A Month of Saving Day 11

One of the things we have recently stopped doing is buying fountain beverages. While we both like them better than drinking out of a can or bottle, we also realize how much we were spending on fountain pop everyday. The closest drive thru for us to get a beverage is Taco Bell, and at least 4 times a week we ordered an XL diet and XL root beer totaling $4.04. That's almost $850 every year in just pop! If we purchase cases of pop for $6.00 a case or less, that's 25 cents per can. We might drink 1-2 pops on average per day, so we are easily saving $650-$700 every year on pop consumption. While I still occasionally crave a fountain beverage, I am willing to mostly do without them if it means saving money. We have also found that since we are not buying fountain pop, we are drinking less pop and more water. Double win!!

Update: We have been pretty good about not using paper towel around here for the last week. The first major change we have seen is that our garbage can is usually full to the brim each week, and this week we had at least 1/3 of the can empty when we took it to the curb!

Hope you're having a great week!