Depends on the season. Summer and Christmas/Winter about 3-5 times a week because of all the birthdays and festivities. Spring and Fall it slows down to about 1-2 a week. I still prefer to cook, because I try to shy away from the salt and other processed food.
Once or twice a week, but we rarely pay full price. Lots of deal sites, a number of them with free 50% off coupons, make eating out more palatable for the wallet.
Every couple of months. I'd eat out more often if I could afford it. I don't mind cooking, but I've never been quite able to duplicate decent Indian or Chinese food.
Well, this is kind of weird for me to answer. I never eat out if I'll be the one paying. I'm frugal and don't want to spend money on that sort of thing. However, I do eat out multiple times a week when a guy (re: date) is paying. That's just one of those female advantages...
Happens in fits and starts. This week we don't really plan to at all, but last week I ate out every day for lunch (as if I have money to burn...) and we ordered dinner in on Friday.
We probably eat out 1-2x a month, because we simply don't have the money otherwise. I do like using groupon/ living social for places we know we like or have been wanting to try to save some money. This past weekend we saved a bunch of money because it was my partner's bday and we took advantage of a couple of free birthday meals for her - but we probably won't go out to eat for another several weeks now that we went out more than once within a couple of days.
In the fall I look for warmer clothing in bright colors. Why are winter clothes always so drab? When it's snowing and 10 degrees out you need cheerful looking clothing not brown, black and gray.
I eat out maybe once every two months. It's usually for a social/work event. When planning, I try to suggest places where the prices aren't sky high. Of course I'm tempted to eat out more often, but I reason with myself that I like my cooking better anyway.
I never realized how true this was until we bought a townhouse for our daughter. The minute we walked into the townhouse, soft music was playing and it smelled as if the cleaning lady had just walked out. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to live there myself. Everytime we went back into the house music was playing and it made you feel as if you were already home. It made such a difference, we went in at asking price.
I am currently a Senior in a Catholic High School...but went to public school every year up until 9th grade. In my experience the public schoolwork seemed to be much harder than the catholic/private school. I also only get maybe 15min to about an hour or so MOST nights, while my public school friends end up having maybe one hour to three hours.
I understand it would be different for every area, but in my area on Long Island the private school seems to be worth the investment. This is coming from a current student who for 9th grade hated the idea of a catholic/private university because it really wasn't worth the tuition (I mostly hated the uniform and am not very religious but $ was the only mature reason I could come up with haha).
I felt like my school had much better funding overall for programs, classes, and nearly everything else. My school is fairly big on sports and theatre too, so nearly every area a child would be interested would be covered. My friends who didn't go to my school often complained about how something wasn't funded properly, or that the school needed to get something better than whatever it had.
While funding and stuff like that kind of made the tuition kind of acceptable for me after 9th grade, what I found the best reason for me to go to Catholic High Schools was the environment (again, this is specific to my school most likely). While in my public school district we did have many talented students, their was a fairly large population of students who seemed like they were in school only because it was required, and didn't care about anything that had to do with school. They had little to no plans for college, and many sat down to take the SAT (Public HS was the test center nearest to me and my HS wasn't one) but I could see that they didn't care. Many simply stared out the window.
In my Catholic HS, it seemed like the student population was mostly the upper tier athletes, academically gifted students, or great artists and singers. Most of my friends in the football and basketball teams were very smart, and managed to maintain overall averages of over 90, with at least five of the athletes having maybe 95+. I say this only because I used to think that athletes were really jocks who weren't the brightest and got by on their athleticism.
Of course not everybody was a shining star, but there must have been a very little amount of students who seemed borderline pass/fail. I would maybe hear mention of a troublesome kid once or twice a year, and everybody was fairly focused on their studies or the programs they were involved in. Guidance counselors were extremely helpful (In my cousins public HS in NJ, his GC barely helped with the little things, so my GC ended up giving me info I passed on to him), colleges were more inclined to come to our school and meet with the students and offer help if we had/have any questions. We had a great library and a whole wired/connected computer system schoolwide (it sound impressive but some of the features the school had were fairly amazing and extremely useful...these were features I knew the public HS didn't have.)
I know I sound extremely biased by only listing the pros for a Private and the cons for a Public, but I really wrote this for reasons to go to Private over Public. I'm sure not every, not even a majority, of public schools are bad...hell, my public school district is considered a good school district, and I'm sure not every Private school would give you the same experience I had, but you should give them both a try.
In the Private school I had a better friends circle I guess, and the fact that classmates weren't made up of students who seemed like complete idiots kind of brushed off good habits for me. Students worked hard in school, and had priorities in order. Students also seemed much nicer from my perspective, although in public school I never had a problem of not getting along with anyone, but I would see my friends being mean to other kids, or having unofficial gangs in a way. In the Catholic school though even the "gangsters", jocks, theater, geeks, emo kids were nice to each other. You could walk up to a seemingly stupid football player and have an intelligent conversation, and nerds could talk to the most beautiful girl in school and become friends easily. People weren't discriminated against and were generally more accepting.
I still hate the uniforms (Sr. sweaters are dope though), and some of the rules in the Catholic high school are very stupid (facial hair is apparently offensive...) but all in all I do think it was worth it. I would say even if your school district is average (not rundown and crime-filled but not great either) (definition redundant I know) I would at least look into private/catholic high schools in your area to see how much of an improvement they are.
In terms of private/public university I don't know how much it would matter, but I am still appying to colleges (both public and private). I'm not choosing a college on whether or not it is private or not, but private colleges do seem much more expensive. Public Universities are still great, and in many respects better than private colleges. SUNY and CUNY schools are amazing and incredibly cheap. In California the UC schools like UCLA and the like are amazing as well. I'm sure others are as well but those were the main colleges I looked into, along with a couple private schools.
We eat out about twice a month. Usually once at a restaurant and we pick up fast food about once a month.
Depends on the season. Summer and Christmas/Winter about 3-5 times a week because of all the birthdays and festivities. Spring and Fall it slows down to about 1-2 a week. I still prefer to cook, because I try to shy away from the salt and other processed food.
2 lunches and 2 dinners
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Once or twice a week, but we rarely pay full price. Lots of deal sites, a number of them with free 50% off coupons, make eating out more palatable for the wallet.
Every couple of months. I'd eat out more often if I could afford it. I don't mind cooking, but I've never been quite able to duplicate decent Indian or Chinese food.
About five years ago we started limiting restaurant meals to very special occasions.
Well, this is kind of weird for me to answer. I never eat out if I'll be the one paying. I'm frugal and don't want to spend money on that sort of thing. However, I do eat out multiple times a week when a guy (re: date) is paying. That's just one of those female advantages...
Hardly ever. Maybe 3-4x year.
I eat out only on special occasions, i.e. birthdays, etc. When I do, I only order a starter/appetizer, never a main meal.
We eat out at least once or twice a week. Used to be more until we got poor.
Twice a week......more breakfasts than dinners.
I eat out once or twice a week.
Happens in fits and starts. This week we don't really plan to at all, but last week I ate out every day for lunch (as if I have money to burn...) and we ordered dinner in on Friday.
We probably eat out 1-2x a month, because we simply don't have the money otherwise. I do like using groupon/ living social for places we know we like or have been wanting to try to save some money. This past weekend we saved a bunch of money because it was my partner's bday and we took advantage of a couple of free birthday meals for her - but we probably won't go out to eat for another several weeks now that we went out more than once within a couple of days.
In the fall I look for warmer clothing in bright colors. Why are winter clothes always so drab? When it's snowing and 10 degrees out you need cheerful looking clothing not brown, black and gray.
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I eat out maybe once every two months. It's usually for a social/work event. When planning, I try to suggest places where the prices aren't sky high. Of course I'm tempted to eat out more often, but I reason with myself that I like my cooking better anyway.
I never realized how true this was until we bought a townhouse for our daughter. The minute we walked into the townhouse, soft music was playing and it smelled as if the cleaning lady had just walked out. I couldn't believe it. I wanted to live there myself. Everytime we went back into the house music was playing and it made you feel as if you were already home. It made such a difference, we went in at asking price.
Once or twice a week with the work crew. Once every two weeks or so with the hubby.
We usually eat breakfast out 1x a week and then dinner out 1x a week.
I am currently a Senior in a Catholic High School...but went to public school every year up until 9th grade. In my experience the public schoolwork seemed to be much harder than the catholic/private school. I also only get maybe 15min to about an hour or so MOST nights, while my public school friends end up having maybe one hour to three hours.
I understand it would be different for every area, but in my area on Long Island the private school seems to be worth the investment. This is coming from a current student who for 9th grade hated the idea of a catholic/private university because it really wasn't worth the tuition (I mostly hated the uniform and am not very religious but $ was the only mature reason I could come up with haha).
I felt like my school had much better funding overall for programs, classes, and nearly everything else. My school is fairly big on sports and theatre too, so nearly every area a child would be interested would be covered. My friends who didn't go to my school often complained about how something wasn't funded properly, or that the school needed to get something better than whatever it had.
While funding and stuff like that kind of made the tuition kind of acceptable for me after 9th grade, what I found the best reason for me to go to Catholic High Schools was the environment (again, this is specific to my school most likely). While in my public school district we did have many talented students, their was a fairly large population of students who seemed like they were in school only because it was required, and didn't care about anything that had to do with school. They had little to no plans for college, and many sat down to take the SAT (Public HS was the test center nearest to me and my HS wasn't one) but I could see that they didn't care. Many simply stared out the window.
In my Catholic HS, it seemed like the student population was mostly the upper tier athletes, academically gifted students, or great artists and singers. Most of my friends in the football and basketball teams were very smart, and managed to maintain overall averages of over 90, with at least five of the athletes having maybe 95+. I say this only because I used to think that athletes were really jocks who weren't the brightest and got by on their athleticism.
Of course not everybody was a shining star, but there must have been a very little amount of students who seemed borderline pass/fail. I would maybe hear mention of a troublesome kid once or twice a year, and everybody was fairly focused on their studies or the programs they were involved in. Guidance counselors were extremely helpful (In my cousins public HS in NJ, his GC barely helped with the little things, so my GC ended up giving me info I passed on to him), colleges were more inclined to come to our school and meet with the students and offer help if we had/have any questions. We had a great library and a whole wired/connected computer system schoolwide (it sound impressive but some of the features the school had were fairly amazing and extremely useful...these were features I knew the public HS didn't have.)
I know I sound extremely biased by only listing the pros for a Private and the cons for a Public, but I really wrote this for reasons to go to Private over Public. I'm sure not every, not even a majority, of public schools are bad...hell, my public school district is considered a good school district, and I'm sure not every Private school would give you the same experience I had, but you should give them both a try.
In the Private school I had a better friends circle I guess, and the fact that classmates weren't made up of students who seemed like complete idiots kind of brushed off good habits for me. Students worked hard in school, and had priorities in order. Students also seemed much nicer from my perspective, although in public school I never had a problem of not getting along with anyone, but I would see my friends being mean to other kids, or having unofficial gangs in a way. In the Catholic school though even the "gangsters", jocks, theater, geeks, emo kids were nice to each other. You could walk up to a seemingly stupid football player and have an intelligent conversation, and nerds could talk to the most beautiful girl in school and become friends easily. People weren't discriminated against and were generally more accepting.
I still hate the uniforms (Sr. sweaters are dope though), and some of the rules in the Catholic high school are very stupid (facial hair is apparently offensive...) but all in all I do think it was worth it. I would say even if your school district is average (not rundown and crime-filled but not great either) (definition redundant I know) I would at least look into private/catholic high schools in your area to see how much of an improvement they are.
In terms of private/public university I don't know how much it would matter, but I am still appying to colleges (both public and private). I'm not choosing a college on whether or not it is private or not, but private colleges do seem much more expensive. Public Universities are still great, and in many respects better than private colleges. SUNY and CUNY schools are amazing and incredibly cheap. In California the UC schools like UCLA and the like are amazing as well. I'm sure others are as well but those were the main colleges I looked into, along with a couple private schools.
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