AIBU to think student DS spending £50 on his nights out is ridiculous?

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Maybe my age but I used to go out with £5 - into a club for free, couple of halves of lager, 10 fags. Admittedly a good few years ago!

DS (2nd year of uni SE England) says he cannot go out with less than £50 for drinks in the pub, then admission and drinks in a club. And possibly an Uber home after.

He does have a job but is saving that money for when he goes back to uni.

AIBU to think this is not a typical amount that uni students / teens spend on a night out?

YABU - £50 is a normal amount and you have no idea of the true cost of a night out

YANBU - he's a student with limited income and should therefore limit nights out / spending

I think it would be hard to spend less on a proper night out. Whether he can afford it / who’s funding it aside, it’s probably what it costs.

Yeah that’s pretty normal tbh. Maybe on the low side

I was at uni in late 90s and went out with £30 ish especially if going clubbing. £50seems a usual amount for a night out inc a club.
I used to walk home having spent cab money on drink 😆

Your poll doesn't work really. Both things are true.

If you're basing his spending on when you could get two drinks and 10 cigarettes for a fiver then you're on a hiding to nowhere.

He should also really be reigning in it a bit and budgeting his spending.

Honestly, that sounds quite cheap with transport home.

£50 is very very low unless he’s in some very cheap, low cost Eastern European university?

I think too you are forgetting that as young women, we’d not have to pay cover and there was no end to the men willing to buy drinks for us. When you’re the man, you need the money to go out.

I think you might be showing your age here, OP 😉

That sounds like a pretty cheap night out if he's only spending £50!

I think a fiver now would be pushing it, but it's also a case of champagne tastes on a lemonade budget. You get drunk with your pals at home/your accommodation earlier with the cheap stuff, then you head out late so you aren't spending a fortune on pub drinks. And you walk home! Taking cabs and spending all night buying expensive drinks in bars is lovely but not when you are on a real student budget.

This is partly why I don't go out anymore. I can't afford it. It's minimum of £100 where I live and that's not loads of booze or a club either for that matter. So no I don't think that's a lot at all.

Tbh I wouldn't be that surprised.

Minimum alcohol pricing now means you don't get the drinks deals any more. Plus Ubers aren't cheap. I remember spending around £20 in late 2010s

Although, when I was at uni a taxi was extravagant!

Lots of pubs with £8 pints here in oxford. £50 seems inevitable for pub and club and taxi home I’d say.

Clubs aren't cheap to get into. Drinks aren't cheap either. £50 is a cheap night these days - ridiculous as it seems.

I used to spend this on a uni night out ten years ago!!

Certainly that experience would be more than a long time ago OP. The price of everything has risen, Taxis especially. £50 doesn't get you much anymore so YABU

If he has to take a taxi there and back then that's a very cheap night out. I assume he goes somewhere like Wetherspoons?
£50 sounds like a normal amount to me. Impressively low if he smokes

No offence OP but you sound SO out of touch. £50 for the pub, club and an Uber is NOT much money at all! I'm surprised he can do all of that on a night out for £50 to be honest.
Anyway, it's his money! He has a job like you say, let him spend his money how he wishes to. He's a student, let him have fun with HIS money!

I think your experience of going to see an
Arthur Askey flick at the pictures, a penny’s worth of chips and the last tram home and still having change out of a tanner might be a little outdated

£50 doesn’t go far on a night out, especially if shots are involved.

used to love my nights out in the 90’s. £1.00 for a vodka and coke cheap night out,

OP if you have a child at uni I assuming you were at uni at least 25 years ago? Prices have gone up a bit since then!!

I would love to know how he’s having a night out, including transport for only £50!

Completely normal cost, OP. If anything, that's cheap-ish for a night out. This is why I don't go out as I'd prefer to spend £30 on a nice takeaway instead 🍚 🍗 🍜

If I go out for a few drinks after work, stop off for a bag of chips and a taxi home, I’m generally £50 down. And that’s before I’ve thought about going clubbing. I’m home watching Corrie by 8…

£50 isn’t much at all especially including transport, where I live a pint is around £8 and a cocktail is £12 minimum.