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April 23rd, 2020 at 12:35 pm


Chipotle spread

I track our spending and overall we’re spending less but we’re spending a lot more in two budget categories: home maintenance and restaurants. It’s to pay for local places that are open like house & yard services and restaurant delivery/pick-up once a week. The once-a-week food delivery is expensive because we have big boys with big appetites but it’s becoming a homebound tradition, and I feel good about supporting the local businesses.

I usually order a variety of options instead of full meals, then we put everything on the island in the kitchen so we can each sample a variety of interesting items. So far our weekly meals have been Japanese for DH’s b-day, Indian twice (now it’s pick-up only), Italian once (not as healthy but fresh & super tasty), and Chipotle this week. I’m avoiding fast food places that would admittedly be cheaper but are also unhealthy.

For next week I’m looking at a local Mexican restaurant that initially closed for the shutdown but has just reopened for delivery or pick-up. I doubt they anticipated the shutdown lasting so long when they closed.

For the house, we had pressure washing done and we just had mulch delivered in anticipation of yard work this weekend.

Posted in Budgeting, Personal Finance | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Supporting Local Places”

  1. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
    April 23rd, 2020 at 04:02 pm 1587657722
    1587657722

    yummy. I am trying to get takeout once a week. We did tuesday night pizza for a neighbors dinner. It was delicious.

  2. LivingAlmostLarge Says:
    April 23rd, 2020 at 04:11 pm 1587658309
    1587658309

    yummy. I am trying to get takeout once a week. We did tuesday night pizza for a neighbors dinner outside in our driveway. It was delicious.

  3. Lucky Robin Says:
    April 23rd, 2020 at 11:03 pm 1587683039
    1587683039

    We've only had take out twice in the last few weeks, but I am thinking about it for tonight since I am craving prawns tempura from a local burger place that also does gluten free cheeseburgers for the kids.

  4. Buendia Says:
    April 24th, 2020 at 12:17 am 1587687461
    1587687461

    We've done curbside pick up twice over the past month - once was Indian (dosas) and the other was BBQ. I just found out the African restaurant we love is opening back up for curbside with a limited menu (that may be what we do Saturday!!).

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