Money spent on drink?

Freddy K

How much roughly do you spend on alcohol a month? I've worked out that over the last 6-7 months I've spent around 3k on it (that includes everything, from taxi's, to clubs, feeds after etc). Is that the norm or is it a bit high? Works out at roughly over 400 a month...

Rb

I spent about €40 or so on drink per month these days, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Not arsed with the whole going clubbing thing anymore really, prefer to sit in and have a few quiet ones.

Helix

€20 a week at the moment coz i havent been out in ages

but a night out would be €150ish

Freddy K

Both answers were not what I wanted to hear, haha. Just trying to gauge what the 'norm' is for those that go out that often. I'm getting worried here.

DubLegs

i'd usually spend about 80 on a night out. So say roughly 250 per month! kinda adds up when you do think about it. Scary thought.

Rb

Very much situational dependent.
I used to spend a fcking disgraceful amount on nights out, I did enjoy it, but I was earning good money with no outgoings so spending it meant little or nothing to me.

Now I've rent, bills, petrol to pay etc. so don't go on mad nights out blowing loads of money. I've been saving money for a trip to NY coming up in two weeks, I'm sure I'll absolutely spew cash over there but that'll be it for a few months. Nights out just aren't worth the money spent on them anymore.

stepbar

Far too much.

amoeba_girl

Yeah, it all depends, I used to spend about €250 a week, so like a grand a month, sometimes more, then I cut back, I'd say about €100-€120 a week now....

Depending on the person of course, but yeah, I'd say that's pretty average expenditure on alcohol... well for someone in their late-teens/early-mid-twenties anyway....


Right?

Rb

amoeba_girl wrote: »

Yeah, it all depends, I used to spend about €250 a week, so like a grand a month, sometimes more, then I cut back, I'd say about €100-€120 a week now....

Depending on the person of course, but yeah, I'd say that's pretty average expenditure on alcohol... well for someone in their late-teens/early-mid-twenties anyway....


Right?

Are you single and living at home?

Or are you just earning an unreal amount of money?

Terry

I rarely go to the pub these days. It's just too expensive.
I spent about €80 on Friday night.

The off licence across the road is selling 24 cans of Bud for €28, so I picked up a couple of them on Friday. I still have about 10 left.

Generally I would spend about €250 a month. More if I go to the pub.

Freddy K

Yup, early twenties.

Stepbar - You spend far too much?

Timans

Terry wrote: »

I rarely go to the pub these days. It's just too expensive.
I spent about €80 on Friday night.

The off licence across the road is selling 24 cans of Bud for €28, so I picked up a couple of them on Friday. I still have about 10 left.

Generally I would spend about €250 a month. More if I go to the pub.

38 Cans of Bud in two days?

:eek:

WexCan

amoeba_girl wrote: »

Yeah, it all depends, I used to spend about €250 a week, so like a grand a month, sometimes more, then I cut back, I'd say about €100-€120 a week now....

Depending on the person of course, but yeah, I'd say that's pretty average expenditure on alcohol... well for someone in their late-teens/early-mid-twenties anyway....

Wow... I'd love to know how people afford it in their late teens/early twenties if that is the average.

Terry

Timans wrote: »

38 Cans of Bud in two days?

:eek:

Oh, right.
No. I meant to say that I have 10 left from one of the packs.
The other one hasn't been opened.

Slunk

Id spend on average €500 a month on it.

Timans

Terry wrote: »

Oh, right.
No. I meant to say that I have 10 left from one of the packs.
The other one hasn't been opened.

i was wondering.

Still, 9 cans a day..

tman

I'd usually spend €80-€100ish on a night out, but I have no life so they're fairly rare these days...

was over in London recently and I managed to spend around £150 on Friday and Saturday night, I even ran out of money on the Friday night and ended up using my credit card to order drinks:p
5-6am closing time = trouble

Rb

WexCan wrote: »

Wow... I'd love to know how people afford it in their late teens/early twenties if that is the average.

And it's a girl apparently.

There's something wrong with a girl spending €250 a week on drink and I don't mean that "Oh are no lads buying them for them", I mean the average girl gets drunk much, much quicker than guys so would presumably be drinking a bit less/lighter drinks, so €250 is a massive amount.

Terry

Timans wrote: »

i was wondering.

Still, 9 cans a day..

That's not including the pints I had last night and Friday night and...
I could go on forever here.

WexCan

rb_ie wrote: »

There's something wrong with a girl spending €250 a week on drink and I don't mean that "Oh are no lads buying them for them", I mean the average girl gets drunk much, much quicker than guys so would presumably be drinking a bit less/lighter drinks, so €250 is a massive amount.

Some of the "lighter" drinks can be more expensive though

Rb

WexCan wrote: »

Some of the "lighter" drinks can be more expensive though

Well this is true, but still...

WexCan

Still shocking though. And €250 before - dear god she must have been permanently out of it.

Terry

rb_ie wrote: »

And it's a girl apparently.

There's something wrong with a girl spending €250 a week on drink and I don't mean that "Oh are no lads buying them for them", I mean the average girl gets drunk much, much quicker than guys so would presumably be drinking a bit less/lighter drinks, so €250 is a massive amount.

It can easily be done.

Like I said, I spent €80 on Friday night and that was just staying local.
No cabs and no niteclub entry.
That was just on beer though (damn rounds).

Throw the price of a few fat frogs or whatever it is the kids are drinking these days and you won't be long saying goodbye to your money.

princess-sprkle

about 50 quid or so. pub drinking is way way to expensive. went to fibbers on friday and i was broke by about 12!

monthly average is about 150 or so. (i'm 20 btw)

estariol

Wow when you really break it down and think about it, well fridays about 80, saturdays about 100.......then there's either a champions leage game or trip to cinema during the week with a few after! about 40-50......
And then a few at home drinks/night caps during the week.....damn that's about 300 a week!

Dord

I'd spend about €60 - €70 on a night out. I don't go out drinking often though. Maybe a few times a month max.

stratospheres

Don't drink much or often so...
I'd spend about 50 on a night out into town, including drinks, entry fees, taxi home!
I'd have maybe one or 2 nights out a month and that's it!
Just not worth it imo (I'm only 19) and I've already gotten kinda sick of the whole scene...

Rb

Terry wrote: »

It can easily be done.

Like I said, I spent €80 on Friday night and that was just staying local.
No cabs and no niteclub entry.
That was just on beer though (damn rounds).

Throw the price of a few fat frogs or whatever it is the kids are drinking these days and you won't be long saying goodbye to your money.

Indeed, but that works out as roughly 14-16 pints depending on the place, and I certainly couldn't see any woman downing 14-16 drinks of anything alcoholic and walking afterwards!

We'll need more feedback from the poster on this, if it was perhaps 2 nights per week with an average spend of €125, you're talking €10-15 for a taxi depending on where you're coming from, probably less though as when you're heading out you're usually in a group so this would reduce the cost, then another €10-€15 for nightclub entry so that'd cut it to somewhere between €95-€105 purely spent on alcohol.
"Alcopops" usually work out somewhere between €5.50-€6 afaik, so that'd mean consuming 15-17 of them in one night! So she would have to have been stumbling disaster after that!

As I said though, would need more details, just really guessing there so could be wrong.

Seraphina

currently living in southampton, most ive spent on a night out has been £30, and thats me getting pretty freakin drunk...

between 40 and 60 euro a week

ScumLord

All of it. I'm an alcoholic.