Everyday · a habit, redirected
The daily can, redirected
A $4 pick-me-up every day is about $120 a month. Here's the quiet version where it compounds instead.
$4 a day on a can, set aside since 2015
$15,462 spent
could have grown into
$33,351
in the S&P 500 · grew 2.16× · +116%
A four-dollar can a day barely registers — which is exactly why it's worth looking at. Daily, automatic, forgettable spends are the ones that quietly add up to real money over a decade: about a hundred and twenty dollars a month, every month. Redirect that same flow into an index fund and the small numbers do something the daily habit never could.
The growth is the asset's, not the abstinence's. See the same steady-buying idea on the S&P 500 or browse every asset.
The same $122/mo, across assets
Only assets with data for the whole window — no unearned head starts.
Not your number? Change the spend, the asset, or the year and watch it move.
You'd have
$33,351
from $15,462 set aside — up 116%.
— — — dashed line = total cash you put in
Common questions
- What does the daily habit add up to?
- About $120 a month at $4 a day. Modeled as the equivalent monthly contribution into the asset, on the same schedule, over the period shown.
- Is the growth guaranteed?
- No. This is a historical what-if using past prices; markets fall as well as rise and past performance never predicts the future. It's for curiosity, not advice.