How much do you spend on booze?

[threebikesmcginty]

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

Well yes, I never actually buy just one bottle.

 

[Nearly there]

Before my new found love of cycling on my days off I would drink at least 8 cans a night spending about £10 a time sometimes more but I was sick of feeling sluggish and I wasn't exercising so decided to do something about so tried cycling and love it,now I still like a drink but its a bottle of wine once a week or a few beers spend about £6-8 a week instead of £25-£40,Id rather stay fresh on my days off for a good ride.

 

[oldfatfool]

Haven't spent anything on booze for a couple of years now, but then on the other hand the 72 bottle rack in the cellar is now decidedly bare

 

[subaqua]

£30 this week, but the previous week it was less, next week might be a bit more. depends on how tired i feel. was spending £50 a week 2 years ago on 6 cans of holsten 5 nights a week and lots more on fridays and saturdays.

a bit like colinJ its all or nothing and just the one is a non starter . it always ends up me getting slaughtered or not having a drink. borderline lush. probably.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I rarely spend money on booze, once every month-6 weeks we eat out instead of cooking tea and I'll have a pint with the meal and apart from a couple of glasses of wine Xmas thats about it.

 

[summerdays]

I guess we would share a bottle of wine a week (with me having the lion's share!), and an odd glass of spirits. So not that much, if we go out I might have up to 3 glasses of wine, I don't enjoy drinking to the point it makes me ill, but do like the taste of it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

We drink 3 to 4 £6 bottles of wine a week between us and then probably another tenner on the odd beer when out walking the whippet, so £25 to £30 a week. Too much really.

 

[rich p]

How is life at Rawlinson's End these days? Do you still have the wrinkled retainer?

Yes, it's his scrotum.

 

[Globalti]

I've requested a bottle of Lagavulin for my birthday - work server is blocking me from booze sites but I guess it's going to cost around £40, which means.... er... about 20 tots at £2.00 each, hmm, maybe one every couple of weeks to celebrate something, don't think that's excessive!

 

[simon.r]

More than most of you who've posted on this thread!

It varies, but a typical week is:

1 night at the local - 5 pints - £15
1/2 bottle of wine at a restaurant - £6
1/2 bottle of wine at home - £1.50

Total = £22.50

That's about 20 'units', so within the guidelines, but not spread thinly enough over the week.

 

[junglegusset]

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.

I'm operating pretty much along these lines as well.

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”​

”24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”​

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”​

 

[postman]

Given up after the operation.It was one subject the Consultant kept asking about,"how much do you drink"? So i thought 17 -61 is a good run.Time to stop.

 

[Globalti]

My cycling buddy is a consultant physician and he gets slaughtered a couple of times a month.... only on expensive wine though.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Hmmm. I buy two bottles of wine a week from waitrose. and usually two bottles of beer. for the glugging stockpile. then once every couple of months I buy a case of wine from the wine society and four times a year a case of belgian beer from thebeermerchant.

and I have a direct debit set up with the wine society for a fine wines purchase scheme.

outside of lent I take the lovely Helen to the pub a couple of times a month.

so... err... quite a bit.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

...four times a year a case of belgian beer from thebeermerchant.