So a little late on my second post, but I haven't gone to sleep yet! (Which means I didn't miss
a day, regardless of what the date and time says...)
I digress. As me and my partner were grocery shopping after work this evening, I was reflecting on how nice it was to do something so domestic together for the first time in what feels like months. As time has gone buy, we have become more and more reliant on the convenience of food delivery. UberEats and Skip the Dishes are just two of the big hitters in a growing industry of convenient food delivery options. All of my favourite guilty pleasures are at my fingertips; literally. All I need to do is open up one of a fast growing variety of delivery apps and I can have anything I'm craving.
At first this seemed like a blessing! I don't need to leave the house to get things like sushi anymore. It will leave me more time to clean. I'll eat and then go to the gym. I'm tired. We don't have any food. All these and more were on my list of excuses, reasons and justifications for the increasing amount of deliveries we were getting. What started out as a convenient way to treat ourselves, had turned into the reason we couldn't treat ourselves in any other way.
We were spending hundreds of dollars on delivery. We found ourselves say "Oh I'll order today, we can grab groceries tomorrow." Every day for up to 6-8 days at a time. Suddenly we were relying on food delivery to eat, because we didn't have the motivation to go buy ourselves groceries. We would order food once (sometimes twice) a day, and then not eat anything else because we didn't have groceries in the house. We were trapped in what felt like a crippling cycle.
We justified to ourselves that it was okay. That it was normal. We work opposing schedules more often then not; so finding time to cook meals together or go get groceries seemed like an impossible task. When we did have food, it was going bad because we told ourselves that we didn't want to cook for just one of us. That being said our working lifestyle, and household income was certainly a contributing factor in why it was easy for us to justify the constant delivery of food to our. But it certainly was not an excuse.
After breaking down the amount we had spent on food delivery over the course of 5 days, we decided we needed to make a lifestyle change; soon. We talked and agreed that we were both contributing to the problem by enabling each others decision to order, and also by not holding ourselves accountable individually. We made a plan so that we could break this cycle, and create not only a more financially responsible lifestyle; but a healthier one as well.
At the end of the day, we were responsible for the situation we found ourselves in. No one told us to order food. No one expected it of us. We just fell in the pattern of convenience because we both by nature are creatures of comfort. Our little time we have together we want to spend relaxing and just being with each other. But by letting ourselves get lazy in our down time, we found we were more stressed in our down time due to lack of money, because we had simply been eating it all.
That being said; we now have a fridge full of fresh groceries. We are deleting the apps from our phones until further notice. And we are working on developing better habits. For the sake of our health. And for the sake of our bank account.
If anyone else has experienced a similar struggle, or if you're currently dealing with this; feel free to reach out. I'd love to hear how you dealt with the situation, or offer insight into my own.
Until Tomorrow,
Kass Daily
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