800 Euro for a month ?!?!?!

Heyes

Right im after realising that i spent 800 euro on the last month going out, I dont actually drink an obsene amount but with taxi s and entrence fees i find im spending more and more.... How is it possible to do a cheap night in Ireland these days with the prices we are up against !?!!?!?

Heisenberg.

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coffee_cake

my taxi back costs 10euro
I get the bus into town
I don't pay to get in anywhere
that means either going in earlier or going to free places

quite simple

Huggles

Heyes wrote:

Right im after realising that i spent 800 euro on the last month going out, I dont actually drink an obsene amount but with taxi s and entrence fees i find im spending more and more.... How is it possible to do a cheap night in Ireland these days with the prices we are up against !?!!?!?

Its not unless you get a dvd or two and a couple of cans.

Seriously though, im not a smoker and I dont drink and I am still skint at end of the month from buying lunches and other such crap.

How have we accepted these price hikes?

Heyes

TheGooner wrote:

Its not unless you get a dvd or two and a couple of cans.

Seriously though, im not a smoker and I dont drink and I am still skint at end of the month from buying lunches and other such crap.

How have we accepted these price hikes?

We unfortunately have no choice in the matter, someone will always pay the prices so places are nt worried about price hikes leading to potential loss of sales, cause it will never happen:(

shane86

I seem to hover around the same amount in my bank account consistently e.g. Ill have 1600 in the account, Ill get my 700 pay, two weeks later Im back at 1600, in comes another 700. Transport is usually rounabouts 20, food 10, admission another 10, and about 13 drinks at a fiver a pop, hate this feckin country.

coffee_cake

shane86 wrote:

I seem to hover around the same amount in my bank account consistently e.g. Ill have 1600 in the account, Ill get my 700 pay, two weeks later Im back at 1600, in comes another 700. Transport is usually rounabouts 20, food 10, admission another 10, and about 13 drinks at a fiver a pop, hate this feckin country.

You hate the country because you can't cut down on alcohol? Lovely.

Rb

I've spent more than that some months...its sickening when you look back at it alright. Some nights are definately worth the money, but some are just such a waste.
I've cut back a good bit these days though, its a ridiculous amount to be spending.

As for cheap nights, I don't think I've ever had one. Even the nights where you have a few drinks in a friends before heading out, then the taxi, entrance fee and drinks in there costs quite a bit.

The only way to have a really cheap night is to get really cheap booze and consume enough of it so that you won't have to drink at the club you go to, then make sure you've a concession pass for the club after having walked all the way to it. Not spend a penny in there and walk home. I'm sure that would work out relatively cheap.

I've gotten used to more nights in now, just getting a few cans or something and heading to a friends. They're cheap nights sure enough, but they're not the same as a proper night out.

I'd say the bare minimum you'd spend on a night would be €40-€50 really, and thats just for the drink before the club, taxi there split between a few, entrance and your taxi home.

I know personally a night out, on average, costs €100+. Some nights it'll be €80 maybe, if I'm not really into it that night, but other nights have cost as much as €270, though that was definately the record. Luckily since I'm not working, they're getting funded by my dear old parents at the moment. In fairness, I haven't really went out properly more than once a week over the last while, twice on the week of halloween but that was an exception.That'll soon change though

Oh and hitting the casino after a night out...not a good idea.

coffee_cake

rb_ie wrote:

I'd say the bare minimum you'd spend on a night would be €40-€50 really, and thats just for the drink before the club, taxi there split between a few, entrance and your taxi home.

Try 20 euro...


Why do you people insist on spending so much?

also, if I was one of your parents (and thank goodness I'm not) you can bet I'd tell you where to shove it if you demanded that much for a night out. That's stupid.

Crucifix

Jesus...as a student (and complete bum), I wish I even had 800 a month.
I don't go out much (like night out, I'm not a recluse), but you just need to pull out the various tricks. Try to avoid entrance fees, meet up at someone's place for a few cans before you go out, or better yet, just have a party at someones house.

Huggles

rb_ie wrote:

I know personally a night out, on average, costs €100+. Some nights it'll be €80 maybe, if I'm not really into it that night, but other nights have cost as much as €270, though that was definately the record. Luckily since I'm not working, they're getting funded by my dear old parents at the moment. In fairness, I haven't really went out properly more than once a week over the last while, twice on the week of halloween but that was an exception.That'll soon change though

Oh and hitting the casino after a night out...not a good idea.

Firstly HOW the hell did you spend 270 on a night out.

Your parents are funding these nights out? No offence, but your my idea of a nightmare child LOL

Faith

I'm a student and my parents don't give me much disposible cash. If I spent €50 on a night out, it would want to have been an absolutely amazing night. It would also be a complete anomaly.

Let's see... A bottle of wine (€7), a taxi into town (€3, shared with friends), entrance to a club (€5), 10 cigarettes (€3.50), taxi home (€7). Approximately €25. Wow, that's expensive...

Rb

bluewolf wrote:

Try 20 euro...

Don't be daft, €20 will get you nothing. Maybe your entrance fee and taxis there and back. If you don't get taxis, then you're spending at least €10 on the entrance, €4 on your nightlink and whatever on your bus there. Use the cloakroom?Thats another €2. You're left with nothing.

Oh and my parents aren't giving me €270 to spend on a night out, don't be ridiculous, I said that was the record. Maybe I should of added it was when I was working and paying for it myself. Generally they'll give me ~€90 and I'll stick another €20/30, sometimes but not often more, onto my credit card and let my overdraft handle the minimum monthly payments (bad, I know, but will be sorted when I'm working again) or ensure I have cash when the time comes.

Those few nights that have cost me €200+ were rare, it usually started in a bar after work. Usually cocoon and anyone who goes there knows the price of the drinks, or Cafe En Seine, or any other bar in the city centre really. They're all expensive, some more so than others but still going to cost you regardless. if I'm having a good time or have a good bit of cash at the time I certainly don't mind paying it really, but again, RARE. Then onto a club, sometimes lillies which is €20 in and again more quite highly priced drink, sometimes other clubs and usually followed by a trip to bucks after...easily burn through quite a lot of cash on a night like that but since they're a: rare, b: I was enjoying myself/could foresee myself enjoying the rest of the night and c: had a hefty bank balance at the time, I didn't mind that it cost.

Alkers

Drink before you go out and you can easily get away with only buying one drink, sneak in a naggin in your bag or something. Don't bring out money on a night out, you will nearly always spend as much as you bring with you.

coffee_cake

rb_ie wrote:

Don't be daft, €20 will get you nothing. Maybe your entrance fee and taxis there and back. If you don't get taxis, then you're spending at least €10 on a the entrance, €4 on your nightlink and whatever on your bus there. Use the cloakroom?Thats another €2. You're left with nothing.

Oh do explain to me then how I've had plenty of great nights out with 20 euro or less :rolleyes:
Let's see. bus in is 1.55.
There are plenty of pubs and clubs in town that don't charge an entrance fee.
Maybe I'll pay a bit for a game of pool.
I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.
However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.
A fool and his money...

Huggles

Im going to a gig tonight, ticket was 27.50, bus in 1.55, probably have three or four cokes/7ups around 13.00 taxi home-12.00

54.05 - not too bad.

Heyes

bluewolf wrote:

Oh do explain to me then how I've had plenty of great nights out with 20 euro or less :rolleyes:
Let's see. bus in is 1.55.
There are plenty of pubs and clubs in town that don't charge an entrance fee.
Maybe I'll pay a bit for a game of pool.
I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.
However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.
A fool and his money...

If you have the couple of drinks your already over the 20 euro....

coffee_cake

Not if they're less than 5 euro?
Anyway 22 euro or thereabouts is still a hell of a lot better than 220
and it still shows that 40-50 is NOT the bare minimum

actually, why do you people go out? Like, what makes a good night out? What's fun about it? Is it the company or the alcohol?
Just curious.

Huggles

bluewolf wrote:

Oh do explain to me then how I've had plenty of great nights out with 20 euro or less :rolleyes:
Let's see. bus in is 1.55.
There are plenty of pubs and clubs in town that don't charge an entrance fee.
Maybe I'll pay a bit for a game of pool.
I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.
However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.
A fool and his money...

Last time I went to a club I paid 20.00 in, 6.00 euro to hand in my coat and for the privilidge I ended up in A&E after a drunken twatdropped and smashed a glass beside me pushed me onto it when he was falling and i had to have glass removed from my leg. Never again.

Rb

bluewolf wrote:

I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

A few drinks? On €10? Lol! Unless you're going to Redz on a monday night (which is still €8 in) then you won't get a few drinks on €10 in most clubs in this city. Maybe one and some change but I can't think of anything that you can get two for €10. UNLESS of course its a student night or they've promotions going.
If you're not drinking, fair enough. I'd prefer to have a few, find being dead sober around a load of drunk people quite boring and annoying.

Bluewolf wrote:

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.

Your choice, though I can't recall anywhere I've been not charging in.

Obviously you've just a different social scene, thats your choice.

Bluewolf wrote:

However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.

I know, its my money, I'll do whatever I like with it once I can foresee it benefitting me in some way. If I spend a lot on a night out and enjoy myself, then I don't mind. If its a crap night then its money wasted, but that doesn't seem to happen very often.

Bluewolf wrote:

A fool and his money...

Pfft, jealousy rears(sp?) its ugly head.

Heyes

bluewolf wrote:

Not if they're less than 5 euro?
Anyway 22 euro or thereabouts is still a hell of a lot better than 220
and it still shows that 40-50 is NOT the bare minimum

actually, why do you people go out? Like, what makes a good night out? What's fun about it? Is it the company or the alcohol?
Just curious.

to have a few drinks, to socialise, to dance, to meet people, to relax... loads of reasons why

optiplexgx270

bluewolf wrote:

Oh do explain to me then how I've had plenty of great nights out with 20 euro or less :rolleyes:
Let's see. bus in is 1.55.
There are plenty of pubs and clubs in town that don't charge an entrance fee.
Maybe I'll pay a bit for a game of pool.
I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.
However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.
A fool and his money...

Well not drinking is another thing all together. Its the bulk of the cost. and a "drink or two" is a half hour out not a night.

Roll on the you dont need to drink to have a good night out gunff....

Dave!

bluewolf wrote:

Oh do explain to me then how I've had plenty of great nights out with 20 euro or less :rolleyes:
Let's see. bus in is 1.55.
There are plenty of pubs and clubs in town that don't charge an entrance fee.
Maybe I'll pay a bit for a game of pool.
I almost never use a cloakroom. I keep my bag with me.
10 euro for a taxi back.
maybe a couple drinks. Maybe not.
Left with spare change.

I don't pay entrance fees to hang around and queue for overcrowded places with no seating, drunken idiots stumbling around, and overpriced drinks.
However, if that's your idea of a good night out, you're welcome to spend all your money on it.
A fool and his money...

Hey you sound like fun, will you be my friend?

Send me a PM.

ktnxbye

bluewolf wrote:

actually, why do you people go out? Like, what makes a good night out? What's fun about it? Is it the company or the alcohol?
Just curious.

It's mainly the FUN/ENJOYMENT

coffee_cake

optiplexgx270 wrote:

Well not drinking is another thing all together. Its the bulk of the cost. and a "drink or two" is a half hour out not a night.


Roll on the you dont need to drink to have a good night out gunff....

Exactly. I'd rather spend my time playing or watching pool. And drinking more slowly... a drink or two can be a night out. Particularly if you then switch to non-alcohol.

Pft house parties are the best anyway.

Hey you sound like fun, will you be my friend?

Send me a PM.

ktnxbye

lol
the company of my friends tends to be fun enough, I don't need to throw alcohol in to enjoy it

It's mainly the FUN/ENJOYMENT

You know, I don't see "drinking oneself stupid" in that definition... curious, eh?

Rb

bluewolf wrote:

Exactly. I'd rather spend my time playing or watching pool. And drinking more slowly... a drink or two can be a night out. Particularly if you then switch to non-alcohol.

Pft house parties are the best anyway.


lol
the company of my friends tends to be fun enough, I don't need to throw alcohol in to enjoy it


You know, I don't see "drinking oneself stupid" in that definition... curious, eh?

Watching people playing pool....that sounds like real fun night out Bluewolf, really, it does. You've really put shown who like to go out to clubs and socialise (though it might cost us a bit)...really.

Non-alcoholic drinks still cost (and quite a lot considering)..except water.

coffee_cake

rb_ie wrote:

Watching people playing pool....that sounds like real fun night out Bluewolf, really, it does. You've really put shown who like to go out to clubs and socialise (though it might cost us a bit)...really.

Non-alcoholic drinks still cost (and quite a lot considering)..except water.

Sitting around watching pool and chatting to people and playing with them is less fun than barely being able to walk in an overcrowded too hot place with people spilling drink on you? Riiight.
Yeah, it might cost you a bit. But, there's plenty of fun to be had for less than 100 euro if you just (god forbid) try and cut down
but then if your parents are paying for your nights out I'm sure you don't care what the cost is :rolleyes:

iguana

rb_ie wrote:

I've spent more than that some months...its sickening when you look back at it alright. Some nights are definately worth the money, but some are just such a waste.
I've cut back a good bit these days though, its a ridiculous amount to be spending.

rb_ie wrote:

I know, its my money, I'll do whatever I like with it once I can foresee it benefitting me in some way. If I spend a lot on a night out and enjoy myself, then I don't mind. If its a crap night then its money wasted, but that doesn't seem to happen very often.

That's fairly contradictory.:rolleyes:

There are lots of places that you can go that don't charge in. When I lived in Dublin I used to go to Traffic quite a bit on a Friday night and all you had to do was go on their website earlier in the week and they'd send you comps.

If someone chooses to go somewhere really expensive and spend all their money then they have no right to complain. There are plenty of cheaper alternatives and it has nothing to do with the state of the country. In most countries you have a range of options starting at cheap and ending in expensive and if you choose the expensive options then you have no-one to blame but yourself when you are broke at the end of the month.

Heyes

bluewolf wrote:

You know, I don't see "drinking oneself stupid" in that definition... curious, eh?

Who ever said everyone is doing that, its the huge prices of drink that is actually making us spend more, yes of course there s loads that go out to be get absolutaly sh*t faced, but not all. but it still all adds up. Think about it logically women !! lol

coffee_cake

Heyes wrote:

Who ever said everyone is doing that, its the huge prices of drink that is actually making us spend more, yes of course there s loads that go out to be get absolutaly sh*t faced, but not all. but it still all adds up. Think about it logically women !! lol

When someone is saying they're spending 800 euro a month to go out what else am I supposed to think? Especially when someone posted (possibly in the other alcohol thread) that they have at least 13 drinks going out... and people are posting advice about how you can have a lot of drink before you go out instead? Maybe getting completely "sh**faced" isn't the main point of the evening (not that I'm convinced of that) but it's not exactly a long way off...

Huggles

I think quite a bit of it comes down to age and experience.

Late teens early twenties you have no probs pissing money away. Mid-late twenties its a WHOLE other ball game. You tend to outgrow teh club scene and prefer to actually hear your mates.

Heyes

TheGooner wrote:

I think quite a bit of it comes down to age and experience.

Late teens early twenties you have no probs pissing money away. Mid-late twenties its a WHOLE other ball game. You tend to outgrow teh club scene and prefer to actually hear your mates.

Bluewolf granted yes there is a lot mentioning that they go out to get absolutaly sh*t faced, but as i have also mentioned many a time, there is other costs involved such as entrence fees and taxi's... there is not a direct bus route from my place to town so i more often than not share a taxi with friends or meet them in town. Then if we want to go dancing you could pay up to 20 euro to get into places, granted dont get me wrong i wouldnt actually pay a crazy figure like that but im just giving you an example. Also one pint last night cost me 5.60?!?!.. without a doubt prices go up on a saturday given the fact i was in the same place during the week a little bit back and it cost no where near that. Also what if there is a group of you and you decide to do rounds, there the amount you spend goes up again.

The gooner, granted i totally agree with your above statement, i always tend to find myself in places like fitzsimons or the porter house, as its nice to hear the people your with plus there not seedy. But then again a girl does love some dancing so nighclubs are still an option...

Its unfortunate we have to pay so much just for something very simple. Yeah could do it the cheap way and sit at home with friends but its nice to get out , mix with others, soak up the fun atmospher of everyone out for a laugh. Its just worth it sometimes, but i cant be spending crazy money like i have been !!!