Fridge: one lonely 0.25mg pen

2026-10-07 05:47

I keep a note on my phone for every box in the fridge: purchase date, BUD, pens left, cost per mg, and days of buffer. Current count is four pens total, but one is the 0.25 that got left behind when my schedule moved to the next strength.

I paid $165 for it, shipping took six days, and it expires in late March. My spreadsheet says it’s basically $41 per mg, which hurts to toss, but my shelf space and my brain both want it gone.

I’m not looking for dosing advice — just curious how other price-trackers handle leftovers. Do you treat older pens as emergency buffer, or do you clear them out once the next strength is in rotation?

I’m trying to decide whether keeping it is practical or just hoarding with extra steps.

2026-10-11 01:18

Your spreadsheet is way more disciplined than mine. I track cost per gram of protein in the dining hall, which is how I learned a $1.50 rotisserie chicken beats a $7 protein box, but cottage cheese is my true dorm wife.

For the leftover pen, I’d add a column called “emotional sunk cost” and stare at it every time I grb yogurt. Sharp follow-up: do you amortize the six-day shipping into the cost per mg, or keep it as a separate “why was that so much” line?

Because my brain would absolutely not let that go.

2026-10-16 02:40

Three-year fridge-archaeology veteran here. The column that saved me after a similar orphan-pen moment was “last physically moved”—not opened, just moved.

I found one that had been behind the eggs since a schedule change. There was an old thread about buffer vs. clutter that convinced me to track total pens and months of buffer separately; one leftover makes the buffer number look better than it feels.

Does your note have a column for whether that pen still belongs to your current routine, or just cost/BUD? I’d add a “decide by” date so it doesn’t become fridge furniture.