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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yikes. We spend a lot I guess. We go out with other couples every Friday night and including booze it's always about $200. Plus babysitting so closer to 300. We usually do takeout on sat for family night on saturday, for a family of 5. Sometimes eat at the club on Sunday after golf, which can get expensive too. Sometimes we do weeknight dinners out (we just signed up for a "wine dinner" at the club, it's $99/person for 5 courses and 5 wines....plus babysitting, on a Wednesday night). I very occasionally have lunch with friends after paddle tennis or golf. If I was really to add it up it would be quite a lot. We also entertain on Saturday nights about once a month, having 3-4 couples over, sometimes with kids sometimes without, but those are expensive nights too. Our HHI is is 400k, no debt other than 320k left on mortgage- kids cornea are paid for in trust funds.

I cook m-t and pack the kids lunches every day. [/quote]

Wow, just from trying to add up what you wrote it looks like that adds up to $500/wk or more?  You can't be spending $25k/yr eating out?  Sorry, I'm not judging, just wondering if you are really spending that much or perhaps you have some weeks spending $500 and other weeks a couple hundred dollars?[/quote]

Honestly? Yes, it probably comes to that if it's averaged out over the year. In the dark of winter we may have some weekends that are more quiet, or where instead of a restaurant we are eating at a friends (so just paying a babysitter, still a $100 night plus the wine we bring) but then it is counterbalanced by the summer when we have to eat at swim meets every Tuesday and Thursday night (kids have to be there at 4:20 and meets aren't done till 8, you can't pack/bring food) so you eat dinner there, whether home or away, and it's charged back to your home club. Between that and nights where you just stay late and eat there we have $5000 a month bills all summer, but that's pretty much the only place we eat. So, yes, that's probably at least what we spend/year. As the kids have to be at swim team from 9:30-10:30 and we usually stay at the pool and we again aren't allowed to bring in outside food I pack lunch and we drive to a park a bit away and eat there, to cut down on costs, but averaging it out we probably do spend that much or more . A combination of having kids who no longer eat off of the kids menu, enjoying good wine, liking good restaurants once a week with friends, and living in an expensive area……throw in a weekly brunch with the kids on Saturday..yep. [/quote]

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