What does your life cost per day?
You know what you earn. But do you know what you cost? A simple calculation that changes how you look at money.
I had no idea what my life cost per day. Seriously. I knew what came in, I knew it more or less added up at the end of the month, and that was it. Like most people, I think.
Until I did the math.
Not my monthly expenses — I had a rough idea of those. But the amount per day. What it costs to keep me alive, every morning when I wake up. Rent, insurance, subscriptions, the car, groceries. All of it combined, divided by thirty.
The number that came out was sobering. Not because it was shockingly high — it was pretty normal, in hindsight. But because I had never seen it that way before. Per month, everything felt abstract. Per day, it was suddenly tangible. This is what it costs. Every day. Whether I do anything or not.
That changed something. Not dramatically, not overnight. But it changed how I looked at expenses. A twelve-euro subscription per month sounds like nothing. Forty cents per day sounds like nothing too. But when you have six of those subscriptions, it’s suddenly two euros forty per day. Almost nine hundred euros per year. For things you barely look at half the time.
DayPrice started as that idea. Not as a budget app with charts and categories and bank connections. But as one simple question: what does your life cost per day?
The answer is sometimes confronting. Sometimes reassuring. But it’s always illuminating.