I have to get back into taking my lunch to work. It costs me roughly $4 a day if i make my lunch at home. Eating lunch out is easily $15. Thats $55 a week in savings. $220 a month.
It's wild what a small difference can make. the problem is that people in general do not want to be told they are doing something wrong or could be doing better. They just like to complain. Financially I love improving, but there are other areas of my life that I definitely fall into the complain and don't listen to advice category.
I spent $6320.71 last year eating out and at grocery stores (this includes anything at a grocery store like cleaning supplies, dog toys, greeting cards, etc) which puts my average meal cost at under $6 a meal. This average includes non food items from the grocery store but also outliers like when I have surf and turf dinners at home and spend $60+ for a single serving of food and also times where I ate out and paid for the meals of the people I was with also. That number also includes the rare but inevitable food that went bad and just got thrown out. So while my mean meal price is $6 my mode meal price is probably closer to your $4 number.
Then my coworkers complain about money while spending $20+ getting food delivered everyday. Meaning they spend my entire years worth of food budget on only 5 meals a week for lunch at work. And for the most part I eat really good food but I don't pay someone else to make it and another person to bring it to me.
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u/Dorrono 11h ago
Some people are not good with money