Drinking - A 5 Year Study Addendum

I wanted to include these numbers too, since they tell another chapter in the story.

First here are my month to month numbers. May and June are the months to drink apparently. Hitting 90 drinks is where you're already at 3 drinks a day average. Only my January's, oddly enough my birthday month, have come closest to the 2 drink a day maximum average in the past.

And this was fun and also a bit of a mental hit to calculate. The amount of money I spent.

To do this I took percentages of drinks to represent those I drank out and those I had at home. A lot of approximations were used but the story is still a good one. I drink at home far more than out, so I took 75% of my drinks as at home, the remaining fourth out. I used $40 for my bottle of liquor costs (there are 10 drinks to a bottle for me), $20 for a bottle of wine (4 drinks per bottle), and $15 for a 6 pack of craft beer. I rarely drank wine out so there's only a single column for it.

If you asked me was the drinking worth the cost? Some of it. There were many moments where drinking with friends, having a cocktail out over a good meal, was completely worth it.

But let's put a number to it, I'm going to say only a quarter of all my drinking were those good moments; a time with friends that the drinks didn't inhibit, didn't control, and just accentuated the high I was already having being with them in that moment.

Averaging each year out I have spent around $6,000 a year on alcohol. So for 2024 my target should be $1,500, and that $1,500 should be surround by friends in good moments, and not de-stressing and self-medicating at home.