
A 365-Day Savings Challenge
The Convenience Tax
365 days of skipping convenience and tracking every dollar saved.
Total Saved
$0.00
Day one. Every dollar not spent on delivery fees, service charges, and impulse taps lands right here. Watch it grow.

About the challenge
Small daily choices, one big year.
For one full year I’m skipping the convenience apps—no delivery, no rideshare when I can walk, no impulse Amazon tap, no daily Starbucks run. Every time I choose the slower, cheaper way, I bank the difference and write it down.
I’m documenting a one-year challenge to eliminate convenience apps and impulse spending to discover how much money I can save—and how it impacts my finances, habits, and overall quality of life. I’ll share my successes, setbacks, weekly savings, and honest reflections as I learn whether choosing convenience has been costing me more than I ever realized.
My Rules:
- No convenience apps.
- If I want something, I have to go get it myself.
- No ordering ahead. No drive-thrus. No grocery pickup. No delivery services for items I can buy in a local store.
- Weekday coffee at home.
The Daily Log
Flip through the journal entries
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The $10 Habit That Was Costing Me Thousands
Quitting my almost-a-bottle-of-wine-a-day habit exposed a new problem: I was bleeding money on Starbucks, DoorDash, and Amazon—about $1,000 a month. So I’m giving up convenience apps for a full year and tracking the money, mental load, and emotions behind what I call the “convenience tax.”
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