The $12 mileage app that beat my handwritten log by $340

I used to scribble miles on a notepad and guess at the end of each month. Last year I switched to a simple mileage tracker app and in June my deduction jumped from $1,180 to $1,520 for the same driving. The app logged every trip automatically, so I stopped forgetting those short runs to the supply store and post office. Has anyone else found their undercounted miles were way more than they thought?

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rowanr882d ago

isn't it funny how the little stuff we don't track adds up to real money without us noticing? feels like that same thing happens with receipts for cash purchases or even just time spent on side tasks. you think you've got it covered but the gaps are way bigger than you'd guess.

shane_morgan2d ago

Man, it's wild how true that is. I started tracking every single cash purchase for a month once, just to test it, and the amount I dropped on coffee refills and random gas station snacks was honestly embarrassing. Those little five and seven dollar hits added up to almost two hundred bucks by the time the month was over, and I had zero memory of spending most of it. Same goes for those fifteen minute side tasks at work, you do three or four of them a day and suddenly you've lost two hours to stuff you never planned for. It's like the small stuff has this sneaky way of being the biggest line item on your budget, you just never see it coming.