Requires more fridge space than I often have handy. (I have a decidedly undersized fridge, even for an apartment).
There's also a ... I don't mind being out the time and energy for teaching and hosting ritual stuff (but it's not trivial, between the actual teaching prep and the 'is the apartment tidy' prep that I often have to spread over a couple of days after work) but being out extra money for food that may or may not get eaten is not a great thing.
(I can't eat a bunch of stuff on veggie trays uncooked, and cooking from fresh involves spoons I may or may not have in a timely manner)
Joys of living in a high cost of living town on one salary (even if it's a moderately reasonable salary) in an apartment with quirks, really.
Which is big part of why I'm chewing on this at the moment, the 'what's reasonably hospitable, but sustainable in a model where I'm already providing a number of things and putting in time and energy before and after on the teaching front, and where I want to model collaborative effort without putting people out financially either'. And with the chronic health things that mean I'd rather spend the spoons on the teaching part rather than the 'here are random hospitable bits that might not actually be necessary if we can work out alternatives'.
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Date: 2018-03-30 05:17 pm (UTC)There's also a ... I don't mind being out the time and energy for teaching and hosting ritual stuff (but it's not trivial, between the actual teaching prep and the 'is the apartment tidy' prep that I often have to spread over a couple of days after work) but being out extra money for food that may or may not get eaten is not a great thing.
(I can't eat a bunch of stuff on veggie trays uncooked, and cooking from fresh involves spoons I may or may not have in a timely manner)
Joys of living in a high cost of living town on one salary (even if it's a moderately reasonable salary) in an apartment with quirks, really.
Which is big part of why I'm chewing on this at the moment, the 'what's reasonably hospitable, but sustainable in a model where I'm already providing a number of things and putting in time and energy before and after on the teaching front, and where I want to model collaborative effort without putting people out financially either'. And with the chronic health things that mean I'd rather spend the spoons on the teaching part rather than the 'here are random hospitable bits that might not actually be necessary if we can work out alternatives'.