Saving Money by Going to Bars

With so much available on line for free now days, including almost all of the TV shows that I watch – Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Castle, The Office – I’m thinking it might be a good idea to sell my televisions and cancel my cable tv service. That would save like $400 per year plus whatever I can get for my 2 TV’s. It just means I’ll have to go to WOW or Kipper’s or some sports bar to watch sporting events that I might care to see live. I mean, I have to eat some time, so it might as well be during the GT football game at a restaurant I don’t dislike.

 

And I’ll save more than $400 per year by drinking water instead of beer every time I go to a bar or pretty much any time I think about it. Yes, I’m gonna sit at a bar alone on a Saturday night watching college football while drinking water. I doubt that’ll happen but it’s a good idea in theory. Actually a few days ago I ordered a beer on tap and the bartender recommended that I don’t get beer because it wasn’t very good that particular day or the refrigeration wasn’t cooling adequately or something. So, I got a coke instead, which in many places costs about the same as a beer. That is if you get the really cheap beers, which I don’t do. The Purple Haze and Strong Bow and Killian’s that I like are significantly more than Coors and PBR and other similarly bad beers.

 

Really, would any of this actually affect my life much at all? No, not really. My TV rarely gets any use anyway. Even when I rent a DVD, I usually just watch it on my computer. I’m sure my guests might not like the no cable and no alcohol in my house, especially since I’ve been known to have a big screen TV and an ample supply of alcohol.

 

A side benefit of this is I might become a regular at one or more of the local bars and actually make a friend with someone who doesn’t work with me or play bridge. In all the time I have spent in bars over the past few years, there is only 1 person that I have met at a bar and actually made contact with again afterward. If you don’t know the story behind that, you really should.