Re: When going out to eat, does price make a difference?
We do the resort exchange on our timeshare and always get a kitchen unit. I think it would be 'maybe kind of nice' to go on vacation just one time and eat out at every meal, but I don't think my frugalista bloodpressure could take it! We just came back from a week in Mississippi and the total vacation including gasoline and exchange fee was something like 550.00 dollars for a famiy of 4 (1 female + 3 over age 18 males).
We ate takeout 3 times - 1 going, 1 coming home, 1 time there. Sunday lunch out at a buffet, a day out shopping lunch at diner, one breakfast out, an ice cream stop, one night of fine *for us* dining. The rest of the time we ate nice meals in the room from the big box of groceries I scavenged from the pantry stockpile. Yes we drank water while eating out, yes, we watched prices but still got full.
A crockpot and/or electric skillet usually makes the pack list. One stop at the grocery on the way into town covers the week.
I do plan my menus and 'eating-out' times before I go and I rathole gas money and eat on the way home cash back in the wallet so it doesn't go on souvenirs or somesuch. We had a great vacation and eating out didn't kill the banker!!
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