How often do working rich people eat out vs packing a lunch

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, you are wasting money. My husband and I make about 800k between us, so could afford to eat lunch out every day. We almost never do. Unhealthy and a total waste.

Who is packing the lunch every morning? Do you have kids? I have enough to do getting their lunch and gear out the door

My brother and SIL's nanny prepares them packed lunches. Our nanny cooks dinner, but I WAH so I don't need a packed lunch. If you are well off, you can pay someone to prepare home cooked food.

So paying someone to pack your lunch is cheaper than eating out?

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It's not about money, but more about mustering up the bandwidth to prepare lunchboxes.

Yes, so do rich people muster up that bandwidth or not?

They likely have a cook or a SAHW who makes their lunch for them.

I doubt the rock star lawyer is slathering mayo and egg together in the morning to make egg salad while in their bespoke suit.

There is no rock star that takes lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, you are wasting money. My husband and I make about 800k between us, so could afford to eat lunch out every day. We almost never do. Unhealthy and a total waste.

Who is packing the lunch every morning? Do you have kids? I have enough to do getting their lunch and gear out the door

My brother and SIL's nanny prepares them packed lunches. Our nanny cooks dinner, but I WAH so I don't need a packed lunch. If you are well off, you can pay someone to prepare home cooked food.

So paying someone to pack your lunch is cheaper than eating out?

Well in case of a nanny, I doubt they pay any more to include "cooking dinner or preparing lunches" in the job description. The nanny is a sunken cost to help provide care for their kids and it can often be more cost effective than daycare if you have 2+ kids and/or need care after 5/6Pm due to your commute/job reqs

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Anonymous wrote:I eat out every day. I’m a SAHM. 😱[/quote

Let me guess.. you are very overweight

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I go into the office twice a week and always grab a quick lunch from our canteen. It's decent. Small serving of tuna or chicken salad with fancy crackers. $7 plus $1 for a diet coke. Given my income I don't worry about it.

I rarely ever go out for lunch while working because we are too busy. The lunch hour is increasingly a thing of the past as we often have meetings scheduled at 12 and 1 these days.

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I'm aware of no lawyers at my firm who regularly pack a lunch when in the office (there are probably a couple, but I can't say for sure). Everyone just runs out and grabs a sandwich or a salad and brings it back to eat in the office, from the highest paid to the lowest paid.

I think part of it is not wanting to deal with packing a lunch at home and part of it is then you at least get out of the office for 10-15 minutes in the middle of the day.

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Anonymous wrote:People who become rich people pack their lunches, do their own yard work, and drive cars until they fall apart. People who were born rich eat out, hire everything done, and drive expensive depreciating assets.

Keep telling yourself that.

My husband and I became rich after growing up without money through our own work (started and owned business). We don't always pack our lunch, we definitely do not do our own yard work, and we drive nice enough cars. We certainly don't sit around not spending the money we worked hard to earn. Our time is valuable. Most valuable thing we have. We'd be dumb if we acted like you think "rich" people acted.

Why do people need this narrative to be true?

+1000

Why do people think you need to live below your means to be “rich”? How about get a high paying job?

Because if you make a million a year but spend a million a year, you'll never ever be rich? You need to live below your means to grow your net worth. Rich is net worth, not income.

If you make a million a year, you are already rich. If you spend that million, you live the “rich lifestyle”. As long as you continue to make that million, you are rich. It’s when you spend more than what you make that you are in trouble.
Rich has nothing to do with net worth. Rich is more about producing income.

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I’m single and for me packing lunches was more expensive than eating out. I stopped packing lunch and I eat out. $5 on average per meal.

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This thread says that most rich people make the decision on factors other than cost - time, ease, health or what they enjoy eating.

I bring food because it is a whole ordeal to get lunch (no food nearby).

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My company has a subsides cafeteria. Many big law offices and tech offices do as well. Since covid I also have a meal stipend that I can use for breakfast and lunch. I work remotely full time now, but pre covid I did not pack my lunch because it wasn’t really less expensive than eating at work, where they had tons of options and it was relatively cheap.

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Anonymous wrote:If you watch Succession you will see that they often unpack egg salad sandwiches wrapped in Saran wrap.

This is folklore nonsense to make the rubes think the filthy rich are humble bootstrappers. I know a lot of genuinely rich people. None of them do this. You expense all food on a company credit card. You use lunch for meetings to discuss [more] business.

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It's not about money, but more about mustering up the bandwidth to prepare lunchboxes.

Yes, so do rich people muster up that bandwidth or not?

They likely have a cook or a SAHW who makes their lunch for them.

I doubt the rock star lawyer is slathering mayo and egg together in the morning to make egg salad while in their bespoke suit.

You guys just don't understand that "normal" people can be quite wealthy. My husband goes to work in casual clothes, drives a small Japanese car, packs his own lunch, yet we have several millions in assets.
He could buy a healthy lunch at his workplace cafeteria if he wasn't so frugal.

You have very inaccurate ideas of what rich really means.

You're not a great ad for being rich, if driving a college-kid car, dressing like a fast-food worker and packing your daily lunch is "what rich really means." Or on second thought, maybe you're just wrong. You're not describing being rich so much as being cheap. You enjoy knowing you have "several millions in assets" and living like you don't. There are many people who enjoy having the several million in assets and live like it.

Then they won't have the several millions for long.

My uncle lived like a cheapskate piker all his life. Left a few million cash to his underachieving kids when he croaked. They basically immediately blew it and 2 of the 3 were divorced in less than 5 years.

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I work from home now, but in my office days, I rarely packed lunch but always picked the cheapest healthiest option. If I hadn’t been pregnant and a nursing mom who was up several times a night for nearly 10 years, I would have packed lunch. My husband always packs lunch. We are UMC and become lower upper class. Started at HHI 220k and now at 490k.

We don’t order takeout more than once every other week, more likely once a month. We do a date night once a month, and we do pizza at our religious school once a week for $10. Eating at home is really important for both your health and wallet.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm aware of no lawyers at my firm who regularly pack a lunch when in the office (there are probably a couple, but I can't say for sure). Everyone just runs out and grabs a sandwich or a salad and brings it back to eat in the office, from the highest paid to the lowest paid.

I think part of it is not wanting to deal with packing a lunch at home and part of it is then you at least get out of the office for 10-15 minutes in the middle of the day.

It would be the odd lawyer in big law that would bring something in every day -- some days -- sure --- diet sure but 2 days a week of firm meals plus client meals and just keeping your network up takes the week. If you are not eating out to keep network up, you should be.

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I eat out pretty much every day in the office. It’s a huge waste and I want to stop! But alas, I haven’t.