Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20130827185420

"Just because it's bad for your liver don't mean it ain't medicine." - Bobby Singer

Joking aside, you're assuming I'm an alcoholic and/or that I spend a lot of money on drinks, neither of which are true. I tend to drink socially, but I don't have much of a social life, so very little social drinking really goes on, and when it does, the cost of the drinks are usually shared between us. I also tend to drink when I'm writing, just because it helps me to relax and focus, especially when I'm under as much stress as I have been lately. This is only a few times a week at best and I'm also very frugal with these drinks -- that bottle of Lady Bligh that I just finished lasted me almost a month and only cost $9 because I don't tend to drink as much of it. I'll sometimes change it up with a beer or three instead, but I buy cheap beer that only runs $6-8 for a twelve-pack and oftentimes it's just the leftovers from the last social gathering I was at. It's also not uncommon for my friends to pay me in beer for favors I've done them, like giving them rides to places or doing some sort of housework or repair; as funny as it sounds, my friends, for a number or reasons, often have more beer than they have money, so it has become a sort of currency among us lol. Every once in a great while, I'll treat myself to a bottle of wine, but, even then, I still buy really cheap stuff -- the brand and type that I usually buy (Black Swan Riesling) is only about $7 or $8 a bottle. In all, the cost of all the alcohol I typically buy in the course of a month rarely exceeds $15 and often amounts to $0.