That was me, at least, until I realized that I needed to start eating breakfast. I was worried that it would cost me money, because I’d have to start buying food to eat in the morning. But the surprising part was when I looked at my finances a month after starting on breakfast: I had saved quite a bit of money!
Here’s why. Without breakfast, by the time lunch rolled around, I was very hungry and not thinking rationally about food. I’d go out with co-workers or eat somewhere expensive by myself. After I started eating breakfast each morning, I was much more level-headed come lunchtime and able to make more sensible dining choices. Right there, I began to save an average of $3 a weekday on lunch.
But it was still expensive; I often stopped on my way into work for something to eat, and that was costing me more than the $3 each day I spent on lunch. That’s when the “second rule of breakfast” became clear: eat something small at home before you go. I began to eat a container of yogurt every day before leaving for work, which cost $0.40, and this had the same effect of reducing my hunger at lunch. Overall, I was saving about $2.50 a day.
Of course, this still meant that I was spending too much money eating out each day, but that’s another problem to solve.
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