Mrs.Nop: she stopped drinking wine when she started her diet, which was on Sunday of this week. She was having 2-3 glasses each night up until then. Part of the way she justifies spending money on the food is that she won't be spending it on wine. My thinking: she has been on diets before and on stop-drinking-wine "binges." Neither lasts for too long. She was on Weight Watchers for several months in 2005, but eventually stopped that. She's given up wine/beer for, at most, a couple months at a time.
Unless she was drinking Maddog 5050 or Thunderbird, then the cost of nightly wine drinking was likely running close to $200 per month.
Have you ever verbally disagreed with her and taken a stand regarding budget, scheduling, housework, food, etc.? If you have, what was her response? If you haven't, why not?
