Being a bachelor and living alone have many advantages. I can eat what I want when I want, do what I want when I want to, and watch whatever the hell I want to without asking anyone or debating about movie options. I can leave my fishing gear spread all over the house and no one complains. Except when the girlfriend is over. She’s made a couple of comments.
Two things do suffer somewhat. General tidiness (I know where everything is, I swear) and decor. Going over to friend’s place where either a girl lives in the house or the couple is married, it’s always neat and tidy with pictures on the wall, nicknacks and decorative stuff everywhere.. It all looks very good and well put together. Looking around my apartment right now, I have two framed DeYoung bumper stickers in my living room and a line of beer bottles above the kitchen stove.
That, my friends, is how a bachelor’s apartment should look.
Why use beer bottles as decoration? Several good reasons. The labels are pretty cool. Many of them are fishing themed. They are already there in your house, might as well put them to good use. They add some nice color to an otherwise bland room.
And I know that whenever the day comes I do get married and settle down, the collection will likely have to go. Live it up while you can, right? Fishing and beer go hand in hand. Being a bachelor and beer go hand in hand too. Being a fishing bachelor.. Well, you get the idea.
Beer bottle collecting is just like any other hobby. You can have a theme, like just local microbrews, or foreign beers, or labels with animals on them, whatever. A couple of people come to mind that are constantly trying new beer just to be able to expand their collection. One of the best ones I have ever seen stretched across an entire kitchen, two bookshelves, and most of the fireplace mantle. Impressive.
Tacky? Perhaps. But that’s just part of its charm.
