View Poll Results: What Price Range Was The Alcohol In At The End Of Your Drinking
The Most Expensive Brands On Earth
10
3.89%
Big Brand Names
121
47.08%
Lesser Known Brand Names/ Supermarket's Own Brand
126
49.03%
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What Alcohol was you consuming at the end days of your drinking ?
Bacardi Rum. Before that it was Crown Royal. Supplemented with alternate beer or wine depending on my mood.
Used to always be beer or wine but I too...found out the hard core liquor got me there. On a mission to destruction. NO MORE!!!
Used to always be beer or wine but I too...found out the hard core liquor got me there. On a mission to destruction. NO MORE!!!
Staggering amounts of beer (Budweiser, Coors Lite, Miller, Michelob).
Bourbon (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Old Charter).
Lots and lots of vodka (Popov, Smirnov, and a little Stolichnaya (if it was near payday)).
Brandy and cognac.
No mixers.
Little if any ice.
And very frequently, straight from the bottle.
Bourbon (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Old Charter).
Lots and lots of vodka (Popov, Smirnov, and a little Stolichnaya (if it was near payday)).
Brandy and cognac.
No mixers.
Little if any ice.
And very frequently, straight from the bottle.
Wolfie, you and I are good buds. So I hope you know I'm coming from a good place when I ask "does it matter?"
Honestly, whether I was pouring down contents of $500 bottles or the cheapest rotgut off the shelves, I was still an alcoholic and needed to stop.
Honestly, whether I was pouring down contents of $500 bottles or the cheapest rotgut off the shelves, I was still an alcoholic and needed to stop.
Freight trains of beer since my teenage years. Followed by wine/expensive brandy/whiskey/gin and an assortment of liqueurs and shots i cannot remember because i was too drunk to remember them. Today I bow to the potency and healing qualities of water and yoga.
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Red wine and whiskey. I quit red wine (and coffee) thinking it would help slow me down, because it goes down so easily. I'm ok with drinking socially, but any anxiety hits and I just coonnssuuumme. Self medication, I suppose.
When I started drinking heavily I had a good paying job so I drank Michelob Light. As I consumed more and more that became too expensive so I downgraded to Bud Light. I then lost my job (not due to drinking but department layoffs) and I went down another notch to Natural Light. As time went on I became a regular consumer of the even cheaper Milwaukees Best... and that was all I drank for years.
I would always have 2-3 beers in a "freezer rotation," meaning I would keep a few in the freezer to get super cold and would pop one in when I took one out. I also sprinkled a little salt in each beer... at least at first. After a while I was putting them down so quick I'd forget.
I would always have 2-3 beers in a "freezer rotation," meaning I would keep a few in the freezer to get super cold and would pop one in when I took one out. I also sprinkled a little salt in each beer... at least at first. After a while I was putting them down so quick I'd forget.
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I mostly drank the "bargain bin" or "poverty" brands, so at least I never wasted too much money on this bad habit (all things considered).
I mostly drank the cheapy beer brands such as Heineken, Mickey's, Olde English 800, Busch, and Steel Reserve. As for "hard" liquors, I mostly drank the "poverty" brands as well, such as Old Crow, Evan Williams, etc. From time to time I would buy some "generic" wine brands, can't remember the names off hand, but I do remember they were all $7 or under. Usually during my regular trips to the liquor store I would pick up a 40 oz and a 24 oz..... usually. I think I averaged $3-$5 per liquor store trip. Alas, I became quite the "regular" customer at said liquor store(s)
I feel bad for the alcoholics that get hooked on the "expensive stuff", must get expensive after a while
I mostly drank the cheapy beer brands such as Heineken, Mickey's, Olde English 800, Busch, and Steel Reserve. As for "hard" liquors, I mostly drank the "poverty" brands as well, such as Old Crow, Evan Williams, etc. From time to time I would buy some "generic" wine brands, can't remember the names off hand, but I do remember they were all $7 or under. Usually during my regular trips to the liquor store I would pick up a 40 oz and a 24 oz..... usually. I think I averaged $3-$5 per liquor store trip. Alas, I became quite the "regular" customer at said liquor store(s)
I feel bad for the alcoholics that get hooked on the "expensive stuff", must get expensive after a while
When ABF would run out of booze or couldn't walk to the store he drank liters of mouthwash, along with cans of hairspray, aftershave, perfume, Vicks vapor liquid that we used for our humidifier, Axe body spray, red wine vinegar, all my baking extracts, hand sanitizing gel, and probably some other stuff I can't recall. Shocked the hell out of me the first time I witnessed coming home to my perfume bottles smashed and the house reeking of vomit mixed with any of the above. And every bender usually includes this behavior. To this day it's been the most shocking thing I've ever witnessed. (Even more than the time I was mugged at gun point). Some things just shock you more than you could ever prepare for.
I climbed out two story windows and walked miles in 20 degree temps to go to supermarket, but I always got beer.
I suffered withdrawals so bad once, that had I known it had alcohol in it, I probably would of drank mouthwash to assuage the misery. I think I'd go to the hospital before resorting to perfume or hairspray though!
Everything. I wasn't exactly a connoisseur. I would alternate between vodka and rock bottom gutbucket beer. I tried super expensive whiskey for a while to try to force myself to make a bottle last more than two days, but all that happened was that my alcohol expenses skyrocketed to a crazy amount. I went the other direction and bought the most embarrassing skid row type of beer imaginable. That's what I was drinking when I quit.
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