How much money have you spent on alcohol?
 

In your whole life, how much money have you spent on alcohol (old people, adjust for inflation)? Also, how old are you?

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I am 23, and I estimate I am just above 5 figures

Re: How much money have you spent on alcohol?
 

1K-5K

I am 38 and don't drink anymore.

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I'd never thought about it in these terms before, but since you asked, my first impression was 20-50K and some rough math has borne that out. Scary.

It's closer to 20 than 50 though. That's good, right?

I'm 31 and spending less all the time.

Re: How much money have you spent on alcohol?
 

High School: $100/month in Junior and Senior years (not counting beer bought and resold)= ~$2400

College: $200/month = ~$9600

Ages 22-32: Much harder. I'm going to average it at $1500/year, so that's $15,000.

I didn't even think about Spring break and 4 bachelor parties in Vegas where I spread the love, and I think I'm guessing low, so I'm adding a few thousand and calling it $35,000.

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This is almost impossible to judge, but some rough math puts me at around 10k or so. I didn't adjust my rough weekly expenditure downwards for the time I've had kegerators, though, so it might be quite a bit less.

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I was actually thinking about this the other day...$150-$200/month for the last 25 years averaged out. Somewhere in the $50K range

At least I stopped drinking at the bar and primarily drink just wine but these old grapes are still costing me a fortune.

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Ten-twenty grand. 30 years old. I'm a cheap bastard I guess.

Swede

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31, and well over 100K. I had a flat above a bar in London for a couple of years - I had one credit card I used just for running tabs in that bar. I know from the statements that I spent £17K (about $30K at current rate) in the second year alone (excluding drinking elsewhere). Probably more like $4-5K a year now, I guess. Easy come, easy go...

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