AIBU to wonder how we spent so much doing nothing?

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We were all exhausted this weekend, and literally didn't move further than 1 mile from our house.

How is it possible to spend so much money going nowhere and doing nothing?

But you are still insisting you did "nothing of note".
Except you did. You had a pretty busy weekend by the sounds of it.

I mean I was out the house for about 4 of the 48 hours.

Sorry OP but you’re really boring us.

Maybe you should have spent longer enjoying your brunch and shopping so you would appreciate it more 😂

I mean nobody is making you clicking on the thread.

I don't dream of shopping for chopping boards and second hand kids books!

It’s perfectly ok to have a very ordinary weekend, and be a bit fed up that it cost such a lot. And that is what op did.

the fact that some people don’t go out for brunch, or have takeaways, is irrelevant.

Op your nothing and no treats are literally the definition of treats- books, donuts, brunch- if you did that away you’d say you had a good day!!!

Ps the other day I got excited about shopping for a clothes basket, a chopping board is similarly worthy of excitement!!!

Chopping Board - yeah that's boring (although it can't imagine you didn't have a mooch around TKMaxx while you were there).
However shopping for children's books is one of my favourite activities.
Anyway - I hope next weekend is more exciting for you 🙂.

It's irrelevant how long you were out of the house. You were out of the house, and you did do things. You didn't do "nothing" as you claimed.

Why is it overpriced?

That's the cost.

Anything you eat or drink out of the house costs more than it would if you made it yourself?

So why do people go on about coffee being overpriced? Bit don't question the cheese toastie and little side salad at £8.95🤷‍♀️

Yes it does. And I consider most of that overpriced. Especially because for the most part I can make it better myself.

I rarely buy things like coffee, cake or toasties out. If we are going to spend money, we want it to be on something we can't do at home. A whippy ice cream, for example, is not an easy thing to make ourselves and is nice for a treat.

Coffee that is less good than at home and costs the same as a pack of our good coffee? Not a treat, not worth the money.

If you can make it better or not - doesn't make it over priced.

Sorry, but you get to say what you consider a treat and I get to say what I consider overpriced.

If it costs more to buy it out than to make it better myself, I consider it overpriced.

If it's not fancy, you don't consider it a treat.

See how that works?

I think over priced and not worth it to you are two different things.

For what it's worth I agree with you, on often having better at home. For example I prefer my Mum's Apple Crumble rather than paying £8.95 in most average pubs.

But just because I prefer it, it doesn't make it over priced. My Mum doesn't have rent, business insurance, public liability insurance, wages etc to pay.

It might not represent value to you - but things are priced at a point needed for business's to stay afloat.

And treats are defined as something special, a reward or indulgence.

Which means a meal out, being an indulgence, is a treat by definition. You don't need it, you indulged in it to avoid having to do it for yourself, it's a treat.

However it's not considered that by you, and I consider something that is not good value to be over priced. Because the definition of that is that you're not getting enough quality, benefit or use for the price paid.

It doesn't matter how the business arrived at the price. I'm not getting value, to me it's overpriced.

Sometimes (there's that word you don't understand again), you are not right. Accept that.

When you say if it's more expensive than you can do it at home you consider it over priced.

Surely everything is cheaper to do at home isn't it?

That's the point the PP made, so I'll let you just crack on and read the responses to that rather than going round in circles. I know you just hate that.

But you did loads! You took kids to swimming, had a takeaway, went out for brunch, went shopping at TK Maxx, charity shops and TGTG. Presumably you did something nice with the soughdough.

All of that involves going out, driving or walking, taking up rest time and cost well over £100.

You chose those activities. You could have made food at home and read, watched telly, made something, played games.

I known its uncomfortable to think about but we often end up making ourselves busy to avoid being at home because deep you find it boring to make yournown fun and enjoy the novelty if new things and shopping, which has a cost.

It's something of a fools errand to go around buying stuff that doesn't make you happy to fill your time and then say it was expensive and dull and you didn't enjoy it. You could have done something really exciting for £100 instead of coffee, donuts and sourdough.

Sorry if I am misreading, so are you saying you would never eat/drink anything out of home?

I'm saying, as I've said previously, that if I can do it better and cheaper at home, then I don't buy it out.

So coffee, we make excellently at home for very little cost, we don't go out for it. Whippy ice cream, we enjoy but can't make at home, so we will buy that out for a treat on a day out, and we'll enjoy it.

I can make a fantastic pizza, a great pasta sauce and lasagne. We almost always find cakes bought out don't match what I make at home. But I haven't yet cracked a curry so well that we wouldn't go out for one.

If we won't enjoy it as much as at home, no we don't spend money on it. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand. But maybe that's because you seem to have to spend money or be out of the house to be happy?

So you'd never buy a coffee whilst travelling etc?

Very rarely. But I also tend not to drink coffee after mid morning so it's not a big issue.

Holidays are different, but we tend to do self catering and take a lot of things we like with us. So then we only eat out a few times and go for things we know we'll enjoy.

We are quite simple people, content with the simple things.