Bottle Saving for Nostalgia?

If it's empty I let it go

 

Happy wife, happy life.

 

i let it go, but i have a nice collection of Prairie stuff on a shelf just because i like the artwork

 

I used to do this, but I really cut back. It has to truly be a special bottle for me to keep. That, or I will keep bottles that I plan to put homebrew into later.

The only one I really have now is 2010 Rare with box. I got a sample of it at a GOose event and convinced the guy to give me the empty box.

 

I save a few with cool artwork or rare stuff but honestly I need to just get rid of them...

 

I don't keep them.

Now that you ask, I realize that's actually one of the reasons I put some time into reviewing. I have the review to remind me of the beer and don't need the bottle. (Also we have a couple of other collections that are more important to my wife and I.)

 

I keep rare bottles. I have a man cave with shelves that line the room near the ceiling and now they are just cool wall art

 

I have a small collection, but I only keep exceptional beers or sweet artwork. One day I dream of having a bar area to display them.

 

I have saved these in my man cave because they all remind me of good memories behind them.



My wife doesn't mind much because I also have a lot of nerdy stuff like this:

 

Keep the labels.

 

Look up 'Bottle chandelier'. They're a good-looking way to keep your bottles and save some space!

 

A lot of good beers in there. Is that the barrel-aged version of Duff?

 

NO.
Ditch the bottles and save the labels. That takes a lot less space. Eventually the labels will go as well.

 

I have about 4, I keep ones that are super cool !!

 

I have an Otis bottle I grabbed at a bottle share, pictures of a hung over bulldog on the label. I have a bulldog named Otis, keeping to make a light out of it. Gut a bottle of Pseudu Sue and I'll keep my Surly Darkness bottles too when they're spent. If there's great art I'll keep them.

 

I used to save whale bottles and put them along the top of the kitchen cabinets (there was just enough space between the top of the cabinets and the roof).

I recently moved and threw all the bottles away - I have the experience of drinking them and the memories of sharing with friends, so I really didn't need the bottles as a reminder.

An empty bottle of Fou Foune is sitting in the recycling right now - it is cool, but if I tried to keep all the cool bottles I would need to line the house with shelving!

 

My wife has about 100 items per 1 item of mine in this house. If she ever tells me to get rid of something I can say okay but that means you have to get rid of some stuff too. You can imagine the subject doesn't come up very often.

 

I keep looking at my growing bottle collection with the thought of getting rid of the whole lot.

Then I think about how cool they might be on display. Someday...