Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

cathybird

October

7 days =

14 days =

21 days =

28 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

October targets

AnnieG 14/25

Arkers 12/TF

Barny 15/25

cathybird 19/21

Coveredinbees 1/8

Cuppa 5/18

happydenial 11/20

lantanna 12/15

Leftpeg 3/14

maggiem 17/21

maman 10/10

ManPants 20/31

marahouti 18/21

PriceySOS 11/20

RobM99 19/28

Season of Mist 16/28

smushesma 1/TF

sukeyboo 9/10

WBF 7/17

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

cathybird

Afternoon all, wow, busy morning! It's 19/21 for me today

cathybird

So I've done some calculations re spendage per month ... there were six estimates so I added them up and got the average, which was £187 per month. There are 17 people currently actively doing the challenge. So £187 x 17 = £3,179 per month, or (wait for it!) £38,148 per year. That's just the booze ... not the taxi rides home/hangover food/munchies/injuries/drunk phone calls/drunk shopping/jobs lost/any other expenses incurred due to alcohol consumption. THIRTY-EIGHT GRAND!! That's (very roughly) what we're collectively saving a year Go us

cathybird

It's also an average of £2,244 saved per person per year. Which again is pretty impressive!

cathybird

It's probably way more than that for this challenge overall when you consider there used to be more people who took part - if you go back over old threads there were often over 20 participants, many longstanding. So I guess this challenge has done a lot of good over the years! The challenge has been going 12 years and 8 months, so if we say £38,000 has been the rough savings for all those years (and it's probably more than that) then that comes to £481,350 ... again it's a very rough figure and who knows, but I'd judge it's probably a conservative estimate so this challenge has basically saved participants half a million quid at least. Not bad going!

sukeyboo

Those savings are amazing cathybird 😱

Congratulations on reaching target maman - I am intending to jointly tomorrow 😉

maman

Thanks for doing that cathy.
I think we can conclude that we're a money saving thread! 😁

RobM99

maman said:

Thanks for doing that cathy.
I think we can conclude that we're a money saving thread! 😁

HMRC don't like us!

Season_of_Mist

Thank you for crunching those numbers cathybird. It is an eye-watering set of figures (I’m sorry I couldn’t come up with an estimate for what I might have saved but happy to go with your numbers). How much tax in total is levied on alcoholic drinks, does anyone know? It’d be interesting to look at a bottle of wine and think a whole third (say) of that is just pure tax.

RobM99

https://www.which.co.uk/news/2020/03/budget-2020-sin-taxes-on-alcohol-frozen-while-smokers-will-pay-more-for-tobacco/
Bit confusing but it gives an idea.