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Removing "Delivery" from the Food Vocabulary

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eav:
After ordering GrubHub last night and seeing I was being charged a $3.99 delivery fee and giving a $6.26 tip (15% is the lowest I feel comfortable tipping)...

I have decided to remove the word "delivery" from my vocabulary for myself and my boyfriend this year in regards to food. If we're with friends the rule doesn't apply (he hosts football Sunday bi-weekly and someone else usually orders pizza and wings).

This will mean always keeping ingredients for an acceptable meal in the house for nights when the weather is horrible and/or all of my weekly meal planning has run out.

It is just such a waste each and every time you order delivery from restaurants or utilize GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates, Seamless, etc. It's like throwing money away! If I want food prepared for me that badly, I will get off my butt and go pick it up in store and save ~10 bucks each time. I'm sure if most of you are hardcore Mustachians, you probably already don't get delivery. But I'm newer and am now completely fed up with the money suck. I estimate this will save me/us $350 a year in extra fees/tipping just for takeout food - figuring I order delivery once weekly on the more frequent side and throw an average of $7 dollars down the drain each time.

Let the challenge begin!

englishteacheralex:
Yeah. Food delivery should not be a thing. The only time I ever did pizza delivery was once when I was single, lived alone, and had the flu. Definitely keep this one alive in your life.

I'm a red panda:
We've been in our house 6 years and never had anything delivered here.

I've only used Postmates and GrubHub on expense for work and am astonished how expensive they are.

RWD:
I don't think I've ever ordered delivery in my life...

Serendip:
Good work @eav --it will feel great to cut out delivery. The convenience is definitely not worth that much of a charge/tip.
Maybe you could plan to buy a monthly allotment of freezer pizza or make your own burritos and freeze them?  Then you will have food available for those bad weather moments.

We have a favorite dal that we keep a bag of in the freezer for dinner emergencies, its highly flavourful so if we need a quick meal, just need to make some rice and heat the Indian food up!

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