just because you're not physically handing cash to someone doesn't mean you're not spending it.
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vi edit said:
I'm pretty frugal when it comes to micro-transactions in my daily life. I tend to save up for bigger stuff...typically tech purchases or putting in a big $100+ order at Cool Stuff Inc for board games.
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I'm that way too, don't squander the $, save it up and indulge on usually tech purchases, things I can feel good about for more than a few minutes!
 
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I can go 3-4 days a week without initiating a transaction. I don't drink coffee and bring my lunch at least 3 days a week. While I do spend time going all of 0MPH on the freeway, distance wise, my commute isn't all that long and I have a pretty fuel efficient car that I only need to fill up about every 7-9 days or so
 
3-4 days per week of no spending if you don't count the public transit swipe each day. I like fresh fruit so I usually go grocery shopping 2x per week and I get coffee out on the weekends.
 
Most week days I don't purchase anything. I preload my cafeteria card with money (we have an incredibly stupid POS system type thing) for lunch at the start of the week and we hit the grocery once a week. So, pretty much Tuesday-Thursday, I don't spend anything. This might have been less frequent had I not stopped drinking soda, though.
 
I burn through buckets of cash like a drunken sailor. It's entirely business related, but it still makes me cringe sometimes.
 
I'd say once, maybe twice sometimes, a week. Mainly because I eat at home (for dinner; I always bring lunch to work) instead of fast food or eating out.
 
Often enough, but it doesn't really matter as you're just shifting your purchases from one day to another. Someone may go shopping once a week. I don't endulge in starbucks or panera or going out for lunch, but we do make small grocery runs at least 3, sometimes 4 times a week because we like to cook fresh and because we never know what we might want for dinner.

I think a better measure would be what's your typical CC bill excluding any large purchases. I was so impressed with myself last month when 2/3rds of the way into billing cycle I only had <$200 across both of my Credit Cards, but then I had to pay some bills (I put every bill I can on Credit Card), get gas, buy Christmas presents and suddenly it ballooned to its usual $600-1000 figure 🙁
 
I don't spend a lot daily out of my wallet, but our family grocery budget is huge (like $125 per person per week) so I am still consuming a lot everyday.
 
Tweak155 said:
$125 per person per week? You might actually be able to save by eating out every day!
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See, that is the thing. I don't avoid eating out to save money, I do it to eat a higher quality of food than I can normally get at restaurants.

You are correct that I could get by cheaper on the dollar menu, but if I don't get my organic kale smoothie in the morning I feel off all day.
 
it is pretty rare. either some groceries we ran out of, an app purchase, lunch, something on amazon etc.
 
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