When people talk about their A spending all their money on alcohol, I winder if they aren't drinking at bars?
In the US, you could be drinking a handle of hard liquor of $15/day, or a case of beer for less than $12 day. We also have 3 buck chuck for wine-- so you could spend $6 a day and drink 2 bottles of wine...
However, if you go out, you're easily spending 5x that much before tipping for hard liquor and 10X that much for wine-- if you don't start buying drinks for other people. And as a former bartender, a lot of heavy drinkers do spend a lot of money on buying alcohol for other people. That way, they have company.