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We've mentioned that brown-bagging it to work will save you a wad, but if you want to talk tangible numbers, hop on over to Dinkytown, a financial Web site that includes a lunch-savings calculator.
Say your average lunch costs $6.50, compared with $3 for the bagged version. Noshing on home-cooked goodness 20 times a month, according to the numbers we crunched, could potentially save you $4,888 over a five-year period-that adds up to a lot of quarters for the office vending machine. ::Dinkytown
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Difficulty level: Easy
