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Realize why I save no money: wife and I spend $70-80 per day on food
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:16 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse We havent had a meal over $100 in months.
However my lunch is always around $15 in Century City and hers is $10 where she works. and we seldom cook - so even casual restaurants or take out run us between $25-60 for the both of us.
Shit fucking adds up fast. |
Date: July 20th, 2017 6:17 PM Author: Curious Circlehead Senate Learn how to cook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819115) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:18 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse she is a good cook but has no time with a 13 hour work day.
I can make stew and a few other things but never feel like cooking. And I work a good deal too. |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:20 PM Author: big french generalized bond So wtf does your slave do all day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819139) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:51 PM Author: electric boiling water lol stew reference is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819339) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:12 PM Author: marvelous people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819422) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Coiffed exhilarant kitty Just make stew for the month every first day of a month. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819381) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:18 PM Author: Histrionic Hospital what the fuck does she do to work 13 hour days and not make a shitload of money (other than being a surgery resident) and why? sounds like a miserable compromise given you already make bank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820331) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:22 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse she makes low 6 figures. shrews gotta shrew. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825295) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:19 PM Author: Claret haunting water buffalo step-uncle's house Stop eating lunch and take a walk / go to the gym instead as a break. Snack on some nuts and coffee during the day.
EDIT: Including weekends, you guys are spending almost $30K a year on likely unhealthy food, which is absurd. |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:20 PM Author: Dun organic girlfriend roast beef That's not too bad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819138) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:22 PM Author: thirsty amber heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819154) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:00 PM Author: Coiffed exhilarant kitty Agreed, doesn't seem like much, especially when never cooking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819386) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:19 PM Author: Histrionic Hospital $25 grand+ per year for food between two people is fucking insane. XO shits bricks when people have car payments, but says blowing all your cash on food is NBD. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820341) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 11:11 PM Author: Adventurous tanning salon prole (faggot) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33821221) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:26 PM Author: poppy 180 mad-dog skullcap he's right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825338) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:32 PM Author: thirsty amber heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825393) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:20 PM Author: coral cerebral bawdyhouse Dude I'm a spendthrift manatee and even I think you guys need to chill on the restaurant splurging (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819140) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:21 PM Author: irradiated dopamine associate That's not bad, bro
Food is something I will always indulge in, despite being a thinmo...high quality, low quantity food is 180 for meals |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:22 PM Author: Claret haunting water buffalo step-uncle's house $30K a year on food for two people is a lot, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819157) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:25 PM Author: Dun organic girlfriend roast beef What are you gonna get it down to while not being miserable? $22k a year? Who gives a shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819189) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:39 PM Author: Claret haunting water buffalo step-uncle's house TBF $22K a year is still a lot, but even still - An extra $8K is a fuckton for most families, including OP who says he has no extra money. $8K is a great vacation with a few grand left over for savings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819286) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:35 PM Author: laughsome translucent library Excluding alcohol, you could eat like a king for $5k/person/ year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825435) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 4:05 PM Author: Dun organic girlfriend roast beef Are you a parakeet? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825726) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:26 PM Author: irradiated dopamine associate I'd rather live in a shittier place and eat better food..no flame
At one point I was renting a room in an apt with 5 people, but ate good food all the time |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:29 PM Author: Talented market The problem is buying lunches at the local strip malls isn't good food l, it's overpriced shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819543) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:16 PM Author: Disturbing mewling casino hairy legs Strip club buffets are good bargains (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820321) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:25 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse yeah, its still fat burger - it just costs $17. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825330) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:22 PM Author: Comical gay wizard I'm seeing NIN next Sunday u mad? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819160) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:22 PM Author: stirring athletic conference better than having to cook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819161) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:22 PM Author: balding know-it-all whorehouse time to dust off dat STEW RECIPE (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819166) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:24 PM Author: Bespoke Locus isnt your wife an accountant? wtf is she working 13 hr days (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819179) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:25 PM Author: irradiated dopamine associate ljl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819185) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:26 PM Author: copper adulterous office theres something inherently prole about needing that much takeout. just buy ingredients and shit at the supermarket and youll cut that in half. reflexively turning to takeout on a daily basis is a horrible idea financially and healthwise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819196) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Provocative chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819380) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:26 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse see - no time to cook. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825337) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:26 PM Author: anal duck-like foreskin If you wanna be RIPPED like me you gotta meal prep almost all of your meals. Eating out a few times a week is fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819197) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:30 PM Author: anal duck-like foreskin For lunch every day I eat a giant bowl of frozen veggies that thaw throughout the morning with ground beef all soaked in olive oil. Costs like $2-3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819223) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:29 PM Author: red pea-brained ladyboy nowag not the OP i expected.
get on dat soylent tip. or cop a nice mini-fridge for the office and keep some food in there.
that said, i'm very guilty of likely overspending on food. i don't go out to bars or wine/dine tinderslores, and other than music/concerts, i don't spend money on anything, so i justify it that way. |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:44 PM Author: Claret haunting water buffalo step-uncle's house Soylent is complete flame. They are not filling, overpriced, and you would be much better off snacking on sunflower seeds and nuts during the day. Hell, just blend a YUGE, FRESH smoothie in the morning, drink half of it for breakfast and take the other half to work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819308) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:57 PM Author: Obsidian Fragrant Knife Sex Offender lol not flame that may be more than I spend in a month. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819366) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 6:59 PM Author: Provocative chapel lol. my wife and i feed our family of 4 for half of that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819377) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:15 PM Author: confused crusty laser beams point That's normal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819437) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:16 PM Author: turquoise hyperventilating national Lol at how shitty this country has become. What is the point of getting married if your wife is gonna work all day. Dude can't even come home to a home cooked meal. what a shit society. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819439) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:18 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819449) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:19 PM Author: Provocative chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819458) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:24 PM Author: confused crusty laser beams point This is fine in societies with cheap labor; you just have a live in maid who cooks and cleans. The problem is that Americans refuse to live with their extended families and also suffer from expensive labor costs. Otherwise, grandparents could watch the kids or else a live in maid would (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819489) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:24 PM Author: turquoise hyperventilating national We get the worst of both worlds. LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819495) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:28 PM Author: confused crusty laser beams point My cousins in Colombia have it made. They have live in maids and grandparents live three blocks away. Grandma plays with the kids as much as she wants during the day and then the maid cooks/ cleans. When parents get home, they have energy to play with the kids because they don't have to cook or clean. Plus, the kids grow up around their grandparents
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:54 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse live in maids are slaves. just so you are aware of why rich people in third world countries have it made. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825613) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:33 PM Author: razzle rebellious coldplay fan SAHM seems like the best of both (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819582) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:48 PM Author: rose idiotic degenerate Strong poast to moniker synergy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820524) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:32 PM Author: razzle rebellious coldplay fan Soooo cr. cooking a meal with my gf is usually the best part of my day. It's communion (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819568) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:53 PM Author: peach vibrant school partner It's HER master's HER career HER money and HER life! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820584) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:27 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825349) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:28 PM Author: jet-lagged mediation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825363) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:18 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank What does your wife do to work 13 hours each day? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819451) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:29 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse 2 hours of this is a commute. She is the assistant controller of her plant and run the accounting department. spending 11 hours a day dealing with Sarbanes Oxley reporting, closing month end quarter end, financial statements, and managing the account team doing whatever inventory shit they do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825370) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:30 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank Sounds important. Maybe you should make the sandwiches. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825381) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:50 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse i definitely have more time, but I also work hard and have a stressful job too. As the primary breadwinner I don't want to have to worry about being the one to walk the fucking dog, come home when the repairman comes over to fix the water heater and make fucking meals for the week. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825583) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:19 PM Author: shivering indian lodge If you're too lazy to cook during the week, prep meals on weekends and buy sandwich ingredients to make quick lunch in the mornings....at the very least, that should cut costs by half and is much healthier as well. Saving $12k/year is substantial. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819452) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:20 PM Author: Provocative chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819460) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:21 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank His wife should do it. A woman needs to be able to take care of the home and that involves cooking meals (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819467) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:25 PM Author: turquoise hyperventilating national (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819499) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:26 PM Author: Provocative chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819511) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 8:00 PM Author: shivering indian lodge his wife has a long commute and leaves really early in the morning to go to work...I think they can figure out what works best for their marriage as far as cooking duties are concerned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819807) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:54 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank its not impossible to make sandwiches the night before
"cooking duties" arent hard to "figure out" - its the duty of the wife to cook |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:57 PM Author: cheese-eating milk fat ankles Me if she works 13 hours a day with 2 hours on the road, sandwich at desk is too sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820618) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:27 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank Yea that's a lie especially if she's not even the breadwinner
She got married, time to do wifely duties just as earl must take care of the man stuff |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:23 PM Author: thriller yellow rehab hominid Stop getting $15 salads at Greenleaf. Buy the same shit at Trader Joe's for like $4 and bring it in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819479) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:27 PM Author: Talented market Cr lol. Buy 2 rotis chicken at Costco for 5 eachand some salad or shit and you're fed for a week for like 20 bucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819524) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:23 PM Author: red pea-brained ladyboy nowag new grocery store went in by me, is 24/7, and has been a godsend. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820368) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 7:36 PM Author: Embarrassed to the bone medicated house Food prepp bros never account for how shifty Thursday and Friday meals taste when made on Sunday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33819620) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:27 PM Author: irradiated dopamine associate CR
food prepping is a recipe for food poisoning
You shouldn't prep more than 2 to 3 days max |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:13 PM Author: cheese-eating milk fat ankles Do you have a slow cooker? Get one, it makes eating your own food so much easier. My husband works 70 hours a week (15min commute) and is planning to quit. Your wife is nuts and this likely isn't sustainable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820301) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:18 PM Author: Ocher Godawful Brunch You don't make shit. You have no equity as a "partner." There is no such thing as a non equity partner. You're a senior associate. A wise person once told me, don't worry about saving money, worry about making more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820334) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:18 PM Author: titillating ultramarine space Explain. I spend $40 a week and its plenty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820337) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:19 PM Author: rose idiotic degenerate lol @ eating lunch and dinner at your age. Enjoy being a fatmo in a couple years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820338) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:29 PM Author: Nofapping glittery dilemma shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820400) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:55 PM Author: Wonderful Stead Tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820598) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:50 PM Author: Obsidian Fragrant Knife Sex Offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825579) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:56 PM Author: Drunken Sandwich earl: <><><>NOBREAKFAST<><><>, <><><>NOLUNCH<><><>, <><><>NODINNER<><><> (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33820608) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 9:58 PM Author: Sienna hideous famous landscape painting mental disorder xo 2017 (early): spending 40 dollars on a mimosa at brunch xo 2017 (late): scrimping on stew ingredients
ETH did this |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:53 PM Author: Dashing fear-inspiring karate and hating both (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825604) |
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Date: July 20th, 2017 11:09 PM Author: Appetizing stag film pocket flask my lunch costs 1.99 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33821204) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 1:22 PM Author: Green institution wow cool humblebrag you dumb Hawaiian faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33824195) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 1:44 PM Author: Boyish theater stage This is the early stages of Early rationalizing why it wouldn't be so bad for his wife to be a SAHM. It always starts like this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33824312) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:20 PM Author: Exciting national security agency $25 for lunch, $50 for dinner? LJL. Stop eating lunch you fat fuck. You ever hear of intermittent fasting? Say goodbye to lifting and basketball now that you've copped breakfasttt. You need to cut your calories by a lot since as you age you'll become more and more chair-bound. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825286) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:27 PM Author: poppy 180 mad-dog skullcap nothing to worry about lol not like restaurants ever over-season their food and shit lol enjoy your impending rapid weight gain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825348) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:30 PM Author: Exciting national security agency And high cholesterol and hypertension. The two surefire ways to make reheated Sysco food taste edible is to drench it in butter and salt. Earl is a dummy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825377) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:43 PM Author: black home earl, learn how to boil angel hair pasta and pour some sauce over it for two dinners a week. Salad is easy, just wash some spinach off, throw some feta cheese and italian dressing on it and you are good. Buy some sliced turkey and decent bread and make sandwiches (they can be fucking awesome with the right condiments and take 2 minutes to make)
Also don't buy literally 20 tequila shots when you go out drinking. |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:49 PM Author: cerise meetinghouse lol @ watchmen being a sniping cunt in this thread. Go post more threads about your fake jewelry if you want attention. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825572) |
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Date: July 21st, 2017 3:51 PM Author: stubborn lascivious state $70-80 per day for two people isn't bad at all especially your income level I think I easily average $40 a day between coffee and food and booze and I often skip lunch... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3680452&forum_id=2#33825592) |