Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

Season_of_Mist

Wanna_Bee_Free said:

Ooh, sorry for my mistake Season of Mist, I was obviously not awake enough to post this morning!

No probs WBF

AnnieG

Hello
5/25 for me today please

sukeyboo

4/10 for today please cathybird 

marahouti

5/21 for yesterday please cathybird. Thank you. X

RobM99

7/28, doing well 

cathybird

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AnnieG 5/25

Arkers 4/TF

Arsenal

Barny 6/25

cathybird 7/21

Cuppa 2/18

happydenial 5/20

lantanna 3/15

Leftpeg 14

maggiem 6/21

maman 3/10

ManPants 5/31

marahouti 5/21

PriceySOS 20

RobM99 7/28

Season of Mist 7/28

sukeyboo 4/10

WBF 4/17

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

cathybird

In the light of the new forum rules I just wanted to say that while we mostly discuss cutting down on booze it's also obviously money-saving to spend less on alcohol and this something that gets touched on reasonably regularly! I worked out at one point how many thousands it saved me when I gave up buying a regular brand of Chardonnay I was very fond of. Must do the sums again.

maman

cathybird said:

In the light of the new forum rules I just wanted to say that while we mostly discuss cutting down on booze it's also obviously money-saving to spend less on alcohol and this something that gets touched on reasonably regularly! I worked out at one point how many thousands it saved me when I gave up buying a regular brand of Chardonnay I was very fond of. Must do the sums again.

Good point Cathy . If we've got people on the thread saving for a car then we should be OK. 🤔😉 My DH is on an AF kick too at the moment and we commented this morning on how much we were saving when we put the bottles out for recycling. Plus the wine that I do drink was from Sainsburys 25% off wine offer. I'm doing my bit to comply with mse rules. 😉

cathybird

maman said:

cathybird said:

In the light of the new forum rules I just wanted to say that while we mostly discuss cutting down on booze it's also obviously money-saving to spend less on alcohol and this something that gets touched on reasonably regularly! I worked out at one point how many thousands it saved me when I gave up buying a regular brand of Chardonnay I was very fond of. Must do the sums again.

Good point Cathy . If we've got people on the thread saving for a car then we should be OK. 🤔😉 My DH is on an AF kick too at the moment and we commented this morning on how much we were saving when we put the bottles out for recycling. Plus the wine that I do drink was from Sainsburys 25% off wine offer. I'm doing my bit to comply with mse rules. 😉

Absolutely maman! In fact just doing rough sums I was spending about £1,300 a year just on the Chardonnay and I was buying other plonk as well ... if memory serves I was quite fond of vodka and always had that around. I gave all this up altogether maybe four years ago? ... so that's over £5,000 at least, just on the vino, not including the other booze. That's a tidy little sum!

maggiem

Declaring early for today Thursday so 7/21 - hurray falling leaves day. 

It is amazing how much can be saved by not drinking. I have had times when I have bought a bottle of wine a day so around £35 a week if not more. I think you also get dragged into drinking more with buy 2 get one bottle free offers which did not necessarily  mean that the wine would last three days.  I notice now in my shopping if I have bought wine, one or two bottles that week.