"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> Holy crap. My soda consumption consists of one can of iced club soda,
> but only on hot afternoons. Other than that, nothing. If I'm drinking
> alcohol (aside from wine), it's usually consumed with water. Vodka and
> water is actually pretty good. My husband never drinks any kind of
> soda, but he does drink beer.
>
> I guess I save a lot of money by avoiding pop of all kinds.

My husband occasionally drinks alcohol. I just wish he'd quit buying beer.
We've had a 24 pack of something in the way in the garage for longer than I
care to remember. Every 3 years or so, Angela and I throw out all the beer,
assuming it to be bad. He never notices and eventually buys more that never
gets consumed. We did buy him a can of something at PCC. Has a rainbow and a
unicorn on it. Angela keeps trying to serve it to him but he won't take it.
We thought it was cute.

He does have some hard liquor. Not sure what. Gifts, I think. I never was
much of a drinker. Last drink I had was some expensive champagne that was
given to my husband by some other Coast Guard ship captain when they were
doing drug runs near South America. We had it on Christmas Eve but we each
only had a few sips as there was just the one bottle and a lot of people.
Although I do like the taste of wine in some cooked dishes, I never did like
the effects of alcohol and I certainly don't need the calories that come
with it. It's just as well as I can't drink it anyway due to a medication I
take.

I never cared much for club soda either. Too salty. Although that is usually
what I drank back in my clubbing (no pun intended but yet it's there) days.
I preferred Diet Coke but people kept bugging me to have liquor. For some
reason they didn't do this when I had the club soda. So I would alternate
that with lime and Diet Coke. Usually 2 club sodas after one Diet Coke.

Soda is something that I pretty much only buy not only when on sale but on
sale for a good price. That's why I keep so much of it. I can not always
find a good price on it. And the way most store do the sales these days, you
have to by 3 or 4 packs to get the sale price. Winco is the exception. They
don't always have good prices though. But they are the only store that sells
the Diet Shasta around here. I got the lemon lime while in the hospital and
we like it better than Sprite or 7 Up. In general, it is cheaper than Coke
or Pepsi. Husband is the annoying one. Not only do I have to keep different
flavors of things but different brands. He gets fussy.