Where Does Your Alcohol Dollar Go?

“Out of every $100 American consumers spend, about $1 goes to alcohol. That hasn’t changed much over the past 30 years. But where we spend our money on alcohol has changed quite a bit. We spend a bigger chunk of our booze money in bars and restaurants. We spend less money buying alcohol at the store to drink at home.”
 — But it turns out that alcohol in stores is cheaper than it used to be, while alcohol at bars is more expensive. So those of us who mostly spend our money on alcohol at stores, which we then bring home and sip steadily on the couch, crying alone or singing softly to ourselves as the night winds down, silently promising that we’re going to wrap it up and go to bed while knowing full well that we’re going to pour another one and hate ourselves for needing it and not being able to do anything about it even though we know what the consequences will be tomorrow, should congratulate ourselves on our brilliant budgeting behavior. Good for us!

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