But if you really want to give a tangible gift in the meantime, I love getting basketball box seat tickets, gift cards to fine dining restaurants/steakhouses, or wine/hard alcohol.

@Michael Volek  No, seriously, I'm not joking...advancement here (the country in general, and specifically small cities like this one) is made through sharing smokes and bottles of alcohol at dinners.

It happens because the net amount from the section 8 voucher to the landlord is reduced by the utility allowances that section 8 builds into the voucher amount, and when my rental has central air conditioning section 8 subtracts an additional utility amount for the allowance to power the AC - but a non-section 8 tenant is usually willing to pay more rent for AC (and they don't then subtract for the extra power consumption like section 8 does).

Then, I recently read "Set for Life" and have started heavily budgeting myself with the big money holes in my life (rent, car payment, groceries, alcohol/drinking) and seeing that I will be saving around 1500/month woke me up to the fact that I need to be investing now, not later, so that compound interest will work in my favor.

But can we do it somewhere that serves alcohol?

I would not allow them to drink any alcohol on the jobsite, period!

My friends think I am crazy to grocery shop at Walmart to save $20-30 a trip or to not drink much at all to save money on alcohol, but I can see the results so I keep moving forward.

They tend to leave bottles of alcohol. 

Not to mention its the only "product" available for consumption which has never been attributed to a single death.

Wealth is merely deferred consumption.