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

Where do you think £5 is going to get you in this day and age? Be so serious right now.

£50 on a night out is a great amount, I’m surprised he isn’t spending more. When I go out I spend anywhere between £60-£100. A meal plus a few cocktails. Entry into a club is £10 and can even be £20. It all adds up. He sounds responsible to only be spending £50! Give him a break

But why do we have to say silly things like "it sounds cheap to me" and "things are more expensive now"

When the data says that most students manage on far less except in London

And look what happened to all the women who got into John Worboys' cab.

I don't think walking home in a mixed sex group was a significant risk to my safety then, and not would it be now. No course of action is guaranteed "safe".

I just checked the bar I used to drink in as a student and a double vodka is £6 so literally twice the price of your first one! Definitely depends on area

But it's not very realistic for people going out in groups to be all getting individual taxis home, especially for students.

You either walk together or share a taxi and if you didn't live near each other you stay over at one place to continue partying and walk/get public transport home the next day.

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

Have you not left the house for any reason since? Surely you must know more broadly what £5 buys now?

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Did you mean tanner? Haven't heard of one of those for a while!

£50 would have been pretty cheap when I was at uni in the North East 10 years ago.

When I first started going out, I would take £7! If you went to the club early, it would be free and drinks were a pound. We went straight there from home and often got a lift home. This was forever ago!!

I then moved to Birmingham as a student (20 years ago now!) and probably spent around £30 some nights even then on club entry, drinks and taxi home. Student nights were cheaper but I liked to go out on weekends to the big clubs that cost £10/12 to get in.

Now if I go out it’s more like £60-80! 🫣 But I do like a cocktail and taxis have doubled over the last 20 years back to my town from where I go to about £40 so even shared, it’s a lot!

So you don't go to the bar that charges £6 for a vodka! That's the whole point. You can go out and spend £50-£100 quid on a night out, very easily. But you don't have to!

Making those choices, finding the cheap nights out, playing drinking games with shitty unbranded spirits and supermarket cider in halls before going out, walking into town and walking staggering home at the end of the night, getting pizza from the dodgy takeaway cos it's the cheapest - that's what being a student is about!!

All people are showing by posts like this is that (like many other people) they have no idea how to manage their money and have a great time without spending a fortune

I don't know why I am surprised really it happens so often on this site , more money than sense

Sounds reasonable to me. It's a lot but prices are really high right now...

Ds goes out in Leeds town centre, usually to "Disco Spoons" then occasionally onto the HiFi Club. Or if he is just wanting a quiet drink The Wardrobe.

He sometimes eats at Spoons where he gets a free drink included in his meal. He then gets refillable soft drinks. Most of his friends will have had pre-drinks rather than buying drinks whilst out. At the end of the night they might get a McDonalds or Burger King.

The £6 place IS the cheap student bar 😂wellcome to the south east. You can always stay at home with a corner shop bottle of course!

Twenty years ago I needed £30 for a night out. Drink prices have shot up, it's £5 a pint here now. So £50 sounds about right. But if he can't afford it, then he could just go for a couple of drinks, in a pub with his mates. That's cheaper than a proper night out, as entrance fees into clubs can be expensive. When I bought a house I couldn't afford nights out, so a few drinks in a pub was enough for me.

Me too! however eve 2 or three drinks In most city centres and pubs can amount or £30 without taxi home and entry to a club. Granted student bars are a little cheaper but not much. pint of lager approx £5. Large wine £9. Shots 5 for £20. Entry to a club £10. All adds up

How can you sir d less than £50 on a night out. Clubs charge £10 to go in drinks are £8-9
Cab home

I personally thinking YABU. £50 for a night out is actually pretty good going.
Also (hopefully) he will only be doing the university experience once, just three short years of his life, so you can’t blame him for wanting to experience this freedoms to the best he can afford. He has the rest of his life to worry about budgeting, saving, bills so I wouldn’t be begrudging him a couple of £50+ nights out. Even if they are every weekend x

£50 is super cheap for a proper night out! An Uber 5miles up the road here can sometimes be £15 now on its own, plus £5 a pint at least, plus club entry… long gone are the days of a pound a pint and free entry before midnight with a flyer!

We had a lot less money for going out when I was in college

We used to have drinks in someone’s house first, so quite cheap then only one or two drinks when out, we used to have cheap student entry or free entry to places too (whether offically or unofficially)

We just had less money, but all of us less. We never ever got taxis we walked in larger groups of 6-8 or got the bus

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*All people are showing by posts like this is that (like many other people) they have no idea how to manage their money and have a great time without spending a fortune

I don't know why I am surprised really it happens so often on this site , more money than sense*

How do you know that? It wasn't too much money for me at the time. I'm more hard up now than I was then. I wouldn't have spent that when I just went to the pub but for a big night out, yes it would be pretty cheap. Who are you to say I was mismanaging my money, without any evidence to suggest that money should have gone towards something else?

OP you are so out of touch it beggars belief.

When was the last time you bought a drink from a bar?

Harshly put but I agree.

I’d have to check what student ds spends, but off the top of my head £50 seems about right. The uni city he lives in, buses stop around 11pm, so if you don’t live in safe walking distance, a cab is the only option.

And you are out of touch also - why are you spending so much on a night out when others can do it for way less?

Got money to burn ?