70000 Beer Cans in an Ogden Townhouse
Financial Management

70000 Beer Cans in an Ogden Townhouse

large business and finance

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, everyday seems to introduce something new that you haven’t seen before. Let’s start off with actual pictures of the event in question:

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Now apparently this event happened about a year ago, but the general story is that the tenant of the building had lived in the Ogden townhouse for about eight years and during that time he was a heavy drinker of Coors Light beer. Evidently, rather than throwing away or recycling the empty beer cans, it was all literally just piled up around the house and in many cases there were beer can boxes stacked up to the roof.

After this mess was discovered by a realtor, the place was cleaned up and all the cans were recycled for about $800. An interesting number that came out of this is that with approximately 70,000 empty beer cans and seeing that the person has lived there for about eight years, that would mean that everyday he drank at least 24 cans of beer. I never knew anyone could drink that much in a day let alone everyday for eight years.

Thinking about those numbers further, if a can of beer costs say $1.60 a can, for 70,000 cans that would mean $122,000 or $14,000 a year the person would have spent on beer every year. I guess everyone knows that frequently drinking a lot can add up, but this is sure a good extreme case scenario on just how much one can spend on non necessities when it is done recklessly. It sure makes you think.

4 Comments

  • Jeff 5/25/2006

    Wow, that is alot of beer. I love beer myself, but not that kind of schwag. 24 cans of any american produced lager is easily consumed since it is nothing more than water with a hint of malt and hops. The cost of this kind of beer is more around .50 cents per can and about 12-14 bucks for a case.

    Now, if this person had consumed Guinness, Heineken or a locally produced craft beer, your cost anaylsis would be much closer.

    No matter what, this person did drink alot of beer. I am sure glad you didn’t post a picture of his bathroom.

  • Joy 6/22/2006

    eeewwwwwwwwww YUCK!

  • Alex 8/24/2007

    Seriously, and I’m not just saying this, That guy is my new Hero. Move aside Churchill……

  • Mark D. Combs 8/26/2007

    There seems to be an error in the story. The headline mentions beer cans, but in the story it’s Coors Light cans…

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