How much do you spend on booze?

[col]

Not much at all, the last time was christmas. Only had a sip out of one can then, had a can a short while ago. Might have a can or two at family get togethers or the monthly club do which I havnt been to this year. Going on easter weekend though, off the next day. Club prices mean a tenner will cover my night.

 

[guitarpete247]

Most weeks nothing since Jan. this year. A couple of weeks ago we went down to The Smoke and had a couple of bottles of house wine, 1 pint in a pub and a vodka for GF. Other than that we've had a couple of bottles of home brew wine I made last year. So, for this year, we've probably spent £35 in 3 months. I probably need to get a Shiraz kit soon to replenish my cellar (£12 for 6 bottles). Those 6 bottles and the Pinot Grigio bottles should last till the summer at our current rate of consumption.
I used to drink a bottle of £5 plonk most nights, but diet, health and finance has cut this out during the week.

 

[User482]

My weekly outlay is heavily dependent on whether or not I'm spending the Saturday morning with fellow FNRttCers...

Happily, I'm one of those people who can drink a glass or two of wine in the evening without feeling the need to finish the bottle, so booze isn't something I generally worry about either for health or financial reasons.

 

[smutchin]

Sweet Fanny Adams these days

I prefer my Fanny Adams medium-dry.

d.

 

[Globalti]

So that's a negligible proportion of the incomes of all but one contributor to this thread.

Next question: what proportion of weekly income do those 500,000 families bumping along the bottom of society spend on alcohol and ciggies?

 

[col]

So that's a negligible proportion of the incomes of all but one contributor to this thread.

Next question: what proportion of weekly income do those 500,000 families bumping along the bottom of society spend on alcohol and ciggies?

It seems a lot more than we can afford, see them out all the time.

 

[smutchin]

I don't drink as much as I used to, but when I do drink, I tend to spend more... My local bottle shop stocks some amazing beers, but they don't come cheap - most expensive I've had from there was, I think, £12 for a 500ml bottle. Bloody worth it too. Would like to get into home-brewing to save money though.

Wine likewise - I hardly ever drink wine but when I do, I'll get something worth drinking.

d.

 

[Blue Steel]

More or less nowt, but a bloody fortune on coffee! When did "milky coffee, that's 80 pence please", become,"Cafe latte, that's two pound 70". Somewhere along the line in the last decade or two we've all been diddled!

 

[NormanD]

Ziltch on booze as I'm T-Total ... but a fortune on coffee stops

 

[Steve H]

This thread appears to be receiving more input from the none to light drinkers than from the alcoholics!

Either cyclechat attracts a very sober audience or the boozers are hiding from the thread. Maybe I can balance things up a bit.

I reckon most weeks, my wife and I will get through a couple of bottles of wine and half a dozen cans of lager / bitter. It then depends if we go out with friends and most importantly which friends. So a regular week would be around £20-25 between the two of us. But this could easily rocket up to £100 for the 'few times a year' boozy weekends with certain friends.

 

[rich p]

These threads are always full of the 'never touch it' replies. It's a skewed result, as the drinkers don't post either out of shame or lack of interest.

 

[Arch]

So that's a negligible proportion of the incomes of all but one contributor to this thread.

Next question: what proportion of weekly income do those 500,000 families bumping along the bottom of society spend on alcohol and ciggies?

I see their recycling. Lots.

Well, actually, there's lots of booze, but a lot of it is probably very cheap - either because it's the Lambrini stuff at £2 for 1.5 litres, or it's Carling or something bought in multipacks, probably on offer. Still a lot of booze though. Week in, week out.I think we once worked out how many gallons of Lambrini one househild was getting through each week. I think it was about 6.

Personally, I drink very little. The odd pint in a pub with workmates, although we've more or less stopped that with the way our new shifts work out. NT and I might share a bottle of beer with a meal, or have the odd nip of whiskey.

 

[colly]

A couple of bottles of red a week on average, and the odd bottle of beer. Although the beer is always what's been left over from Christmas/a party/ a celebration of some sort so that doesn't actually 'cost' me anything.
So maybe a tenner a week.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The amount you spend says nothing though, as a beer snob I don't mind paying for quality and I might spend the same on one fancy bottle of beer as you can on buying a multi-pack of fizzy piss.

 

[User169]

The amount you spend says nothing though, as a beer snob I don't mind paying for quality and I might spend the same on one fancy bottle of beer as you can on buying a multi-pack of fizzy piss.

That said, there's nothing against combining quality and quantity.