Compare buying versus making at home, then compound the difference.
A worked example
Starting figures
- Daily spend
- $5.40
- Days per week
- 5
- If invested instead
- 7%
- Years
- 10
What it returns
- Yearly cost
- $1,404
- Invested instead
- $20,251
- Over 10 years
- $14,040
- Growth forgone
- $6,211
How to read the results
The weekly difference is annualised and grown as an annual lump sum at your chosen return.
With the defaults above, yearly cost works out at $1,404.