Frugality

For high end dining on a budget, check out the culinary schools in your area. Most schools have a student-run restaurant and/or bakery to give students experience in restaurant management and real-world chef experience. These restaurants usually offer much more affordable set menus with great service. They are often well-kept secrets and reservations book up early.

This is one of the most overlooked money-conusming activities you can do. You can easily eat at home for less than $5 per meal.. more likely it will be closer to $0.50-3 per meal. Going out to eat can easily cost you $10-30 per person. If you went out to eat with another person every night for dinner and spent $50 on it you would spend $18,250 in a year. Spend one tenth of that at home ($5) and eat for $1825 per year.

If you're trying to save money just stay home. It's cheaper and likely much more healthy for you.

Almost every city with a population over 100k in this country has a craigslist or freecycle. These are both wonderful little online communities where you can find stuff for cheap or free.