Spinoff (thanks to NachoMama :) ) Eating out with the skids
So I was complaing about my SS8 wanting an Iphone/ITouch but in that SAME convo, he also made a comment about eating out b/c we "have the money to do so." DH and I do okay but we are not well off. We live a comfortable life on a budget. We have money to do things but not a lot.
We dont eat out a lot with the skids b/c its expensive but we do treat them at least once on the wkds we have them. Sometimes its a fast food restaurant and other times its a nice sit down restaurant. About a month ago, DH said he wanted to take the skids to Kobe Steakhouse (Expensive). I was hestitant b/c I knew it was gonna be $100+ and they werent going to eat much of anything. Well I was right, $160 later and 3 to go filled containers PACKED, like no one touched them!! Well SS8 is nosy and totally checked out the bill. I guess b/c we did, he thinks we can NOW eat out all the time and have money.
Everytime they come over now, its lets go out and buy a toy (that I dont play with b/c I'm obsessed with video games and TV) and go to Kobe or some other higher end place. I told DH I feel like they look at us as Dollar Bills instead of parents and its making me not want to give them jack shit or take them anywhere!
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How much are the chicken
How much are the chicken fingers there? heehee
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They dont even serve
They dont even serve them...so you couldnt go...LMAO!!
I think we have a lot in common on this one! Once we took them to Outback b/c they said they wanted to try steak, so again we planned it out and they both got chicken tenders....WTF!
That was a VERY nice treat
That was a VERY nice treat to take them to Kobe...that would NEVER happen on my skid weekend! We tried to go to this cute little restaurant in our neighborhood...they aren't THAT expensive but they are not THAT cheap either. I know for a fact their chicken fingers kick ass because I order them sometimes for myself. You know...they are REAL chicken fingers not that frozen crap that kids like....SS11 would not touch them and kept going on and on about how bad they were! I told him too bad eat them or don't but that's ALL you are getting...of course he pouted and just pushed them around the plate! I took them home and had them for a snack!
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Yeah I wasnt too keen on
Yeah I wasnt too keen on going there with them. Although DH had left overs for 3 days so he was stoked!!
Crap like that irks me so bad! Like here you considered how great the ckn fingers were and all he did was complain! UGH!
LOL... I know what you
LOL... I know what you mean. My stepkids are little. I don't see the point in taking them out somewhere nice. They don't appreciate it!!! Right now they woul dbe happy to eat chicken nuggets at Mc'D's!!!
Don't get me started on this
Don't get me started on this one! OK, too late. When DH and I moved into a new house when SD was 12, she suddenly got the idea that we had a lot of money (because we got a bigger house). So that just upped the ante as far as she was concerned. SD decided she wanted to go to Japanese steakhouse for her birthday and bring a friend. Despite the fact that SD "claimed" she was a vegetarian, she ordered steak, AND chicken. Then she didn't eat the steak. Bill was $160, for FOUR people. I was SO cranky with DH. This went on for two years, until I put my foot down and we went to Olive Garden the next year.
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wow 8 yrs old and wanting
wow 8 yrs old and wanting something like that. ugh
makes me worry about my sd. she is 6, but she is so careless she would probably break it in a day! I know DH will probably get her a cellphone when she is responsible enough, because BM doesnt like to pick up her phone to let him talk to SD AT ALL. so the only time he gets to talk to her is when its his weekend. ANYWAY sorry about OT response! Sometimes taking kids out to eat is a waste of money! SD would always say she was hungry but when the food would get there she would decide she wasnt anymore. We dont take her out that much!
Total waste of money most
Total waste of money most times. SS16 thinks we always need to eat out because his BM doesn't ever take him out. He'll order the most expensive damn thing on the menu ($30/$40 steak) and then smirk the whole time he's eating it.
BUT . . . sweet revenge - the kid usually pukes uncontrollably when he overeats (stomach issues due to prolonged drug use).
Of course, that doesn't happen much anymore. We go to Burger King, McDonalds, or order pizza.
Thats the thing about SD.
Thats the thing about SD. She goes out to eat with BM all the time. But SD knows not to ask us. If we're going to take her we tell her.
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We have no worries with
We have no worries with SD17. First off she never comes to visit and second she's soooo worried about her figure...she won't eat anything and she drinks water! Pathetic....she only does this in public though because you better bet...if I fix frozen pizza at the house....she is scarfing them down with tons of ranch dressing!!!
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SS11 won't order kids stuff
SS11 won't order kids stuff at fast food places...it's THERE that he wants the expensive stuff and he wants it double..2 sandwiches...2 fries. And his fat ass will eat that. I could kill DH for letting him gorge himself on that crap but HEY! not MY kid...not MY problem!!!
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