I know a lot of people feel like when you're on an extreme budget, like say, haven't had any income in a month, you shouldn't go out. Like, at all. And I get it. Going out is expensive. But I would honestly rather go back into debt that to be a hermit. I just like being out. I know we can have the exact same drinks and the exact same conversation at home, but I am social, dammit, and a life of dinners in front of the tv 7 nights a week is not a life worth living-- for me.
I also know I can't afford $12 cocktails when I'm unemployed. So, figure out how to work your city. I, for example, have been known to hit a 10:45am movie because it's $6. I can also tell you which restaurant has $1 oysters on any particular day. You gotta do some research, and file that information away under useful!
So yesterday my boyfriend and I went to Delores Park. It was probably one of the last warm & sunny afternoons we'll have this year, so we took a bottle of wine that was leftover from a dinner party a couple of weeks ago (which equals FREE in my mind, if it was paid for with another week's budget), a couple of plastic cups, the Neat Sheet, and watched the dogs for a couple of hours while the sun set. Total? FREE.
Once it got too cold, we went to Chile Pies & Ice Cream, where we split a green chile stew and a green chili pot pie. He paid (thanks babe) but I bought some ice cream after. Which I didn't finish, so I had a little buyer's remorse about that particular $3.
Then we popped over to one of our favourite bars to watch Monday Night Football. Here's the best part: on Mondays happy hour is until 8pm, and they have a free nacho bar!!!! So, $6 for a 2 drinks, $2 tip, and another $2 into the nacho jar. Total: $10. That will definitely be a Monday night standard for us now.
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