Daily Consumption averages

[streetpizza]

Originally Posted by joedris

Let's see. At 12 -14 shots per day, and consider that each shot is 1.5 oz, this would total up to about 18 - 21oz or 1.2 - 1.3 pints of liquor a day. And lets price the good stuff. A pint of good bourbon goes for about $9.00. So if we drink $10.80 - $11.70 worth a day for 30 days, we've spent at most $351.00 in a months time.

To spend $1000.00 per month, drinking 18 - 21 oz per day, we'd have to spend $33.33 per day, or about $27.00 for a pint of liquor. Must be some damn fine stuff to go through $1000.00 a month for it.

Well that's nice math, but when I said that it would have been easy to assume that I was talking about 12-14 bar shots, rather than the cheapo stuff out of the liquor store. I'm just sayin'.

[chip]

Wow.
Looks like we all know how to drink in different ways. No one is on this forum because drinking is helping our lives.

I used to brag about how much I could drink. Like others here, I drank in all sorts of abnormal ways during my drinking "career". The key is that no matter how much, when, or how I drank....it was ALWAYS abnormal. I could "pretend" to be a normal drinker, but my relationship with alcohol was abusive.

Alcoholism is progressive. I was an alcoholic from the first time alcohol touched my lips. I can relate to the person who wants to quit because he/she only got drunk once. I can also relate to others who drank daily. I like what Marty said, above "it's what drink made us become".

I didn't get into trouble everytime I drank...but...everytime I got in trouble I was drinking.
I was dependent on alcohol to "function". Alcohol was also robbing me of my ability to "function".

If I ever want to flush my life down the toilet, all I need to do is pick up a drink.

This thread is a bit of a "remember when" for me, but I prefer to focus on my recovery. I'm done counting drinks etc.... Today, I want to focus on staying sober.
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[slimjim30]

Originally Posted by lauraandersen4

I'm just failing to understand what kind of jobs you people must have had to support this? Maybe I'm lucky that I'm a student. I mean really? Who has 12,000/yr to just throw away? I could see how someone would maybe spend $200... maybe $300/month and get away with it... but over $10K over a year?

I wouldn't even know how to come up with that much extra money... unless I let them cut off my electricity and evict me.

Then again... as a previous poster said... I'm not into stealing either.

I've never stolen anything in my life if that's what you're implying.

I have a senior management position and so does my fiancée.

[Waterman]

Some interesting responses here, no doubt! Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've had a couple of good days, and haven't been on here much, but I'm afraid to say anything........Y'all know how that goes....Am I simply "on top" of the wave?...LOL

[dgillz]

I was spending about $2400 a month drinking $5 shots of whiskey in a bar. I literally never drank at home. Thats only 18 shots a day, the average fifth of whiskey contains approximately 17 shots. Yes I made enough money to do it and I still have my business and customers, don't ask me how.

[LosingmyMisery]

I was drinking about 4 bottles of wine a day, give or take a few mini bottles and I was unemployed. My point is, if there is a will, there is a way. I lived off of my credit card for two years and supported my habit. I was unemployed and unemployable and had to much time to drink. There comes a point when money isn't a factor, when you are addicted to alcohol. You will find a way.

[Bernadette]

Alcoholism = equal opportunity destroyer.

Cares not how much money you make or where or how you live, or what quantity you have to drink to stay hooked....it can take you down whether you be a pauper or a prince.

peace,
b

[Waterman]

Money isn't much of an issue,IMHO.Drink can be purchased at any socia-economic level. I wasn't spending a great deal of money to support my habit, but was obviously drinking too much.

[lauraandersen4]

Originally Posted by Waterman

Money isn't much of an issue,IMHO.Drink can be purchased at any socia-economic level. I wasn't spending a great deal of money to support my habit, but was obviously drinking too much.

Maybe I'm lucky that $ IS a huge issue for me due to my $150,000 in debt self who will be a student still for 2 more years and fully understands the burden of paying off such copious amounts of $. $ is my MAJOR deterrent... for a while, maybe my ONLY deterrent. I don't let myself out of the house with a credit card if I'm heading out for a night on the town (which is rare because I know that if I don't spend enough to get a good buzz on I'll be miserable and if I do spend it, I'll be depressed when it wears off).

I have been blessed with the desire to go to dental school and an absolutely wonderful brother that I love to death (not for the following reason stated), that supplies me with cases and cases of free homemade wine. Never had thought maybe that wasn't ALWAYS a good thing

[hopeful999]

Hi... I actually wasn't spending very much $ on alcohol, not very much at all, maybe $40 per week on wine (3-4 bottles of inexpensive wine which tasted fine), which amounted to around $160 per month. However, for me, it was destroying my life. To pick up on another thread, I get horrible hangovers, which I'm now thinking are a blessing rather than a curse. They are the real deterrent for me, as I cannot live a normal life if I'm feeling like crap every other day. I'm changing my ways and I credit this website for a lot of my recovery. And now my therapist, too. There's a way out of this hell hole.

[Twinpairs]

More then I needed and less then I wanted. Or was it more then I wanted and less then I needed. Or wait, ... Oh, forget it. I was a blackout drunk. I can't remember.

Enough that when I stopped all hell broke loose. It was shake, rattle, and roll time.

I guess I just drank too much.

[smynthia]

I loved Jaegermeister and I would chase it with beer. On the weekends it would be Fri & Saturday. Then I would promise to not drink during the week and then have a slip or two.

I would usually down a fifth and a six pack - usually in the span of a couple of hours, then blackout early.

[mikefreak]

I would get a pint of JD & a four-pack of Malt Liquor every day after work. Maybe that doesn't sound like so much, but after 30+ years of drinking, my liver had taken such a beating I would get blasted. Two shots & I was already slurring. The weekends? Around two overpriced pints of whiskey & AT LEAST a twelve-pack of beer. at one point I had $8.34 in my bank account- I still have the ATM reciept so I would never forget it. (about a year ago.) Doing much better now....

" Lest we forget"

[smacked]

30-40 bucks at the bar, 3-4 times a week. A cheap ass $6.99 fifth of vodka every other day, or every three days. My fuzzy math equates that to around $800+ bucks a month on booze, and I haven't stolen anything either.

It never mattered to me, I made it work however it would.

[dabears34]

Here was a typical week...

Monday: 2 bottles of wine

Wednesday: 10-12 12oz beers, 2 shots of Jack, 1 bottle of wine

Thursday: 6-8 12oz beers, 2 shots jack, 1 bottle of wine

Friday: 1 bottle of wine

Saturday: 10-12 12oz beers, 5+ shots, 1 bottle of wine

It ended up averaging $200 per week. It's amazing I will still able to function (just barely) at all on that. No wonder I was a hot, flaming ball of anxiety all the time. Jeez!

[Boleo]

Cheap Vodka only costs $5.00 a fifth and a case of beer on sale goes for under $10.

Because I shopped around for booze I was able to get my weekly supply for about $50.00

[sfields]

war stories what does amount matter it was obviously to much for each of us...

[mikefreak]

A lot. "War stories" have their place-they help you to never forget where you came from & what awaits you should you ever pick up. AA's great, but they aren't right about EVERYTHING.