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When you're trying to cut back on expenses, what is the most difficult thing for you to cut out?

  1. Meridian

    pomegranate / 3716 posts

    Food/eating out for us too!

    Currently at 10 weeks, I'm still able and willing to cook a few times a week, but the "I don't feel like cooking" mood does strike more often, and I know it's only going to get worse as I progress!!

  2. Modern Daisy

    grapefruit / 4187 posts

    Ordering takeout and eating out! We both work fulltime and some days it's just impossible to make dinner with how busy we are. If we were more organized with frozen meals this wouldn't be such a problem.

  3. Pepper

    pomelo / 5820 posts

    Eating out. It needs to stop! We waste so much money because we're both often too tired to cook.

  4. MrsH

    honeydew / 7667 posts

    I can't cut out the cleaning lady who cleans every other week. I would not eat out before I would get rid of that.

  5. prettylizy

    GOLD / papaya / 10206 posts

    Food here too.... sometimes I just don't want to cook. And if I do want to cook, it's going to be something delicious and not processed which also costs more money.

  6. shopaholic

    bananas / 9973 posts

    Eating out.

  7. sera_87

    pomegranate / 3604 posts

    eating out/ordering in.

    also, my iced coffee. it's out of control. One day I had 8! at 2.24$ a pop it REALLY adds up.

  8. mrbee

    admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts

    @bebefly: 8 iced coffees in one day?? Wow!!!

  9. sera_87

    pomegranate / 3604 posts

    @mrbee: it was a busy day with a lot of driving/running around. I order 2 at a time and don't eat/drink anything else.
    *hangs head in shame*

  10. FarmWifeGina

    pear / 1571 posts

    I'm already cheap and we're pretty tight, so eating out or anything special like that happens maaaaaaaybe 4 times a year. But if I had to cut back more, the hardest thing to let go of would be either the phone/internet/cable bundle or my data plan. Or both. GAH!

  11. fussygal

    pomegranate / 3580 posts

    Dinners out and random little purchases that add up.

  12. luckypenny

    grapefruit / 4582 posts

    Eating out and groceries. Ughhhh the bane of our existence.

  13. softcream

    apricot / 423 posts

    definitely eating out. we do it way too often.

  14. lavender

    grapefruit / 4554 posts

    Eating out and trips to Dunkies for coffee. I literally yelled at myself yesterday to not go to dunkies and go home and make a cup of coffee instead.

  15. blackbird

    wonderful grape / 20453 posts

    Groceries. I don't even know how we'd begin to set a budget for groceries because we eat healthy and buy good stuff, and none of it is cheap! I try to buy some meats on sale (i picked up filet mignon for $7.99/lb last week and froze it!!!) but it's hard! We don't eat out that often, though.

    Blah. We have too many "can't get rid of that" items that are technically luxuries. Basically, we suck at cutting back.

  16. PearlBee

    cherry / 126 posts

    Eating out is definitely most difficult for us to cut back on. We don't really go out that much as it is, but we really enjoy it so it's difficult to go even less than we do now.

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