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What This Habit Costs

“A $4 coffee most workdays — what's that a year?”

The coffee, the lunch, the Friday takeaway — added up over a year and over five. Then three very different answers to 'what if I'd saved it instead', clearly labelled as the assumptions they are rather than one confident number nobody can actually promise.

  • As many habits as you like, each marked keep or count
  • A week, a month, a year, and up to twenty years ahead
  • Three growth assumptions side by side — including the jar, which can't be wrong
  • Compounded from the twelfth root of the yearly rate, not the lazy divide-by-twelve
  • And the same total in hours of your life, if you put your pay in
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Three steps, then you're done

List the things you buy without thinking

What one costs, and how often.

Mark the ones you'd consider stopping

The total only counts those.

Look at all three columns

They're assumptions, not forecasts, and it says so.

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