Fewer Dinner Outings
One thing I’ve noticed happening over the past few months is that our small group of regular friends isn’t having quite as many dinner outings as we used to. We used to go out to decent restaurants at least two or three times a month, and end up spending several hundred dollars between the six of us.
But now that everything costs more and people are not as secure with their employment status as before, we are just having these dinners at someone’s home or going out for small lunches on the weekends instead.
I’m as worried about finances as the next person, but I have to say that I’m getting very tired of giving up all my fun in life. I’ve never been one to go clubbing or to spend all my money drinking, so these restaurant outings were about all I had to look forward to in terms of socializing. Now that they’re not happening, I can’t help but feel a bit depressed.