Aside from driving to visit my partners family in NOVA twice a month, I never drive. I'd take the metro but the trip is unjustifiable for the time I spend out there. Been like this for about 4 years now

You might have skipped over that I also eat out decently often. Take out probably totals another $160-200 per month but a cost I can cut easily, a luxury. My Costco costs are maybe another $200 quarterly but still very possible without.

I was making 35k helping out people making under 17k do this up until a few years ago. This is not impossible to do. In fact, I do this without any coupons or deal searching. I use the member cards at Giant and HT, maybe a split decision at the store for the sale cuts or something but I could make this maybe $30 a week if I really got into it.

Just buy in season, in bulk if possible, know what things cost, have meals planned and eat with a purpose. I don't buy chips and soda and premade stuffs. I get treats for my partner all the time but I'm not one to snack. I try to eat healthy, I'm actually trying to lose weight believe it or not. It's just about the set up.

What the fuck are you buying/eating? Like a steak every night? Dawg, I spend like $30-50 a week MAX for me and my partner and we get take out/pick up 1-3 times in that week and still come out with less. I'm not a small dude either at 220. I do Costco maybe quarterly for meat, that keeps costs down well. Besides that, I split my food between our giant and Harris teeter, occasionally go to whole paycheck to get an ingredient or two.

You said you don't do meal prep...how are you making a list for the store then? Do you just go and buy foods assuming it will come together? Do you buy a lot of precooked or packaged meals? What's your waste look like? I go in with at least two dinner recipes and an all week lunch in mind then buy extras after.

This week I made a huge ratatouille, pesto pasta, chicken in brown butter sauce, Mediterranean style loaded potatoes for lunch, breakfasts are normally up to the person but I have two eggs and toast damn near every morning. Spent $37 at giant, had the chicken from Costco. I used to make meal plans for folks on food stamps, $50 a week is very doable on nice meals if you take 10 minutes and plan it out. You don't even have to eat rice and beans lol. Budget bytes. com and other similar sites also are a huge help too.

Costco might be a good route for y'all. They deliver in the city via USPS or instakart and membership pays for itself in no time at all, especially if you're buying meat in bulk. Also DC Costco will be the cheapest booze in the city IME

I was wondering what was going on

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I'll have a free card this year, not sure why I was charged last time.

Oh sorry, yes cards are free to residents. I got my card when I was a VA resident commuting in (I think that was the issue)

I come from a college town and our library system was always one of my favorite things. DC has an excellent library system IME.

Protip: Lots of people are unaware that with a library card you also get access to a few apps that rival paid subscription apps, some apps work with what your library has IIRC. Hoopla, Kanopy, Overdrive, and Libby are all great apps to get when you grab a library card. I have also found most libraries have a pretty current selection of media content. Pretty sweet deal for $20 annually (free for DMV residents as I've been corrected, sorry for any confusion).

For a big one you'd have to wait for the annuals or look for something you care about. If you just want to see a big obnoxious crowd wait till tourist season. For any old demonstration just walk down by the mall. Most days there's some kind of gathering

Sensationalism. From the court transcripts/ recordings the judges think the plaintiffs are lunatics with barely a case to bring let alone decide anything major and overarching. This sub is straight burning garbage of autoposts

How about we fix the shelters and stop allowing politicians to ignore their conditions. A report just came out about a city surplus that we're just gonna sit on for a rainy day.

Fellas, it's been raining for a while now and these people need real solutions not these nonsense petitions that get picked apart by a comments section, forget about showing it to someone in policy.

The irony that the steam engine and combustion of fossil fuels will likely be a major contributor to the destruction of our modern society

who named these units? Miles Bron of the Glass Onion?

I mean as a Detroiter from the 90s DC is Disney world, perspective I guess

Laughs in Michigan lake effect overcast. 65-75 clear days a year average, can't have shit in Detroit.

I mean it's not fifa but cod has barely changed its core... Hell they remade old CODs, BF is the same, God of war is just a movie with prompts and boss battles now. No franchise holds it's value for more than a game or two and then it's just same old shit that people eat up. the last 5-10 years was certainly nothing outstanding aside from VR and maybe gyro controls. After that it's just copy pasta with new graphics or one new mechanic stolen from another "top title".

Shit they remade demon souls 6 times (don't get me wrong, I love the games but they're all the same)

The fuck are you on about?