Depends. Meat, maybe.

Toilet paper? Doubtful. You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it.

Not to mention gas to drive and get it. And vehicle insurance. And car maintenance.

A bidet seat (heated water, $150 at Home Depot now days) has a better ROI.

> You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it.

If you have the space anyway, you're not paying any extra to store stuff in it. And it's expensive enough to move that it's not economical to do so just to have the lower payments from 1 fewer square foot.

> Not to mention gas to drive and get it. And vehicle insurance. And car maintenance.

If you stop at the store on the way home from somewhere else that you were going anyway, the additional cost of those things is basically zero.

The alternative is living in an area where you don't have to drive everywhere to get things.

I drive maybe 200 miles a month now. I walk down the street to a supermarket to get toilet paper when I run out.

> I drive maybe 200 miles a month now.

But still pay full insurance presumably?

I've been fighting this with the insurance company ever since the pandemic started. We no longer drive anywhere daily, working from home. But the insurance company wants to maximize profit so they won't approve less than 6000 miles per year, a number they made up, and keep raising prices.

I barely drove 6000 miles a year pre pandemic while living in the suburbs!

> $150 at Home Depot

Good luck with that. Even with an off-brand, you're looking at much closer to twice that if you want any kind of heated water.

Home Depot actually has their own feature reduced SKUs from popular brands.

But checking prices, they are around $250.

You save a lot of money by not owning cars.

Only if you don't value your time. Either you're paying even more for taxis and rideshares than you would to own your car, or you're spending an hour on trips that would take 10 minutes by car.

I think it's actually faster to get to central London from me on the tube than by car, not even counting looking for parking. And hell, on the tube I can read, listen to a podcast, code, or even call family. Can't do most of that in a car.

Yeah, but you can't easily store it in high density areas where square footage is expensive. Personally, I think this is a significant negative for city living, and a reason why I prefer the suburbs.