$500/month on booze, mainly wine
$150/month on coffee

It used to be relatively little, as I drank only tap water and chamomile tea. But I've picked up a kombucha habit, and my drink of choice is $3/can. So that's about $1000/year. Plus teabags.

$500-1000 per year.

No idea.

I’d say $300 or more, annually. $500 might be more realistic. Not sure.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure, but as a middle aged woman who has given up alcohol, chocolate, juice, and most sweets, you can have my daily K-cup coffee and Spindrift when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Everyone else seems to like spindrift more than me.

I only like 3 of them (lime, raspberry lime, and pink lemonade). The others are meh.
Also, if you still drink other delicious things, like wine and juice, I can see why they might not be that great...

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure, but as a middle aged woman who has given up alcohol, chocolate, juice, and most sweets, you can have my daily K-cup coffee and Spindrift when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Everyone else seems to like spindrift more than me.

I'm not sure, but as a middle aged woman who has given up alcohol, chocolate, juice, and most sweets, you can have my daily K-cup coffee and Spindrift when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

So, Jesse Mecham of YNAB says only track things you want to change and the amount we spend on beverages isn’t something I care to change, so it’s not something I track. I lump it in with groceries.

We buy alcohol from time to time but not a ton. We buy tea and coffee, and hot choc in the winter. We buy milk. I buy la croix maybe a pack or two once a month or less and we have Gatorade fairly regularly stocked.

We keep water bottles on hand but we’ve gotten much better about using reusable bottles that we have to restock that much less often.

Upon starting YNAB last year I canceled a wine club subscription and coffee subscription reasoning I could get those items cheaper at grocery store / Costco.

I added this up about a year ago and couldn't believe how much it was. After some changes like rarely drinking alcohol, brewing my own coffee and not drinking soda that I have to pay for it has gone down dramatically. Every week I buy an 8 pack of sparkling water, every 2 weeks coffee beans, and other than that I drink plain water with chopped up fruit for flavor so maybe $500 a year now?

We drink organic lactaid milk and it sells for $14 a gallon. Family of 4. 2 teens. So that itself is a big cost for us.

Plus, tea, coffee, seltzer water, wine, and top shelf booze when we entertain.

Don’t f’ing care

Anonymous wrote:0 I literally only ever drink water. Unless you want me to count my water bill which is really high in the city of alexandria.

Me too, in Maryland. However, do buy wine for hosting book group and variety of beverages when entertaining, so maybe $500-$750 over a year? None of it for me, all for guests

Oh god. A lot.

Nespresso Coffee pods - about $60 per month - $720 per year
Starbucks - about $50 per month - $600 per year
Soda Stream flavoring - about $30 per month - $360 per year
Soda/Poppi/other canned drinks - about $60 per month - $720 per year
Vitamin Water and Bai - about $150 per month - $1800 per year
Wine - about $400 per month - $4800 per year
Liquor - about $300 per year, only when guests are coming
Drinks out - about $200 a month = $2400 a year

When you add in special occasion champagne, bottled water, other coffee supplies like creamers and sweetener, random purchases out I'm sure we spend about $15k on beverages a year.

We don't drink. I occasionally buy soda or coconut water, never bottled water. I make my own coffee with La Llave coffee and almond milk. I'd say under $500 total for all of those.