Inspired by reading the Living Below Your Means board on Motley Fool while on a conference call today, I went out and bought materials for making lunch for the week.
Dining out, I pay $5-7 a day, which is $100-$140 a month. If I spend $10 a week for supplies, and eat out once (because, hey, who am I kiddin’?) that’s $17 *4 = $68. A savings of $32 – $72 a month. Which would pay for DSL and the wireless network I splurged on, making me feel a little less guilty about it.
What are you going to eat for $2.50 a day? I tried making my lunch at home, but I abandoned the plan when I realized that it took me 15-20 minutes to do it each night.
There’s a grocery store next door to my office building, though, so I often go there for lunch and buy enough to make my lunch on the spot.
Yeah, after repeated failures over the years to try and make lunch at home and bring it, I’m giving up on that. I can barely remember to bring leftovers in.
From my receipt:
Bag of Baked Lays, 10 oz – $3.04
6 wheat sub rolls $1.38
half lb. sliced ham $2.27
half lb. swiss cheese $2.41
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tax $0.27
Total $9.37
So, ham and cheese sandwiches with baked potato chips. The question is, will the half pound of meat and cheese last 4 days? We shall see, we shall see…
If I lived in a more social environment, perhaps I could start a lunch club, where we all buy $10 worth of food at the beginning of the week, then we all fed off the fixin’s. It would provide more variety.
But I don’t work in that sort of environment, so I won’t.
The GSF folks were talking about starting a lunch club today…of course, that was while we were spending $5 – $7 for club sandwiches at Paradise….
Do it! Do it!
And make Al do all the cooking!
Lunch Club!
So, a bunch of us got together today and put in $5 for lunch. Sarah and I went to the store and picked up bread, cold cuts, chips, salsa and fruit. We’re set for the rest of the week!