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

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.

£0.00

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.

Normally 1 bottle of £4 wine in each shop (for cooking you understand), and perhaps a couple of glasses of malt at home per week (£3) + one night out a month (average night £10 - wife doesn't really drink and we don't stay out late).

I reckon £10 per week should cover it.

how can someone called stoner not come up with my reason for not drinking 😉

Normally £0.00

Over a year, possibly averages at maybe £0.10 per week ?

Looks like quite a long thread this.... actually quite "sobering " when you read everything. For me.. more than I can really afford to throw away, and I'm sure, more than is healthy for my liver. Good job the missus can only drink half a Shandy before she thinks she is drunk...I wish I was the same.

What do you do?

how can someone called stoner not come up with my reason for not drinking

because unfortunately my nickname derives from my surname, not any smokey proclivities 😉

Sorry for any confusion caused...but do my posts sound like Im a stoner? 😉

£20-£50/week for the two of us, depending on who comes round for dinner, etc