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Meet Your 2014 Anti-Resolutions

If you’re to believe modern science, you only live once. So let other people commit to New Year’s resolutions involving Bikram juicing or whatever. This is your time for <em>Flintstones</em>-size steaks and titanic plates of caviar. This is your time... for anti-resolutions.

Anti-Resolution: Mountains of Caviar
RESOLUTION: CUT BACK ON EXTRAVAGANT DINNERS

Anti-Resolution: Mountains of Caviar

You probably never used the word “moderation” to describe any of your 2013 dinners at Mari Vanna. But now they’re kindly offering you the chance to drop $595 on 90 grams of Imperial Kaluga caviar. And you’ve already gone almost two full days through 2014 without 90 grams of caviar...

$595, available at Mari Vanna, 8475 Melrose Pl, West Hollywood, 323-655-1977

Anti-Resolution: 750 mL of Gillian
RESOLUTION: MODERATE YOUR BEER DRINKING

Anti-Resolution: 750 mL of Gillian

Cans. Bottles. Taps. As far as beer-delivery vessels go, these aren’t exactly unprecedented. But on the off chance you’ve never ordered a $42 bottle of beer that shows up in a wine-bottle-size bottle, head to Little Bear for their oak-aged, strawberry-brewed sour ale from Goose Island named Gillian. Good name.

$42, available at Little Bear, 1855 Industrial St, 213-622-8100

Anti-Resolution: This Steak
RESOLUTION: CUT DOWN ON RED MEAT

Anti-Resolution: This Steak

Going big: steak dinner. Going anti-resolution big: Chi Spacca’s hulking slab of dry-aged bistecca alla Fiorentina, which weighs 42 ounces and costs $175. First week of the new year, and you’re already dipping into your T-bone fund...

$175, available at Chi Spacca, 6610 Melrose Ave, 323-297-1133

Anti-Resolution: Rent a Pudding Truck
RESOLUTION: WATCH THE SUGAR

Anti-Resolution: Rent a Pudding Truck

Most people out there are cutting back on sugar. Most people are not calling up a pudding truck for a private pudding-truck party—think chocolate, butterscotch and vanilla-bean puddings with endless custom toppings. Most people are now awaiting an invite to your place.

Anti-Resolution: Rent a Mansion
RESOLUTION: CONSERVE YOUR RESOURCES

Anti-Resolution: Rent a Mansion

Theoretically, there are ways for you to wisely spend $40,000 in a single month. One of those ways is probably not renting a 12-bedroom, three-acre Santa Monica estate with a wishing well and a secret wet bar hidden behind fake books. Emphasis on “probably.”

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