Spending on Takeout/Delivery
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Anonymous
Us to. Maybe once a month we spend less than $50 on pickup, but not every month. It's just too expensive now. |
Anonymous
| Zero. We do eat in restaurants a fair bit though. This is because my husband stays home and cooks 6 nights a week usually |
Anonymous
Lol your dh is not a food snob if he favors DoorDash. DoorDash is like taking perfectly fine pickup food and making like a 4 out of ten. |
Anonymous
| We never do delivery. I can’t handle the fees. But we’ll pick up pizza once a month and go out maybe once a week. |
Anonymous
| $0 on take out and delivery. Never delivery (although I know my college kids order delivery, Uber Eats and Door Dash frequently, but it's their money from their jobs/budget, not mine), take out maybe 3 times a year? We cook at home at least 95% of the time if not more, eat out once in a while, maybe once a month, or twice in 3 months |
Anonymous
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I can’t remember the last time we did takeout or delivery. It’s been years.
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Anonymous
| I'll bite! I do it a lot. I got a healthy, local meal delivery service that isn't cheap at all, and it's helped get us closer to 1x-2x per week rather 2-3x per week. Just for two adults, the total is often close to $100 for dinner, though we normally order enough for at least another meal of leftovers. |
Anonymous
Same. We eat takeout 2-3x a month but we just pick it up. It’s crazy to pay an extra $20-30 just for it to be delivered. I’m never that lazy. |
Anonymous
Same. I’m cheap. My college aged son delivers food. He’d never waste his money on food delivery. |
Anonymous
| Another 0 here. I work in a fairly low-paying field and many of my supervisees order door dash/uber eats every single day. One told me she spends as much on food delivery as she does on rent (apartment in DC.) In her case, it’s 3 meals a day, which completely blows my mind. I snuck a peek at her recent breakfast order that she had delivered to work then priced it on the Dunkin app. Over 20 bucks for a bagel, a donut and an iced coffee plus delivery and tip. |
Anonymous
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Very rarely. We order pizza delivery maybe twice a year if we have a sitter and can't pick up. It went wrong this fall when the delivery person somehow left it on the porch so stealthily that the sitter sitting by the window didn't see him, and of course didn't knock on the door, call, or do anything else to make sure it was received. Sitter eventually found it after about 45 minutes, but not until I had to play phone tag with her and the pizza place while at a wedding reception.
Anyway, we are on a tight budget (HHI $180k, saving hard) and occasionally go out to eat for a treat, with friends, or on vacation, so takeout and delivery are generally not worth choosing over an actual outing. If we're just going to eat at home, we can cook. |
Anonymous
| We have pizza delivered maybe twice a year and never do DoorDash etc. But we do end up spending about $100 per week on eating out. $300k HHI. |
Anonymous
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Another never delivery, limited takeout/eat out here, but I don't judge if it works for other people and theres a little economic market supporting it (well a big one).
We live 2 miles from a good grocery store, and the school is near a good grocery store. It has self-checkouts and separate quickie checkout market area so if I'm tempted for "easy food" night our grocery store is still easier and quicker (and somewhat cheaper). We are very lucky that way. |
Anonymous
+1 Unless you count grocery delivery? I spend about $35 a month on Whole Foods/walmart grocery delivery. |
Anonymous
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$320 in January. Our kids get food delivered for dinner on Friday/Saturday nights.
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