No Alcohol

We went into the 2009 year of Experimonths with an extremely challenging experiment (only eating raw food for the month of January), so I figured I’d go out with a bang too. I am giving up drinking alcohol this month.

Alcohol is something I partake of consistently and spend a fair amount of money on, so I thought it would be a challenging yet beneficial thing to give up this month. (A few $4 pints of beer a few nights a week adds up!) I don’t yet know what I’m going to donate my alcohol savings to — honestly, I think that will depend on how much money I end up saving by the end of the month. My plan is to tally up how many drinks I think I would have consumed each day, and I will report the grand total monetary savings at the end of the month. I think this should be a pretty easy thing for me to estimate, because I know my average number and cost of drinks when I go out to dinner with friends, Pinhook for Friday happy hours, Bull McCabe’s trivia on Wednesday nights, etc.

I have two planned exceptions for my No-Alcohol December: 1) one night to have friends over and make eggnog, and 2) New Year’s Eve.

Cheers!

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