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You’d hardly recognize the breakfast snack from its original invention in the 1800s.

Did you know the donut turned 164 years old on June 22nd? The story goes that a Dutch sea captain invented the pastry in 1847 out of necessity. He was eating a piece of cake and a storm suddenly hit, so he impaled the treat on the steering wheel to save it for later. And voila! We’ve got a donut. But with age comes eccentricity. These days the old girl walks around with a hat made out of bacon and bananas.

Read more: The rise of the super donut

Dog with donut: ‘I graduated magna cum laude from obedience school and this is where I end up?’

An Astros supporter gets an unpleasant surprise after winning 315 treats on fan appreciation day.

Everyone knows you’re going to get hit with a hefty tax bill when you go on “The Price Is Right” and win a Corvette, a living room set and a trip to Aruba.

Same goes for the cash you take home after playing hangman with Pat Sajak and Vanna White on “Wheel of Fortune.”

But getting issued a 1099 form and taking a $237 tax hit after winning over 300 coupons for free donuts and coffee on fan appreciation day at a Houston Astros game?

Well, that’s about as unpleasant of a surprise as tasting a chocolate creme filling when you were expecting Bavarian:

Yet that — and presumably thousands of empty hidden calories — were the hidden costs for Bob Choate. As the Houston Chronicle reports, the Astros fan thought he had hit a jelly-filled jackpot when he won 315 coupons for a free coffee and doughnut at Shipley Do-Nuts last season. But the prize was estimated by the team and chain to be worth $927.61 — or about $3 a coupon. And that led to them requiring a 1099 tax form to be issued because it was above the $600 threshold.

Read more: Astros fan learns there’s no such thing as 315 free donuts

You’ll be horrified at what a $4 daily coffee habit adds up to over 30 years.

We all do it. We spend little amounts regularly on things like lunch, Starbucks lattes, manicures, golf — maybe even for having a pizza delivered while you watch a weekly game on TV.

These seem like reasonable decisions about relatively small expenses. It’s hard to imagine how much they add up.

The harsh reality is that each dollar that’s spent today isn’t available for something else tomorrow. And these little purchases have a way of robbing us of the things we really want.

Read more: 6 Little Things That Cost a Lot