How much do you spend a month on booze or fags

harrymagina

I spend roughly 700 a month on beer and around 250 on fags. Its all stopping for the new year now and on the ecig now. Until I added it up I was always making excuses and convincing myself that it was okay and had money for little else. How much do you spend a month on booze and cigs?

marialouise

harrymagina wrote: »

I spend roughly 700 a month on beer

Has the beer affected your mathematical abilities, or can you explain to me how this is possible??

Tilly

I dont smoke and probably spend about €150 max on drink.

MadsL

4.66 beers a day.

Easy peasy.

Kevin McCloud

marialouise wrote: »

Has the beer affected your mathematical abilities, or can you explain to me how this is possible??

Its only an average of 140 pints, over a month period that is small.

harrymagina

harrymagina wrote: »

I spend roughly 700 a month on beer and around 250 on fags. Its all stopping for the new year now and on the ecig now. Until I added it up I was always making excuses and convincing myself that it was okay and had money for little else. How much do you spend a month on booze and cigs?

Is there actually enough time in a day to consume that much booze and that many cigarettes?

I spend zero on either.

poisonated

Probably about 300 euro on beer. Don't smoke.

0ph0rce0

Candie wrote: »

Is there actually enough time in a day to consume that much booze and that many cigarettes?

I spend zero on either.

Pints on a Saturday followed by a few double vodka red bulls at the club usually racks up about 200-300 for me along with taxi home and food.

Ihatecuddles

Last week it was €30 on booze and €300 on smokes.

Not anymore though, now it's maybe €15 on booze and nothing on smokes

RobertKK

marialouise wrote: »

Has the beer affected your mathematical abilities, or can you explain to me how this is possible??

He must like this wine...

http://www.obrienswine.ie/wine/torbreck-the-laird-2005.html

harrymagina

marialouise wrote: »

Has the beer affected your mathematical abilities, or can you explain to me how this is possible??

Usually five pints after work two nights a week is around 60 euro. 60*4 is 240. Nice and relaxing after a hard days work and wouldn't be hungover at all the next morning.

Spend then around 100 in the local Friday, Saturday and Sunday watching football or more if I go out to town on the saturday. Usually wouldn't drink more than six pints unless going on the town to avoid hangovers. 400 then a month and would add another 80 on if going out in the city usually just once a month.

Tarzana2

Nothing on fags.

Don't go out drinking much or drink at home much. Between €50 and €100 a month on booze averaging it all out, I reckon.

Kevin McCloud

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Last week €300 on smokes.

Thats over 80 fags a day of that said week, proper chain smoker.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Smokes €250 a month. Rarely anything on booze.

RobertKK

harrymagina wrote: »

Usually five pints after work two nights a week is around 60 euro. 60*4 is 240
Spend then around 100 in the local Friday, Saturday and Sunday watching football or more if I go out to town on the saturday. Usually wouldn't drink more than six pints unless going on the town to avoid hangovers. 400 then a month and would add another 80 on if going out in the city usually just once a month.

You would want to be saving some money for a liver transplant too.

no money honey

700 a month, you could buy 200 pints for that ffs !

harrymagina

RobertKK wrote: »

You would want to be saving some money for a liver transplant too.

5 pints isn't binge in my eyes especially when your taking your time with them. Could easily drink 14 pints in a session if I wanted to. My liver is perfectly healthy tyvm.

marialouise

If I'm going "for a drink", after work or whatever, I'll have 2/3/4 beers, which is €20ish at home or €12 where I live. If I'm going out on the lash it would be predrinking from a big bottle of spirits (eg a part of a 70cl bottle of gin that I bought for €14) with whatever mixer I buy in a shop, followed by one or two drinks while out, which doesn't work out anywhere near €200!
I think the most I ever spent on a night out was maybe €90 which was dinner in a restaurant, snakey naggin, taxis in and out of town, drinks, shots, etc. I literally could not get through €300 worth of food and drink in a day :O

And I definitely couldn't squeeze 140 pints into a month's drinking! :O

no money honey

harrymagina wrote: »

Usually five pints after work two nights a week is around 60 euro. 60*4 is 240. Nice and relaxing after a hard days work and wouldn't be hungover at all the next morning.

Spend then around 100 in the local Friday, Saturday and Sunday watching football or more if I go out to town on the saturday. Usually wouldn't drink more than six pints unless going on the town to avoid hangovers. 400 then a month and would add another 80 on if going out in the city usually just once a month.

So youre paying 6 quid for every pint? You drink a fair bit but more regularly than an inhumane amount. The problem is the amount your paying for your booze.

Tilly

harrymagina wrote: »

5 pints isn't binge in my eyes especially when your taking your time with them. Could easily drink 14 pints in a session if I wanted to. My liver is perfectly healthy tyvm.

How do you have time to drink that much being a doctor???

harrymagina

no money honey wrote: »

So youre paying 6 quid for every pint? You drink a fair bit but more regularly than an inhumane amount. The problem is the amount your paying for your booze.

No 4.70 but ud spend the other tenner on pool, taytoes, juke box etc. So I suppose that could be brought down.

harrymagina

Tilly wrote: »

How do you have time to drink that much being a doctor???

Cause I go for a full medical test every six months including bloods. And yes I do get a finger up the arse during it as well.

Tilly

harrymagina wrote: »

Cause I go for a full medical test every six months including bloods. And yes I do get a finger up the arse during it as well.

Why would you do that every 6 months? Are you old?

Ihatecuddles

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Thats over 80 fags a day of that said week, proper chain smoker.

Haha I meant if you asked me last week!

harrymagina

Tilly wrote: »

Why would you do that every 6 months? Are you old?

Just piece of mind, its not that expensive.

marialouise

harrymagina wrote: »

Just piece of mind, its not that expensive.

Sure it's only the price of 9 beers!

e_e

€0.00

Kevin McCloud

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Haha I meant if you asked me last week!

Fair play on quitting, best of luck with it.

kfallon

harrymagina wrote: »

Cause I go for a full medical test every six months including bloods. And yes I do get a finger up the arse during it as well.

Where do i sign up?

:pac:

Fr_Dougal

harrymagina wrote: »

No 4.70 but ud spend the other tenner on pool, taytoes, juke box etc. So I suppose that could be brought down.

Don't forget de fisssey oranange.

marialouise

Also I know I'm joking around and wondering how on earth you're managing to do it, but you have said in the first post that it's all stopping and you were making excuses and now you're making changes... Fair play to you. There are sooo many more enjoyable ways to spend €1,000 every month, and I go out regularly and binge drink and all that craic. You will feel so much better and if you just drank half the amount you could save a fortune and still have fun! Best of luck tya!

ygolometsipe

If you brew your own beer, you would save a huge amount of money.

its funny so many people like cooking but not making beer...

Kevin McCloud

ygolometsipe wrote: »

If you brew your own beer, you would save a huge amount of money.

Could grow own smokes too.

Specialun

Love the username OP

ygolometsipe

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Could grow own smokes too.

I never thought about that one!

There's even a group :eek:

http://www.tirnasaor.com/group/irishtobacoogrowers

Schwiiing

0 because I am not an idiot.

desertcircus

Zero on cigarettes, maybe a hundred or so a month on beer. Depends on what I end up doing in the month, to be honest - in a quiet month, it could be a good deal less than that.

Kevin McCloud

ygolometsipe wrote: »

I never thought about that one!

There's even a group :eek:

http://www.tirnasaor.com/group/irishtobacoogrowers

Only 38 members, alot having little success in growing, they must be not hardening off properly.

ygolometsipe

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

Only 38 members, alot having little success in growing, they must be not hardening off properly.

I would argue they are extremely successful, its hard to keep up
group number when the group is creating a product to kill the members
of said group!

kfallon

Schwiiing wrote: »

0 because I am a dryarse.

FYP

:pac:

anncoates

Don't smoke.

Varies wildly with alcohol but generally never more than 200 a month.

Was tempted to say a grand a month on drink purely to transform the gale of moralizing into a hurricane.

Fr_Dougal

Schwiiing wrote: »

0 because I am not an idiot.

Schwiiing wrote: »

2014 sucked a big bag of dicks, as did 2013 and I'm sure 2015 will aswell.

Hmmm...maybe you should change tactics!

Shenshen

0 on cigarettes, maybe 10 or 20 on beers or wine.

mickdw

Don't smoke and drink about twice a year so maybe 20 quid per month on average.

Kevin McCloud

ygolometsipe wrote: »

I would argue they are extremely successful, its hard to keep up
group number when the group is creating a product to kill the members
of said group!

Say they are all dead maybe, last activity on the site was 6th october.

Don't know really, depends on month and how many night out there are. I'm sure I spend at least 300 to 400 on average including taxis, food before/after etc. Don't smoke so nothing on that.

Schwiiing

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Hmmm...maybe you should change tactics!

I'd rather be shot in the balls.

Pingi

Don't smoke or drink at home.

Spend about €80 on a night out but half that's transport/entrance fees/grub and have 1 or 2 nights out a months.

kfallon

Matthew Whining Cheddar wrote: »

Don't know really, depends on month and how many night out there are. I'm sure I spend 3 to 400 on average including taxis, food before/after etc.

Not too bad and sure you are saving a fortune on washing powder/shower gel too..... :pac:

Sorry, it was an open goal, I couldn't resist

Birneybau

Schwiiing wrote: »

I'd rather be shot in the balls.

Whatever you're into.

Birneybau

kfallon wrote: »

Not too bad and sure you are saving a fortune on washing powder/shower gel too..... :pac:

Sorry, it was an open goal, I couldn't resist

By my reckoning, you missed.