<prompt> Human: A little trick that has really helped my wife and I spend less money is to try and have two days per week where we dont spend a single dollar. And its actually a lot easier than you might think once you get used to it.It really forces you to pack your own lunch, make a pot of coffee at home and avoid all those little and unnecessary expenditures that add up over course of a month. As a bonus, by forcing yourself to forego the pack of gum, diet Coke and whatnot on your 0 days, you wind up cutting these things out naturally on the other days.EDIT: Just to address those who say this is nothing more than creative accounting that doesnt save you any money, there are dozens of types of expenses that we wouldnt make up on other days. If you dont buy a latte on Tuesday and Thursday because these are your no-spend days, youre unlikely to buy two on Wednesday and Friday to double-down and youre equally unlikely to buy an extra one the day before to sit in your car and wait for you.And if you try and cheat by buying a case of diet Coke and box of gum ahead of time, youre still saving a ton of money by buying in bulk. The cost of 24 cans of diet Coke at the supermarket is the same as 5 from the machine at the office.If you pass on that clever t-shirt you happen across but had no intention of buying you are unlikely to drive back the next day to get it on a spending day.You wont drink twice as much the next night because you passed on going to the pub after work with your mates on a non-spending day and you wont see two movies instead of one and on and on and on.On top of all that, just getting into the mindset that its possible to go a full day without spending a dollar starts the habit of watching how you spend every day.Clearly not every trick works for everyone and clearly if youre taking home a couple grand per week such a tip might be silly - but in our experience it absolutely helps.EDIT 2: Man...I love Reddit, hahaha. Some of the comments here are pure gold no pun intended. Yeah...I get it. Some people are poor and dont make as much money as theyd likeneed...but this is a totally separate issue. The reality is that, for all our bitching, most people in the first world do, in fact, earn enough money to have some sort of discretionary spending. Sure, if you already have 4-5 days a week with 0 to spend this advice wont be relevant...but this is a totally unrelated issue.And on the other shoe...yeah, I also get that some people earn so much money that saving a few grand a year on snacks, whizbangs and doodads wont make a real difference...but the majority of people dont earn six-figures and the majority of people do spend more than they truly need to in order to be happy.At any rate...I had no idea this was going to blow up so big - it just kind of popped into my head this morning as I was drinking my coffee how big of a difference its made for us to do this its been about 7 years now that weve more or less followed this pattern.All that being said, a couple years ago I posted about our success using the envelope system and the shit truly hit the fan, haha.  <response>: Some of these comments seem to have turned into rFrugal_Jerk... 