lovingliving

I just looked at my bank account and Wow.. I will save on average about $400 a month from quitting booze. I took a 3 month tally and came to an astounding 1200 just at the liquor store. WTF... that's my car payment. No wonder I am always broke. And that is with my fiancé paying for most of the bar tabs.

Ariesagain

As of today? $578.50

And that's in only 89 days!

Jsbodhi

It's probably around $300 a month, $500 with the cigs.

Still smoking, those are next!

Jtmlk

On alcohol and takeaways once blotto I will save about £800 a month- no wonder I got into debt!!!!

MemphisBlues

Adding beer, prescribed benzos, pot and cigarettes to the mix, I would have easily spent close to $40,000 over the past 5.5 years.

Jsbodhi

Ah yes, I forgot the hangover food.
Make that $700 a month

Behan

Great question. Mostly wine and cans at home. The odd night out: drinks, rounds, taxis. I reckon I'm saving £4000 per year. That's 5751 US dollars.

Where did that money go? Down the toilet and robbed me of my sanity.

B

Soberwolf

A lot

Delizadee

I'm struggling to understand how I managed to keep drinking as long as I did... the money stopped coming in around end of December... I quit drinking Feb 14th sooo...?? Still broke and clueless. But my counter says 2025$ I've saved in 6 weeks. My goodness. If only I wasn't spending air money on booze in the first place I'd be rich.

MelindaFlowers

About $400 a month. My new car payment is $330 and my insurance is $70 a month.

How's that for math? It's like I drive a free car.

Jsbodhi

I started buying more expensive wine at the end- as if this meant I had less of a problem.....
For some reason I thought higher quality wine would make the hangovers less horrendous....

MaidenNZ

$7280 a year

least

Spending at least $20 a day on wine, in the last six years and four months I've saved $46,200!

bandit112

I had to sell my motorcycle to pay for my drinking :/

Saving some of the money I used to spend on booze, I'm looking at getting a newer better one.

MikeM

Thousands...

ItsViolet

Based on an estimated average which could well be too low, $931 since I quit 39 days ago

ItsViolet

Oh yes I'd had this same thought...yea didn't work. Poor quality wine may have given me worse hangovers faster, but since better quality wine was more drinkable, I'd only drink way more of it, leading to the same end as the crap wine

blueberry2015

I spent around £300 per month on booze, so that around 430 US dollars. Wow. Definitely seeing that extra cash in the account. If I quit smoking too...... I will.... Eventually lol.

MikeM

In 51 days.

To clarify. It was not just the beer. Which I got delivered, making it really expensive to begin with. I ordered in food as well. Spent money on stuff I didn't need to feel better. It was all the things that were in orbit of the addiction that made it all really expensive.

How much I've spent on drinking, it's terrible. Fortunately money is never an issue and it didn't get me into financial trouble. On the other hand, having access to a lot of money makes it so easy to spend and spend and spend... And the spending started happening when I had my first couple of beers in me. Now that I don't drink anymore, all that spending is gone too.

MikeM

I had much trouble quitting drinking. But smoking, no problem. It was over a decade ago I think. I just decided to quit and never go back.

To me, it was not difficult and very much worth it. My health got so much better.

Withdrawal from cigarettes is very mild. And it lasts a couple of days to a week. From there on it's just the mindset.

Quit. You have no idea what it feels like to actually take deep breaths of fresh air!