You Know You Are Old When

[MossRoad]

Don't you have to drink all that within say, 60 or 90 days to preserve freshness and taste?

My FIL was a legendary Pennsylvania working man beer connoisseur and drilled that message into me.

Seriously, my father in-law said he felt bad that he only had his favorite beer in the garage fridge, and he'd ask my wife and me what we liked to drink. He'd buy a 12 pack of each. Wife and I would have 1 or 2 on our next visit. We'd go back a week later and they were gone. What the heck???

"I had to drink it before it went gunky."

 

[WinterDeere]

Don't you have to drink all that within say, 60 or 90 days to preserve freshness and taste?

Depends on the type. Most of the stuff in my fridge is the very high (9% - 12%) ABV Belgian triples and quadruples, or similar, and those have better shelf life than 3% or 4% brews.

But no worries, I have 1 beer almost every day, so what you see there represents about 30 days if I'm working alone. We have guests frequently enough that they don't last even that long.

My FIL was a legendary Pennsylvania working man beer connoisseur and drilled that message into me.

Freshness is definitely important with some brew types, and especially if you're having local brews that were not pasteurized for export compliance.

 

[masseyrider]

YKYO when you wake up each morning and you're surprised by it,

 

[WinterDeere]

YKYO when you wake up each morning and you're surprised by it,

Massey, every morning:

 

[newbury]

This one and only house I bought 45 years ago and paid off in 3 years but the interest was 14%. My Dad waited the entire 30 years paying his off because it was 4%. He said every time he went to the bank they begged him to pay it off early. The monthly payment was less than $25.

Interest rates are everything. For my present house I'm sitting in we bought in 1984 and the best rate we could find was an adjustable at ~12%, with a guarantee it wouldn't go above 16%, and we felt lucky. They laughed at us when I asked what the LOWEST it would go.
Well we rode it down to about 6%, when we jumped to a fixed at about 5%.
Paying off a loan early is good, if you don't have other uses for the $$ and depends on the value of your money in the future.
/edit - I tried to get my wife to redo the financing on all of our houses to the max when rates dropped and we were getting refi offers around 2% during the 2021 crisis. But she wouldn't go along with it