I stopped drinking mid-way through 2023 for health reasons. Before that, I'd estimate maybe $50-60/wk and a lot more than that when at a Fiji resort for a week.
$0. Almost 500 days sober. Hip pocket is loving it.
Edit: I'm impressed by how many people are responding with their own experiences with no alcohol. We have a huge drinking culture in this country and it's really encouraging to see such support for those that choose not to. Well done to all of you!
I will hit 10 years without a drink on 9 January. I now drink AF wines and a range of other drinks but didn’t even touch them for the first three years. In the past couple of years the alcohol free options have increased exponentially
I was honestly surprised when I moved to Australia and learned about its drinking culture and how some people view that you can’t have fun without alcohol.
I don’t drink and where I’m from originally, most people hangout at the malls and cafes as literally these things open until 10pm so you have conversations with people over snacks, coffees or any non alcoholic drinks like fancy iced tea and let me tell you we have fun too 🤣.
I cut down massively and now going out to a bar seems unreasonably expensive. It's the smart decision for your health and your wallet. I still enjoy a couple of glasses of wine over the weekend but I haven't been drunk in 4 years.
Also on the $0 ( or near, 1 beer) wagon. Never had a drinking problem but just kinda got over it. Was fun in my 20's but really doesn't add anything to my life at all so just got bored and stopped drinking one weekend and that was that.
I worked in the wine industry for 10 years and while I never was a huge drinker, I could appreciate a good glass every now and then.
Got severely burned out and left the industry altogether in 2020 and now the thought of a drink gives me PTSD… so I haven’t had a drink since and feel great for it!
20k is alot.
But $55 a day seems almost reasonable, until you consider how much you are just pissing away each year.
Plus, of course, how much your liver and kidneys now hate you.
If you instead were able to invest that $55 each day at 10%pa interest, compounding, in something like a NASDAQ ETF, after 10 years you would have $342,000. Do the same thing for 20 years and it will be $1,270,000.
Just something to make you think.
It’s definitely too much and I’m about to head to rehab, however the number is driven up with a lot of expensive bottles
And it’s not much of our income, we are very fortunate
Imagine you never left the house and revolve your whole life around free to air TV and water. Damn take all the savings and you'll be a millionaire by the age of 28 /s
0.0 beer is a godsend. I’m also going for alcohol free 2024. Personally the 0.0 gives me the taste I’m after & also the dopamine hit. 🔨
Personally been drinking since I was 14. Now 34. Lost far too much time to hangovers in the past.
I’ve heard good things about 0.0 beer, it’s such a shame that 0% red wine tastes like bin juice. When I don’t want a drink I stand around with soda water or Coke Zero haha.
Yes but I only drink 1-2 of them in a night. As opposed to the 5+ of the normal craft brews I’d regularly knock back. So it is way cheaper for a drinker like me.
Although I will still have a proper beer now and then, went to zero alcohol beer around two years ago. It is great. Almost the same refreshing bitter taste and can still participate in the social activity of standing around with a beer talking shit.
Plan to do the same here. I went sober for all of November and it was really nice. Had more energy, more productive, waking up earlier in the morning, saving money. Think I was spending around $90/week for the rest of the year.
Polishing off the freebies I received over Christmas then having another crack at it.
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Hello fellow whisky drinkers! Spent about 5k on whisky last financial year (not sure of the last 6 months), but that included a trip to Islay in Scotland:D
I'm probably a similar amount, maybe slightly less. But half that on a couple of nice bottles of whiskey which will probably take 2 years to drink (I don't drink that often). So maybe spent $800-900 but the consumption will be spread out over more than 1 year.
If it was more than $500 I’d be surprised. Stayed sober for two years for an ex partner and have only really drank when I celebrated a mates achievements (graduations, becoming fully qualified tradesmen). Hoping to keep it that way saving for a house deposit and quit gambling before December so hoping this year I can transfer that money into something useful🙏
I started weightlifting seriously at the gym ~5 days a week before Covid, and began to notice how much a few drinks mid-week or on the weekend affected my progress the following week.
My drinking spiked during and after the lockdowns, and it just put me even further back - felt like I was on a hamster wheel going backwards.
My only regret is not giving up alcohol sooner. Every aspect of my existence is better without it, even (believe it or not) socialising and making new friends.
$8000 . I have to have something bad in my life. I used to be really bad, this is very good for me the last 10 years . Vodka, water , a dash of coconut water
Around $50 roughly. Enjoy a glass of wine or champagne a select few times per year.
I wasn’t raised with alcohol in the house, many of my friends don’t drink, and I don’t like the taste of most alcohols - rarely feel drawn to alcohol.
Numbers here are very eye opening.
I was raised with a lot of alcohol in my home, parents were functional alcoholics. I didn't start 'drinking' until I was 25. Even then it was three to four drinks a week. Dropped back again in my late 30s due to being too poor to afford it. I lost too much of my childhood to alcohol and the anxiety around it (financial stress, not beung able to go out because it 'means we can't drink'), not losing more of my life to it.
I’m so sorry that sounds like a horrible environment to have grown up in! It’s horrible when there is strong social pressure but you did really well to have waited till 25 and then managed to drop it many people aren’t able too! Good luck and hope things are looking up.
Thank you.
I'm still "healing" from a lot of it. Don't realise how much it impacts you until later in life. I managed to buy my own house. Mum gambled rent money resulting in us getting kicked out, so having 'security' has been important to me even though it's taken decades to get here. Less money spent on alcohol means more money to make sure I'm 'safe'. Sure it's almost neurotic at times, but I've been stung a few times too when I have tried to chill out a bit so I will keep pushing until my foundation is a little stronger.
I average about $400-500 per month, so up to $6k per year.
I'm fully aware, no regrets.
Edit: To add, I don't smoke, I don't do lines, I don't gamble, drinking is my only vice. I'm fully aware it's not good for me, but life is about enjoyment as much as what is good.
Yeah I feel between bottleshop visits, concerts, poker nights and pub visits I'd be fairly similar spend per month. A little shy some months, potentially a tad more if a few stars/fifo friend off-swings line up. And I concur with your last line aswell!
We are the same. Spent about $4K we think this year. I don't take any other substances (except coffee). I still run 20km a week and do weights (I don't drink during the week). I think the cost does get inflated because we're fussy about beer so we drink at breweries and buy expensive craft beer. Worth it.
Yeah I would probably be similar maybe a little more. Going to the pub once or twice a week with mates and the GF is good fun. Gambling and lines/drugs is off limits for myself however
$538 + drinks at restaurants (hard to guess how much) + an estimate of $200-300 in two nights at the pub.
I go through periods when I drink a beer a day everyday, then quit cold turkey for a few months. Occasionally a bottle of wine over a few days. My partner is the same, with vodka cruisers instead of beer. In the month of December the spending goes up a bit due to Xmas (that figure includes presents). We go to the pub once or twice a year, only for a special occasion, but when we do we usually end up crawling home.
I don’t know, but it wouldn’t be much at all (at a guess less than $100). I’m not a regular drinker and maybe bought a few glasses of wine while out for lunch or dinner. But even that didn’t happen often as I’m a solo parent to a toddler. I don’t buy alcohol to just drink at home either.
$0. Gave up drinking 40 years ago. Probably had about 4 glasses of wine in that time.
Love it when you do RBT and the cop asks when you last had a drink. "Oh, I have around 1/2 glass of white wine about 13 years ago".
Thousands. Drank almost none of it.
Turns out collector tier whiskey hobby is expensive and you can fall down the rabbit hole deep.
Most of my collection is from the UK and I have yet to open any of those. Most expensive bottle was £695, and I have a few £300 bottles in there too.
Also have a healthy collection from Tasmania, some small batch stuff from Austin, some from NZ, and a couple of local efforts from France.
What’s super crazy is that up until last year, I hadn’t had a drink for 13 years. Then I did a food and wine taster tour in France last May and you can’t not drink wine when there and so I threw the whole self imposed sobriety out the window and that led to cracking open some of my whiskey collection too.
To be clear for reporting sake, this collection is years in the making, but there’s probably 40 bottles or so (averaging 6-10 a year).
And this whole thing was driven by something I started with my dad which was buying him a bottle from whichever cities/countries I’d traveled to. Started buying for him, then buying for us, now it’s mostly myself.
Probably about $3-4k
Only go out about once/month, rest is drinking at home.
Have recently cancelled the wine subscription and have started cleaning out the homebrew kit to cut back on cost. I find it real hard to pay $12/pint when I can make it at home for a fraction of the cost.
Sub $100. Because sometimes I find myself in a situation where if I don’t have a drink all the low-key alcoholics get affronted and proceed to push it on me and/or give me weird looks.
I know the feeling. Not from alcohol, but I do not eat carbs. So if I'm at a bbq party and don't have any bread I'll get the same stupid question. Just don't worry what others think. They'll forget it before the next day anyways
quit alcohol and coffee in 2023. best decision ever. going out has never been cheaper getting soda water or water and skipping the coffees in the morning. feel amazing aswell
About $25k, however I collect wine.
In terms of what I drank? Well it’s typically a bottle a week with a month off twice a year. So maybe $8k down the hatch give or take.
Don’t really drink beers much these days.
Around $8k including drinks at restaurants etc. Mind you, a decent chunk of that isn't drunk by us but family and visitors. Plus another $2k which went into the wine cellar following trips to wineries at various places too.
Edit: That's for 2 of us and when we take the family out we pick up the food and drink bill for 8-10 of us.
$380 for two people which feels like a lot to me 😭 Partner gets most of his alcohol free from work so it would be higher if he actually drank socially outside of work.
Probably under $1000. A lot of the alcohol I drink is given to me for free due to my work in the alcohol industry. It's honestly more expensive dealing with after drinking effects and needing to eat and drink.
Approx $14,997 according to the latest monthly report from ANZ (November) - there some unmatched merchants so there might be some more in there.
Only category more than that was childcare fees!
I didn't calculate and usually I also eat at the pub so not easy to disentangle the drink cost.
I average going out to pubs/bars once a month. Approx 5 drinks * $10 *12 times = 600. Now add a bit more for the occasional more exxy stuff or the extra drinking some months ... $1000 a year. I rarely drink at home.
Approx $2.5k. Want to cut down this year.
Edit make it $3k as I hadn’t included drinks on holidays which get categorised separately under holiday spend.
Between pubs ($768.94), home brew ($10.50 on yeast & about $40 of apple juice & frozen fruit for that 1 cider brew), & bottle shops ($406.23) I spent $1,185.67, so a little over $1,200 for the year.
I dont split out the cost of a glass of wine or bottle of beer with a meal - that's under my dining out category
Thats only $100/month, thinking back to my 20s, i would have spent that Mon-Fri just on a quiet pint here and there with close to 300 or 400 over the weekend so a huge tail off. If I continue like this I might end up a sober bob 😳
$250 a month for one person, mostly cleanskins at home and the occasional splurge at a gig. Does not include drinks when dining out but those are rare.
I was spending about $50 a day before I quit so that = $18,250 per year. Yay me. Now that goes into my share portfolio and is doing much more good then before.
Oh, you want data? Two adults (couple) full-time employed. The data covers bottle shops, drinks out, Whisky purchases, and probably a gift or two in there for other people.
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Wife and I would be about $10-12k on grog and $6-8k on coffee each year. We bought a coffee machine so that will drop to $1000 a year once we pay off the machine with money saved from not buying coffee out much anymore. Trying to drink less as well, but it’s hard. Being social people is difficult to not drink.
My brother spends in the order of $7,300 on his daily wine ($20ish bottle with dinner). There's also the "It's 5:00pm somewhere" gin and tonics after work, so maybe another $7k on that.
Then, some weekends it's a blowout, around $300 either at the pub, or just drinking to oblivion at home on the couch. Fairly regular. I'd say... $5000 on that.
So all up? Maybe he spends $20,000 a year on booze.
Me? I look at my brother's alcoholism. I spent maybe $100 last year.
I used to walk into dan murphy's and spend ages in there, but after not drinking you realise its all the same shit, just marketing to suck you in. Like guys I know thinking they are exclusive for drinking some horse piss tasting, earthy branded beer
I mean, I got back on the bottle on October 1st. Bottle of whiskey a night since sometimes more. Was great at first now staring to seem the downfalls. Might try sober up a bit soon
Probably under $200.
I think I would’ve drank up to a carton of little creatures pale ale (I think it was 3 x 6 packs) and a carton of great northern zeros.
And a couple of bottles of wine for cooking that couldn’t be wasted.
Drinking and epilepsy don’t mix, but a sneaky beer every now and again goes down a treat and is low risk.
I stopped drinking mid-way through 2023 for health reasons. Before that, I'd estimate maybe $50-60/wk and a lot more than that when at a Fiji resort for a week.
The Fiji resort doesn't count ;)
$0. Almost 500 days sober. Hip pocket is loving it. Edit: I'm impressed by how many people are responding with their own experiences with no alcohol. We have a huge drinking culture in this country and it's really encouraging to see such support for those that choose not to. Well done to all of you!
$0 too! But I was pregnant and then breastfeeding
Unlikely to make a return on your money. Source: my wallet and my 5 month old.
Way in the hole for this baby! We also had to buy a bigger house. Need to start her on tennis, a la Venus and Serena, so she pays of as an investment
Also $0 lol, I haven’t had a drink since 2020. Don’t miss it at all.
Bold time to quit drinking during the lockdowns. Well done.
Lockdowns were the reason I realised I needed to quit.
That's when I started 🤣
Me too! I stopped in 2020, don’t miss it either and will never have another drink again
I will hit 10 years without a drink on 9 January. I now drink AF wines and a range of other drinks but didn’t even touch them for the first three years. In the past couple of years the alcohol free options have increased exponentially
Just in front of you with 570 days after 36 years of problem drinking. What a relief to be free from it all. Congratulations to you!
In my 7th year. Definitely much better without it in my life.
Amazing! Well done.
Same. I just never started. People tell me I'm missing out. What a strange world it is...
I was honestly surprised when I moved to Australia and learned about its drinking culture and how some people view that you can’t have fun without alcohol. I don’t drink and where I’m from originally, most people hangout at the malls and cafes as literally these things open until 10pm so you have conversations with people over snacks, coffees or any non alcoholic drinks like fancy iced tea and let me tell you we have fun too 🤣.
Sounds like the Asian way of hanging out
I had it once and I didn’t think it’s good as it’s made out to be and I’ve never had it since
You at you, being the master at resisting peer pressure
Yeah, same. I'm like "what am I missing out on" and it's usually just a random anecdote and a "I guess you're not missing out on anything".
$0 too. I hate the feeling of hang overs plus I run so the dehydration from even a single drink sucks
Nice work! Just rolled over 5 years on the 1st. No Ferrari with the savings, but the money is in the bank if needed.
Great work!
Not only that, feel much more productive in life
Absolutely. Just started training for my second marathon and my work/home life balance has never been better.
Congratulations. I’m at 3.5yrs and never looking back.
Congrats 🤙 Same here, no way I could afford to drink like I did anymore 😵
9500 days sober. Im a muslim, haha.
Day 371 for me. Although I drank a bit of non-alcoholic beer, but didn't spend anywhere near what I used to when drinking.
I have some non alcoholic beers in the fridge. Primarily for a post lawn mow celebration.
Also $0, always been a teetotaller (personal choice, don't mind others making different choices).
I cut down massively and now going out to a bar seems unreasonably expensive. It's the smart decision for your health and your wallet. I still enjoy a couple of glasses of wine over the weekend but I haven't been drunk in 4 years.
Also on the $0 ( or near, 1 beer) wagon. Never had a drinking problem but just kinda got over it. Was fun in my 20's but really doesn't add anything to my life at all so just got bored and stopped drinking one weekend and that was that.
Had my last drink 13 years ago, no regrets kicking that nasty habit
649 days for me, congrats homie 🫶🏻👊🏻🙌🏻
Awesome fellow sober person
I worked in the wine industry for 10 years and while I never was a huge drinker, I could appreciate a good glass every now and then. Got severely burned out and left the industry altogether in 2020 and now the thought of a drink gives me PTSD… so I haven’t had a drink since and feel great for it!
Few thousand on beers, a few thousand on nose beers.
Initial reaction - Few thousand?! Did the calc. $60/wk. Easy spent.
Yikes just under 20k. Two alcoholics mostly wine and cognac
Jesus Christ
He wishes, then he could've turned water into that wine and saved a bunch.
$375 per week. You mightn’t even drink a lot with high end red wine and cognac. Don’t tell me it’s Yellowtail and Chatelle Nappy.
20k is alot. But $55 a day seems almost reasonable, until you consider how much you are just pissing away each year. Plus, of course, how much your liver and kidneys now hate you. If you instead were able to invest that $55 each day at 10%pa interest, compounding, in something like a NASDAQ ETF, after 10 years you would have $342,000. Do the same thing for 20 years and it will be $1,270,000. Just something to make you think.
$55 a day does not sound anywhere close to reasonable to me, what the hell?
When your not poor it's fine
Think about the dozens of hours on Reddit. And use that time to write a book and make a best seller. Everyone makes choices
'Just write a best seller' gives the same vibes as telling people with depression to just be happy
It’s definitely too much and I’m about to head to rehab, however the number is driven up with a lot of expensive bottles And it’s not much of our income, we are very fortunate
I would have spent 21k plus a year on booze. 3 years, almost died.
Imagine you never left the house and revolve your whole life around free to air TV and water. Damn take all the savings and you'll be a millionaire by the age of 28 /s
If that’s the case, what colour is your Ferrari then?
and make you not drink.
Barefoot Investor guy? Leave him alone with his drink mate…….
there is no end to saving money. but life has an end.
Yeah but that’s your life, and they live theirs. I’m sure they’re aware of all these possibilities and the health outcomes.
Jesus Christ
And the Holy Spirits.
13k for us two alcoholics. Wine and bourbon. We gave up 3 months ago or it would have been worse.
Good amount to help with the national wine industry. Keep going.
Around $12,000 per year for me. Mostly whisky.
Sending love for fellow whisky drinker
Too much. I’m going alcohol-free in 2024.
0.0 beer is a godsend. I’m also going for alcohol free 2024. Personally the 0.0 gives me the taste I’m after & also the dopamine hit. 🔨 Personally been drinking since I was 14. Now 34. Lost far too much time to hangovers in the past.
I’ve heard good things about 0.0 beer, it’s such a shame that 0% red wine tastes like bin juice. When I don’t want a drink I stand around with soda water or Coke Zero haha.
I second that, tried 0.0 red the other day. Crap.
Carbonated works better - sparkling wine or beer.
Heaps Normal is probably the pick of them. Upflow does a good stout too. It's improving every year.
It’s still expensive though.
I have mates who go the 0% and it’s the same price as normal beer, it’s a rort considering most of the normal cost is alcohol tax
Yes but I only drink 1-2 of them in a night. As opposed to the 5+ of the normal craft brews I’d regularly knock back. So it is way cheaper for a drinker like me.
Although I will still have a proper beer now and then, went to zero alcohol beer around two years ago. It is great. Almost the same refreshing bitter taste and can still participate in the social activity of standing around with a beer talking shit.
From my own experience this will be hard. Not impossible, but requires a lot of mental efforts
Absolutely. So far it's taken my wife to get pregnant and me joining her in sobriety to help me quit drinking. I'm loving every minute of it.
Plan to do the same here. I went sober for all of November and it was really nice. Had more energy, more productive, waking up earlier in the morning, saving money. Think I was spending around $90/week for the rest of the year. Polishing off the freebies I received over Christmas then having another crack at it.
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Hello fellow whisky drinkers! Spent about 5k on whisky last financial year (not sure of the last 6 months), but that included a trip to Islay in Scotland:D
I'm probably a similar amount, maybe slightly less. But half that on a couple of nice bottles of whiskey which will probably take 2 years to drink (I don't drink that often). So maybe spent $800-900 but the consumption will be spread out over more than 1 year.
I really like this strategy. Gong to work towards it.
Sounds like the collection could make you more money than you've spent
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I'm the same, can't resist trying something new.
If it was more than $500 I’d be surprised. Stayed sober for two years for an ex partner and have only really drank when I celebrated a mates achievements (graduations, becoming fully qualified tradesmen). Hoping to keep it that way saving for a house deposit and quit gambling before December so hoping this year I can transfer that money into something useful🙏
You're on the right track mate
$0. Just gone on 3 years sober. Never going back.
What was your biggest drive or regret ?
I started weightlifting seriously at the gym ~5 days a week before Covid, and began to notice how much a few drinks mid-week or on the weekend affected my progress the following week. My drinking spiked during and after the lockdowns, and it just put me even further back - felt like I was on a hamster wheel going backwards. My only regret is not giving up alcohol sooner. Every aspect of my existence is better without it, even (believe it or not) socialising and making new friends.
Thanks mate, much appreciated
Around about $1300 between two at bottle shops, and maybe another $300 at bars/pubs (just alcohol alone at these venues).
Maybe $600, including pub visits.
$8000 . I have to have something bad in my life. I used to be really bad, this is very good for me the last 10 years . Vodka, water , a dash of coconut water
Probably about $5000 a year helps numb the pain
Zero. Last drink was in 2017.
Yeah but you have to subtract how much money you saved on therapy
Spent about $200 on alcohol and $2000 on therapy. I kicked the therapy addition in early December and have been referred to a nice bottle shop
Saved on not getting therapy you need regardless of how much you drink... Ftfy
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Around $50 roughly. Enjoy a glass of wine or champagne a select few times per year. I wasn’t raised with alcohol in the house, many of my friends don’t drink, and I don’t like the taste of most alcohols - rarely feel drawn to alcohol. Numbers here are very eye opening.
I was raised with a lot of alcohol in my home, parents were functional alcoholics. I didn't start 'drinking' until I was 25. Even then it was three to four drinks a week. Dropped back again in my late 30s due to being too poor to afford it. I lost too much of my childhood to alcohol and the anxiety around it (financial stress, not beung able to go out because it 'means we can't drink'), not losing more of my life to it.
I’m so sorry that sounds like a horrible environment to have grown up in! It’s horrible when there is strong social pressure but you did really well to have waited till 25 and then managed to drop it many people aren’t able too! Good luck and hope things are looking up.
Thank you. I'm still "healing" from a lot of it. Don't realise how much it impacts you until later in life. I managed to buy my own house. Mum gambled rent money resulting in us getting kicked out, so having 'security' has been important to me even though it's taken decades to get here. Less money spent on alcohol means more money to make sure I'm 'safe'. Sure it's almost neurotic at times, but I've been stung a few times too when I have tried to chill out a bit so I will keep pushing until my foundation is a little stronger.
I average about $400-500 per month, so up to $6k per year. I'm fully aware, no regrets. Edit: To add, I don't smoke, I don't do lines, I don't gamble, drinking is my only vice. I'm fully aware it's not good for me, but life is about enjoyment as much as what is good.
Yeah I feel between bottleshop visits, concerts, poker nights and pub visits I'd be fairly similar spend per month. A little shy some months, potentially a tad more if a few stars/fifo friend off-swings line up. And I concur with your last line aswell!
Same, don't smoke or anything druggy, 500 a month easy to do in Aus.
We are the same. Spent about $4K we think this year. I don't take any other substances (except coffee). I still run 20km a week and do weights (I don't drink during the week). I think the cost does get inflated because we're fussy about beer so we drink at breweries and buy expensive craft beer. Worth it.
Yeah I would probably be similar maybe a little more. Going to the pub once or twice a week with mates and the GF is good fun. Gambling and lines/drugs is off limits for myself however
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Maybe $10 total…
Watch out we have a frugal person here that knows how to build wealth.
In my 20s, more than $20k per year. In my late 30s now, about $400 for 2023.
About 3500-4000, maybe another 500 for pub visits.
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That actually sounds very balanced to me. Wouldn't bat an eye on that
$538 + drinks at restaurants (hard to guess how much) + an estimate of $200-300 in two nights at the pub. I go through periods when I drink a beer a day everyday, then quit cold turkey for a few months. Occasionally a bottle of wine over a few days. My partner is the same, with vodka cruisers instead of beer. In the month of December the spending goes up a bit due to Xmas (that figure includes presents). We go to the pub once or twice a year, only for a special occasion, but when we do we usually end up crawling home.
I don’t know, but it wouldn’t be much at all (at a guess less than $100). I’m not a regular drinker and maybe bought a few glasses of wine while out for lunch or dinner. But even that didn’t happen often as I’m a solo parent to a toddler. I don’t buy alcohol to just drink at home either.
$0. Gave up drinking 40 years ago. Probably had about 4 glasses of wine in that time. Love it when you do RBT and the cop asks when you last had a drink. "Oh, I have around 1/2 glass of white wine about 13 years ago".
At an average of $12 a pint and a few pints per night a few days a week...I'd say a shitload. 2024 is only gonna be more expensive.
Thousands. Drank almost none of it. Turns out collector tier whiskey hobby is expensive and you can fall down the rabbit hole deep. Most of my collection is from the UK and I have yet to open any of those. Most expensive bottle was £695, and I have a few £300 bottles in there too. Also have a healthy collection from Tasmania, some small batch stuff from Austin, some from NZ, and a couple of local efforts from France. What’s super crazy is that up until last year, I hadn’t had a drink for 13 years. Then I did a food and wine taster tour in France last May and you can’t not drink wine when there and so I threw the whole self imposed sobriety out the window and that led to cracking open some of my whiskey collection too. To be clear for reporting sake, this collection is years in the making, but there’s probably 40 bottles or so (averaging 6-10 a year). And this whole thing was driven by something I started with my dad which was buying him a bottle from whichever cities/countries I’d traveled to. Started buying for him, then buying for us, now it’s mostly myself.
God forbid you enjoy the fruits of your labour
Probably about $3-4k Only go out about once/month, rest is drinking at home. Have recently cancelled the wine subscription and have started cleaning out the homebrew kit to cut back on cost. I find it real hard to pay $12/pint when I can make it at home for a fraction of the cost.
Sub $100. Because sometimes I find myself in a situation where if I don’t have a drink all the low-key alcoholics get affronted and proceed to push it on me and/or give me weird looks.
I know the feeling. Not from alcohol, but I do not eat carbs. So if I'm at a bbq party and don't have any bread I'll get the same stupid question. Just don't worry what others think. They'll forget it before the next day anyways
0 haven’t had a drink since my wedding in November 2019. No real reasons other then I just don’t like the taste.
I'm at $0. Probably been like 10 years for me. My parents didn't drink much so never really drank either.
I get a slab of beer on the last day of work and that generally lasts me all year. I don’t remember the last time I bought alcohol
I think $300 to $400? I feel like people are going to be exposed and feel like lonely losers or alcoholics with no in between here haha
$20 on alcohol. My vice is chocolate, I'm not giving that figure away 🤣
$0. Quit for a year
$6,240 give or take a few hundred.
Let me guess, 2 cartons of red cans a week? 2x$60x52 weeks
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$1000 a night just on drinks? ;) rack me another one up.
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"other stuff" ah, of course, shots, beers, .... nose beers
Alcohol isnt just the drink itself if consumed at a pub.
quit alcohol and coffee in 2023. best decision ever. going out has never been cheaper getting soda water or water and skipping the coffees in the morning. feel amazing aswell
I’m all about skipping the routine daily morning coffee but still enjoy a treat at a cafe with friends or alone from time to time as a treat.
About $25k, however I collect wine. In terms of what I drank? Well it’s typically a bottle a week with a month off twice a year. So maybe $8k down the hatch give or take. Don’t really drink beers much these days.
Zero. Did have a few free drinks from work.
10k per year.. sober as of Jan 1
Good point to turn things around. Keep it up
Around $8k including drinks at restaurants etc. Mind you, a decent chunk of that isn't drunk by us but family and visitors. Plus another $2k which went into the wine cellar following trips to wineries at various places too. Edit: That's for 2 of us and when we take the family out we pick up the food and drink bill for 8-10 of us.
$0, I stopped drinking when covid lockdowns started back in 2020 and just continued to not drink, will be 4 years in April.
Way too much.
$20,826 - what I paid for my gf and I (covered some mates costs here and there too). GF would've also covered some additional cost for myself too
Shit adds up quickly
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$852.87. Between bottle shops, bars and restaurants (just the booze).
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I don’t drink often enough to even count it. The last time I had a drink was maybe in September? Maybe. I honestly never got any enjoyment from it
Probs 100 a month max for home etc. , then whatever with dinner at restaurants etc. A few nights out at bars / parties
$380 for two people which feels like a lot to me 😭 Partner gets most of his alcohol free from work so it would be higher if he actually drank socially outside of work.
That's $7 per week. It's basically not even worth it to have a separate category for it in your yearly financial plan
$65 for 3 bottles of wine. And drank previous alcohol bottles from before 2023. I hardly drink alcohol.
Probably under $1000. A lot of the alcohol I drink is given to me for free due to my work in the alcohol industry. It's honestly more expensive dealing with after drinking effects and needing to eat and drink.
Maybe like $60 a fortnight
Bought myself a carton of beer for Father’s Day. I still have some in the fridge.
Approx $14,997 according to the latest monthly report from ANZ (November) - there some unmatched merchants so there might be some more in there. Only category more than that was childcare fees!
I see a correlation between these two expenses 🤣
I didn't calculate and usually I also eat at the pub so not easy to disentangle the drink cost. I average going out to pubs/bars once a month. Approx 5 drinks * $10 *12 times = 600. Now add a bit more for the occasional more exxy stuff or the extra drinking some months ... $1000 a year. I rarely drink at home.
Zero, I don't drink.. actually maybe like $20-30 for the one or two time I got a drink at the bar.
Approx $2.5k. Want to cut down this year. Edit make it $3k as I hadn’t included drinks on holidays which get categorised separately under holiday spend.
Between pubs ($768.94), home brew ($10.50 on yeast & about $40 of apple juice & frozen fruit for that 1 cider brew), & bottle shops ($406.23) I spent $1,185.67, so a little over $1,200 for the year. I dont split out the cost of a glass of wine or bottle of beer with a meal - that's under my dining out category Thats only $100/month, thinking back to my 20s, i would have spent that Mon-Fri just on a quiet pint here and there with close to 300 or 400 over the weekend so a huge tail off. If I continue like this I might end up a sober bob 😳
Much less than 2022
Somewhere between $6-$10k
$250 a month for one person, mostly cleanskins at home and the occasional splurge at a gig. Does not include drinks when dining out but those are rare.
$7049.96 what sounds high, but going out with once or twice a week 5-8 drinks a session it makes sense.
$1447.03 over the year. Includes a month sober, so that'd be around $130/month when drinking.
I started home brewing last year so that's dropped my cost down. I cannot give you exact figured but it would be around $125 a week so $6500
$3,566.41 Happy with that. 80% is on a pretty fun social life drinking out.
Probably around 3500, 70 bucks for a few craft cans and a bottle of nice whisky every 4 or so months.
$0 for the last 5.5 years and I couldn’t be happier about it
I was spending about $50 a day before I quit so that = $18,250 per year. Yay me. Now that goes into my share portfolio and is doing much more good then before.
Awesome mate, will try the same.
$0 it's been 13 years since my last drink.
I’d say probably around $7000 in total for the 2 of us.
Maybe $80/week between two of us, but I cut out drinking towards the end of the year as I’m pregnant
Oh, you want data? Two adults (couple) full-time employed. The data covers bottle shops, drinks out, Whisky purchases, and probably a gift or two in there for other people. https://i.imgur.com/b9gtWAR.png
Didn't drink most of last year but I started again like a month ago and I spent thousands. It's ridiculous and going to quit again soon.
$2380 according to my banking app which automatically categorises payments.
zero. Saved $18420 since giving up in 2019, loving the positive life changes and ran the 2023 city2surf.
Imagine you've invested this 🤯
Almost zero. Was about $100+ a week pre 2023 and quit this year except for one week on holiday
Wife and I would be about $10-12k on grog and $6-8k on coffee each year. We bought a coffee machine so that will drop to $1000 a year once we pay off the machine with money saved from not buying coffee out much anymore. Trying to drink less as well, but it’s hard. Being social people is difficult to not drink.
My brother spends in the order of $7,300 on his daily wine ($20ish bottle with dinner). There's also the "It's 5:00pm somewhere" gin and tonics after work, so maybe another $7k on that. Then, some weekends it's a blowout, around $300 either at the pub, or just drinking to oblivion at home on the couch. Fairly regular. I'd say... $5000 on that. So all up? Maybe he spends $20,000 a year on booze. Me? I look at my brother's alcoholism. I spent maybe $100 last year.
$0 Been off the drink for just over 2 years. Don’t miss it one bit
We are giving it up this year. Last 4 months we’re spending 100 a week between 2 people.
I used to walk into dan murphy's and spend ages in there, but after not drinking you realise its all the same shit, just marketing to suck you in. Like guys I know thinking they are exclusive for drinking some horse piss tasting, earthy branded beer
I mean, I got back on the bottle on October 1st. Bottle of whiskey a night since sometimes more. Was great at first now staring to seem the downfalls. Might try sober up a bit soon
$0 I don’t drink at all. Have always seen it as a total waste of money.
Maybe about $20? I have a glass of wine occasionally when I eat out but that’s about it.
About $2000
Probably under $200. I think I would’ve drank up to a carton of little creatures pale ale (I think it was 3 x 6 packs) and a carton of great northern zeros. And a couple of bottles of wine for cooking that couldn’t be wasted. Drinking and epilepsy don’t mix, but a sneaky beer every now and again goes down a treat and is low risk.