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How much do you spend on drinking (alcohol) a month and what/where do you drink?

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$200 or $300 a month sounds logical. My wife buys wine for the house, so the only time I ever drink out and in that case you are buying for others, entertaining, etc.

But as some have said going out in a big city, it's not uncommon to see the tab come back at $50 (or much higher, Capital Grille, Ruth's, nice bars, after work, etc...) for a round with four or five other guys/girls. So how exactly do you break that apart in the thread?
 
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I don't drink much. I bought a case of Sam Adams Summer Variety pack.

I hate every goddamn flavor. I guess I'm not a beer drinker. I hate the bitter taste.

I do like some mixed drinks though, like Mojitos.
 
A half keg usually lasts me about 3 months, I usually have sam adams or yuengling on tap.

A few years ago, a half keg was only $80-$100, now I pay about $120-140 for them.

So for myself and any friends/family that come over, I spend about $40 a month.
 
One quarter in college it was probably $100/m. Roommate and I were drinking pretty cheap stuff so we managed to get pretty hammered at least 3 nights a week.
 
The-Noid said:
$200 or $300 a month sounds logical. My wife buys wine for the house, so the only time I ever drink out and in that case you are buying for others, entertaining, etc. But as some have said going out in a big city, it's not uncommon to see the tab come back at $50 (or much higher, Capital Grille, Ruth's, nice bars, after work, etc...) for a round with four or five other guys/girls. So how exactly do you break that apart in the thread?
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That's really the difficult part. A lot of us are married and/or entertain and that bumps up the cost quite a bit. It's not like I drink $150 worth of booze myself a month. That's also counting my wife having several beers a week and splitting a bottle of wine over the course of a week. My parents also come over for dinner almost every Sunday and stay for a couple hours. It's not unusal for the 4 of us to split 2 bottles of wine over the course of 3 or 4 hours or my Dad, wife and I to knock off a six pack between us. Mom doesn't like beer 🙂

Alcohol isn't an evil elixer. A drink with dinner through the week and a couple glasses of wine on the weekend with friends or family isn't going to kill you. If anything it'll relax you and the socialization aspect is a far greater impact to overall well being than abstaining from booze.

That's really where the benefit is. A social drinker almost always lives longer than an asocial non-drinker.
 
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That's really the difficult part. A lot of us are married and/or entertain and that bumps up the cost quite a bit. It's not like I drink $150 worth of booze myself a month. That's also counting my wife having several beers a week and splitting a bottle of wine over the course of a week. My parents also come over for dinner almost every Sunday and stay for a couple hours. It's not unusal for the 4 of us to split 2 bottles of wine over the course of 3 or 4 hours or my Dad, wife and I to knock off a six pack between us. Mom doesn't like beer 🙂

Alcohol isn't an evil elixer. A drink with dinner through the week and a couple glasses of wine on the weekend with friends or family isn't going to kill you. If anything it'll relax you and the socialization aspect is a far greater impact to overall well being than abstaining from booze.

That's really where the benefit is. A social drinker almost always lives longer than an asocial non-drinker.
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Exactly and if you hang out with the same people consistently, you may end up buying all the rounds one night and not buy again for a while (a lot of time it is just easier to keep a cc open when it gets busy). If you are out to have fun it becomes less fun to consistently argue about money here and there.
 
Way too much as we rarely drink at home - its social for us so WE like going out.

Its good to have some of our local bar tenders in our back pocket who will pour us a double or throw you an extra pint or charge Call prices for top-shelf.

She likes Ketl One & I prefer IPA's, Miller Lite & Don Julio shots.

$300 - $500 on average I'd say.

A round of 6 LA Water shots is gonna run you $50 with tip - Not hard to drink a few beers and 2-3 shots at a bar in 3-4hrs. Bar Bills get to $100 a good power-drinking night easily. IPA's are $5, Miller Lite is $4, Ketl One is $8, Don Julio is $8. And those price are corner/local bar, if at a club it's add $2-4 per drink more.

LA Water = Adios MF'er + Razzmatazz to give it that murky color
 
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alkemyst said:
Mich Ultra or another light beer exclusively.

Mostly from the grocery store, a few drinks out each week (sadly on beer you really get raped, about 2 drinks out down here = 12 pack).

$300-350.
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Let's say "a few" equals 5 drinks, which is too many for most people to drive legally after drinking. And, let's go at the upper "normal" end and say they are $8 each. That's 20 drinks per month at $8 each = $160. That leaves $160 for beer bought by the case. I looked online at prices for a case of Mich Ultra - Anywhere from slightly below $20 to about $25 a case. At the upper end, that's 6 cases of Mich ultra.

Sounds like a drinking problem to me.


Here, I probably average about $20 a month for alcohol, including wine used in cooking.
 
Fuck, I spend a fuckton on drinking. Anywhere from $100-300 in a week, it all depends.

I bartend for a living.. so after work, we hit up late night bars for 1 or 2, then leave monstrous tips. I go hard about once a week, sometimes twice. I drink makers on the rocks or goose on the rocks, so shit aint cheap.... and I can put away a fuckton of them.

Last week I went to a heavy metal show one night and easily dropped $150 and then dropped another $150 the next day during an electronic music festival on the beach in Chicago.

I'm clearly a problem drinker, but I am doing it for the social aspect and having a lot of fun.
 
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Drinks are expensive here and I like to go out. There are a lot of places with cheap drinks like $1 beers or a $10 bucket of 5 bottles. I don't usally want to spend my night there. There are usually babies and kids running around.
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Definitely agree with you on this. I hate "cheap drink" night.

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/this


the places i go to are nice. A pitcher of beer and play shuffleboard, pool or darts.

i don't want to have to yell to be heard. i like being able to see where i am going. and the option of doing something other then drinking is nice.
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Also agree with you. Surprisingly I do not dig crowded bars, unless I am working at them. I also don't really hit on women when I'm out drinking.
 
Usually $10-$20 per month. That covers maybe one six pack per month plus 1-2 times ordering a beer when I eat out. I don't go to bars and I almost never have more than one beer in an evening because it makes me tired or miserable.
 
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Where do you get your mead? The liquor store up here doesn't sell it. It's about the only thing they don't have.
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I mostly drink my homebrew mead. However, I've had about 10-15 different commercial meads over the years. Usuall I have good luck at "Binny's" which is a Liquor store chain based out of the Chicago area.
 
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