Have you ever thought what things really cost over a period of time? The other day I read the following comments about how much it cost to have a couple of glass's of wine each evening. Something that many people I know do... To keep you up-to-date here are some 2008 California State Fair results. Best of Show Red Wine – Castle Rock Winery/2006 Mendocino County Pinot Noir; Best of Show White Wine – Loredona/2007 Monterey Riesling. Charles Shaw’s #1 wine received a Silver Medal, still outstanding in my humble opinion.
Simple math – you are supposed to drink 2 glasses of wine a day and at 4 glasses per bottle that comes to 180 bottles a year or $360 for me drinking Shaw. If you desire, for example, Santa Margherita Pino Grigio at about $20 a bottle your yearly cost would be $3,600 a year. That is a real difference in a down economy. As the saying goes – 3,240 pennies saved are 3,240 pennies earned and if you are in a 30% Federal Tax Bracket and 9% State Rate you would have to earn $5,901.64 annually to drink $20 wine. For more information on this important health issue, go to http://www.thebestcaliforniawine.com/.
Simple math – you are supposed to drink 2 glasses of wine a day and at 4 glasses per bottle that comes to 180 bottles a year or $360 for me drinking Shaw. If you desire, for example, Santa Margherita Pino Grigio at about $20 a bottle your yearly cost would be $3,600 a year. That is a real difference in a down economy. As the saying goes – 3,240 pennies saved are 3,240 pennies earned and if you are in a 30% Federal Tax Bracket and 9% State Rate you would have to earn $5,901.64 annually to drink $20 wine. For more information on this important health issue, go to http://www.thebestcaliforniawine.com/.
Now personally I am not a fan of Two Buck Chucks but I have friends that are... Some of them even swear by it... funny if I bring over a good bottle that gets put away for private reserve until the guest leave.... The moral of the story here is how much it really cost... People are always asking me how to save money. The answer is simple - Think about what items really cost over a long period of time. If you drank the cheaper wine in a couple of years you would start to accumulate some pretty nice savings.
OK, this has nothing to do with real estate... but if you need to save money... buy the cheaper wine.
Have a great day,
Jeff
Long Beach Home Solutions
Above article taken from Duane Gomer at http://www.duanegomer.com/ (the picture was taken on Fishermans Island in Venice Italy in 2002)
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