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

That's what nights out cost now so YABU to think it's expensive.

@Mammamia2023 sounds like my uni days in the early 2000s, except when you were really 'lucky' on the odd Wednesday and paint stripper vodka and coke was 50p 🤮

In all of the travel cost calculations, are the students getting ubers on their own? I've never got one, so don't know.

@Hall84. This went up to 60p for 2013.

£50 is normal

Many clubs charge entry. A cocktail is £10.

Seems reasonable (or maybe cheap) to me.

As long as he's not asking you for more than the government calculated (and means tested - so affordable) parental top up, the what does it matter how he manages his money? If he is asking you to top him up beyond the expected parental contribution, then I guess there's a conversation to be had

This!

We'd drink before going out and maybe only buy 2 drinks out if that, plus go to cheap places like wetherspoons, cheap or free clubs with cheap drinks, all walk home or get night bus.

Maybe Very occasionally we'd have a more pricey evening but that was standard and probably equivalent to £20-30 now.

@Hall84 🤣 oh god i forgot about that! Still drank it though! 🙈🤣

You’re really really out of touch if you think £50 is unreasonable. I’d consider myself lucky if I only spent £50

It been a while since I went to a club, but 10 years ago I'd spend £30 on a night out, so probably not that unreasonable to spend £50 now.

Blimey when did you last go out on a night out 😂

Id be delighted to go a night out and only have spent 50 quid.

so he has a drink or two in pub beforehand £10-20, cover to club £10, 2-3 drinks in club £20-30, can home £10…that seems like quite a tame night out to me. Everything is ££££ now. A box of Birdseye fish fingers in Tesco just now was priced at £6…you can barely eat lunch out for less than £20. Times have changed.

probably shouldn’t be having £50 nights out every week though.

Taxi home?? Blimey I never did taxis as a student, we walked or got the night bus!

My DH used to spend £70+ and that was 20+ years ago!!

I generally got away with £30-50, because I didn’t drink much and had DH/insert interchangeable bf most of the time.

It’s £7 a pint in many places, taxi £10-20.

I am obviously out of touch, thanks for the comments, really interesting to read.

I wasn't a heavy drinker and clubs were usually free or cheaper entry for females then so nights out were not expensive.

And yes, DS goes to Wetherspoons and to a club after.

Yeah, to be fair, as a student, if getting a cab it should at least be shared, so shouldn't cost more than a couple of quid.

and look at what happened In Nottingham with walking home….

I always got a taxi, never walked around alone/in small groups beyond 9/10pm… we were warned not to as freshers.

There was a night bus but it was in demand! Couldn’t always get on.

You can’t even buy 10 fags these days, but I suppose the modern equivalent would be an elf bar at £6. If you smoke, you’ve blown £15 on a 20 deck before you’ve even got to the pub.

Really? Try being plain as a pikestaff. Never been bought a drink by a stranger in my life

Glad you have seen the light! I remember the days of a £50 night out and it was a looong time ago . DH and I went 'out out' (for us) on Sat night and spent £250 on taxis, a meal (pub stuff) and drinks. This happens maybe x 2 a year by the way. I had to restrain myself from saying 'how much!!' But then I am Yorkshire so maybe should have licked some moss as that'll do - instead of going out.

Ds is a student in Leeds and spends nowhere near that. The trend is to go out late, after pre-drinks and spend around £15-30. Usually in Spoons but occasionally a club (entry is about £4-6 depending on the event)

Well yeah I could go out on a fiver when I was 17 in around 1991 and have enough for my bus fair home
I could even go to Manchester in he mid 90,s on a tenner going to.All the student bars but yanno, inflation🙄
I would say £50 is a bit on the low side

All I know is it will be declared the Boomers' fault when he can't get a foot on the housing ladder.

I agree @Comefromaway

But I also agree that your AIBU / AINBU choices are both true to an extent.

The fact of the matter is, whereas it would be quite easy to spend £50 on a night out, a 'night out' is a luxury you do with "spare" or "treat" or "luxury" spending money.
Anyone with any idea of budgeting would limit the "going up town" nights and see friends at other places that didn't cost anywhere near £50. The issue is, if he is spending £50 a night x 4 or 5 nights a week, or if he's done this once or twice over the 10 week break (or of course anywhere in between). Also depends how many hours he is working and how much he is earning.
If it is his money, it is his choice. Seems daft to us, but isn't that the whole point of being youn? That you make irresponsible choices and learn from them ?