Beer Budgeting...

Reach for the wallet and see whats there. If there's enough cash for what I've put in the cart or basket, I use cash, it not, I lay down the credit card. No real method other than when the shelves are full, I stop buying until I drink enough to make room for more!

 

Hold to a tight budget of about 105/month for beer+golf. I'd like to retire before I expire, so I'm quite alright with drinking mainly troegs, victory, and yuengling with a few treats mixed in. 401K matches and Roth IRA's are pretty cool.

 

I pretty much hope that I have enough money for beer. Between paying 226 a month for a car and paying for college, it's a little rough. I try to limit myself to about 20 bucks a week for beer. Doesn't necessarily work though.

 

$30 a week not including bars / restaurants. I also throw a few bucks every so often into an envelope in my gun safe for certain times of the year (Hopslam, Double Trouble, FBS, Hop Juice, etc...)

 

I'll "get outta here" I guess. ;-)

 

Homebrewing is the answer. My last batch netted 28 bombers (22oz) for about a $40 investment. And it didn't taste like fido's ass.

 

Not Fido's Ass Ale. That'd get folks attention on the shelves.

 

IRA's better than IPA's?! I think not!

 

Make sure the kid is well fed; then mindlessly spend

 

The key is citra hops, but people may say it tastes like cat piss. Can't win 'em all...

 

What the hell's a budget?!

 

Beer...budgeting. Beer...budgeting.

I know what beer is. I understand the concept of budgeting. But put those two words together and suddenly I don't know WHAT the hell you're talking about.

 

I believe they rent moving vans.

 

I'm make very little money and am now broke with what I've bought since the new year. I plan on not buying anything in March and drinking a lot of my inventory. We'll see how that goes...

 

I used to go to a store and wind up blowing a ton of cash on beers. I travel a lot for work, so whenever I was working in a new state, I'd bring beer home from that state. The only problem with that is when I come home over the weekends, I won't drink through all of the beer and it starts to backlog. A few months of traveling starts to generate a little too much beer - and a lot of money spent on it.

After ending up with an unnecessarily large cellar, I decided that I need to exercise some self control - and drink down that cellar. So now I've been mostly drinking 2-5 year old beers for the past 2 months to alleviate the backlog.

Going forward I'll set aside some money if I hear of something coming out that I'd like to try, but I've become a lot more selective so that I don't deal with an over abundance again.

 

wha? The title of this thread is an oxymoron imo.

 

I have a budge of 100.00 a months me go over every time. Fortunately I have another part one job that I've made about 1500
The last 3-4 weeks on top of my teaching salary. I'm getting married in June and decided unless I keep this part time job up I will only buy beer when I get extra cash. So fortunately I have been good the last month. I still buy and trade too much and am trying to cut down once I finalize my end of a couple trades ill hold off until hunahpo day. Once the wedding is over ill be able to allocate more to beer.

Another way I have more beer money is to cut down on spending money at bars and eating out. Not eating out once a week can buy me a couple six packs. I also have a mortgage that is cheaper than people's car payments (200 a month) so I have extra money but spending a lot of money in serious excess off budget is probably not the smartest move.

***dont start trading or it'll get worse lol

 

I do my best to stick to a $100 a month budget + $70/month for craft beer connect.

 

I set a max of $200.00 a week for beer. This does not include going out or beer of the month clubs.
It is tough but I can usually stay wituin budget

 

dont even like to think about how much i actually spend. its easier that way. worry later. and soak up your worries in the delicious beer you've purchased.