There are some essential bills you have to pay every month…food, shelter, transportation.

Where does the rest of it go?

A new study in Yahoo broke down the cost of non-essential things we spend our money on each month:

• Dinners at restaurants = $209 a month
• Drinks with friends or co-workers = $189
• Takeout or delivery = $178
• Going out for lunch instead of packing a lunch = $174
• Impulse purchases = $109
• Ubers and Lyfts for non-essential trips = $96
• Personal care, like massages or manicures = $94
• Subscription boxes = $94
• Cable = $91
• Nextflix, Hulu and other streaming services = $23
• Online shopping for stuff you don’t really need = $84

That totals almost $1500 a month…or close to $18,000 a year.

That the average person…yours may be lower or higher.

Either way…you probably can trim some of these costs, no?