Yes! I'm missing out.. LOL. I only snow skied twice this year to save money on lift tickets
($80 a day). In the past we've gotten free passes. My husband quit his job at the resort this year. He didn't have enough family time and his real job is demanding a lot of hours. My husband has a night pass so he has been skiing and taking my daughter once a week. I set up an auto savings so we can buy passes for next year.

i would say no... dh and i were talking about this today we are better off as a family now that i do not work at all..(i do recieve a gift check(part of an inheritance) every year from here on out so it will be like i'm working part time again) we do more outside with our kids we play board games just stuff we did not do before we are closer as a family we feel..

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No because some of the reason I give up doing certain things is because we are saving or wanting to spend on certain other things...like we don't need to go skiing or out to eat or to the movies or this or that because we have a vacation goal and if we keep that in mind we don't miss all the other small things. I've also found that we wre closer as a family because we spend so much time together at home doing things instead of wandering around a mall or something.

I say no DH says yes, he misses cable, computer games and being able to hop in the car and go somewhere hiking for the weekend. As I point out that is a batchelors life not a family mans.... Life is too busy now to waste it in front of tv and the computer (so why am I on here... ) I do have to admit though that the other day DH came home with 4 free movie tickets and vouchers for the cinema bar that he got from work to say thanks for the extra shifts he has been pulling and we were like the movies, my gosh.... We thought we were lucky on valentines day when instead of getting each other presents we went to the movies on tickets that my mum had brought us....

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The only thing I feel I really miss out on is my once a month moms night out with my friends. It generally doesn't cost a lot but I don't want to go out and spend money if DH can't do the same. So I have stopped going. Now we just spend time as a family. All the sacrifices will be worth it in the end.

Yes you bet, I want to be able to really entertain well in my home. 1050 sqft is not giving me the space I need, I want to be able to eat out once a week, I want to be able to afford a gym, new clothes, new furniture etc.

However where I am NOT missing out is all the time I spend with my Daughter. Being able to stay home with her is worth sacrificing all the extras. We will be there one day where we can afford more then we can now and until then I am take advantage of just having a loving and wonderful family and home life.

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I'm really missing eating out too. Sometimes I would get annoyed with bad service, but I truly enjoy not having to cook. We completely cut out restaurants alltogether, and only do a take out pizza or chinese maybe 2 times a month. I really truly hate cooking all the time.If I was rich, I'd either go out to eat all the time, or hire a cook. A maid,- no way, I'll clean my own house- in all that extra time I don't spend cooking!

What else DO I miss, well I REALLY miss Jamba juice and Wendy's salads. Oh, I guess I covered the eating out thing already.

I miss being able to just jump in the car and go to my fav. thrift store on the other side of town. I miss my fav. bookstore - again on the other side of town. I miss going to the county library, which is very far away. They are huge, I could spend all day there. We used to drive on the weekends and stop someplace scenic for lunch or have a picnic, or just see where the scenic drive led to.

Now, because we are trying to save gas, and the cost of gas is so high, every time we turn on the car, the trip has to be planned exactly, in a circle, making sure several errands are all run at the same time. If the store is too far, we just simply don't go anymore. -goodbye fav. library. Goodbye cheap thrift store 30 miles away.
I miss driving across town to meet a friend for lunch, or, well simply driving anywhere. I guess I love to drive. I hate having to sit there and think -- well, I can't head over to my mom's house twice in one week, because it uses too much gas, and I need this tank of gas to last me until next payday because that's what I budgeted.

Huge bummer.

Don't miss anything. I think we are much happier, eat much better, are more in harmony about our goals, and feel much more relaxed about finances. But I do like to cook, so that helps. I would miss eating out, but our DD is at a really bad age for eating out, so right now it is so stressful we have a better time having friends over instead. And this has become better in other ways, too--like I really get into cooking special things for these get-togethers.

Also, things have become special again. Like, if we do go out to eat, it is a special event that we really appreciate, instead of a "don't feel like cooking" thing. I feel as if we are making choices and valuing those choices much more.

I love to cook - I currently have spaghetti sauce going on one burner and chili on another - however I do miss going out to eat as in not having to clean it all up, to relax and have a meal. We rarely eat at fast food, we try not to eat at chains. So the food we eat is fresh and healthy.

When I cook I cook from scratch which means a ton of clean up time and frankly I'm sick of it. Even if I do the cook ahead thing, there are always pans to wash, dry, put away - tables to clear/clean up, floors to sweep from food falling on the floor - etc.

Now dh doesn't mind not going out to eat at all and not to poke at him, but I would too if I could just come home and have it ready for me to eat and all I had to do was spray the table and walk away (that's his and ds job).

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AHHH, I wish i could do this. You're a brave woman

I don't really miss anything, bec. we have stopped all of splurging long ago. We have been on "pay down debt" mode for A LONG TIME, so i've gotten used to it.

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