How much do you spend per week on booze?

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We're on a strict budget at the moment, but can't resist buying a couple of bottles of cheap (£4.50, but nice! ) wine a week. So that's £9 a week! Seems like quite a lot compared to my food budget (£80ish for a family of five, including most toiletries and household stuff).

When we were better off, we could easily spend £20-£25 a week on wine / beer (more of it and more expensive stuff).

How much do you spend?

DH is teetotal due to being on some serious meds for the rest of his life. Them and alcohol would kill him. I don't drink in solidarity because before the meds we both liked the odd drink and it seems bloody unfair to be sat there with a glass of wine in front of him.
That said I did have a glass of wine at my sisters at Christmas and was shitfaced half way down the glass. Seems I can't take it anymore.

More money for chocolate then.

We don't go out and specificaly buy booze but when DH gets the shopping in he will often buy me a couple of bottles of fruit cider if they are on offer.
Usually I only drink when I'm out but occasionly I fancy a drink once I get to sit down for the rest of the evening.( usually around 10.30 /11.00pm)

Don't drink that much and, being a singleton, opening a whole bottle of wine is pretty extravagant! So wine only gets drunk if I have friends over for supper.

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not tee total can just take or leave it tbh

Depends what we are doing and who is coming round. I don't buy wine with my supermarket shop. We only drink water with meals and I will have a glass of wine after dinner while relaxing if I feel like it. Dp is teetotal.I buy wine usually in 'bulk' if I am having dinner parties and it usually lasts. Last month we had the book group here and I ended up with about 8 bottles of new wines which I have been gradually trying!

Prob about a tenner a week, and I guess we spend about £100 a week on groceries including that, for four of us.

Yeah, it does seem like a lot at 10% of our bill but wine is a pleasure of life, no?

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About 1or 2 bottles of wine between two per week, fairly cheap, so £4-£8.

Saturday evening bump, because I'm gobsmacked that I appear to be an abnormally high booze-spender

Still zero. I can think of better things to do with even £3-£4. It costs too much.

not much but luckily i have inexpensive tastes

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Bloody hell. Must spend £20 on wine a week (3 bottles ish) and prob (over month divided) around £10 p/w on gin and beer too- for me and DP.

I am mumsnets lone alcoholic

probably about £50

Thank fuck. I was having trouble adjusting my perception of self as a "bad girl"

I'm spending about £25 a week on wine. That's just for me, have really got to cut it back

LOL spawn wine is necessary. As is dark choc and crisps

About £50 pwk (2 bottles of wine, maybe two bottles of nice cider.)

You've just reminded me about my dark choc. And crisps. And wine.

I get a couple of bottles of wine a month, some of that usually ends up in cooking. Only the wines that are on offer though, ie; the nice £10 wines that are down to £5-ish.

So probably £10 a month.

I personally don't spend any money on booze, my other half buys home brews kits and I end up with 60 bottles of white wine, and he makes his own beer.....I think he told me it works out to about £1 a bottle of wine....I am having a glass just now, its lovely, we decided to cut back on drink and this was his decision instead of going teetotal....

Probs about £30? We get a case of wine every 3 months for £90, plus probs one of us will have a night out once a week (maybe £15-20), then buy extra bits and bobs.

Zero. But I do buy a couple of bottles of evian a week; that's my indulgent treat.

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Might buy a few bits around Christmas time or on holiday but rarely drink. Not for any particular reason, just not that bothered about having a hangover with a toddler these days!

I'm going to be really honest on this. About £30 per week although we don't drink this amount ourselves. We re subsidising 4 sons & their partners..