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?

MN can be quite snobby about chains, but I quite like a Katsu from Wagga's, butterfly chicken from Nando's, and Cheese and bacon burger from Honest!

It sure is hard work breathing all day....

I'm hearing of Rodeo and Crosstown today. Pity I've decided against getting out more 😊.

I've heard of Gail's but always thought they were up in Central /West London, until I spotted one in Beckenham recently.

I googled Rodeo they are in London a couple of shops else where but mainly a London Donut shop.

I am not London, but they are bad - as in really bad!

It's not snobbishness, it's that the food really is very ordinary for the price in most cases, the drinks are usually very overpriced and the food is often 'assembled' rather than freshly prepared and cooked meaning that you're paying restaurant prices for food that you can easily replicate at home from ready made ingredients with little effort or skill, for a fraction of the cost.

So instead of your £50 in Bill's you could have spent £15 in M&S/Waitrose on the nice Dine In deal and the food would have been at least as nice with minimal work in preparation.

But you paid £8 on a too good to go ?

I think they often do a job to be fair.

That was for four.

Was it you, though, who thought Krispy Kreme were nice? To me they smell and taste of chip fat! What’s so bad about Rodeo, can you expand on your judgment! I’m curious, now!

How can you spend £250 on a weekly shop and then need to eat out or takeaway for your main meals? Did you have nothing left from the previous week? £180 in Tesco with no meat or toiletries is a lot of money. I shop at m and s and Waitrose and I don’t spend anything like this amount.

This thread makes me realise how different people have different definitions for:
Not doing anything
Barely leaving the house
Not having a treat
Being exhausted

When I'm exhausted the last thing I fancy doing is hauling my arse out of the house to go and eat out. What a faff. I'd have chucked the burgers in the oven instead.

Just for fun (also very dull) is what we spent over this weekend.

Tesco shop delivered Friday evening, about £90 i think.

Husband 2 x trips to local shop Friday and Sunday to get newspaper and some drinks, maybe £15.
Sat am took daughter to dance class (no new cost as pay monthly) and picked her up. Nominal petrol cost. Did a You tube workout at home - free.
Husband made lunch from what we had in.
Sat pm went to BIL's house to clear some of it before probate sale. Nominal petrol cost. I picked a few CDs to keep for my car which would only have gone in a skip - free.
I made dinner from stuff we had in. Watched TV.

Sunday husband made us cooked breakfast from stuff we had in.
I went to gym £6.50 plus nominal petrol. Took coffee in insulated cup.
Cleaned bathrooms whilst watching Netflix on my tablet. Made packed lunches.
Husband did some work on laptop.
I ordered some Korean skincare online using a voucher I got for my birthday but spent an additional £17 as it all looked so nice.

Afternoon - we took daughter to dance competition, paid £9 for us to watch and a programme. Nominal petrol.
When we got home I made a roast chicken dinner from what we had in. Watched TV.
£140.50 but most of that was food shop.

That's a dull weekend, I've even bored myself typing that out. But I wouldn't consider it doing nothing/not much either.
If I'd spent £500 I would have expected to have done stuff i enjoyed with it.

Worked a 50 hour week so I was exhausted by Friday but had a lie in on Saturday and was then ... no longer exhausted. Isn't that how sleep works?

I love KK, I know they are pure sugar - but I love them!

Rodeo? The dough part of the donut was stale, the icing was this weird hard thing that could break your teeth, and there was just too much going on!

OP I think you’re getting an unfair time of it on here 🤣 I absolutely get what you mean. There was a time what you’ve spent would have been a two or three course dinner with wine somewhere nice, with cocktails after and taxis all over the place. Brunch somewhere nice with a view and a cinema trip.
I get the takeaway thing too. You get a takeaway as a happy medium of “CBA to go food shopping, cook, wash up etc.” But also “don’t want to spend as much as going out to eat somewhere or the faff of driving or taxis”. But takeaways are just so expensive now that they’ve kind of lost their place as the middle ground treat.
MacDonalds was always the cheap, dirty fast food treat. Even that feels like an absolute waste of calories for the price now.
So I absolutely get it. Weekends just cost more with not much to show for it. I guess what I’m saying is… there must be like a cost of living crisis or something 😂

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Literally not sure what's funny.

Yes, i think the poster who said that Bill’s is not an ‘event’ place is right. It doesn’t register as a special place to eat out for me, same as any bog standard High St restaurant (Cote, Pizza Express etc) yet it’s so easy to spend a lot of money on a very average meal there.

Im trying to either go to places with properly nice food (for a bit more) and go less often or rather the little street food places/market halls where the food is fresh and a bit different and still cheaper than the High St places.

Years ago there was a woman on here who bemoaned her child was demanding smoked salmon bagels and not eating them, that he barely played in their enormous garden, that he hadn’t enjoyed their numerous recent trips to Dubai. It was all a very transparent way of showing off about money.

Ya think 🙄🙇🏻‍♀️🤣

Yeah, I think the reference to £300k stamp duty showed that this thread was just a ‘we’ve got lots of money’ thread.

180 on food for 5days? Personally I would literally done nothing the weekend before going away.
but that’s just me

Probably. The two houses we've bought, even at today's prices, are barely worth £300k in total, and we've never paid a penny in stamp duty.

Literally only going away for one night, as my son is on the water early Saturday morning competing - and want to support him as a family.

Sensible. I'm just curious how much more ridiculous it can get.

Except.. what is the point of showing off about money, to strangers, under an anonymous username…. Literally pointless.