Nashville home to BIG spenders

Woo-eee, do Nashvillians like to spend money!

According to Bundle.com, a site that lets you compare your own spending habits with those around the nation, Nashville ranks seventh on the list of the 25 top-spending cities. Austin, Texas, ranked No. 1. Nashville ranked higher than Miami, San Francisco or L.A.

The list ranks mostly discretionary spending and does not include mortgage, insurance or health insurance. What surprised me is that most of it is spent on eating out.

In Nashville, residents spend a little more than $500 per month dining out. But in my home county, Williamson, residents spend an unbelievable $700 per month eating out.

I can't even imagine. The things we could do with $700 a month...

This might be why Tennessee ranks second in the U.S. in personal bankruptcies.

All this just makes me want to hurry up and write my post, A Case For Cooking.

Nashville is so Gwyneth

Gwyneth Paltrow has been spending the past few months in Nashville filming a movie called Love Don't Let Me Down with Tim McGraw, and she wrote detailed reviews of her favorite Nashvegas experiences on her GOOP website.

Lots of folks online make fun of GOOP for being about as full of out-of-touch advice as O Magazine, but I enjoyed reading her thoughts on places I might actually visit.

See what you think!