Broke N Thrifty

For the last month and a half, I've been cooking every single meal and spending less money buying food. This has been working very well for me. I always figured I just didn't have the time to cook, but when I hit a rough patch (I was broker than broke) I had to start cooking. When the rough patch was over, I continued cooking because I really enjoyed not spending a ton of money eating out.

Thursday, I ran out of groceries and would not have time to go to the market before the weekend. So I had to buy lunch. I went to a restaurant that I used to eat in 2 to 3 times a week before the rough patch. Lunch cost me just under $10. I wanted to cry. I know it's only ten bucks, but I thought about how I used to buy lunch every day and some days I bought dinner and breakfast too. Food is expensive! What was I thinking? No wonder I was extra broke! I'm still broke, but not like before when I couldn't imagine why I didn't have any extra spending money.

Now I browse the circulars and gladly clip coupons for my groceries. I don't even shop at the same super market every week. I also discovered that my cable service provider gives me 2 free movie tickets if I go to the movies on Tuesdays. I never thought I'd have time to see movies on a Tuesday... then again I never got free movie tickets before.

In any case, it's not as hard as I thought it was to be a broke ass student. I think I'll be able to manage after all.