Comments on: Are Gas Prices Eating Up Your Dining Out Budget?

By: Queercents » Blog Archive » Be green, healthy and rich by giving up on your car

Tue, 27 May 2008 17:29:32 +0000

[...] of ways to cut down on your dependence on your car, which will lead to more savings in the end. If gas hovers around four dollars a gallon, and your car gets an average of twenty miles per gallon, you’d save at least one gallon of [...]

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By: mom2fur

mom2fur — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:50:51 +0000

Our favorite restaurant is local, so gas has no bearing on whether we go out or not. Paying for dinner for 7 does, though. We only do this once or twice a year, but it's something we look forward to. Even if it meant using up a lot of gas...we'd do it anyway. Times I can get together with all my kids are rare! Sometimes, just my husband and I go out. But it's a company car and they pay for the gas--and he has to put in mileage any way he can.

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By: Blogging Away Debt » Blog Archive » Just CRAZY! Mad-Libs Inspired Festival of Frugality #37

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:14:48 +0000

[...] She’s retiring on your student loan to the undertaker’s To are gas prices eating up your dining out budget him a coffin; But when free stuff for the designated driver came back The poor status symbols and keeping up with the Joneses is stupid was laughing. [...]

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By: Paula Gregorowicz

Paula Gregorowicz — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:52:45 +0000

Good question. I would say in general that gas prices are just plain eating into everything, but I can't recall sitting around using gas prices as the reason why we weren't going out to eat. Main reasons is usually -- too expensive (when we eat out we "wine" & "dine" and get the check to prove it or the restaurants we want to try are too far away (hassle and time, not gas price keeps us away). We tend to dine a lot more when we travel and splurge and then when we're at home day to day #1 we LOVE to cook and #2 we can cook better and healther and more whole foods on our own. That being said the gas crunch is definitely felt in our house, especially with my Jeep. If I wasn't hauling crap around a lot, I'd opt for a much more gas efficient car. I think it is the overall cost of living (gas just one component) that eats into our discretionary "fun" spending. I think many people consider their Starbucks necessary like a morning medicine (the morning caffeine drug) and don't even think of cost or they use it to drown out their sorrows of heading to the day job that steals their soul.

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