I don’t cook, I don’t clean.

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I know, I often do eat out or have delivery on the odd occasion when I'm the only one home and have to figure out what I'm going to eat. But that only works because it's not the norm.

It's not really an option where I live for a lot of people, at least for every meal - and that's why I'm saying a lot of people consider it an unskippable chore.

Like, realistically speaking, ordering out for every meal (lunch and dinner) can end up eating at least half of a minimum wage monthly salary over here and I make even less than that, so here's me crying in broke college student. A quarter if you only eat one meal per day, but that might not be feasible if you work at an energy intensive job as a number of minimum wage jobs tend to be. And then you have to consider rent, utilities and all the other fun bills most people have.

Meal prepping / cooking ends up being the economic option for a lot of people, even if they don't particularly like cooking. It's a lesser evil compared to not having money to cut down on debt, save, spend on your hobbies, going out with your friends and so on.

It really isn't as expensive as people think, from my experience anyway. It seems to me, when people have money problems it's because they are living out of there means. My girlfriend and I have a 3 bedroom apartment, 2 cars, 3 pets and neither of us make much money because of school and CoVid (also broke college students). Yet we are able to pretty much buy whatever we want whenever we want and we order in almost daily because we live within our means.

I know all of that varies from place to place and our cost of living here is low. I guess my point is, if it's a "chore" it's because you are making it that way and learning to cook well can be a fun thing since it's something you have to do anyway if you aren't going to order in. Plus the foods better that way so win-win.

 

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I know all of that varies from place to place and our cost of living here is low. I guess my point is, if it's a "chore" it's because you are making it that way and learning to cook well can be a fun thing since it's something you have to do anyway if you aren't going to order in. Plus the foods better that way so win-win.

Sure it can be fun, but pretty much everything can be fun, at least in theory. Still, most people have a number of things they like doing and things they don't. And that's fine.

All I've been saying here is that there are very real reasons people might not like to cook and yet have to cook, and essentially shaming them for not having cookery as a hobby isn't a very nice thing to do.

Especially because if someone said "If washing the bathroom is a 'chore' it's because you're making it that way." - as I've had the displeasure of hearing before - you most likely wouldn't agree with them.

I won't do the math here since we'd be straying a bit far away from the topic - if anyone is interested in this discussion about buying power differences and the socioeconomical nuances that play into this topic, feel free to message me or open a thread and ping me or whatever - but I've done the math for things in my city and even if we lowball a lot of things and limit ourselves to the strictly essential, there are a number of people that can barely scrape by.

 

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Sure it can be fun, but pretty much everything can be fun, at least in theory. Still, most people have a number of things they like doing and things they don't. And that's fine.

All I've been saying here is that there are very real reasons people might not like to cook and yet have to cook, and essentially shaming them for not having cookery as a hobby isn't a very nice thing to do.

Especially because if someone said "If washing the bathroom is a 'chore' it's because you're making it that way." - as I've had the displeasure of hearing before - you most likely wouldn't agree with them.

I won't do the math here since we'd be straying a bit far away from the topic - if anyone is interested in this discussion about buying power differences and the socioeconomical nuances that play into this topic, feel free to message me or open a thread and ping me or whatever - but I've done the math for things in my city and even if we lowball a lot of things and limit ourselves to the strictly essential, there are a number of people that can barely scrape by.

I didn't shame anyone? Maybe you misinterpreted my tone, which is easy to do when reading. When I said who the hell thinks cooking is a chore I was making a joke because I enjoy it. If you are going to accuse me of shaming someone for making a joke we probably shouldn't communicate because that's some soft shit.