How much do you spend on drink and drugs?

Blazer · 28-05-2010 03:31PM

mine is basically zero as well.
Allows me to blow a chunk of my money on photography/airsoft/pc etc.
Even off the smokes is saving me €80 a week...:D

no1beemerfan · 28-05-2010 03:40PM

Bloody 'ell. Now I'm definately glad I don't somke or drink. As well as being healthier (and no days wasted recovering) I'm saving a fair bit! €200 to €300 a week? Thats crazy!!

DazMarz · 28-05-2010 03:41PM

I used to drink an absolute lorry-load, but then I realised (as well as the raging health implications) I was nearly always recovering from open-wallet surgery afterwards... So I've cut down a lot. If I have 5 pints in a week now, it's a rare thing.

Ardennes1944 · 28-05-2010 03:44PM

spending that much money on drink is ridiculous lyk

Pherekydes · 28-05-2010 03:58PM

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Yes

LOL, whatever.

Now, what foods don't contain sugar?

ScumLord · 28-05-2010 04:00PM

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Bloody 'ell. Now I'm definately glad I don't somke or drink. As well as being healthier (and no days wasted recovering) I'm saving a fair bit! €200 to €300 a week? Thats crazy!!

Hells ya it is, whooooooooo!!!!!!

Jeanious · 28-05-2010 04:10PM

stovelid wrote: »

But not much more, not much more.

Obscure, but i fcukin love it!

RE the question, its been quite a while since ive spent anything on either drink or drugs, but at my peak id say it was an average of 150-200 a week. Pretty shockin now that i write it down and never to be repeated i shouldn't think!

Macsimus · 28-05-2010 04:22PM

During the ka-boom years would of been €150 - 200 a week.

Nowadays probably averaging less than 20 yo yo's. Maybe even a tenner.

To tell the truth though - i don't miss it that much and am a lot healthier for it - one of the few upsides of the recession i spose.

starbelgrade · 28-05-2010 04:27PM

I don't drink much, so some weeks it is zero - I'd probably spend max €100 per month & that'd be on a big night out, but even at that, some months I wouldn't bother.

When I'm on holidays or at a festival, I'd drink every night.

Drugs - the odd bit of weed, up to €100 max per year. A few pills/ lines every now & again on a night out, usually exchanged for a pint.

Fags - about fifteen quid a week.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 28-05-2010 04:33PM

Pherekydes wrote: »

LOL, whatever.

Now, what foods don't contain sugar?

Salt?

Liam Byrne · 28-05-2010 04:34PM

funk-you wrote: »

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

OK - if that's the case then I'm going blind, because I see no drugs options.

Drink : maybe about €15 on an average week, €50 if I was out
Drugs : if we're talking illegal stuff, then I'm not that much of an idiot

starbelgrade · 28-05-2010 04:38PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OK - if that's the case then I'm going blind, because I see no drugs options.

Drink : maybe about €15 on an average week, €50 if I was out
Drugs : if we're talking illegal stuff, then I'm not that much of an idiot

No need to take drugs when you're already high (up on your horse).

Macsimus · 28-05-2010 04:51PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OK - if that's the case then I'm going blind, because I see no drugs options.

Drink : maybe about €15 on an average week, €50 if I was out
Drugs : if we're talking illegal stuff, then I'm not that much of an idiot

Alcohol is considerably more damaging to you than cannabis, E or LSD. The matter of whether you are that much of an idiot or not would therefore still be up for debate.

Liam Byrne · 28-05-2010 04:54PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

No need to take drugs when you're already high (up on your horse).

Ooops! I forgot this was After Hours where snide personal comments are tolerated. :rolleyes:

Macsimus wrote: »

Alcohol is considerably more damaging to you than cannabis, E or LSD. The matter of whether you are that much of an idiot or not would therefore still be up for debate.

Buying moderate amounts of alcohol does not support the criminal underworld.

starbelgrade · 28-05-2010 04:57PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Ooops! I forgot this was After Hours where snide personal comments are tolerated. :rolleyes:

The kind of snide comments that infer that people who take drugs are idiots?

Abrasax · 28-05-2010 04:58PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Buying moderate amounts of alcohol does not support the criminal underworld.

Quite right.
There is no relationship between alcohol and crime.

Liam Byrne · 28-05-2010 05:00PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

The kind of snide comments that infer that people who take drugs are idiots?

Oh, I forgot - it's "cool" and perfectly sensible to head out and meet a criminal to give him money so that he can buy a hand-gun or AK-47 in his efforts to maintain control of the local drug-trade :rolleyes:

starbelgrade · 28-05-2010 05:01PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Buying moderate amounts of alcohol does not support the criminal underworld.

Neither does all drug taking. Never heard of home grown?

prinz · 28-05-2010 05:05PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Oh, I forgot - it's "cool" and perfectly sensible to head out and meet a criminal to give him money so that he can buy a hand-gun or AK-47 in his efforts to maintain control of the local drug-trade :rolleyes:

Ah Liam come on, after a hard day's complaining on AH about drug lord scumbags and whatever innocent person they've gunned down this week, sure you'd have to go and snort a line or two just to stay sane don't you know.

Macsimus · 28-05-2010 05:08PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Oh, I forgot - it's "cool" and perfectly sensible to head out and meet a criminal to give him money so that he can buy a hand-gun or AK-47 in his efforts to maintain control of the local drug-trade :rolleyes:

Comments based on ignorance, such as the ones you made above are why drugs are not legalised - which in turn is the reason that drug lord criminals exist and why guns are becoming so common in our society

So in fact you are supporting the criminal underworld by making said comments

28-05-2010 05:30PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Oh, I forgot - it's "cool" and perfectly sensible to head out and meet a criminal to give him money so that he can buy a hand-gun or AK-47 in his efforts to maintain control of the local drug-trade :rolleyes:

What Macsimus said above sums it up.. You don't have a notion of what you're talking about.

Liam Byrne · 28-05-2010 05:41PM

Macsimus wrote: »

Comments based on ignorance, such as the ones you made above are why drugs are not legalised

Deleted User wrote: »

What Macsimus said above sums it up.. You don't have a notion of what you're talking about.

OK then, fill me in (although probably on another thread, so that this one doesn't go off-topic).

Are you both seriously saying that there are no violent criminals involved in supplying the drugs that so many people on this thread seem happy to admit taking ?

Macsimus · 28-05-2010 05:53PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OK then, fill me in (although probably on another thread, so that this one doesn't go off-topic).

Are you both seriously saying that there are no violent criminals involved in supplying the drugs that so many people on this thread seem happy to admit taking ?

No, that is clearly not what we are saying. We are simply pointing out that the reason these violent criminals exist is because drugs (many less harmful than alcohol) are illegal.

If people could pull their heads out of their arses and deal with the facts, rather than the 'reefer madness' type hysteria then we could legalise the less harmful drugs and do some real damage to the violent criminal gangs.

Pace2008 · 28-05-2010 05:55PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

OK - if that's the case then I'm going blind, because I see no drugs options.

Drink : maybe about €15 on an average week, €50 if I was out
Drugs : if we're talking illegal stuff, then I'm not that much of an idiot

I'd say you rave hard.

28-05-2010 05:55PM

I don't see the nothing option ;s
Unless you want to include caffeine

MagicMarker · 28-05-2010 05:58PM

Zero.

TPD · 28-05-2010 06:06PM

During college, <50 on drink and normally nothing on drugs. Summer, <50 on drink and 50-100 on drugs.

Mike 1972 · 28-05-2010 06:22PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Buying moderate amounts of alcohol does not support the criminal underworld.

I could show you a few nightclubs which would give you cause for a bit of a rethink on that one.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Are you both seriously saying that there are no violent criminals involved in supplying the drugs that so many people on this thread seem happy to admit taking ?

A fair enough point (unless maybe we are talking about homegrown) but do you drive a car and do you know how much blood was spilt in procuring the oil to fill your tank ?

Dingatron · 28-05-2010 06:30PM

Drink: Up to 5 Quid
Starbucks Coffee: 13:75

xw2lj9uspm1eyh · 28-05-2010 06:37PM

About 20 euro a week on red bull,but depending where I go the price of red bull is different got charged 6 euro for a can in Dublin before you would buy 4 cans of it in tesco for that,wonder would I look cheap buying em in tesco and bringing the cans with me to the pub :P.As for drugs nada nothing.