AIBU to wonder how we spent so much doing nothing?

[coulditbeme2323]

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?

Beans on toast is one of my favourite things. Being knackered, and realising it’s a beans on toast situation, is a great moment. With a big mug of tea. Ahhhh… heaven.

God this thread is annoying.

What point is the OP trying to make? You went to the shops, restaurant,
did an online food shop and had a takeaway. Yet you’re surprised you spent money?

and making out like going out for Brunch and having takeways is "essential" and not a treat

Also why did you spend 180 on food and then eat out all weekend 😅

@coulditbeme2323 having nothing to show for it except 3 Enid Blyton!!! 😱 is a shocker 'tis troo, especially as she is no longer pc.

You have become undone ma hen when you said "There was no real event or treat in there" not strictly true, really.😊

Eating out with your dh is not nothing

Because we need food for the week, obviously!

And it didn't arrive until Sunday evening.

I have a tap, and the water that comes out of it is terrible. Sparks regular conversations on our local FB page.

Enid Blyton is great!

You could always move to a less well connected area, where everywhere is a car ride away then Bill's, Gail's and everywhere else feel like a trip out and you probably won't be able to get a takeaway delivered or be near a TGTG place so those won't be options.

We had a fairly quiet weekend, so I thought I’d add up what we spent as a comparison. Saturday was mainly spent ferrying kids round to clubs/picking up from sleepovers/bit of gardening etc. We spent £20.50 in Sainsbury's, which was a bottle of wine, a couple of their ‘Something Special’ range pizzas and some crisps and dips as no one could be arsed to cook. Sunday we dropped eldest at an all day drama rehearsal and middle child at a friend’s house then took the train obsessed youngest on a train to the nearest city. £15.50 return train fare, then when we got there we went to a cafe and spent £27 on lunch for the 3 of us. Had a wander round the city walls, bought the youngest a colouring book and some pens in The Works (£4), then got the train home. Picked up the other kids then home for homework/music practice etc.
£67 and a pleasant, chilled weekend!

ETA oops, missed off the £4.50 parking at the train station.

I am not moving!!

🤣 this generation deserves better, don't you think? 😉

On Saturday you:
Took the children swimming.

Went out to Boots and the butchers and the candlestick makers for all I know.
Went out / had delivered a chinese takeaway.

On Sunday you:
Went for coffee
Went round the shops and the bakers
Went out to eat brunch
Went out to get a too good to go deal

If I was exhausted I wouldn't have done that. I'd have stayed at home, read a book etc and coincidentally (or not) have spent no money. I'd find the effort of getting ready to go out for brunch harder than popping a slice of toast in the toaster or pouring cereal into a bowl. To me it sounds like quite a busy yet unproductive in and out weekend and not at all restful.

Yes, I agree with you. It’s so easy to just potter locally and, before you know it, £100 is gone.

You're right.
4 * 6 packs of water (1l and 1.5l)
1*15 pack of diet coke.
1 packet of sour patch kids

Went in for water and came out with these. Still, £23 was just too much. Stuff's just so darn expensive.

But if you had to drive to Bill’s and Gail’s, all your problems would be solved as going there would be considered a ‘trip out’! 😁

Well you need to explain why.
It is very possible to walk in the woods for free.

But surely you can see that if you live close to Bill's, Gail's and everywhere else doesn't make it less of a treat to go there? The act of having a brunch out is the treat, not that you can walk there, in fact, I would consider it more of a treat to be able to walk to such places from home because it would mean that I live in the sort of area where they exist, ie affluent urban areas and naice suburbs, if the sorts of places where the stamp duty to buy is £300k, so must be several million £.

So next weekend won’t be the same?

That's good economical sense.

Lets go and drop 300k on stamp duty to save 3 quid on a sourdough.

That's a lot of sourdoughs!

Well you didn't "do nothing", did you?
Multple coffees out, brunch out, an expensive family takeaway, online grocery shopping, expensive in person butcher shopping, plus other various purchases and incidentals. That's obviously going to be an expensive weekend, because you chose to repeatedly do expensive things!

Maybe start a different thread debating whether meals out, takeaways, buying books are essential.

You can’t get better than Enid Blyton!

We are away.