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Originally Posted by bennelson
Does anyone keep a detailed log of their automobile driving?
Information on where you are going, why you are going there, what your odometer reads?
I have heard that a good way to go on a diet is just to write down what you eat every day. Don't judge what you eat or make any changes - just write it all down. The What, Where, and When.
By paying attention to what you eat and recording it makes you think about your future actions a whole lot more.
I would think the exact same thing would work for driving. Ofter we make un-needed trips, but they are just so easy and convenient, why not? Or we may take a route that ends up not being the best.
If we all made a log of where we were going, and why we were going there, I think it would help drop our total miles quite a bit.
Has anyone been keeping a log?
Anyone interested in trying it now?
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Keeping a log for just day-to-day driving might be a bit much, but to each his own. I only log my fuel expenses which would give me a total of how much I drove between fill ups. My father-in-law tracks his driving for commute back and forth to work, but thats for tax purposes. Logging what you eat is a hassle but it works, also what you spend money on. Of any information that I've read about either dieting or budgeting the first step is usually to log everything.