The wife and I went to dinner last night...
- Thread starter i am herdman
- Start date
Stop eating at places that rip you off and stop trying to make it look like inflation caused a 50% increase in your same meal over 3 years.
When herdman says everything, he means EVERYTHING. Mush is taking this country back to the early 1930s. If they cheat him back into office, it's over. I can't even imagine how bad things will become, especially with that lunatic VP taking over.
It's amazing. Has posted six times since this post yet still runs away from telling us what three entrees were ordered. This is almost as bad as when he was entirely wrong in the argument with E.T., got called out on it, and ignored responding to the thread for three days and numbers prompts. Then, when finally backed into a corner, he lied about it.
Why do you deplorables have to lie so much in order to make an argument? Is reality not good enough for your stance?
Except for your pecker. That's the only thing that hasn't gone up, flaccid-boy.
Maybe next time you should try something different.
Last edited:
I’m afraid to go to the Olive Garden and it has nothing to do with price.
I recently helped a colleague with a project and he treated me to lunch. We went to a place called Cheddar’s that I had never been in before. Nice atmosphere, decent food, and I was fascinated by the spiral ceiling fans in the main dining room.
I was in that area again a few days later and decided to give the restaurant another try. The waitress seated me in the bar area because they were crowded and I was disappointed I couldn’t watch those unique fans.
I mentioned to the waitress that the menu had changed and she just smiled. After I ordered, she asked me if I would like some salad and breadsticks. I agreed.
When the waitress turned to leave, I said to her, “With salad and breadsticks, you are just like Olive Garden.”
She turned and with a concerned look on her face said, “This is the Olive Garden.” I had walked into the wrong restaurant. Soon they won’t let me out to go anywhere.
I recently helped a colleague with a project and he treated me to lunch. We went to a place called Cheddar’s that I had never been in before. Nice atmosphere, decent food, and I was fascinated by the spiral ceiling fans in the main dining room.
I was in that area again a few days later and decided to give the restaurant another try. The waitress seated me in the bar area because they were crowded and I was disappointed I couldn’t watch those unique fans.
I mentioned to the waitress that the menu had changed and she just smiled. After I ordered, she asked me if I would like some salad and breadsticks. I agreed.
When the waitress turned to leave, I said to her, “With salad and breadsticks, you are just like Olive Garden.”
She turned and with a concerned look on her face said, “This is the Olive Garden.” I had walked into the wrong restaurant. Soon they won’t let me out to go anywhere.
Last edited:
Not your IQ, and that's with having nowhere to go but up. Inflation has caused zero dining out trips to increase by 50%.
Since he is on Medicaid, my money pays for his little blue ED pills for his little limp dick. When it comes to my money, damn right I am concerned with it.
Without looking, I am guessing that I spend somewhere between $600 - $900 per month on food. So maybe $60-$90 per month more than two years ago, while I am making a ton more in interest in all money accounts?
I hope rates never get cut, and I don't care how high food gets. All of my main expenses (houses, cars) are the same. And all of those things have APRs less than half of what I am earning in money accounts. Why are you complaining?
Let me dumb this down for you:
If I have/had car loans originally for $100k for five years at 2.2%, yet I can earn 5% in a no-risk savings account with that 100k, why would I not select the latter option? By simply doing that, I’ll earn around $15k more by financing the vehicles and investing that money in a no-risk savings account.
The same holds true for my mortgages. One is below $160k. Another is around $650k. Yet with rates below 3% on both, why would I pay cash for those when I can earn substantially more investing that money and not lose the approximately $900/month in tax benefits plus all of the earned interest difference?
Then, add in that I have most of my money in invite-only, high net individual accounts with rates significantly over what normal people can get in a savings account, and it is even more clear for even morons like you. Savings account rates have gone up about 5X in the last few years. Though the invite-only account hasn’t gone up anywhere near 5X, it is still higher than a normal savings account.
I realize these are never issues you’ll have the luxury of dealing with, but take it from far wiser and far more successful people.
Rifle I know you don't eat at places like Olive Garden , but the average meal there is 20. Add a soda 3.49 or a tea 4.49 and you easily add up to that total for three people.
https://www.olivegarden.com/menu/classic-entrees
I don’t mind that place. I eat there every year or two.
Read the thread. I broke out the cost for each item he ordered. Further, the bigger issues other than his total being off are:
1) he claimed the “same trip” three years ago, yet the restaurant he went to has only been open for a year.
2) His $55 claim is bogus for all that they ordered.
I have six people in the house and we only spend $750-$850 a month on food.
Of course we eat out maybe once or twice, not counting grabbing a hot dog at the Circle K before baseball.
Of course we eat out maybe once or twice, not counting grabbing a hot dog at the Circle K before baseball.
Think how much you’d save if you pulled out every once in a while.
Assuming three meals per day, that’s coming out to $1.39 per meal. Sorry, but I have a tough time believing that unless you’re eating Ramen 90 times per month. Even if you’re making dinner for six out of one meal, that’s tough to do for $8.40.
For breakfast this morning (when I eventually get out of bed), I’ll have frosted mini-wheats with a chopped banana and almond milk.
I can get seven servings, max, out of a $5 box. I can get eight servings out of the $4 almond milk container. A banana is $.30. Just for a very light breakfast, I’m over the $1.39 per meal average, and that doesn’t include my bottle of water which is another $.20.
Even if you use tap water, whole milk, and knockoff brand mini-wheats, you’re still over $1.39 just for that breakfast. Now try replicating that with more expensive lunch and dinner.
If you have a small spaghetti dinner with Walmart brand sauce and one piece of Texas toast, you’ll be at about $1.20/meal if serving six people. But you’re not eating that 30 nights in a month. Frozen pizza? Even if you go cheap (Red Baron, Jack’s), you’re paying $2/person for not a lot of food. Tap water and nothing else/no snacks, and you’re well over that $1.39 limit.
And eating out (not a bad idea and would probably result in fewer children) once or twice a month yet still keeping it at $750/month? Impossible.
Then, add in all of the additional costs: gas/electricity to make all of those meals, electricity for the dishwasher and/or water and cleaning liquid for each meal.
is there a point in life where a person just stops giving a shit how much they spend on food? must be, because i'm there.
between the wife, our daughter, and myself, i don't have a clue, other than i know it's to the point of likely being embarrassingly high. we may cook at home a couple times a week and eat out the rest (i know, i know that's what she said). problem eating out a lot in podunk BFE-WV is eating at the same 2 or 3 places over and over.
i usually throw something on the grille on sat evening which is typically pricy. hell, a rack of ribs is around $30 - $35; double that because i always do at least two, then add in for smoked mac and cheese or whatever side. steaks are typically in the $50 to $60 range for all of us then add in baked potatoes and/or any other sides. then, add in another $20 to $30 for beers.
without looking, i'd say we're likely spending $2K+ on food monthly.
between the wife, our daughter, and myself, i don't have a clue, other than i know it's to the point of likely being embarrassingly high. we may cook at home a couple times a week and eat out the rest (i know, i know that's what she said). problem eating out a lot in podunk BFE-WV is eating at the same 2 or 3 places over and over.
i usually throw something on the grille on sat evening which is typically pricy. hell, a rack of ribs is around $30 - $35; double that because i always do at least two, then add in for smoked mac and cheese or whatever side. steaks are typically in the $50 to $60 range for all of us then add in baked potatoes and/or any other sides. then, add in another $20 to $30 for beers.
without looking, i'd say we're likely spending $2K+ on food monthly.
When I eat at Taco Bell, I still order from the dollar menu (which now ranges from $1.29 -$1.79). Part of that is because I don’t eat meet, and all of their meatless stuff is in that menu. If I’m going to eat unhealthy shit, I may as well save some money while doing it.
i really like taco bell but there isn't one within an hour drive. my choices are extemely minimal: a local dive bar with great food but no menu, i.e. cooks choice (fridays are sushi, thursdays are pizza, wednesdays are for some oriental steak dish which is pretty damn good); a steak/seafood restaurant with pretty good food but i'm about burned out on; another bar with typical bar food, i.e. wings/burgers/fajitas/fried apps/etc. that i'm also burned out on; a mexican joint with damn good food and most excellent margaritas; two different cafes that serve really good home cooked meals; and a mcdonalds.
i did have a five guys burger on the way home from dulles last evening. i was craving an american made bacon cheese burger pretty bad after 10 days in ireland. it was okay and filled the craving, but a bit disappointing, all the same.
My concierge with the Marriot ambassador program manages his money the same way. 😆. You are very clever thx for the lesson in finance 101. Financing cars....lol
And you right I won't experience that as I'm not saddled with debt. Make those monthly payments 😆
Last edited:
Do you not see that your constant claim that you say stupid shit allows everybody to see how stupid you are? In reality, you say stupid this without realizing it is stupid, then to save face, you have to act like you posted it just for the reaction.
This comment proves my above point. You weren't saying stupid shit just for a reaction. You say stupid shit because you're stupid and don't realize the importance/value of what I discussed.
You're bragging that you aren't saddled with debt because you paid cash, which in the current environment, is truly dumb. It's the same argument I made against Herdman paying off his house instead of getting a free grace period for 18 months during Covid where he could have made interest on that money and not lost a thing. Google "leverage your return" and teach yourself something. Had you done that earlier, you probably could have retired a lot earlier in a lot better situation . . . but considering your earnings, maybe that was impossible to do.
Want to compare number of properties? Value of them? Amounts in investment accounts, 401k, and savings accounts? Percent ownership in companies and their valuation? Want to compare number of vehicles and their value? Want to compare travel/vacations?
You forget that I kill enough animals every year to have 50-60 whole chickens and 300lbs of deer meat in the freezer, plus 8 to 9 eggs per day in current production. That takes a lot out of the food budget.
Not to mention the scratch and dent food store is the place to go for flour, rice, and potatoes.
There is a cost associated with all of that food. So saying $750/month for food for six people isn't accurate.
^^ultra wealthy guy financing cars....trying so hard to impress^^
If you want to save lots of money on food... just eat popcorn for breakfast, drink water for lunch, and then stay bloated until breakfast the next day.
