If you don't like drinking, why bring up the money? It's an irrelevant point, unless you're saying "I like drinking, but I like pens more so I choose to spend m

If you don't like drinking, why bring up the money? It's an irrelevant point, unless you're saying "I like drinking, but I like pens more so I choose to spend my money on pens" at which point I say "I respect that, but we're clearly not going to be friends". But if it's "I don't like drinking, btw I like pens so I spend the money I would spend drinking on pens" then it's not why you don't drink - it's what you do with your money since you don't like drinking. In which case we can be friends. The way it's presented in this post is none of those, and seems more to me to be an attempt to make me feel silly for spending my money on "things I won't remember" (something that never happens to almost anyone when they drink). I don't feel silly at all for it, and my personal view of life makes me feel that placing value on physical things above experiences is extremely silly.