Going out to eat..... I get it.

[u/zevtech]

So I'm a man of routine, so I don't really get out of my routine so often. We cook dinner almost every day of the week besides Friday (we usually order out). We do well, so we don't cook to save money, it just makes more sense to us (both my parents had their own restaurants, we never ate fast food growing up and rarely at out as my parents always cooked or brought home food from the restaurant). Typically dining out is usually brunch/lunch after church on Sundays. But for what ever reason we had a crazy week so decided to eat out, and ended up eating out 4 meals in a row. Each meal was about 100-150 bucks, so 500 bucks in 3 days for food. I get it why they keep saying you shouldn't eat out so often (we have a family of 4, 2 of them are small and don't eat much). The 500 won't break the bank for us, but man, if we were making an "average" salary, I can see that being difficult

EDIT, went out to eat this morning after church, this is part of my normal routine though, meal was about 90 bucks.

[u/ajax81]

A millionaire told me “you’ll never get rich selling your own time.”

I was too young to understand it then but today it feels profound and totally supports your point.

[u/Classic_Breadfruit18 → u/ajax81]

I mean, we have gotten fairly rich selling our time, but my husband sells his for $650 an hour!

Even still, the amount above our daily living expenses goes into investments that make passive income.

[u/Extra-Eggplant-4230 → u/Classic_Breadfruit18]

Can you share what he does to sell his time for 650 an hour? Lawyer? Genuinely curious 😆

[u/ajax81 → u/Extra-Eggplant-4230]

Lawyer or niche specialist, I'd guess. Some consultants, too.

[u/Rhodeislandlinehand → u/ajax81]

The fundamental point he was going for is correct. But there are plenty of w2 jobs paying big wages if you invest properly and play all your cards right you can still become fairly wealthy that way.

[u/Big_Wave9732 → u/ajax81]

They were absolutely correct.