TheNeed

So how much did everyone spend on alcohol when they were drinking?

I was going $250 to $300 a month.

WLDKATZ

I am sorry but I have to say it I am offended, this isn't the brag line what I spent was way too much on something that kills ppl everyday and I am so not proud of the fact that I even used let alone how much.........maybe you should of thought twice about this post because I am sure I am not alone!

TheNeed

Wldkatz,

Really? Didn't mean to offend anyone. I'm not looking for a winner or anything. I'm just interested.

That is why I asked the question.

How much did your car cost? You know those kill people all the time too.

KindBird

Hi,

I am new here and found this question about how much we spend a good question (was not offended). I think this alcohol stuff spends is in many ways - money, energy, life in general. So in answer to your question, for me about $150. I was mostly a wine drinker and did not drink every day. I love not having to think about it any more - the wine that is.

fulminouscherub

Millions. Billions. Brazilians.

Astro

Hey now. Let's keep it peaceful please.

What I spent is pretty irrelevant, it just doesn't matter. I drank the cheapest crap I could find, my concern was quantity, not quality. I was a complete glutton when it came to booze.

In typical alcoholic fashion, I put drinking before anything. So my children ate mac & cheese and ramen noodles if it meant I had a choice between buying alcohol or good food.

Pam08

I am not offended by the question. I am thinking..it was alot less then it would have been if I had been using narcotics..prob. why I stuck with alcohol...prob bout 200 +/-, I drank hard liquor, 1/5 at a time, bout 4 times a week..cost bout 13 bucks...not expensive..but gotta think of the extra cigarettes, which when drinking had one lit constantly....amazing money we throw away.and I always felt like it was so cheap how could i go wrong in drinking...geeeez

ClimbingUP

Not offended either. I was spending between 200-300/month. I liked the big bottles of white wine, and I would get whichever chardonnay was on sale.

It sucks that alcohol is so cheap, because I think that my cheapness outweighs my desire for alcohol. I used to do coke in my twenties, but I only paid for it a handful of times. I was friends with a guy who used to buy coke all the time, and one day he told me that I should start paying for it. I told him--If I have to pay for it, I'm not doing it. I never tried any of the cheaper drugs out there, which is just as well.

Mariposa18

I never really did the math, but like ClimbingUp I would get the big bottles of wine and towards the end I'd get what was on sale as long as it was the same style I liked. I'd say about $200-$300 a month as well. To think what I could have done with all the money instead...

ClimbingUP

Okay, I am going to do the math here. I was spending on average 200/month on alcohol for at least the past ten years (counting alcohol at restaurants and bars). That's $24000. OMG, how depressing. I had never done the math before. If only I'd been putting that money into an investment fund!!

Philly

Hi All,

I was not offended either. I have no idea how much I spent on alcohol but I would like to just have a part of the money that was spent in bars. When I was partying at home it was cheap compared to going out. Maybe we should each start a jar for funds.

Pam08

Geez, it is like a forum of a bunch of could have beens.....the money we wasted..and I am sure it is underestimated....well just think..i have save about 120 bucks so far..wohoo...wel not really , have to pay off the meds..doctor, and rehab..then I start saving...

FizzyWater

We've actually been discussing exactly the same thing on another thread in here, nobody there even considered being ofended I don't think.

We actually went a step further, worked out that between 5 of us we had spent nearly £300,000 so far in our lifetimes

Thats probably about half a million dollars yeh ?

That is over a 15 year plus time though.

Worked out about £50000 for me myself.

In answer to your question though, I reckon about £300 a month.

Think its a very good question, makes people sit back and think anyway.

Done_With_It

My doc was meth not alcohol. I was spending too much.
I remember being so happy to take that money and pay
a bill instead of my dealer.....

It is so empowering to not be a slave to the drug anymore
especially financially!

least

Minimum one bottle of wine a night, often two, so between $300 - 400 a month. Hindsight is twenty twenty vision indeed.

Oldschool

Anyone heard of Natural Ice? Very cheap beer but high in alcohol. I spent about $7 a day on a 12 pack X 7 = $49 X 4 = $196 a month. Wow. I am unemployed, don't know how I came up with all the money to buy it.

DSodaNow

I think this is a great question. Spending money on alcohol is a part of what makes some of our lives unmanageable.

So let's see.... I drank 2-3 bottles of wine a day.

Average bottle of wine $10-$20

On the low end... $600/month

On the high end... $1800/month

That is very disgusting.

Boleo

Oddly enough my alcohol bill went down thanks to my addition.

I went from 6 packs of Guinness to 30 packs of Icehouse. From fifths of Stolichnaya to half gallons of Popov. I found that if I didn't eat I could get buzzed for even less.

Rusty Zipper

dont think its how much we spent...

its how much we lost, and will continue to, if things dont change...

Done_With_It

Yes I agree with you. I have three years under my belt now, and it's not something I like to think about. The "money" I spent.
But it IS part of the reality I need to remember.
With meth, it starts out so easy, and that voice still comes into my head every so often. Just $40.00 will last you so long, just think of all the things.. It used to last me a month. By the end when I joined I was going through an $80.00 bag every 2-3 days.
So thank you for that reminder that I sometimes forget. The voice likes to remind us of the easy, comforting part of our addiction, I've found it is up to me to remind myself of the reality of it. For "ME" it is a good reminder of where my life was.

:ghug