One of my biggest mistakes in the past was having a nice night with a girl, going out for a few drinks, and then heading back to my house with no pad game. We get back to my place...
"You want a drink?"
"Um, let's see... Canadian Club with a Coke? PBR? Franzia?"
Or I'd plan ahead and buy a few bottles of expensive wine. Then I'd be pissed that she didn't come home with me and that I blew $75 on wine which honestly all tastes the all same to me.
So, I got a bar. It works well for me. It was cheap. It's easy. It cost like $200 to get it up to speed.
This is what I found works...
1. Get a physical bar. It doesn't need to be a wet bar or anything extravagant. Mine is basically a cabinet that pulls out, with room for glasses and other shit on the bottom cabinets. It's got a wine opener, napkins, and mixers underneath. I picked up an ice holder at a thrift shop. With ice tongs. Fancy schmancy.
2. Boxed wine served from a decanter. The decanter can be gotten from a thrift store for like $5. If you really want to class shit up, cut up some oranges, limes, and add rum. Chill in the fridge. Blam. Spanish Sangria. In any event, throw cheap boxed wine into a decanter and you look like a boss. You can also throw cheap whiskey into a decanter.
3. Liquor: Whiskey, gin, vodka. Have them on hand. Vodka tends to be the drink women want at your house, mixed with something sweet. Or wine. Tequila, rum and other drinks are unnecessary but fun. If you want to be an all out pig, buy good liquor and then refill the bottles with well drinks when you've drank it all. No one knows if they're drinking Pinnacle or Grey Goose. I honestly can't tell the difference except for the bottle.
4. Mixers: Be a pimp and buy the little bottles - the "pony" sized mixers. I don't know why, but they're cool. Coke, Diet Coke, Ginger Ale, tonic, and plain soda water. Maybe cranberry juice but once you open the bottle it goes bad. I have vermouth, bitters, olives and grenadine but honestly I've never used any of that. All I use is basically soda.
5. Basic glassware. You don't need to go nuts with this. Tumblers, wine glasses (red and white. the red ones are big, the white ones are smaller), and that's really all about it. I used to have all the martini glasses but they take up a lot of space, and everything is fine in a tumbler. You can get it all from Ikea for a song and a dance. Dawn dish soap (the blue stuff) keeps everything looking brand new. I keep 6 tumblers, 4 red wine glasses, and 4 white wine glasses. Pint glasses for beer drinkers.
6. Presentation is everything. The difference between whiskey poured on a diet coke in a cheap plastic cup in a frathouse? A cocktail napkin and straws in nice glassware. Your drinks go from looking like you're just pouring a drink to like you're a professional bartender. Serve a drink on a napkin and with straws in it, and you've literally just upped your bar game like a champ. Cut up some limes, put them in a bowl, and lay them out on the bar. The cost is next to nothing, but presentation of drinks makes a big difference. Hand her a drink in a sparking tumbler, with a fresh cut lime, and a straw. Watch what happens.
7. Ice game. You can get those "rocks" holders (big ass ice whiskey cubes) for like $1. Fancy time. They make every drink look cool. You can also get real "rocks" but I've never liked them. I like the big ass ice cube things. It's like $2 to get big ice cubes.
If you're into the whole wine thing, have a wine cooler or whatever. That's a cool hobby. But if you're just trying to bring girls back to your place, this is one of the cheapest investments I've ever made. Basically, a cabinet with sodas, napkins, and straws in it.
"You want a drink?"
"Um, let's see... Canadian Club with a Coke? PBR? Franzia?"
Or I'd plan ahead and buy a few bottles of expensive wine. Then I'd be pissed that she didn't come home with me and that I blew $75 on wine which honestly all tastes the all same to me.
So, I got a bar. It works well for me. It was cheap. It's easy. It cost like $200 to get it up to speed.
This is what I found works...
1. Get a physical bar. It doesn't need to be a wet bar or anything extravagant. Mine is basically a cabinet that pulls out, with room for glasses and other shit on the bottom cabinets. It's got a wine opener, napkins, and mixers underneath. I picked up an ice holder at a thrift shop. With ice tongs. Fancy schmancy.
2. Boxed wine served from a decanter. The decanter can be gotten from a thrift store for like $5. If you really want to class shit up, cut up some oranges, limes, and add rum. Chill in the fridge. Blam. Spanish Sangria. In any event, throw cheap boxed wine into a decanter and you look like a boss. You can also throw cheap whiskey into a decanter.
3. Liquor: Whiskey, gin, vodka. Have them on hand. Vodka tends to be the drink women want at your house, mixed with something sweet. Or wine. Tequila, rum and other drinks are unnecessary but fun. If you want to be an all out pig, buy good liquor and then refill the bottles with well drinks when you've drank it all. No one knows if they're drinking Pinnacle or Grey Goose. I honestly can't tell the difference except for the bottle.
4. Mixers: Be a pimp and buy the little bottles - the "pony" sized mixers. I don't know why, but they're cool. Coke, Diet Coke, Ginger Ale, tonic, and plain soda water. Maybe cranberry juice but once you open the bottle it goes bad. I have vermouth, bitters, olives and grenadine but honestly I've never used any of that. All I use is basically soda.
5. Basic glassware. You don't need to go nuts with this. Tumblers, wine glasses (red and white. the red ones are big, the white ones are smaller), and that's really all about it. I used to have all the martini glasses but they take up a lot of space, and everything is fine in a tumbler. You can get it all from Ikea for a song and a dance. Dawn dish soap (the blue stuff) keeps everything looking brand new. I keep 6 tumblers, 4 red wine glasses, and 4 white wine glasses. Pint glasses for beer drinkers.
6. Presentation is everything. The difference between whiskey poured on a diet coke in a cheap plastic cup in a frathouse? A cocktail napkin and straws in nice glassware. Your drinks go from looking like you're just pouring a drink to like you're a professional bartender. Serve a drink on a napkin and with straws in it, and you've literally just upped your bar game like a champ. Cut up some limes, put them in a bowl, and lay them out on the bar. The cost is next to nothing, but presentation of drinks makes a big difference. Hand her a drink in a sparking tumbler, with a fresh cut lime, and a straw. Watch what happens.
7. Ice game. You can get those "rocks" holders (big ass ice whiskey cubes) for like $1. Fancy time. They make every drink look cool. You can also get real "rocks" but I've never liked them. I like the big ass ice cube things. It's like $2 to get big ice cubes.
If you're into the whole wine thing, have a wine cooler or whatever. That's a cool hobby. But if you're just trying to bring girls back to your place, this is one of the cheapest investments I've ever made. Basically, a cabinet with sodas, napkins, and straws in it.
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