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Originally Posted by reynold
Financial experts say that cooking and eating at home and taking packed lunch to work can actually cut down your expenses and save a lot of money.
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Yep. It saves you big time. A number of years back when I worked a full time job in telco. I added up just how much I spent on food, and gas in a month. Tallying up everything, and I was like WTF?!?!?!
I was going through $350 between meals, and gas a WEEK. Sometimes more if you included weekend beer festivities back when I drank. But just food and gas was that much.
So... I changed jobs to be closer to my house. Ate breakfast at the house, came home for lunch, and cut my expenses big time. I spent LESS THAN $350 a month in groceries and house was packed with food. Lost weight. Plus hand a ton of left over money for other goodies.
It makes a HUGE difference. Both in your health, and in the wallet. I do not mind cooking if I had a servant to do my dishes. But I can't stand cooking and cleaning. But I do it. Cooking bigger meals when I have company so they do the dishes. Leaving me left overs for other days.
Time is money, and I do not mind occasionally eating out once a week, or every two. But even then, I prefer a nice sit down place. Not fast food. But I like having money in the bank, and being able to buy new cars, and other toys over some meal which I will shit out within the next day.
