[Closed] How much do you spend on booze each week?

Alright, I'm weird, I reckon on an average week I probably get through 3 bottles of Budweiser (around £1.50?) and the missus often doesn't drink so maybe £ 2.......

big fat zero, booze tastes of poison and make you feel ill. Sea water is free.

You just make that stuff up on the forms, its more for your benefit make you realise how much you'll have to cut back.

Not spent any this month, working in Libya, dry as a bone here, next month not more than £50.

about £500 to £800 over a good weeekend in the city.
veuve clicquot would be slumming it imho.

three pints in the pub quiz @ £2.30 each, is £6.90
I'll have a drink at home 3 nights a week, on average - usually a couple of cans (75p each) with the occasional bottle when I feel like treating myself (£1.40). call it 5 cans and 2 bottles per week. £6.55

total - £13.45. So, £15 or so. More than I expected, to be honest!

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£10-15 a week maybe?

grumm - Member

£10-15 a week maybe?

Add it up - my figures surprised me!

Easy question ZERO for me - although I did have two beers last week whilst away on business in the States courtesy of my host.

I am of the opinion that the value of such information is somewhat dubious as it can't really be validated.

Perhaps the motivation is to identify what spend is discretionary and could in theory be displaced to cover the mortgage if things go a little pear shaped. This argument however seems a little like fiddling while Rome burns - if you lose your job and can't pay your mortgage then not sure that cutting out the fags and booze is a long term solution.

My 10p worth

About a tenner.

box of 12 erdinger alkoholfrei and box of 20 schneider weisse alkoholfrei, 39 quid for the two. that'll last me over a month.
but it's not booze really, so to answer the question accurately- nowt.

About £20 on a typical week.

Add it up - my figures surprised me!

Well over the last 3 weeks I have spent exactly £4.80 in total on booze (and haven't drunk any of it yet), but then I have been ill.

A typical week £0

Big fat 0, what a waste of money 😯

Lightweights. I spend £30 a week minimum. Mrs. Removed hardly drinks anything but if I buy wine, she'll have a glass.

Must go and check how much cash is in my Naked Wines account 😀

Probably about £20 pw, really depends on what the plans are.

anokdale:
Not spent any this month, working in Libya, dry as a bone here, next month not more than £50.

If your in Tripoli head to the consulate party, they're held weekly if I remember correctly. Saved me a few times there when simply needed a drink.

A six pack of Wernesgrüner from Aldi so about a fiver

And a few drinks courtesy of my employer most weeks

well seeing as you cant buy a bottle of wine for less than 10 pound here (Norway) and a can of guinness from the shops costs 2.50 then errrrr.....a lot more than i would in the UK. Although i probably go to the pub twice a year here.

Q, 'How much do you spend on booze each week?'

A' 'Far too fu**ing much'

Honestly, & I know it. Having a nice glaaas of red as we speak. I'm not fussy though, I'll drink anything except brandy or tequila (which tastes like hypoid gear oil)

Nuffink this week as on a saving tip...but around 20/3o quid a week i guess...ale and vino.

Average week - maybe a fiver, but probably less. Exceptional week - up to £30. This week I spent 45 quid on a bottle of malt and a bottle of vodka, but the vodka will be split between me and the missus over about a month and the malt will last me about 6 months.

A lot more when I'm working away and on expenses.

if im at a house party prob 20 quid if im away down the pub then 40 but that include taxis etc

(saying that i spent 120 that weekend there just on booze, couple of big sessions in glasgow)

I get a bottle of malt maybe once every 2 months, so maybe 15 quid a month, 4 quid a week.

In my twenties it was more like 200 quid a week. pints every lunchtime and pretty much every evening, ad two big nights a week. I'm so glad I don't do that anymore!

costs bout £30 to get pissed + entry + a taxi home once or twice a month
few pints in the week
pint or three after a ride

probably averages out at £30 a week, more if you include the £30 taxis!

It was a lot, probably up to £100 a week. Now I've cut down to 20ish depending on if I go out and where I go out. Always £3.20 for free food with a drink night on Tuesday for students at a certain pub.

Used to be silly amounts but now I will go a couple or three months without spending a penny on booze (mainly because I have been working too many long shifts nad early mornings and riding in between) but then every three to four months about £30 in one go and boy dont I enjoy it.

3 bottles of wine for a tenner from Asda will usually last us a week. Some beer too.

another nil

£23.78

Mortgage lenders may soon be asking for more specific details of potential borrowers' expenditure - including booze/fags/other vices.

Fags = zero

Other vices = urm excluding mountain bikes I'd hate to put a price on hookers and cocaine 😉

Let's see.
Perhaps 2-3 bottles of wine a week between Mrs M and me.
Then, pubwise, one or two nights, one or two pints apiece in poofy southern bars.

£30 / week?

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Couple of quid, I have maybe a couple of bottles of beer Friday or Saturday, other than that nothing during the week

i have the odd beer in the summer but from about september till the first hot day nowt.

1 or 2 bottles of wine between the GF and I - possibly at a restaurant so anything up to £40.

Far too much. And I know it. And I despair when I add up how much I have spent and pi55ed away over the years. And I blame it all on one person. Me. 🙁

Couldn't really work it out. Past couple of years we have bought a lot of wine on holiday, though more to keep quality up than cost down. Whisky and gin consumption goes in phases, a bottle of single malt or Bombay Sapphire normally lasts us a couple of months or so, on average. As for beers - I don't have a regular pub night but occasionally I'm out 2 or 3 nights in a week, sometimes several weeks can pass without a night out.

Probably in the same ballpark as derek_starship - £40 a week or so between us. Most of that probably goes on half decent wine.

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I guess we (Mrs Surfr and I) get through about 5 bottles of wine in a week. Once a month or so we'll meet up with the lads/girls and I'll put away 50-60 quid without thinking about it on lager, take-away and taxis. When I was single I'd have been doing the former up to 3 times a week. We're in out early 30s and have no children yet so I don't feel too bad about it.

Quite surprised by how many teetotalers and near-teetotalers there are here. Surely disproportionate?

Bottle of wine or two... say £10? Perhaps 2-4 of bottles of beer from Booths, usually the £1 a bottle offers, so £3 say on average. Then throw in 4 pints down the pub for another £10.

£23 then.

If it's a proper weekend session though, which is perhaps once a month, then you are looking £60 - £100+ I would think.

I try not to drink like that too much these days though - back in the day it was a pretty regular occurance!

hmm 3-4 pints on average 4 nights a week, peroni is about £3.30 a pint so about £50 a week. But then if i get into rounds on a sunday you can add another £30 to that 😯

fek some of you lot need to have a word with yer self 😯

fek some of you lot need to have a word with yer self

any particular word or just a good talking-to ??

moderation?
liver?
pension?

Nothing for me, gave the booze up years ago. Never smoked either.

mind you i have never done much smurkin tabs n drinkin beor but i am currently broke and cant ride my bike so its not helped much has it 🙄

A bottle or two (of beer) every couple of nights so that's about..........erm,£6 - £10.

average is probably $6/week (couple bottles from a six pack...) which is about 3.40 at the current rate.

If we are talking about money that could be cut back then you have to look at my coffee bill per week - $20/week ish at work then $15ish w/end = $35/week = just under 20 quid a week!!!

mostly decaf, from a health point of view, more the walk to the shop when at work as a good warm down from the commute in for me, my colleague is on diet/fitness plan so helps her get her required walk time per day in.

The w/end is just the chill out, walk in the sun type thing.

But hate to think what it was once upon a time in London; couple of guiness every night, plus sessions 2-3nights a week - so probably whatever was left of wages after food/rent/travel for the month!!!

Normally about £2000 every week on beer duty to HMRC.

Do I win a prize?

££ in pubs / supermarket / off licence.. Probably £2 a week myself, maybe a kingfisher to go with a currey.

that is scarey just worked out that a fairly standard weeks beer and wine is £70 - £80 without treats bt we have cut down recently and I dont consider I spend much really - someone has to keep brweries going g

around £20 at a rough guess. Kahlua being the main culprit there, but you can't have a good caucasian without.

nowt.

Before the babies arrived I would spend around £40 pw in the pub and probably another £10 on wine or the occasional beers at home.

Now I get a case of cheap beer in (whatever is on offer) and have a couple of bottles on an evening. The latest offer was 20 bottles of American Bud for £8 as Asda so about £5.60 pw at the moment.

Working away, so about 20 quid a week for a bottle of wine in a restaurant when I'm back home, and about 2 quid a week on beer when I'm on my own.

Used to be between £20 to £50 per week. Currently £10 per week at most.

Drinking in pubs makes it a lot more expensive.

shedloads. probably close to £100 a week.

But then bitter and fine wine is my hobby and I can afford it.
And I have an apalling disregard for my health. Bite me.

nonk - Member
moderation?
liver?
pension?

Supercilious, perhaps?

Why do you care how much someone spends on booze? It's their choice, if they can afford it, what's the problem?

In context, I spent approximately £40 last week - two good bottles of wine, and a four-pack of Corona, over the weekend. My wife bought an Erdinger and a bottle of wine as well.

So what?

I'm in the £0.00 gang. Don't enjoy drinking, although might on the odd occasion have a cold beer with a meal out or a wine at a special dinner in.

Shocked at those spending £50 or more a week!

Scarily, since the missus has been pregnant instead of sharing a bottle of red- I have been drinking all of it. So I am cutting right back. Thankfully the missus is avoiding booze and just using her crack pipe.

My wife is on a budgeting scheme so we worked all this out a while back. I get given 40 quid a week. That's all the cash I'm allowed, the only exception being petrol money which I'm allowed to get on a debit card.

So that 40 quid has to buy me everything I want during the week, booze, chocolate bars, sweets, mints, trips to the velodrome. If I want more booze I have to give up something else.

I'm a registered chocolate addict and found I was spending more on chocolate than I was on booze. I'm happy with that. 😉

Maybe £100 a month, but I don't drink that cheap shite.

Its interesting listening to those that "dont like drinking" on here.

I see three different kinds of people in that:

Those for whom alcohol actually tastes unpleasant;
Those that equate "drinking" with the specific intention of consuming alcohol solely for the purpose of becoming intoxicated;
And similar to that (xherbivorex springs to mind) those who consider the consumption of alcohol as beyond unhealthy but morally/socially/psychologically questionable etc

Whilst alcohol itself certainly does taste unpleasant on its own, when consumed in a good medium that [i]can only exist because it is alcoholic i.e. a fine wine, beuatifully crafted fresh bitter[/i] then it certainly doesnt taste unpleasant as part of collection of interacting flavours. For those that dislike the taste of alcohol, I suggest you are confusing the dislikeable taste with drinking crap lager or £3 bulgarian wine from Spa.

For the same reason then, its clearly rude to assume that for everyone the consumption of alcohol is solely the pursuit of intoxication.

I have some sympathy for someone like xhx's point of view which is that he chooses a life completely untouched by any narcotic influence, but by its very nature it is very much a personal decision and as such one that has no weight when judging others.

Drinking alcohol free beer is a distinctly odd path to take in my opinion, it tastes horrible. The only time I can see it has a purpose to to stop people trying to give you an alcoholic drink when you don't want one. But each to their own.

I consider drinking carling or fosters as bad as drinking alcohol free beer.

The fact that alcohol is present or otherwise in either case doest take away from the fact that you are drinking a pretty unpleasant mix of elements that some chemist believes constitutes a "beer".

well put stoner would agree there is no point in drinking the crap brands you mention whereas drinking great well brewed beers in a social enviroment ie a good pub preferably at tee time after a ride and with friends, also quality wines with and after great food has to be one of lifes pleasures - ending up pissed is to me an unfortunate side effect . g

"pissed" is just a matter of funds and warm fugs.

I don't smoke and I don't drink.
Now ask me how much of my money the baker gets.
Answer is too much.

Nothing on booze or cigs, thats because i give ALL my disposable income to the CSA.

Most weeks nothing, the odd week £10 or so maybe? I don't really drink at home so it's only when in a pub/restaurant really, and it's rare that I'd have more than two or three pints a night.

my own money = about £15 a week.

if away on business so company money = another £15 to £20 per night away. (av 1 to 2 a week) 😀

stoner- good call.
your assertion that my decision to not drink alcohol is a very personal one is indeed correct, hence my lack of commenting on anyone else's drinking habits as i do believe that it is none of my business. my not drinking is something i feel is morally right for me, and me only.
i used to drink just to get drunk. i was a complete idiot, and had to do something about it, so i quit. it suited my other lifestyle choices too as i was driving my band around quite a lot at the time and it just made everything much simpler to not ever touch alcohol.
only in the last few months have i discovered the delights of alcohol-free wheatbeers, which i am told are very similar in taste to the alcoholic versions (i have no reference point as they weren't readily available in the UK when i did used to drink booze); i just don't feel the need to drink alcoholic drinks because for me, there is plenty of non-alcoholic choice these days and i am quite happy with that.
it's also a lot cheaper this way!

About a tenner on average I reckon. Sometimes nil, sometimes a bit more.

Some interesting points from Stoner, and I agree that all alcohol doesn't taste horrible - sometimes you have a craving for a nice cold beer. It's probably like espresso coffee - some people love it, others just don't.

I rarely drink anything other than beer and I don't ever drink to get drunk. Can't think when I last drank any more than 4 pints in one night, and the average is probably 2 pints.

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Spend £3 on mineral water though!

5 - 10 quid i spose, not really a big drinker.

Probably why i'm not a huge porker.

juan - Member

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xherbivorex - Member

stoner- good call. <snip>
only in the last few months have i discovered the delights of alcohol-free wheatbeers, which i am told are very similar in taste to the alcoholic versions (i have no reference point as they weren't readily available in the UK when i did used to drink booze)

I admire you for your decision and ability to stick to it. I also detest the chemical crap that is served in many places, but I do enjoy a well brewed pint. I would someday like to test the "original vs alcohol free" theory - get served a few beers, decide if they're non-alcoholic or not, kind of thing...

I would someday like to test the "original vs alcohol free" theory - get served a few beers, decide if they're non-alcoholic or not, kind of thing...

well i can easily get a selection of good quality non-alcoholic boozes (i.e. no rubbish like kaliber or cobra zero!) and bring them to yours some time...

No money spent on booze here. Just tea and chocolate.