How much do you spend on drink and drugs?

funk-you

As the title says, about how much do you spend on drink and how much on drugs if you do them per week? Do you consider it a waste of money?

I'd say I blow anywhere between 100-300 a week. Enjoy it at the time but left with that 'ah bollocks' feeling afterwards.

-Funk

molloyjazz

everything!

Cheap Thrills!

About €100

funk-you wrote: »

Enjoy it at the time but left with that 'ah bollocks' feeling afterwards.

'the fear' !

davrho

All my dole money.

petes

About €300 a week.

cson

Not enough.

yoyo

Probably not more than €50 a week as I dont go out, just get cans lol

Nick

df1985

this per week?

funk-you

df1985 wrote: »

this per week?

Yup.

-Funk

old hippy

Probably a bit too much on the old gargle but haven't done much, if any gear for years. I realised that it just wasn't for me. Pity it took so long to find that out :rolleyes:

Hank_Jones

I spend almost nothing.

Haven't had a drink in about two weeks and I don't take drugs.

Depends on the week if I was drinking though. Usually spend less than €50 as I am a poor student. Sometimes 50-100.

kylith

It was €25, but since the headshops closed - zilch.

Dohnny Jepp

3 to 4 bottles of mcguigan shiraz so i'm in the up to 50 cat.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I'd spend about €30 on booze maybe €50 for the taxi home from town.* I hate living in the countryside.


*Galway

ScumLord

Uh, I made a mess of the poll.... loads scan, loads.

IvyTheTerrible

Very very little.

Between myself and my partner, we drink between 6 and 12 small bottles of beer a week, and maybe a bottle of wine.

If I drink more than one drink I feel like hell (I don't know if I have a tolerance), so it's just not worth it.

Schism

Very little. I'd say about €50 on a bad (good ) week. Usually it's more around the region of €20 (off license)

bazmaiden

funk-you wrote: »

As the title says, about how much do you spend on drink and how much on drugs if you do them. Do you consider it a waste of money?

I'd say I blow anywhere between 100-300 a week. Enjoy it at the time but left with that 'ah bollocks' feeling afterwards.

-Funk

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best

neil_hosey

about 250-350 a week for the past few years.. jesus i really need to stop drinking. sucha waste!

bluto63

Betweem 50-100 on drink, taking into account going out then if I were to do anything else it would be seldom enough, so less than 50

Pherekydes

€346 on drink in the last 12 months, a weekly average of €6.65, and that's including drink I might buy for other people. Not a heavy drinker or a frequent pub goer.

Mr Benevolent

Where's the €0 spent on drugs option?

Bassboxxx

Confab wrote: »

Where's the €0 spent on drugs option?

Yeah,

I spend nothing on drink and drugs....

And no I don't work in an off licence and sell drugs on the side..:rolleyes:

Although it does sound like a good idea now that I mention it

neil_hosey

Pherekydes wrote: »

€346 on drink in the last 12 months, a weekly average of €6.65, and that's including drink I might buy for other people. Not a heavy drinker or a frequent pub goer.

6 dutch a week?

shizz

I thot this was per night =/

Pherekydes

neil_hosey wrote: »

6 dutch a week?

LOL, no. Last night out was 4 weeks ago. I spent about €26 on drink.

I've had about 3-4 units of alcohol (wine) since.

pickarooney

About a tenner, maybe twenty if I'm flush.

prinz

I could go weeks without spending a penny and then have a week where I could go out a few days or nights and have a few......... too many. When I do spend on drink I tend to overspend, but not that often. Have spent upwards of €250 many a time. None on drugs.

Millie

If I don't go out then maybe €40/50 on wine and a few beers.

If on the lash then €100 approx.

Zero on the auld drugs.

just-joe

Maybe up to 50, 60 quid on a big night, which would be few and far between, The funny thing is you spend the same amount on a student 2euro night or whatever as you do on a normal expensive one, and don't even end up more panini-ed. Just buyin other people drinks, what a waste.

admiralofthefleet

dont do drugs and spend about 70 euro a week on drink

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

On average of about 15-20 euro a week, not bad eh

I rarely go out though, when I do I don't go nuts. Most expensive night out was in 2007, spent a little over 300 quid, but that included nude lapdances and the likes Fcuking well worth it. Doubt I would do that again though.

peasant

Drink: under a tenner
Drugs: nada

Mike 1972

"How much do you spend on drink and drugs? "

1) Is that per year/month/week/day/hour ?

2) Shouldnt it be "How much do you spend on drink and other drugs?

3) To what extent should flights/hotels in Amsterdam be included in the calculation ?

4) Those who say they "dont spend anything on drugs" do you use caffiene/nicotine/sugar......

i.need.a.job

Insurgent wrote: »

About €300 a week.

if i had 300 a week it wouldnt be drink and drugs id spend it on.... makes me madddddd

pickarooney

Millie wrote: »

If I don't go out then maybe €40/50 on wine and a few beers.

If on the lash then €100 approx.

Zero on the auld drugs.

What kind of wine and beers set you back 50 euros?
I could get 13 bottles of nice wine or 100 cans of beer for that

stovelid

<Bland, non-incriminating answer>

stovelid

i.need.a.job wrote: »

if i had 300 a week

You don't.

Get a job. One-trick ponies can plough fields and the like surely?

Min

For personal consumption, the average would be close to €0.00

entropi

Less than 50euro a week on booze for sure, I dont drink every week and on a scale of 1 to coppers for drunken-ness, I'd be around a 5 at most:pac:

Never into the aul drugs, not my scene so thats no euros per week.

dkdavey67

i.need.a.job wrote: »

if i had 300 a week it wouldnt be drink and drugs id spend it on.... makes me madddddd

thats you. people can spend their money whatever way the like. Irish begrudgery is alive and well.
I dont even want to think about how much I spent on drink during the good old celtic tiger days. Three nights a week full lash. I'm lucky to get an end of a can of dutch gold found floating down the camac these days.

funk-you

Confab wrote: »

Where's the €0 spent on drugs option?

It's a multiple choice poll, if you don't spend any on drugs then you don't click any of the drugs options.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

1) Is that per year/month/week/day/hour ?

I said earlier in the thread, per week.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

1)2) Shouldnt it be "How much do you spend on drink and other drugs?

No it shouldn't unless I'm writing my thesis for Cambridge. You know what was meant by the question.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

3) To what extent should flights/hotels in Amsterdam be included in the calculation ?

Not at all.

Mike 1972 wrote: »

4) Those who say they "dont spend anything on drugs" do you use caffiene/nicotine/sugar......

I'm sure they do but I'm not anal about such things. You know the meaning of the question.

I wonder what these figures would be like say 2006/7. Would people of spent much more?

-Funk

I voted 100 - 150 as I suppose that would be an average. It could be more though and even a lot more on a big week/weekend. I always appear to spend at least 80 euro on a night out and go out a least once a week but often more.

funk-you

i.need.a.job wrote: »

if i had 300 a week it wouldnt be drink and drugs id spend it on.... makes me madddddd

He most likely earned it, why shouldn't he spend it on what he wants? It's true that there are many less fortunate people out there but if I work hard for something, I shouldn't feel guilty of getting a reward for it.

-Funk

i.need.a.job

dkdavey67 wrote: »

thats you. people can spend their money whatever way the like. Irish begrudgery is alive and well.
I dont even want to think about how much I spent on drink during the good old celtic tiger days. Three nights a week full lash. I'm lucky to get an end of a can of dutch gold found floating down the camac these days.

i jus have a problem with it because it ruined a relationship.. drink and drugs.. i dont begrudge people for their recreational activities but surely theres more to life than drink and drugs....?

Dublin_Gunner

i.need.a.job wrote: »

i jus have a problem with it because it ruined a relationship.. drink and drugs.. i dont begrudge people for their recreational activities but surely theres more to life than drink and drugs....?

yep, sex & rock n' roll.

old_aussie

Meaningless poll unless it has ....per day....per week....per fortnight..per month or some other unit.

So people can give answer.

Like saying I'm doing a hundred. Yeah, but what...foot per hour....miles per hour etc.

I spend about 50 EUR per fortnight on beer for having a drink at home.

funk-you

old_aussie wrote: »

Meaningless poll unless it has ....per day....per week....per fortnight..per month or some other unit.

So people can give answer.

Like saying I'm doing a hundred. Yeah, but what...foot per hour....miles per hour etc.

I spend about 50 EUR per fortnight on beer for having a drink at home.

Just three posts above I said for the second time....Per week. Jeez, I'll edit the OP now. Do people not read posts that aren't trying to be funny anymore?

-Funk

GrizzlyMan

dont do drugs but would easly spend over €200 at the weekend on Booze

dkdavey67

i.need.a.job wrote: »

surely theres more to life than drink and drugs....?

there sure is!

but just because so spend 300 or whatever on it per week doesnt mean your at nothing else. in fact at the very least it means your working a job that allows you such a lavish social life.:D

Millie

pickarooney wrote: »

What kind of wine and beers set you back 50 euros?
I could get 13 bottles of nice wine or 100 cans of beer for that

The (unfair and down right unjust) difference between Ireland & France I guess