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canyonwalkerToday I went wine shopping. I bought 6 bottles because the store had a buy-6-get-20%-off sale going. As I slotted those bottles away into my shelf at home today I counted the total: I have 51 bottles of wine.
51 bottles is a good thing. ...Not because it's a lot but because it's a little! Years ago I had 100+ bottles in my collection, a situation I've referred to, jokingly, since then as "my drinking problem". The joke is that my problem is I buy wine faster than I drink it! (One of my friends pithily observed, "Really what you have is a shopping problem.")
Even with buying 6 bottles because there was a sale today— which comes after buying 3 last weekend when there was a different sale 😅— the new tally of 51 in my wine collection is actually less than earlier this year. In March I had 55... and I considered even that a good thing. I'm keeping mydrinking shopping problem under control.
Back in March I also wrote about my hard liquor collection being a bit out of control. I've been working to tame it. Since then I've barely bought anything new, and I've been making a point of finishing off bottles that are close to empty. ...Not by saying, "Eh, only 4 shots left, bottoms up!" but by choosing, when I feel like enjoying a drink, liquor that's almost gone. I mean, why keep around lots of bottles with only a few shots left when I already have too many different bottles. I've knocked out two (mostly empty) bottles in the past month this way.
51 bottles is a good thing. ...Not because it's a lot but because it's a little! Years ago I had 100+ bottles in my collection, a situation I've referred to, jokingly, since then as "my drinking problem". The joke is that my problem is I buy wine faster than I drink it! (One of my friends pithily observed, "Really what you have is a shopping problem.")
Even with buying 6 bottles because there was a sale today— which comes after buying 3 last weekend when there was a different sale 😅— the new tally of 51 in my wine collection is actually less than earlier this year. In March I had 55... and I considered even that a good thing. I'm keeping my
Back in March I also wrote about my hard liquor collection being a bit out of control. I've been working to tame it. Since then I've barely bought anything new, and I've been making a point of finishing off bottles that are close to empty. ...Not by saying, "Eh, only 4 shots left, bottoms up!" but by choosing, when I feel like enjoying a drink, liquor that's almost gone. I mean, why keep around lots of bottles with only a few shots left when I already have too many different bottles. I've knocked out two (mostly empty) bottles in the past month this way.
