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How much do you spend on a night out?

  • 08-05-2012 1:22am
    #1
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    On a proper night out whats the damage?

    10 pints e50
    packet of smokes e9.10
    nightclub door charge e10
    couple drinks for random bird e10
    chipper e8
    taxi e15

    total e102.10

    about 50 times a year excluding the few quieter nights out thats over e5,000.

    not many people can afford that before they have to sacrafice for the mortgage or just get fed up of hungover Sunday yet there is no really viable alternative for people in the mid 20s to socialise at night.


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  • #2
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Spent about 70 Eur on a night out.


  • #3
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    Coke: €1000
    Hookers: €1000
    Total: €2000


  • #4
    GiftofGab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,390 ✭✭✭GiftofGab


    €500 a year for some random birds...wow


  • #5
    MikeyGorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭MikeyGorse


    Too much....


  • #6
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    Pre-drinks. €15.
    Club entry. €10.
    Drinks. €25.
    Transport home. €8 (shared taxi) or €5 nitelink.

    €60 max.

    I don't do food after a night out.


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  • #7
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,265 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    7 or 8 pints - €30-37
    Food- €6/7

    Less than €50 most nights.


  • #8
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    No condoms, eh?

    You'd think you'd give up buying birds drinks if you couldn't even take home 1/50 nights you try to be honest :D


  • #9
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Average night, €40, €60 if clubbing, big night/family meet-up, €100.
    Don't go out much anymore, which suits me fine. Too many young people in pubs nowadays, talking about everything I used to do as of it's a new "thing".
    Hope they all get pregnant.


  • #10
    conor360
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭conor360


    i would spend about 80 on average .

    i would buy a friend a drink as im not that stingy and usually they would buy me a taco chip in the take away later on :pac:


  • #11
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    TehDagsBass wrote: »
    No condoms, eh?

    You'd think you'd give up buying birds drinks if you couldn't even take home 1/50 nights you try to be honest :D
    im catholic


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  • #12
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    Formation wrote: »
    im catholic
    Ah, I now understand why you drink so heavily, you poor thing :(


  • #13
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    About 0-20e

    I've been mentioned a few times in the "Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do" thread


  • #14
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    eth0 wrote: »
    About 0-20e

    I've been mentioned a few times in the "Stingiest thing you've seen stingy people do" thread
    Just a pity you have to spend so much of your night in the jacks helping people wash their hands to get the money for your round, really misses the point of going out with your mates :(


  • #15
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    6 cans at home €8
    2 pints in pub €8
    Don't smoke
    Don't pay to enter anywhere ever
    Don't buy women drinks
    Battered Mars Bar after €1.80 :)
    No taxi, walk home

    €17.80 average night.


  • #16
    IrishAm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭IrishAm


    grindle wrote: »
    Hope they all get pregnant.

    But then your taxes will have to pay for their six bedroom palace, brand new car, HD telly, their two week trip to Spain for their annual break from the dole and their millions of euro worth of welfare payments!:pac:


  • #17
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    6 cans at home ?8 2 pints in pub ?8 Don't smoke Don't pay to enter anywhere ever Don't buy women drinks Battered Mars Bar after ?1.80 :) No taxi, walk home ?17.80 average night.
    at that rate your only out for about an hour?


  • #18
    MickySticks
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,177 ✭✭✭MickySticks


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    6 cans at home €8
    2 pints in pub €8
    Don't smoke
    Don't pay to enter anywhere ever
    Don't buy women drinks
    Battered Mars Bar after €1.80 :)
    No taxi, walk home

    €17.80 average night.
    That's one shitty night out.


  • #19
    TehDagsBass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 223 ✭✭TehDagsBass


    IrishAm wrote: »
    But then your taxes will have to pay for their six bedroom palace, brand new car, HD telly, their two week trip to Spain for their annual break from the dole and their millions of euro worth of welfare payments!:pac:
    Annual break? How ****ing ignorant.

    It's the quarterly jaunt, my dear, and is necessary to give their poor, worn out bodies some rest and recovery from all that cv posting, application filling and interview sitting they so enthusiastically do :)


  • #20
    Fart
    Registered Users Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Fart


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    6 cans at home €8
    2 pints in pub €8
    Don't smoke
    Don't pay to enter anywhere ever
    Don't buy women drinks
    Battered Mars Bar after €1.80 :)
    No taxi, walk home

    €17.80 average night.

    ... Being forever alone: Priceless.


  • #21
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,664 ✭✭✭policarp


    Meal out + drinks.
    Night at the theatre.
    Pub + night club.
    Walk the dog and a carry out.
    Watch the stars.


    Depends. . .


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  • #22
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    IrishAm wrote: »
    But then your taxes will have to pay for their six bedroom palace, brand new car, HD telly, their two week trip to Spain for their annual break from the dole and their millions of euro worth of welfare payments!:pac:

    Hadn't thought of that. Terrible drunken foresight.
    I hope their genitalia rots off, or liquidises, ebolically.


  • #23
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Formation wrote: »
    at that rate your only out for about an hour?

    1.5 hrs, after 6 cans I'm slow at drinking.
    MickySticks wrote: »
    That's one s[COLOR="Black"]hitt[/COLOR]y night out.

    Yup but I've lots of money to spend on videogames & comics every week
    Fart wrote: »

    ... Being forever alone: Priceless.

    Very true, see above :)


  • #24
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    Battered Mars Bar wrote: »
    1.5 hrs, after 6 cans I'm slow at drinking. Yup Very true
    have you tried internet dating? Busty blonde babes from russia really go for that i hear.


  • #25
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    Maybe 5e on drink, either a few cans before hand or a pint or two of guiness once out, don't like being drunk at all at all so it's hard to spend much money on drink.
    Don't usually go anywhere where you have to pay in (Galway's great for that).
    Might spend 5e on a burger or whatever afterwards but not every night.
    Live within easy walking distance of town so now taxi home after.

    So maybe 10e on a pricey night out for the typical pre-drinks, pub, club deal which I would normally define as going 'out.' Theatre, gigs, cinema meals out etc are obviously more costy.


  • #26
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    If I go to Coppers I tend to overspend because that fricken ATM in there only shoots out 50's, genius play by them!


  • #27
    Kerplunk124
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭Kerplunk124


    6 cans of Bavaria for pre drink = €6
    Box of Amberleaf = €4.65 ish?
    2 Bottles in the pub = €3.80
    Getting into club = €5 before 12 but its almost always after so €10
    3 pints in there = €9

    €33.45
    Sounds about right as i always only bring out about 30-35 quid these days anyway..


  • #28
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    Genius play to have a casino around the corner from coppers.


  • #29
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    About €50, don't think I have ever spent much more than that. Always take €100 with me though, plus the bank card. Rarely go out, so don't mind pushing the boat out when I do.


  • #30
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Formation wrote: »
    have you tried internet dating? Busty blonde babes from russia really go for that i hear.

    I have but I lose interest too quick in pursuing romantic interests online thanks to porn.


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  • #31
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    Typical Saturday Night:

    Half a crate of Bud - €7.50
    Door charge - €10
    Drinks - €40-50
    Food - €5
    Taxi's -€10

    = Around €80, sometimes more, sometimes less.

    Typical Mid week, Tues/Weds/Thurs night:

    Half a crate of Bud - €7.50
    Door charge - €5
    Drinks - €25
    Taxi's - €10

    = Around €45 usually, maybe round it off to €50

    So I usually spend about €130 a week just on going out, too much really.


  • #32
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,364 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Bottle of Jack/Vodka - €15

    Few cans - €5

    Pint or two at the pub/club - €4-8

    Food - €6

    Total: €30-€34


  • #33
    Formation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Formation


    So by and large ye either go out for an hour or drink in the house until about midnight before having 2 drinks in the club?


  • #34
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,282 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    I used to be very good, spend €12.58 on 12 bottles of Reinbacher before going out, and don't pay into clubs, 1/2 drinks in the club, usually eat when i get home.

    But lately, i've gone back into that trend of spending €12.58 on 12 bottles of Reinbacher before going out, and somehow spending €80 in the club on double Stiffy Cola's with a bottle of Smirnoff Ice (bout €15 a pop)...

    So i'm not going out anymore :(


  • #35
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    its expensive alright, 100 or thereabouts couple o drinks.. ride home if i'm not bothered with math sober, then no chance.


  • #36
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    About 14 euro.

    I spend 10 euro on taxi fares and drink tap water. I like to bring in a couple apples and bananas into the club with me to eat as water can be boring. Occasionally I'll bring in a bag of popcorn.


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  • #37
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Formation wrote: »
    On a proper night out whats the damage?

    10 pints e50
    packet of smokes e9.10
    nightclub door charge e10
    couple drinks for random bird e10
    chipper e8
    taxi e15

    total e102.10

    about 50 times a year excluding the few quieter nights out thats over e5,000.

    not many people can afford that before they have to sacrafice for the mortgage or just get fed up of hungover Sunday yet there is no really viable alternative for people in the mid 20s to socialise at night.
    Mortgage? :confused:


  • #38
    Old Tom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Old Tom


    Am I having a deja vu again?


  • #39
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    6 beers for pre drinks $12
    8 pints (give or take) $76
    Bit of food after $12
    Taxi's in out split $10

    $110. About right. I probably spent 60/70 euro back in Ireland.


  • #40
    ihsb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 678 ✭✭✭ihsb


    I tend to pre-drink. Then take €50 out of the machine at the beginning of the night and not spend anything more then that. Tends to work alright and I am sober enough by the end of the night to not have the room spinning! :D


  • #41
    Van Rich Cheddar
    Posts: 0 ✭ Van Rich Cheddar


    MickySticks wrote: »
    That's one shitty night out.

    Because don't all Irish people know that you can't possibly have a good night out unless you've drunk so much the room is spinning and spent half a week's wages.

    There's just no need whatsoever to be spending over 100 euro on a night out, IMO. Maybe once in a blue moon for some big occasion, but every week? I'd just be thinking of all the other things I could do with that money. I rarely spend more than 30 quid and still have a great time.


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  • #42
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭ [Deleted User]


    A big night out - 40 euro.

    A regular night out - 10 euro.


  • #43
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Most ppl here sound like under25 or single or both.

    I don't do pre drinks as its not my intention to get smashed every night out.

    Night out about eur20. Pints here are about eur1.


  • #44
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    I don't drink alcohol anymore and the Taxi dude is a family friend, so that's free...

    Less than ten quid.

    Before that, it'd be 20 or 30 quid along with a few pre-drinks.

    Much happier now though.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Tend to have nights in more than out these days. Lay on a lot of grub and get some crates of beer in. Get everyone over. BBQ and cocktails in the garden too if the weather is good. Leave a box by the door anyone who wants to throw money in towards anything can do so.

    More often than not I break even. Even been known to come out with a small profit - but usually throw that back into the next house party.

    On the nights I do go out I tend to just order a bottle of wine and a glass. Over priced of course but still massively cheaper than 6 or 7 pints.


  • #46
    filmbuffboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭filmbuffboy


    Few beers at home beforehand 8 euro
    Get into the club before 11 on sat/12 mid week - free!
    2/3 pints at the club 12 euro
    supermacs afterwards 6 euro
    walk home - free

    total: 26 euro! and thats when im being extravagant! (im a student)


  • #47
    Patsy fyre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,184 ✭✭✭Patsy fyre


    a fat guy wrote: »
    I don't drink alcohol anymore and the Taxi dude is a family friend, so that's free...

    Less than ten quid.

    Before that, it'd be 20 or 30 quid along with a few pre-drinks.

    Much happier now though.
    Stingy fu¢ker


  • #48
    a fat guy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 800 ✭✭✭a fat guy


    Patsy fyre wrote: »
    Stingy ****€r

    What's so stingy about not wanting to drink anymore?

    It's nice being able to actually use Sunday for something productive for once.


  • #49
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    underground out around 10pm- free with work ticket
    8 - 10 beers- €16-20
    kebab- €3
    underground home at 6am- €0


  • #50
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    NothingMan wrote: »
    8 pints (give or take) $76

    I predict that you are a gullible fool............... IN AMERICA!

    https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRedfP2sjNh_O8Fja7cZepN3WxpKKPyOsYTnrg8xY1RLKmY7ERl


  • #51
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Spent my bollox this weekend! Collosus Casino cleaned me out :(

    Usually spend about €80 I'd say


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