So What Now?

One of the things that bothers me the most whenever I am watching a made for television series on HULU or Prime and sometimes Netflix although it has been a while since I have used that service...  is the fact that all the characters (or at least most of them anyway) need to have a glass of wine or a beer or a mixed drink after the end of the workday or when they are eating their evening meal...

How many frigging people actually do that?

A bottle of wine only contains about 2-3 glasses maybe 4, so one needs to replace that bottle with another at least every other day which is 3-4 bottles of wine every week...  because the viewer is led to believe that this is done everyday of the week.

The average price of a bottle of table wine is between $5 to $15...  so, I will split the difference and say $10...   So, that is $30 to $40 every week, again splitting the difference is $35...

Since there are 52 weeks in a year, then the annual cost of drinking 2-3 glasses of wine each night is $1,820...

I doubt is the average American drinks like that every night, even though television is supposed to reflect the reality of life.

Beer works out to about $1/bottle, so that is $3/day or $21/week or $1,092 annually.

The average cost of a decent bottle of bourbon, scotch, or vodka is between $20 to $30 so we are splitting the difference at $25.

A bottle of whiskey contains about 16 shots or 16 drinks whether you drink it straight or mix it with something.  

If you have 2-3 shots each day, then a bottle will last about one week+/-...  so, you will consume 52 bottles annually...  at $25/bottle that is an annual cost of $1,560...

Summarizing:

Wine is $1,820

Whiskey is $1,560

Beer is $1,092

If you follow this routine from age 20 to age 80 or roughly 5 decades, then you have spent about $50,000 in a lifetime on alcohol...

• What about going to parties?
• What about holiday get togethers?\
• What about vacations?
• What about going out to a bar with friends of colleages?
• What about attending weddings or funerals?
• What about New Year's Eve?
• What about going to professional athletic events?
• What about going on cruises?
• What about when you were lonely or depressed?
• What about dating?
• What about drinking in College?
• What about drinking in the military?

HOW STUPID IS ALL OF  THIS???