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Feeling Guilty After Eating Outside of Home
Hi all,
I have been experiencing a weird problem lately. I feel guilty after I eat outside of home in restaurants and stuff. I always hated eating outside of home, however, this dislike have become guilt recently. Maybe it is just that annoyingly financial conservative inside me, or maybe it is the fear of that food price spike has gotten into me. Still, I now avoid eating outside of home like a plague unless my home have absolutely no ingredient to make a decent meal.
For example, just an hour ago, I spent at least $12 on a Tim Horton meal along with a box of Timbits. After I finished eating, I feel very guilty and I felt like I just threw $12 into a furnace. I felt that I could have use that $12 dollars wisely by buying groceries enough for at least three meals.
Anyone of you ever experience this feeling?
I have been experiencing a weird problem lately. I feel guilty after I eat outside of home in restaurants and stuff. I always hated eating outside of home, however, this dislike have become guilt recently. Maybe it is just that annoyingly financial conservative inside me, or maybe it is the fear of that food price spike has gotten into me. Still, I now avoid eating outside of home like a plague unless my home have absolutely no ingredient to make a decent meal.
For example, just an hour ago, I spent at least $12 on a Tim Horton meal along with a box of Timbits. After I finished eating, I feel very guilty and I felt like I just threw $12 into a furnace. I felt that I could have use that $12 dollars wisely by buying groceries enough for at least three meals.
Anyone of you ever experience this feeling?
Comments
Time = money
You saved yourself an hour or two to prepare whatever the hell you eat and instead paid it to the restaurant for them to make it.
Maybe the ingredients in your food does not amount to whatever the hell you're paying but the manpower and time it takes makes up the rest of the price.
Granted, you could argue that because you are waiting for the food, you are effectively losing money on account of wasting time but at least you do not have to expend energy to prepare your meal.
I would feel a bit irresponsible if I did that, I dont think I could eat 12 dollars worth of fast food anyway
You should only feel guilty if you can't afford it, and I can imagine that would be the only reason why. Otherwise dont eat out, I've gone months not eating out, or not paying for it anyway
Other times ive spent 50 dollars for meals, cause I could afford and didn't care. I would only feel guilty if i needed that fifty for something else
$12 is like only 1hr worth of work
Which also equals my dinner on Mondays for evening classes downtown.
How do you spend $12 at that place?
but yah I dunno, I dont think Timmys lunch is worth the price to be honest. I had that new roast beef sandwich thing when it just came out, I think it was close to $8 with the soup, was kinda meh. Not wow but cant complain, but for $8 I could've had like, 2 burgers and a drink... or a third of a steak
My other past-time is pushing little girls off their bikes and sniffing the seats....but I can do that for free, if you don't factor in the bail money.
pussy, i sniff it from the source
FTFY
I think that's what you meant.
Ahhh, the difference punctuation makes.
Ironically, the cost was $12.
Now if I go to eat at Tim Hortons, I usually get some large sandwich, a large ice cap and a doughnut and that comes out to about $10.
:sad:
in the long run i may waste it on other things, but i guess its whatever your priorities are. i dont understand how some people can spend 400 dollars on food a month, i generally only spend 150-200
I'd rather put that money towards food or electronics. With electronics, at least you get what you pay for and more! The amount of time and the complexity of developing such unique electronics are well worth the costs.
A purse!? Some hack "fashion designer" drew up a few pictures and tries to sell it for thousands!
A fashion designer's designs can't even compare to that of an engineer's intricate designs that took possibly years to develop. Not to mention the engineer's many years of studies just to get to his current place and designs. Man, do you even need a degree to be a fashion designer? People that hold a Arts degree in fashion design just have it for the sake of prestige. Like seriously, anyone off the street can design a purse, all you need to do is slap a brand name on it and it'll sell for thousands despite how crappy it may look.
However, random joe off the street can't design a piece of electronic.
$1000 cellphone is more worth it than a $1000 piece of leather. Can you imagine the amount of time and people it took to develop that phone!? At last a hundred. Now can you imagine the amount of time and people it took to design that piece of leather!? Just one (plus the machinery and equipment used to make it).
As for food, $1000 worth of food > $1000 purse.
plus, is your iPhone made out of genu-fucking-ine leather? I didnt think so
I'd take a purse over a stupid phone any day.
according to you, that's like doing all the performance and show mods for a car, but not having an engine with proper gasoline in it.