How much do you spend on alcohol per week/month

valk_scot

I don't drink...I used to be a one glass of wine a month person but now I'm on meds. The only time I buy booze is during the M&S Dine in for £10 offers, just to have a bottle or two in for cooking and guests. Hubby goes out for a pint or two a couple of times a week and usually buys six bottles of some sort of real ale per week for drinking in the house. So at a rough guess about £20 a week?

We've got an unopened bottle of gin here that we bought out the duty free on a holiday in 1993, come to think of it. And about a dozen bottles of assorted malt whiskys, from clearing out my late SILs house eight years ago. Hubby isn't fond of spirits. I really should just give it away to someone.

kitschkitty

I reckon £40 a year max, a bottle or spirits each and maybe a few bottles of Bulmers for me. We rarely drink at home, but it's nice to have something in for special occasions.

rabidbun

Probably around a bottle of wine and one of real ale in the week, or around three or so real ale bottles in a week, shared between two of us. And a week or two off drinking every month... probably averages out at around £7 a week or thereabouts.

alandbailey

Probably about 3 - 4 bottles of spirits per week. Way too much but as I am alone in the world, it takes the edge off of my depression, helps me sleep and also ignore my ill-health problems.
Cannabis is also good but illegal and one has more control over imbibing alcohol than inhaling cannabis.

dyldwarf

in the past year £10 in total and that was for gifts

costaerer

valk_scot wrote: »

I don't drink...I used to be a one glass of wine a month person but now I'm on meds. The only time I buy booze is during the M&S Dine in for £10 offers, just to have a bottle or two in for cooking and guests. Hubby goes out for a pint or two a couple of times a week and usually buys six bottles of some sort of real ale per week for drinking in the house. So at a rough guess about £20 a week?

We've got an unopened bottle of gin here that we bought out the duty free on a holiday in 1993, come to think of it. And about a dozen bottles of assorted malt whiskys, from clearing out my late SILs house eight years ago. Hubby isn't fond of spirits. I really should just give it away to someone.

can give to my hubby if you want

valk_scot

costaerer wrote: »

can give to my hubby if you want

I was just waiting for someone to say that! :rotfl:

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

In the last year - about £40 on champagne, about £15 on red wine, about £8 on white, about £35 on various lagers, about £20 on spirits.

Sounds like a lot that way, but it actually boils down to the occasional night out and about 4 nights in.

Rather than keep it around all the time, I tend to get the odd miniature bottle of bourbon (I like it lots, so would probably drink it quite quickly if I had a full size bottle in the cupboard) or small wine bottles, as I wouldn't be able to drink or cook with a full bottle before it went off.

It's non essential.

duchy

My parents didn't drink-except a glass of sherry for Mum at Christmas and a can or two of brown ale for Dad at the same time. As Dad travelled a bit for work and got corporate gifts at Christmas we always had a drinks cupboard bursting with whiskey, brandy, gin etc "for guests". In the end they decided their guests were never going to get through it all this century so starting finding uses for it as gifts etc. Postman, milkman and dustmen really liked their Christmas boxes from then on

Blobby8_2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

In the last year - about £40 on champagne, about £15 on red wine, about £8 on white, about £35 on various lagers, about £20 on spirits.

Sounds like a lot that way, but it actually boils down to the occasional night out and about 4 nights in.

Rather than keep it around all the time, I tend to get the odd miniature bottle of bourbon (I like it lots, so would probably drink it quite quickly if I had a full size bottle in the cupboard) or small wine bottles, as I wouldn't be able to drink or cook with a full bottle before it went off.

It's non essential.

You take it steady now, £120 a YEAR on booze, that equates to almost a pint of ale a week.