My wife and I have taken to eating out pretty regularly these days--about once a week for dinner, and sometimes lunch or breakfast on the weekend. We don't do it because we don't want to eat at home, for we're always fine eating at home. Rather, we go out--and have been doing so for several years now--to try to contribute to the community we live in. If we eat at home, a certain amount of money is spent at the supermarket, where we spend quite a bit of money already. If we spend money at the restaurant, someone's business gets supported (we don't go to chains), and they're able to pay servers and cooks and cleaners and cashiers. Yes, it costs us more than dinner at home would, but we get a little time out for ourselves and we usually get pretty good meals out of it, too. There have been times when we haven't been able to afford dinner out more than once every couple of months, but now that we're able to afford them, we're trying to share our money with the community. We also try not to buy books on Amazon any more, and we spend a dollar or two more per book at our local bookstore. We try not to shop at WalMart, either, except when they have something that we can't find elsewhere. We live in times when we're used to spending our money with the big chains who don't use any of their profits in our own communities, so my wife and I want to try to help small businesses do well because we know that they're going to spend their profits here in town--and money is meant to be circulated. We want to do all that we can to make sure that our money helps as many people as possible as close to us as possible.
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