There is a problem with millennials that needs to be immediately addressed.
Brunch, especially when it’s bottomless. Why is this a thing? Why is this okay? Who gave us the go ahead to spend our sundays drinking mimosas outside a ritzy city eatery?
I’m not here to tell you not to spend time with your friends, catching up and honoring this timely tradition. I’m here to tell you to stop wasting a perfectly good Sunday. If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time working, going to school, and doing a variety of other important activities with your week.
Spend time with your friends on Sunday, but don’t waste time with those friends.
Problem One: Proposing a plan
Good luck getting everybody to even answer there phones. Brunch plans always seem to be thrown together last minute, first thing in the morning. With everybody meandering out of bed and slightly hungover, it’s so hard to rally the squad and get them all in agreement.
Once the squad can agree, you have to figure out the logistics. When and where? Wait, Stacey lives all the way downtown and she’s going to see her boyfriend after and let’s not forget Amanda.
It’s so hard figuring out how to get everybody to meet up and when you do finally get your act together you encounter…
Problem Two: Cost
You order expensive eggs benedict, a bloody mary, and a mimosa. You also buy a side of hash browns and let’s not forget dessert. The money starts to rack up fairly quickly.
Some brunch places will offer you the 28 dollar deal where you pay $28 for endless mimosas and eggs, but is this really practical? You have to factor in the cost of getting there and getting home, which, considering it’s bottomless, you probably shouldn’t be driving. There’s also the fact that you’ll likely be spending money doing other things with your day (maybe), and you don’t want to waste all that cash on your first meal of the day.
Problem Three: Doing anything with your day
What’s the first thing you do as soon as you get home from brunch? Take a quick 6 hour cat nap, I bet.
By this point, it’s dark out, you’ve spent the whole day sleeping and eating (much like my furry friend above) and you haven’t accomplished anything you’ve been wanting to do with your day. You aren’t going to go to the gym now. You aren’t about to start that cleaning project you had been hoping to accomplish, and you are certainly not about to sit down and do homework.
Proposed Solution: Dinner
Skip brunch, actually do something worthwhile with your day, and only once you’ve completed chores and projects you’ve been looking to accomplish can you go out for said brunch (but at an hour when it’s socially acceptable to drink alcohol). You still get to see your friends and your body will thank you for this.
[Featured Image Credit: Sex And The City]