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16:00 July 15th, 2008

I could cut back to $3,200 a month for beer…

Posted by: Robert Basler
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Blog Guy, you’ve given good personal finance advice in the past, and I need some help. I’m falling behind. Here’s my monthly budget. Am I wasting too much money on books?

  • rent $1,400
  • food $600
  • utilities $220
  • gasoline $310
  • beer $4,000
  • books $40

Um, let me stop you right there. Budget planners with a sharp eye for detail might suggest that $4,000 is a lot for beer every month. Of course I do know there is a precedent, this guy in Australia who was spending $972 a WEEK on beer, but it didn’t work out so well for him.

beer-australia-200.jpgMiss Universe 2004 Jennifer Hawkins, of Australia, poses for photo while visiting beer brewery in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, in a 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

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6 comments so far

Are you in collage or a pen and paper role-playing-gamer? Otherwise that’s $40 that could be spent on booze, beer, or food.

- Posted by Bryan

He spends almost twice as much on rent as I do for everything put together.

Must be a nice apartment, or a one-room hovel in New York City.

- Posted by Charlene

Well, I guess when you need your beer, you need your beer…

http://band1967.spaces.live.com/blog/cns  !18221ED62041AF8B!367.entry

- Posted by Bandage

FYI folks. That link in my last comment seems to have gotten broken up for some reason. I don’t know why but you won’t get to the intended location using it. Copy and paste this one instead (text between the quotes -no spaces)
“http://band1967.spaces.live.com/blog/cn s!18221ED62041AF8B!367.entry”

- Posted by Bandage

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Fail.

That isn’t THAT much to spend on beer… If you go out to nice clubs every night, that’s only like a twelve pack a night. Really not that outrageous.

- Posted by bar hopper

If you wanne be able to spend a lot on beer, you’ll first have to earn a lot!

- Posted by High Interest CD

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