Comments on: Save $112,000 During Your Career By Bringing Your Lunch To Work In A Brown Bag

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[...] out for dinner with your family. How many workers eat out for lunch during the weekday each day? Not bring a brown bag lunch to work can cost you over $100,000 over the course of a [...]

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Save $50 A Day – Top Ten Tips From Kiplinger’s Magazine | Finance Blog — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:15:52 +0000

[...] to invest what you would have spent on going out to eat, you could have a nice little nest egg of over $100,000 just from brown bagging your lunch by the time your career was [...]

By: Funny

Funny — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:42:40 +0000

Just go out and enjoy your live. At an old age you may have 100,000 less (I doubt it) but you’ll have had nice lunches. And why retire if you like to work? If you are not capable anymore you won’t go around spending money and enjoying yourself anyway. Live today.

By: Money Funk

Money Funk — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:55:31 +0000

I love calculations! Thank you for doing all the hard work of figuring out how much I could save by packing my lunch. And why I am a knuckle head for being too lazy to do it today. Okay, starting today – we are … oh wait! You forgot to add the cost of a package of brown bags and ziplocs (if you use them).
I am bringing mine in my nifty cloth reusable bag and snack bags (yup, sewed them all by myself).
Great article!

By: Imee

Imee — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:52:21 +0000

Wow, that’s great! Thanks so much for these tips. I bring lunch to work too, not just to save money but also so I know what I’m eating.

By: J. Money

J. Money — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:31:21 +0000

Hah! You’re a good man, sir. You should invest that saved money so one day we can retire @ the beach together just don’t expect me to make your lunch while we’re there…