Not sure if it's my profession (accountant), but both my current and prior workplaces have quite a number of frugal colleagues (even more than half of the partners) so it becomes quite difficult to organise eating out at more expensive places, yet my spouse, who works in the CBD in law, would have colleagues just casually go out at lunch time and buy expensive bags or shoes.
What's your workplace like?
On the other hand, they grossly overspend on unnecessary cr@p for their classrooms from Kmart. 🤷♀️
That's a bold move cotton, let's see if it pays off for them.
Comparing expensive outing with coworkers to expensive personal purchase …
Comparing how my partner's co-workers are more willing to part with their cash
Two very different situations , would I spend on a luxury item that I wanted, sure. Would I spend on a luxury meal with co-workers, no thanks.
Happy to go to a luxury meal on works dime.
Who cares?
Everyone can spend their money however the f&$k they want.
Buy stuff you want and don't give a sh!t what others think about it - it's very liberating. Try it some time.
Just saying how i always seem to be around co-workers who don't spend
It comes down to partly industry and dare I say it even demographic and race.
When I was in Oil and Gas and mining my colleagues would give me grief for ozbargain and finding the best deals. They simply DGAF about price.
When in Finance, there were several more bargain conscious than me .
We are heading the way to Venezuela……
Higher average temperatures due to global warming? Not sure how thats related, but perhaps I'm not seeing the second, third, or fourth order consequential relationship.
Good point though :)
I assumed they meant ENE
My colleagues don't know what or how I spend my money and I don't know about their money, and I have zero interest in finding out.
Why do some one think not eating out is frugal. I know people who don't eat out at all but splash their money on other expensive things that they feel are important. Does that make them Frugal ? I don't think so
Every one has their own priorities in life and one thing people should do is stop judging others. Eating out may be important for some but may not be the case for others.
Correlation does not mean causation.
My wife and her colleagues on same level and above all earn $250k+ as consultants.
Her colleagues are honestly all getting slammed with childcare costs, schooling and mortgages. On top of whatever other expensive hobbies they have on the side.
My wife and her colleagues on same level and above all earn $250k+ as consultants.
Have you told your wife that if she joins ozbargain she gets elevated to platinum membership tier by default?
She wouldn't benefit. She's not cheap enough to post here unfortunately.
On top of whatever other expensive hobbies they have on the side.
At that level, I think I know what these expensive hobbies could be! 😁
when a guy at work was saving for a deposit for their house, he literally ate cup noodles and plain bread every day for lunch
is there anything wrong with that? cup noodles are cheap and very tasty. I don't bother with the bread.
usually cheaper to eat leftovers, but not always and noodles require no prep at home. sometimes i will splash out and add a can of tuna to noodles, but it doubles the cost.
The main thing would be the health consequences. Processed foods aren’t good for your brain long term and instant noodles are also high in sodium.
Is that because your expensive place doesn’t take entertainment book vouchers?
Gotta fine dine the ozbargain way
what colleague? I don't even talk to anyone at work…
Some people in my team talked about OzBargain before I mentioned it to them, so that's a win.
Before I opened the thread I was thinking "my colleagues are not very frugal yet, most are still buying a daily takeaway coffee and getting a sneaky hash brown", so I guess my definition of frugal is quite different to yours
colleague at work just told me how he paid $10,000 for 4 return tickets to Japan at the end of the year.
said he got a good deal.
I held my tongue
Good deal if in J!
10,000Yen? What a steal!
They're accountants. What more needs to be said? haha
I had a frugal colleague that ate other peoples lunches, that stopped the day he had a peanut butter and Japanese hot wasabi sandwich.
I love the stories about how the thief would complain about attempted poisoning with cases like that.
Hey buddy, I can quite happily eat and enjoy a wasabi sandwich, if you don't like my food then stop stealing it….
P.S How many people have actually had real wasabi and not coloured horseraddish mix they usually sell around here?
Either way it still packs a punch. In saying that I recently bought a sauce that was a wasabi and something else sauce. Tried it, it tasted gross, checked the ingredients and not a trace of wasabi, just horseradish. I'm normally pretty good but felt tricked coz it didn't say 'wasabi style/wasabi flavour' etc. Just Wasabi. It should have to be clearly identified from the title, not within the ingredient fine print.
This was the real stuff sent from Japan by my friends wife. He was the one that constantly had missing food, but not after that day.
Glad it worked out for him! I had food nicked years ago at work, sadly I wasn't aware of the spicy food trick till much later….
And my wasabi/horseradish kick didn't start up until sushi restaurants were mainstream…..
Working in finance. They give away free fruit there. There's always some left at the end of the week that they bin. There used to be a lady who would take some home at the end of week but not now. Only a minority bring in their lunch, most eat out. There are always people going outside for drinks every week when the company provides free drinks in the office.
It depends. Teachers are frugally stealling each others lunch, staffroom cutlery and complaining about the lack of free tea and coffee.
On the other hand, they grossly overspend on unnecessary cr@p for their classrooms from Kmart. 🤷♀️