letustrythis123

This is a spinoff of rotating stores.

I admit, I was underwhelmed when I found out how much I spent. I almost wish it were more so I could feel even better. This is two weeks for me.

My pattern was a 7 dollars 750 ML bottle of cheap vodka every two days. Through in some pints and airplane shots to kick up/keep the buzz and at least three bottles of cheap wine per week.

It doesn't come out to much: only about 25 to 30 bucks a week. That does add up, but it's only about 2 trips to a fast food restaurant or a trip to an average restaurant. At this point, I've saved myself 7 to 10 of those 750 ML and uncounted numbers of four packs of wine, bottles of wine and pints and half pints. And so my body is super happy about that. Just wish I was saving a killing on alcohol. I've been trying to treat myself to a few different things, but the amount I've spent is probably close to the amount I would buy over 6 months!

Dee74

I spent every cent I had mostly.

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Pipping

Not enough to be missing basic necessities but should an unexpected bill appear like a car repair or the dentist, then I was screwed. I also bought cheap clothes and shoes under the guise that I am not a fashion slave and used to congratulate myself on being frugal. Since I quit drinking and smoking I buy second hand designer clothes on Ebay in ridiculous impractical fabrics like silk. I love every minute of it and now wear nice clothes and makeup even to clean the house.

DoPerdition

I drank top shelf vodka, bourbon and wines. I also went to bars often. It wasn't unusual to see bar tabs between 70-100 dollars. Tack on the shots I drunkenly bought for people and food eaten at midnight and there were weeks I spent hundreds. Other times, when money was tight I would buy boxes of wine.

Sudz No More

I bought the cheapest beer I could buy most of the time but I did have splurge weeks where I would buy something really good. Even on the cheap stuff though I was somewhere around 50 bucks a week. Throw in the occasional bar stop and good stuff I must have been North of 200 a month.

MaidenNZ

$140...man, looking at the figure is an eye opener. Never looked at it before.

zanzibar

I have no idea how much I spent, but pretty much everything I had. It didn't matter to me then and it doesn't matter to me now cause it's past history.
But I do know that minimizing can be a dangerous thing to do.

nicole100

sadly, about $400 a month. I would buy the cheapest clothes/shoes/furniture/etc and have needs that were not met like the vet for my dog, the dentist, etc.

It really is sad.

joshlyman

I was a bar drinker. When I went to bars I would act like a big shot and buy rounds and rounds of shots for people, even strangers. Truthfully I just did this so that everyone would drink the same amount as me and I wouldn't seem that bad. Every Friday or Saturday night (sometimes both) I would have a $250 tab, easily. By the end of the night I'd be so drunk that I would tip so much-the tab turned into over $300. It's why I'm in credit card debt up to my eyeballs.

karate

About 100$ a week ,and I did not go to bars .

About 5- 12 packs of keystone light ,or ice @ 55-60$ And 2 handles of jim beam 1.75 @ 25 each = over 100$

Kensho

$300 - $400 per month, for wine and various liquors. That's for home drinking. No bar tabs, but add the occasional cocktail plus wine with a dinner out. And my wife drinks very little - a glass of wine every so often.

What an eye-opener!

EDIT: And that's not top-shelf brands.

jt1234

I figured that over my 5 years of Heavy drinking I spent $23,000+ on my daily routine. That doesn't count some trips to the bar, special occasions etc... stunning.

KateL

I used to buy the cheapest booze possible so I could have all the more. Mainly cheap vodka and those revolting boxes of wine. Do they still sell them?

peanutty

Wow. Probably an average of $250 a week or more. I'd buy at the liquor store and at restaurants. There are hidden costs too I'm discovering like going through a drive thru for breakfast when hung over, avoiding fast casual restaurants for dinner that are more inexpensive bc they didn't serve wine, etc.

What a waste.

Sanantoniosober

I bought the cheapest I could stomach, spent about $60 a week on whiskey that came in the bigass plastic bottles.

Turninganewleaf

The cost of alcohol itself is pretty cheap. The costs of the consequences of drinking are very, very high. Things like, sudden ER trip, Dr. visits, lost work days, lost careers, car accidents, DUI's and more. The worst of all is the loss of ones dignity and above all, the loss of hope.

Mountainmanbob

enough for a nice new car monthly payment

not proud of it -- Mountainman

could have fed a lot of homeless (not the lazy ones)

1newcreation

Wow! It pains me tryin to rem but on avg @ least $70-80(2 handles of JB rite?) n that's not countin goin out & buyin it in bars/clubs

Hope4Life

Last time I totaled it up I realized that by giving up beer and pot I am saving about $8000 a year! or about $155 a week!

Man, I could sure use that money now! What a waste.....

PhaseTwo

I would blackout run up bar tabs and then buy drugs spend hundreds in a night sometimes, then look at my bank statement the next morning and realize I'll be eating spaghetti for awhile. I spent atleast 100 every weekend on booze. Bought coke, Molly, weed, while drunk which ran up the bill that much more. Then 900 on inpatient treatment.

I like having money to spend on nice things like new laptop, clothes, etc instead of being a dumbass