Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham, this is podcast number 397 for Wineb, where we teach

you four rules to help you stop even paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

Now, I am not meaning to throw my good wife, love of my life, under the bus.

Not at all. I apologize. I was just closing up a newspaper.

I apologize for that noise.

I lost track what I was doing.

I in no way am I disparaging my wife?

I would never because she is phenomenal in every sense of that

word. She just said something interesting though that I wanted to do want to

deconstruct without her here to defend herself. I was talking about how our restaurant spending

has increased. This was actually a little while though, not terribly recent, but it's just

been simmering in the back of my mind and I thought it was podcast worthy for you, dear listener.

I was talking about how we spend more on restaurants than we used to.

And I've been nostalgic on this podcast so many times, it's not funny but you know you go back to the good

old days where you bought that little Caesar's pizza and that was your once a

month restaurant budget was five bucks plus tax and the pizza was delicious and now I'm too good for

little Caesars and something about that makes me ashamed so not only am I too good for little Caesars, but chilies, you know, I used to love that place.

No, Applebee's don't even get me started. No, not going there.

I don't want to disparage all kinds of places,

but let's just be honest, the food, it's just not that good.

Yet, we're spending more, I think because of the convenience. not that

good yet. You know you just time gets away from you.

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