LaTraviata

I was mostly a drink-alone-at-home drunk, so that somewhat kept my costs down. Still, my bank statements show about $10 a day at various liquor stores.

I figure I'm saving about $310/mo by not drinking. I should look for a constructive use for these funds!

How much money are you saving?

ScottFromWI

I don't know how much I am saving exactly, but it is significant. I'm much more thankful for the damage no longer being done to my body and mind since I quit though.

PhaseTwo

Gotta be around $500 a month.

LBrain

Millions

rednails

Nothing yet, but I'm trying to get hopeful! So if my husband and I were both able to quit drinking, we'd probably save between $300 and $350

MelindaFlowers

About $350 a month.

Knurdyone

About $300 per month. This included nicotine and cheap wine or vodka. This does not include the wasted time and poor attendance and performance at work.

Things are so much better sober - what a relief

Jake1961

Around $250 to $300 per month, not counting the drunk impulse purchases on eBay or Amazon. A little extra money now, feel much better physically and mentally.

Buying alcohol was like paying tolls on a highway that would have taken me to serious illness and an early death. Not the road I wanted to travel anymore.

CAPTAINZING2000

Money wise, hard to figure. I'm spending money on different things, vacations, harley, on my house etc. I'm debt free, that's important to me.

Midton

I spend much more being sober. Alcohol is so cheap now. When I'm sober in bored, restless and energetic I have to do something and works out more expensive than drinking, at least in my case.

gaffo

A lot, but it doesn't seem that way all the time because drinking always takes the number one seat somehow, it is the priority ahead of everything else. I'm still paying off credit cards. I know that conservatively I spent $70k on beer of the course of my "career". I guess I currently spend my drinking budget on car payments.

Kafkaesque

I'm saving more from the stupid decisions I made drunk. Buying a bottle was cheap compared to my drunken shopping sprees, feeling generous and buying everyone drinks at the bar, and all of the late night / early morning trips to the drive-thru.

Soberwolf

im saving money through not drinking

LBrain

okay, for realsies now... drinking cost me 180K job. somehow I am surviving. While some are benefiting from the "extra" they have from not spending it on booze and ancillaries, I am doing my best to keep my nose above water.

Serious wake up call. But when I think about it now, I wasted a boatload of money during my drinking times. Compulsive spending and not really caring about it. Spending while drunk - quite often. What I am "saving" from not drinking is learning to prioritize where my money is spent. If I had this kind of discipline over even the past five years, I could have paid off my house and bought another no sweat. And had 7 figures stashed away. Drinking probably cost me millions. That's behind me now.

Gottalife

I didnt save anything. In fact I reckon its cost me about $1.4 million in living expences I would not have otherwise had.

Bmac

Actual money saved - $250 month, give or take. Plus those dreadful drunk EBAY sprees. "Gee, I really need the complete works of Mozart on CD for $50".

Spiritual pain saved - PRICELESS.

AutumnWillow

In alcohol alone, $75+ a month. Of course, I also would buy things online and/or buy get food out to eat (i.e.: pizza delivery, etc.), so realistically, around (at least) $125 a month. It may not seem like a lot, but I'm an average/working class person, so it is a significant amount of money to me.

advbike

I didn't spend that much more drinking, compared to the life I have now in sobriety - early retirement, traveling overseas, a new relationship. But at least I have a life again, instead of catching a buzz every night, buying new toys, and watching the years slip by.

esinger

Not enough time left in my life to save enough money to make up for what it cost me. Directly and indirectly.

Longpasttime

100 a week minimum just in direct alcohol purchases from LQ store and bars, and taxis.
That's not counting overeating/food delivery, vacation and sick days from work, dui expenses (right around 10k total), potential long term health expenses, etc.