My weekly cost went up after my last two refills

2026-10-07 13:33

Refill seven landed on day 26 instead of day 21, and the shipping window ate four days I hadn't budgeted for. I keep a tab that tracks cost per week instead of cost per order, because the per-order number is useless once the quantity changes.

Last three refills: 41, 38, 44 dollars per week. The middle one was cheapest only because I caught a stock window and skipped expedited shipping.

Stock anxiety is the actual driver here. I log when each source goes dark and when it reappears, and my notes show a rough 9–14 day gap in availability around the first week of each month. That pattern has been more useful to me than any promo email.

Curious whether anyone else budgets by week rather than by order. I want to know if 44 is just what this looks like now, or if I'm simply bad at timing my reorders.

2026-10-12 01:24

I hit the same skew and split my tab into two columns: cost per 7 days of supply (total ÷ days the order is meant to cover) and cost per calendar week (total ÷ actual days between deliveries). Shipping delays make the second number jump even when the first is flat.

Prorating fees also changed my ranking—adding a $14 shipping charge and a $5 care fee flipped which refill looked cheapest. Do your 41/38/44 include shipping, insurance, or membership fees, or just the product total?

If not, the middle refill may not really have been the cheapest.

2026-10-13 13:32

I track similarly, and adding an “actual days covered” column helped me. I log total paid, expected delivery, actual delivery, then calculate cost per covered day.

When a shipping delay creates an unplanned gap, I note it separately instead of letting it distort the weekly average. That made one refill look less like a true bargain and more like timing luck.

Do you count those four shipping days as covered time or as a gap in your tab? I also watch whether grocery or protein costs shift in refill weeks, since that changes my real weekly total.

2026-10-28 06:42

I see it a little differently—weekly cost got too noisy for me, so I stopped judging single refills. I add a $15/month shipping-and-admin buffer to my tab and only compare an 8-week rolling average; one short cycle makes a week look ugly even when the quarter is flat.

Are you normalizing by shipments per quarter, or just supply days? That’s the piece that finally made my numbers feel honest.