<prompt> Human: This past year I decided I wanted to try something new when it came to saving money. Im not hard off, but Im an adult and still felt like I was being wasteful for no reason. The plan I came up with:I was going out to eat with friends probably 5-6 times a week. Im not a bad cook, Im just full time military and full time school. I figured if I was spending roughly 10day then I could afford to save 10 a day. - rule 1: 10day no exceptions. Money withdrawn or transferred to new, designated savings account every Saturday.I also figured that if I didnt spend any money on fast food in a day then I would add that to my daily savings this was rounded to 10day because I normally would only eat fast food once a day...90 of the time it was Jimmy Johns.. This was actually a really large motivator. Theres a big difference between depositing 70week and 140week. I became kind of addicted to cooking so I could have a bigger deposit at the end of the week. Sometimes Id let it roll over and deposit 2-3 weeks worth of savings at a time.- rule 2: if I didnt go out to eat then 10 turned into 20 saved that day.- rule 3: I donate plasma. Its free money and its actually really relaxing to me with my busy schedule. Plus it gets me up early on Saturdays and I really like my mornings. All plasma money went straight into my designated savings account whereas last year it went to...fuck, I dont even know what.- rule 4: I get an additional 150mo for an extra program I started doing with the military back last October. I decided all of that would go directly into the designated savings account.- rule 5: Im not huge into rbeermoney but I have fun with some of the 100 passive earners. Everything here was cashed out or is in an amazon prime account.- rule 6: plans that fall through. There are lots of times where friends and I have something planned but we end up just shooting pool or drinking and playing cards instead. I took the cost of the cancelled activity 280 for skydiving, 60 for a random concert, etc and deposited it into the designated account. I had already planned to spend it, so why not?- rule 7: No checking the account. Might sound foolish to some, and it might be foolish but that was the last rule. I couldnt look at the account. Initially it was supposed to be 1 JAN - 1 JAN, but I gave myself a month off for good behavior. Total in the account: 10,764. Even if I eat out this month Ill deposit the full 500 just because...reasons. Plasma will be 310 with the monthly bonus so the total for the year will be 11,574 False advertising in title, I know, my bad.. Im pretty happy with it Ive got to say. Also, my life wasnt miserable and I wasnt a hermit or anything. I still had fun, but I managed to save a LOT more than I anticipated. I had rough ideas because I tracked everything in various spreadsheets, but I had no exact total until I added everything up.Breakdown below: 6,320 from food - I got fast food or ate at sit-down restaurants 68 times this past year. 3,804 from donating plasma 1,800 from hazardous duty pay 330 from rbeermoney style apps 1,120 from cancelled or plans Ifriends decided against or just fell through.I will very likely do something similar next year as well. Anyways, that was my savings experience for 2016!  <response>: I should be able to save a lot because I dont have friends or plans. 