I know we all like to think of ourselves as ballers and all that, but how much do we really spend eating and drinking in Charlottesville? I just looked at my expenses for the last few weeks and let me tell you.. I was very surprised at how much I spent on food and drinks at restaurants and bars. I guess the other question is “will you maintain this spending after you realize how much you spend?”
How much do you spend each week on restaurants and bars?
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will you maintain this spending after you realize how much you spend?
I have so far. We’ll see how long I keep it up.
I’m trying to cut back as it is, but this puts it in perspective. Some of it includes business lunches which will only increase over time. I’d love to be able to eat out MORE but we just can’t afford it.
I’m way too guilty of ordering pizza or Chinese food when I’m too rushed to cook. Thirty dollars here, thirty dollars there, pretty soon we’re talking real money. On the other hand, I really enjoy going out with my friends and husband and trying new restaurants, so my first choice for cutting back would be take-out and delivery.
@1 Hey echo nice to met you Saturday-
The dog in the picture- is this what happens when they don’t have pockets?
Why would you throw money on a dog?
Nice to meet you diets. You should come to South Street tonight, assuming you’re in town.
Even a sandwich and drink for lunch is usually almost $10. I try to keep that down to once a week, though visiting the grocery store for lunch usually costs more but provides snacking for more than one day.
Yeah I started watchin my $$$ cause I spent about $3,000 in two months just from goin out! Ouch!! I’ve been able to cut back a lot for about a week now : )
i just hate cooking for myself, it’s a complete waste of time.
i need an intern to cook me dinner and clean my house. we’ll call it a marriage internship, and at the end of the semester she gets some constructive feedback, and i get a new intern. it’s a good system.
i don’t understand why everybody’s going to get so mad at me after i hit submit.
I got guilted into going out last night and staying out longer than I should have. Apparently the only real way to not go out is to stay indoors as far away from the mall as possible.
@8: Before everyone gets mad at you, I just want to say that’s brilliant.
parlie, I hear the flirtresses offer a cooking and cleaning service
@8 let me know how that works out for you.
@8. I’ll wait to get all umbrified and ask you: what does she/he get out of the internship?
Way too much. As a result, I drive a 9 year old car and don’t wear designer duds.
@13 college credit, not to mention powerful memories of what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real!
it’s a tv show called “parlie’s parlor harlots,” and i am digging a really deep hole here today.
@15: so you’re saying they will be subserviant & get objectified on national TV while taking care of your personal needs? judging by the last few years of embarrasing reality shows-you should have no problem.
/it might be too classy, however.
maybe it’ll just be a liveblog. or a vlog. i can’t decide which one is more annoying.
by the way, i probably spend $125 a week on lunch, dinner, and the sauce. you see what i did there? i brought the thread back.
On average, I’d say my husband and I spend $150 a week, but the variance is wild. One week we’ll spend that much or more going out one night (I dread those $300 weeks) and the next week we’ll eat home every night and I’ll maybe grab lunch out three times for about $30 total. But that’s in addition to the grocery bill, and if I told you how much I spend on groceries each week you might organize an intervention.
The dog in the picture looks lonely and flush with cash. He should come to South Street tonight and buy a couple rounds.
@18 I also have a problem with grocery store overspending. Went to Trader Joe’s in Newport News (which I whined about in the free for all) and dropped WAY too much. But I try to save by lunching in (box meals, sandwich, etc.) so I can have more money for drinking. Wait, I’m not sure that came out right….
It’s kinda sad when I look at my online bank statement every month and the only thing besides bills (rent, utilities, car, phone, car insurance, etc.) that I spend money on is booze and food. I try to be cheap, but it adds up. Even when I go out, my food is usually only about 15% max of the total tab at any given bar/restaurant, and after I’ve eaten my meal for the evening the subsequent spendings are from tabs at other bars on booze only. And I usually pre-game the shit out of my myself before I even head out on the town. It’s hard because almost every night of the week something fun is going on, someone is doing something, there’s good music to see, a happy hour, a friends birthday, whatever. I by no means go out every night (because I’d be broke and/or dead), but it’s possible in this town to rage every night if you wanted to and you had the coin to do so.
But, whenever I think about how I could be a millionaire if I had every penny back that I ever spent on booze, I then think about all those wonderful experiences that I either partially remember, don’t remember (blackout4lyfe!!!) or that are contorted by my intoxicated, inebriated mind and I realize…It’s worth every penny
I think someone should do a dinner review of Melting Pot and talk about how ridiculously overpriced it is…
But it’s so yummy. Mmmm melted cheese. Mmmmm.
I agree that it is yummy, but I used to work there and if you get something like a Cheese & Choclate combo, it’s not too bad. But for a full dinner (wine, cheese app, entree, and choc dessert) it costs a f*cking fortune, and let’s be real, you’re cooking the food yourself. But the staff there is highly trained and know a lot about what they’re talking about. I find girls like it more than guys.
But I can melt cheese and burn my mouth at home for the price of a box of Velveeta.
Booooooo. Not the same.
Velveeta= Not cheese.
what freaks me out about velveeta is that it’s not kept in the refrigerator. how do they do it!??!
icenine - reminds me of possibly my favorite quote of all time (by a Brit soccer player, I think):
“I spent most of my money on booze, women and fast cars. The rest I just squandered”
It’s like my philosophy or something.
@28: It’s got preservatives and seaweed in it
@29, I like your style, dude
@24 don’t forget the salad course. their salads are yummy.
yeah it’s expensive but when my unemployed loser ex bought a fondue pot & we had it at home for valentine’s day 2007 (having sold mine in a garage sale (bastard)), it wasn’t as fun. & he spent all afternoon chopping the apples & stuff (which he could do, not having a job), & that was just the one course. the cheese is such a mess to clean, you have to have three fondue pots to eat the whole “big night out” at home. the KJ chard was a lot cheaper, but it wasn’t special cause we didn’t leave the house, & the dog kept trying to stick its face through the glass coffee table into the cheese & kept trying to fight us for the wine.
cheese in a can isn’t refrigerated either.
@27 velveeta is not cheese, on that you are correct.
but it’s not that difficult to make truly good fondue. i got a fondue pot for xmas one year and it gets used 5 or 6 times a year. i like cheese but the ladies love the chocolate.
melting pot is basically charging you a lot of money to cut up vegetables and little pieces of raw meat. but people who go there must realize their paying for the convenience of not having to set-up and create the experience. it’s not like the ingredients are pricey or the process is a mystery.
@32 sound like executing a decent fondue meal was the least of your problems, orchid.
The 70’s called they want to make sure and begin some extra sterno to the fondue/key party. I fail to understand how fondue is cuisine. You go somewhere and they bring you chopped up stuff and you have to cook it yourself. In a ski lodge it’s quaint but anywhere else seems silly.
bring some not begin some- I wish you could edit here like digg
I wish we could tons of $$$ like digg!
@37 you’d just waste it on hammers and winged helmets
@35: You dip stuff in glorious wonderful cheese that has booze in it. OMFG. Uh. Uhhhhh. So gud.
@39 did you just have a cheesgasm?
@38 .. a new chariot upgrade with 66’s
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121780568775808337.html
$1 Double Cheeseburgers are either getting crappier or pricier… what’s it gonna be?
@34 oh i completely agree. & even the jetta he totaled wasn’t the most of my problems.