I (or rather Ealish & I) seem incapable of shopping at Beverages & More without spending at least twice as much as we had planned. We go in thinking “Ok, we’ll just pick up a couple of bottles of wine & a two six-packs of beer”. Then the curse of BevMo hits. You may know it yourself. It strikes in two ways: the “oooh, that looks interesting, I think I’ll try some of that” effect and the “that’s cheap we’d better get some of that” effect. The best part of an hour later and our $40 dollar shopping trip has turned into a $160 one.

It’s not that we mind and it certainly hasn’t stopped us shopping at BevMo. We’ve just scaled down how much we plan to buy before entering the store so that we don’t need multiple trolleys. Maybe next time I’ll try using their handy order online & collect from the store service so that I can see how much my running tally is before I check out.

Now I must open another beer. I need to make some room in the fridge for my next BevMo trip.