Where are teens getting the money for drink these days

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My DD showed me the other day videos of these teens she knows (15-16) with huge packs of cider, beer as well as a bottle of vodka in a park. apparently none of the parents work. Where was the money coming from none of the kids work. And also how do they get their hands on that much alcohol

From their parents?

Some of my students from school were drinking recently, they are 14. They got it from a local bloke (off the back of a lorry type)! Some people have no morals around selling alcohol to kids.

I honestly can't remember where I got the money to buy Merrydown and blue curacao when I was a mid-teen. But I managed.

Blergh. Makes me feel slightly ill just thinking about them. I didn't mix those two though!

No idea but statistics show teenage drinking is at a very low level compared to when I was a teen.

I always used to buy lambrini for £1.99

probably the same way i did when i was younger - saving your pocket money or dinner money and then clubbing together with my mates and asking an older friend to buy it for us. if it’s anything like it was ten years ago when i was a teenager then everyone knows a corner shop that will sell alcohol to teenage girls if they wear enough make up and flash enough cleavage!

You can buy a bottle of vodka for well under £10.

Go into a supermarket any morning at 8 o'clock and see the teenagers buying 2 litre bottles of Coke, multi-packs of crisps and bags of doughnuts - they don't seem short of money.

I remember being a young teenager and managing to get a bottle of drink somehow. I had a small part time job though so the money wasn't a problem. A few of my friends used to keep the money there parents gave them for school lunches during the week so they had enough for a bottle by the weekend! Mind you we all came out the other side now and luckily managed to stay safe!

Their parents will be giving them money from their benefits. Unless we give vouchers rather than cash it will continue to happen

They aren't saving school money as they apparently spend a tone of money before and during school. And it's not cheap vodka it's not grey goose but it's like Smirnoff and absolut

Well if they have load of money before and after school to buy stuff then they must be buying it. Money from parents probably. Or there taking there parents drinks from home.

if a bottle of smirnoff is £20 then that’s only a fiver each if there’s four of you. pretty sure it’d be easy to save a pound each day. or they could be buying packets of cigarettes and selling them on like a lot of people at my secondary school did.

They don't drink Smirnoff! They will be drinking the very cheapest vodka there is - you can get it much cheaper than a big name brand.

A shop near us (London) is well known for selling booze to underage kids - it's been going on for years. I've no idea why he hasn't been shut down.

Caught one of mine going in there a few years back when she was about 14/15. I was in a restaurant next door when she sauntered past with her mates ...... she got a bit of a shock .

This is coming across as a benefit scrounger thread, and I am sure the OP didn't mean it to be anything like that....

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