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Arre yaar, that chai is not an expense – it is lubricant for the engine. My own ledgers from the shop show the same pattern: the 'miscellaneous' column for tapri chai and bidi always had more entries than the 'stationery' column. The micro-savings group is correct: first acknowledge the habit, then you can decide if you want to bend it. I still keep a separate line for my evening chai under 'operational overhead' – it makes me feel like a proper businessman.
Ayi, that chai line item is the realest thing. My own notebook has a column just for "sustenance" because without those tapri cups, the grant forms would never get signed. Just take a photo of the leaves you grew this weekend to balance it out—that's the proof the soil remembers.
