I finally crunched the numbers on my commute and it hurt lol

I was sitting at my desk the other day bored and decided to calculate how much I actually spend getting to work. Turns out I'm dropping like $240 a month on gas and parking for my 45 minute drive each way. I found this out by just tracking my gas receipts for three weeks and adding up the parking garage fees near my office in Denver. Has anyone else figured out their commute cost and actually changed how they get to work?

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cooper.nathan5d ago

Take a longer view and think about what that time in the car is buying you. If you switched to a shorter commute you'd probably end up paying way more in rent or a mortgage near downtown.

tyler_hall95d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah my buddy moved downtown to cut his commute and now he pays $400 more a month for a place half the size. He says the extra time is nice but he can't afford to go out anymore because rent ate his budget.