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Non Serviam posted:Why? That's the only question I can really come up with. Why does he do this? A few guys I work with don't seem to register purchases under a certain dollar amount. Like, on an intellectual level they know ten or fifteen bucks a day for lunch plus a few dollars in the morning and/or early afternoon to buy an energy drink can add up to quite a lot, but in the moment it's like, "pffft, what's a few bucks?"
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Single white collar workers in a high COL area are BWM so often. Some of the managers and employees in my department go out for lunch almost every day together. This is called socialising and when peer review time comes around who are you gonna recommend highly, your lunch friend or the weirdo who is proud about his $2 beans and rice he has every day?
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May 10, 2017 19:05
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Canada's housing bubble is gonna be a doozy when it finally pops. Probably won't have the international "world is ending oh god" effect of the US housing bubble, but it'll definitely make some waves.
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May 10, 2017 19:06
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:This is called socialising and when peer review time comes around who are you gonna recommend highly, your lunch friend or the weirdo who is proud about his $2 beans and rice he has every day? You can socialize without eating out every single day though. Arguing that it's either eating out every day or beanz lol is stupid.
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May 10, 2017 19:11
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For posters playing along at home, soup for lunch chat is exactly what got us the last thread shut down! Abort! Abort!
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May 10, 2017 19:15
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Ornamented Death posted:A few guys I work with don't seem to register purchases under a certain dollar amount. Isn't that true of virtually everyone? For some people it's $1, for others it's $20 or $100 or whatever. Do people do budget math for a pack of gum? I've been poor, but I haven't been as disciplined as that. Setting that threshold too high for your financial circumstances is BWM for sure.
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May 10, 2017 19:25
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Doc Hawkins posted:That depends on your area, sadly. Learning to grill after being years of lazy was one of the most rewarding things I've done for myself in a very long time. Wife and I love doing it once or twice a week, and it's more meals cooked inside to save money.
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May 10, 2017 19:25
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:This is called socialising and when peer review time comes around who are you gonna recommend highly, your lunch friend or the weirdo who is proud about his $2 beans and rice he has every day? Socializing is for the time you're supposed to be working. Also company paid happy hours. I know there was a Reddit post from the last thread of some guy talking about how he had to spend like $500 a month on business lunches, to bring the topic to external BWM. I think the consensus was he went to Chili's every day and bought alcohol with his meal.
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May 10, 2017 19:26
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Kirios posted:Learning to grill after being years of lazy was one of the most rewarding things I've done for myself in a very long time. Wife and I love doing it once or twice a week, and it's more meals cooked inside to save money. You aren't literally grilling inside, right?
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May 10, 2017 19:29
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SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DERAIL!!!!!
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May 10, 2017 19:31
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Are the ingredient boxes like Blue Apron real cooking or the same frozen dinner stuff? I have a co-worker who insist he learned to cook from them. He seems also impressed that they are less than $10 a meal...
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May 10, 2017 19:34
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They're real cooking.
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May 10, 2017 19:37
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Xenoborg posted:Are the ingredient boxes like Blue Apron real cooking or the same frozen dinner stuff? I have a co-worker who insist he learned to cook from them. He seems also impressed that they are less than $10 a meal... Blue Apron sends you a box of fresh ingredients with instructions, and you cook yourself. I've never used it but I looked into it once - seemed too expensive for what it is to me. It does seem like a decent way to get a crash course in cooking some different meals though, if you never learned how.
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May 10, 2017 19:39
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Xenoborg posted:Are the ingredient boxes like Blue Apron real cooking or the same frozen dinner stuff? I have a co-worker who insist he learned to cook from them. He seems also impressed that they are less than $10 a meal... It looks like this. Sort of how like on the cooking shows they have all the ingredients measured out to chop and dump in together. 
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May 10, 2017 19:40
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Droo posted:Blue Apron sends you a box of fresh ingredients with instructions, and you cook yourself. I've never used it but I looked into it once - seemed too expensive for what it is to me. It does seem like a decent way to get a crash course in cooking some different meals though, if you never learned how. It is absolutely expensive for what you get, but it's good for exposure to foods and cooking techniques you might otherwise not be familiar with. It's basically decent restaurant food at restaurant cost except you have to make it yourself. As training wheels for cooking it's not bad though. You get experience preparing, cutting, and cooking ingredients, everything is pre-measured so you can't screw that up, and you get to try lots of different flavors without worry what you're doing to do with this big jar of spice that you hate.
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May 10, 2017 19:49
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It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price.
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May 10, 2017 19:52
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price. Publix is trying this out in Florida.
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May 10, 2017 19:55
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price. Mine does! Everything's shrink-wrapped and looks like it's made of plastic, which is off-putting enough that I haven't tried it.
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May 10, 2017 19:56
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price. Nearly every "nicer" grocery store around here does exactly that.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price. Fresh and Easy used to do something like this, when they existed. It was especially great because nobody bought them, and they'd mark them down 50-75% off on the last day of their sell-by date, so there were deals to be had. I used to drop in on my way home from work to see what was available and cheap, and troll the refrigerated markdown section with the same group of bachelors and cheapskates every day 
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May 10, 2017 19:59
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:It seems that supermarkets could market a Blue Apron-like product that you pick up in stores for a fraction of the price. Kroger is doing it too I think.
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May 10, 2017 20:02
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If only someone could market these in a monthly box-type product.
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May 10, 2017 20:05
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If you don't like the random ingredients we send you, feel free to order another box.
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May 10, 2017 20:06
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Are CSAs BWM? Looking for a pre-emptive judgment.
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May 10, 2017 20:07
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Someone disrupt the food market by packaging best before prepared meals in a box with wireless connectivity so you can check on your phone what's for dinner.
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May 10, 2017 20:07
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Nail Rat posted:If you don't like the random ingredients we send you, feel free to order another box. My box had canned quail eggs, a durian, 3 lbs of sea salt, frozen catfish, and 2 Ghostbusters (2016) Funko Pops. What can I make with this?
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May 10, 2017 20:11
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Subjunctive posted:Are CSAs BWM? Looking for a pre-emptive judgment. Incheon. Food is a very tricky area. Is paying extra for organic chicken bad with money? What about organic toothpaste?
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May 10, 2017 20:11
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Subjunctive posted:You aren't literally grilling inside, right? Meant at home, but yeah.
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May 10, 2017 20:12
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canyoneer posted:My box had canned quail eggs, a durian, 3 lbs of sea salt, frozen catfish, and 2 Ghostbusters (2016) Funko Pops. Sounds like a job for the ice cream maker!
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May 10, 2017 20:12
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Subjunctive posted:Are CSAs BWM? Looking for a pre-emptive judgment. Not if you really like vegetables, aren't picky about what you get, and have a lot of mouths to feed. Otherwise you'll slowly be buried in kale.
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May 10, 2017 20:14
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DarkHorse posted:You get experience preparing, cutting, and cooking ingredients, everything is pre-measured so you can't screw that up, and you get to try lots of different flavors without worry what you're doing to do with this big jar of spice that you hate. Aint nobody got time for that. I just stuff all the ingredients in my Juicero and microwave the resulting paste.
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May 10, 2017 20:18
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I don't think Blue Apron is inherently BWM. You're paying for the luxury of not having to think too hard about what to cook, good ingredients, a wide variety of food, and not having to spend time at the computer finding recipes, making shopping lists, and spending too much time at the supermarket.
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May 10, 2017 20:22
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OctaviusBeaver posted:Aint nobody got time for that. I just stuff all the ingredients in my Juicero and microwave the resulting paste. Woah man you can't just shove DRM-free ingredients into a Juicero quote:I don't think Blue Apron is inherently BWM. You're paying for the luxury of not having to think too hard about what to cook, good ingredients, and a wide variety of food. Yeah, particularly because you don't need to commit to six months or anything. You could just get a week here or there to get some ideas/a break on planning.
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Residency Evil posted:I don't think Blue Apron is inherently BWM. You're paying for the luxury of not having to think too hard about what to cook, good ingredients, a wide variety of food, and not having to spend time at the computer finding recipes, making shopping lists, and spending too much time at the supermarket. Yeah it's not my thing but when weighing the expense you should think of it as an alternative to takeout, not an alternative to cooking from scratch. It seems like most people try it once or twice to build up enthusiasm for cooking and then go off on their own anyway. As cooking classes it's pretty cheap. Probably not a sustainable business model without loyal customers though.
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Hearing about all these overpriced food delivery services got me wondering: What ever happened to the Schwan's delivery truck? Those guys were way ahead of the game on basically the same exact thing. Holy poo poo! They still exist! http://www.schwans.com/ I'll never forget those ugly tan/brown cooler trucks driving around when I was a kid living in a poor neighborhood. The people that could afford the Schwan's truck had made it..and they'd throw the lobster carapaces over our fence for the dogs to nibble on. 
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May 10, 2017 20:26
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Not if you really like vegetables, aren't picky about what you get, and have a lot of mouths to feed. Otherwise you'll slowly be buried in kale. It was strawberries at the one my wife and I joined a few years ago. SO. MANY. STRAWBERRIES.
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Ornamented Death posted:It was strawberries at the one my wife and I joined a few years ago. SO. MANY. STRAWBERRIES. you sound like this is a bad thing
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Not if you really like vegetables, aren't picky about what you get, and have a lot of mouths to feed. Otherwise you'll slowly be buried in kale. The ones near me seem to have "you live alone and want some vegetables to ease your pathetic loneliness" options, which will hopefully keep my compost pile from consuming my yard. Mostly they do organic, which I don't care about, but the local options are nice. (I live in Toronto so I presume it's going to be beets, potatoes, and greenhouse tomatoes for 4 months.)
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Kirios posted:you sound like this is a bad thing Neither of us are particularly fond of strawberries  We made a lot of jam, though, which other people seemed to like.
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