I had "the awakening" after another however-many-hundreds of dollars meal on a Friday, and on Sunday we couldn't remember what we ate on Friday. Maybe it was even a tasting menu, who knows? When I saw my credit card bill - that's when I remembered.
After that happened enough times, we figured our dollars were better spent on something fun and memorable, which often happens to be cheap. (Hello Empanada Mama, ignoring the pricy drinks) So what if it's not the fanciest food, at least we have a good memory, were happy, and feel better about allocating more of our spending to something else.
What makes me sad is the formerly cheap, fun places that are now expensive. Take El Centro, a fun place! Free chips and salsa! A wait on a Friday night! Last time I went, somehow we spent over 100 bucks, and no free chips...
So now these days, on a night we might have gone out in the past, we are heading to that japanese fish counter at the new Wegmans and learning how to cook some new fish I never heard of before. Or I should say just learning how to cook. Now I feel old.
I had "the awakening" after another however-many-hundreds of dollars meal on a Friday, and on Sunday we couldn't remember what we ate on Friday. Maybe it was even a tasting menu, who knows? When I saw my credit card bill - that's when I remembered.
After that happened enough times, we figured our dollars were better spent on something fun and memorable, which often happens to be cheap. (Hello Empanada Mama, ignoring the pricy drinks) So what if it's not the fanciest food, at least we have a good memory, were happy, and feel better about allocating more of our spending to something else.
What makes me sad is the formerly cheap, fun places that are now expensive. Take El Centro, a fun place! Free chips and salsa! A wait on a Friday night! Last time I went, somehow we spent over 100 bucks, and no free chips...
So now these days, on a night we might have gone out in the past, we are heading to that japanese fish counter at the new Wegmans and learning how to cook some new fish I never heard of before. Or I should say just learning how to cook. Now I feel old.