That may be but I quit drinking 7 years ago and invested all the surplus funds into my current addiction. Pastries. ( I also didn't lose weight when I quit)
I see posts like this and read the comments and it’s not that hard to acheive saving $48K a year over booze or drugs. I live in a resort town where most of the demographic spend at least 10 x $100 on just drugs alone. Sometimes a week! I try to use this angle when friends are trying to kick habbits. A pack of cigs can cost $25 here. 1/2
Sometimes a round of drinks between 5 friends is $100 before tip where I’m from. I cut out almost $12K a year because I stopped going out for drinks after work and that was 2+ years ago when things weren’t so expensive. It’s crazy and eye opening and not that dramatic when you see numbers like @op’s post. It’s really not that far off theae days. 2/2
"Individual with high levels of disposable income learns what a budget is, hijinks ensue" - Every article about belt tightening being a good thing. Some of us were tight already pal.
Me staring at the wine collection I can't touch due to being prego. I do miss the taste of alcohol and parties are a tad lame without it. Well, I am saving money, but it will eventually be used up fast once the crotch goblin is here. Worth it in the end.
I feel like that money was saved more from not going wherever she went to drink, unless she drank exclusively mid-tier to high-end whiskey or a similar liquor.
Both. The lady quoted in the article is currently a sobriety coach. She was A) clearly very wealthy and drinking expensive wines her entire adult life, and B) a non-functional alcoholic who was going through multiple bottles of wine per night at her low points. She stopped drinking in 2016 when she was able to acknowledge how badly her health, relationships, and general livelihood were suffering because of her addiction.
Honestly, the lady quoted in the article is an awful example of "stop drinking to save money". Even at the height of her alcoholism, she was already rich as balls. Her saving approximately 48k by giving up alcohol doesn't mean much as her finances weren't in danger, but rather her health and relationships.
Apparently running $500/month. It's like ads for car insurance or weight loss stuff: they show people who saved loads of money or lost lots of weight, but in very tiny print admit "results not typical" to satisfy truth-in-advertising rules.
Kinda, yeah. The lady quoted in the article, Casey McGuire Davidson, is a sobriety coach. She explains on her site that she was up to drinking multiple bottles of wine per night at her worst points, and that it was wrecking her health and livelihood.
Assuming that you're just going to bars, like many people who drink, that's a different story. $62.50 of cocktails is different than $62.50 of cheap beer/wine. And, of course, you're going out drinking every single night, which is often indicative of a drinking problem.
So either this woman drank almost exclusively not at home, or she was the class of alcoholic that rationalized their behaviour by thinking alcoholics only drink the cheap stuff. I've met people who thought they didn't have a problem because when they drank it was two $40 bottles of wine (each) at dinner three days a week, like you can't have an issue because you're...not poor, I guess?
russia didn't consider beer to be anythibg but food until recently. The EU forced them to label imports so they finally caved and passed a law telling manufacturers to label it as alcohol
people are always happy to lie to themselves especially when cultural. My mother who is Argentinian sees wine as food but will make comments if you had 3 beers over 2 hours of family dinner. to her, one is food and the other is a problem. wine doesn't count.
The lady quoted in the article explains on her own site that she was a big fan of wine her entire adult life, and she's rich as fuck. So she was definitely drinking the expensive stuff. But she also acknowledged she was a non-functional alcoholic by the time she was drinking multiple bottles of wine per night and losing memories from blacking out so often. She was drinking heavily at home, to the point that she was cutting family time with her kids short for the sake of getting to her drinks.
Lemme grab the chance to say: Macallan is good, but totally not worth the prices currently asked. I am lucky to be old enough to have bought a very few bottles in the 90s when prices were way lower. Do not fall for stupid trés chic marketing.
If you like that, decent chance you'll also like Basil Hayden. Tends to be a tad cheaper in my area (I also think it's better, but ya know, personal opinion)
You're saying someone on imgur took a screenshot of a news article that left out key info and was deliberately misleading and it got to the frontpage anyway? I'm shocked.
It's shit like this that makes me glad that my drinking habits are fairly light if not cheap. Being able to make a 4-pack of cider last for a month is quite the boon to my finances.
A cocktail at most restaurant bars here in Philly are between $12-15 each and you don't get all that much for that so it def adds up if those drinks are out of the house
Oh, I don't drink like that. Those numbers just didn't send up flags for me. Maybe she lives in New York or San Francisco or something. Then it's only like 5 drinks/week, I guess.
I bet the context is over 5 years or something. Honestly, I get a 4 pack of hard ciders on new years and I'm good to the next new year pretty much. I may get the rare occasional mix drink if I'm out too eat, but that's maybe once a quarter of a year.
The lady quoted - Casey McGuire Davidson - stopped drinking in 2016, so 7 or 8 years depending on when this article was written, being published so close to the New Year. In any case, she's a sobriety coach and explains on her site that her alcoholism had gotten so bad that she was drinking multiple bottles of wine per night at her worst points. She wasn't just casually enjoying a glass or having fun with friends at a restaurant - she was boozing herself into blackouts at home on the regular.
Eh, if she has the budget to spend $500 a month on booze, she was either an alcoholic or pretty well off. I've got a friend who likes to drink a bottle of high end wine every friday and that runs her 100-200 bucks a bottle. She's a lawyer, so she's making fancy wine money
ilovebigmutts
That may be but I quit drinking 7 years ago and invested all the surplus funds into my current addiction. Pastries. ( I also didn't lose weight when I quit)
candar
its not as much as you think. thats 4 drinks a day at $4 each. shit gets expensive fast.
guinnessforjimthanks
Giving up drinking in this market?!
pfunk81
It was from the three DWIs she didn't get.
sfbiker
I saved over $500,000 over the past 10 years by not drinking $1000 bottles of wine every week.
trinabollina
I see posts like this and read the comments and it’s not that hard to acheive saving $48K a year over booze or drugs. I live in a resort town where most of the demographic spend at least 10 x $100 on just drugs alone. Sometimes a week! I try to use this angle when friends are trying to kick habbits. A pack of cigs can cost $25 here. 1/2
trinabollina
Sometimes a round of drinks between 5 friends is $100 before tip where I’m from. I cut out almost $12K a year because I stopped going out for drinks after work and that was 2+ years ago when things weren’t so expensive. It’s crazy and eye opening and not that dramatic when you see numbers like @op’s post. It’s really not that far off theae days. 2/2
TwiH
probably several mega-pints
L3NTON
"Individual with high levels of disposable income learns what a budget is, hijinks ensue" - Every article about belt tightening being a good thing. Some of us were tight already pal.
kita1787
Me staring at the wine collection I can't touch due to being prego. I do miss the taste of alcohol and parties are a tad lame without it. Well, I am saving money, but it will eventually be used up fast once the crotch goblin is here. Worth it in the end.
ROBOTvsMAN
wtf she drinking? Guess you can be sober and vomit, too.
Ivain
I feel like that money was saved more from not going wherever she went to drink, unless she drank exclusively mid-tier to high-end whiskey or a similar liquor.
SlowerDwightYouIgnorantSlut
I’ve reduced the amount of bottles of Louis XIII that I normally buy on the first of the month from 10 to 8.
thebonesofmyancestors
Had to google it. Your comment is enjoyably funny. Carry on.
SlowerDwightYouIgnorantSlut
Back when I tended bar, we had a bottle of the cheaper Louis Tres, it was still $175 a shot. Fucking insane.
Taokan22
Lol meanwhile the very next post: /gallery/PuprvI5
FreeDadHugs
Drinking that David Brooks airport hooch
jtthemediocre
Does this woman exclusively drink Pappy Van Winkles?
JPtheArrogant
Whole fuckin semi of cheap wine
secondgoaround
And if people give up buying food, they save even MORE money each month!
ImHereToGetDownvotes
I'm not saying she was an alcoholic but "I saved $500 a month by not drinking" screams alcoholism or extremely overly priced drinks.
MerriMod
Both. The lady quoted in the article is currently a sobriety coach. She was A) clearly very wealthy and drinking expensive wines her entire adult life, and B) a non-functional alcoholic who was going through multiple bottles of wine per night at her low points. She stopped drinking in 2016 when she was able to acknowledge how badly her health, relationships, and general livelihood were suffering because of her addiction.
enheru
I never buy alcohol and I'm still poor.
MerriMod
Honestly, the lady quoted in the article is an awful example of "stop drinking to save money". Even at the height of her alcoholism, she was already rich as balls. Her saving approximately 48k by giving up alcohol doesn't mean much as her finances weren't in danger, but rather her health and relationships.
lastmanonearthbutidroppedmyglasses
Everybody accept finance bloggers and politicians knows that you can’t budget your way out of poverty
comacomacomacomachameleon
have you tried being not poor
3Davideo
Apparently running $500/month. It's like ads for car insurance or weight loss stuff: they show people who saved loads of money or lost lots of weight, but in very tiny print admit "results not typical" to satisfy truth-in-advertising rules.
GlenL
Was her name Andre The Giant?
Idontneedrealfacts
GIVE UP ON LUXURIES TO SURVIVE PEASANTS!
Galfronon
Was she too catatonic from all the alcohol to buy any more?
Vamp13
she would drink 4 bottles of Domaine Leroy Chambertin Grand Cru per month. thats a 12k $ bottle of red wine.
MerriMod
Kinda, yeah. The lady quoted in the article, Casey McGuire Davidson, is a sobriety coach. She explains on her site that she was up to drinking multiple bottles of wine per night at her worst points, and that it was wrecking her health and livelihood.
Shaodyn
The article specifies that the savings was over a period of 8 years. Clickbait headline so you'll go to the site and be blasted with ads.
Junktrunkjunkie
that is still a lot of alcohol for 8 months.
Shaodyn
$500 a month on alcohol is pretty extreme, unless you're going to clubs every day and ordering the most expensive drinks on the menu.
Lugh314159
If you go out twice a week, every week, that’s $62.50 per night. If you’re going to clubs or just nice restaurants, that’s not hard.
Shaodyn
Assuming that you're just going to bars, like many people who drink, that's a different story. $62.50 of cocktails is different than $62.50 of cheap beer/wine. And, of course, you're going out drinking every single night, which is often indicative of a drinking problem.
sparklepantsthedestroyer
So either this woman drank almost exclusively not at home, or she was the class of alcoholic that rationalized their behaviour by thinking alcoholics only drink the cheap stuff. I've met people who thought they didn't have a problem because when they drank it was two $40 bottles of wine (each) at dinner three days a week, like you can't have an issue because you're...not poor, I guess?
SarcasticComment
russia didn't consider beer to be anythibg but food until recently. The EU forced them to label imports so they finally caved and passed a law telling manufacturers to label it as alcohol
SarcasticComment
people are always happy to lie to themselves especially when cultural. My mother who is Argentinian sees wine as food but will make comments if you had 3 beers over 2 hours of family dinner. to her, one is food and the other is a problem. wine doesn't count.
sparklepantsthedestroyer
Michael : I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex.
Sam Weber : Ah, come on. Nothing's more important than sex.
Michael : Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?The Big Chill
MerriMod
The lady quoted in the article explains on her own site that she was a big fan of wine her entire adult life, and she's rich as fuck. So she was definitely drinking the expensive stuff. But she also acknowledged she was a non-functional alcoholic by the time she was drinking multiple bottles of wine per night and losing memories from blacking out so often. She was drinking heavily at home, to the point that she was cutting family time with her kids short for the sake of getting to her drinks.
sparklepantsthedestroyer
Yeah that'd do it.
tetsubin
I just asked what a shot of Redbreast 27 Irish Whiskey cost at a local bar. One ounce for $150. You can spend as much as you want to on alcohol.
usernameyourclever
That’s just ridiculous, place I work it’s $45 normally and 30 at happy hour, for 1.5 oz
tetsubin
I thought so, too. A bottle of Redbreast 27 at a local small grocery store is for sale for $700. A tad out of my price range.
Sebastopol
Lemme grab the chance to say: Macallan is good, but totally not worth the prices currently asked. I am lucky to be old enough to have bought a very few bottles in the 90s when prices were way lower. Do not fall for stupid trés chic marketing.
Skawomplious
I like Macallan. I like Glenlivit. I like most single malts. It's tough to be a scotch fan when you have a rum and coke budget.
Superhereaux
That’s why I drink bourbon. Most expensive bottle I’ve ever bought was $62 for some Blanton’s
Sebastopol
Buffalo Trace is great stuff at an extremely nice price.
Shpielers
If you like that, decent chance you'll also like Basil Hayden. Tends to be a tad cheaper in my area (I also think it's better, but ya know, personal opinion)
Hekatombe
"When Davidson stopped drinking in 2016, she found herself with an extra $500 in her first month. Eight years later, she estimates that she has saved more than $48,000." https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/03/how-dry-january-can-help-you-save-money-improve-health.html
nanabroccolifart
3Davideo
$500 a month? I spend less than that between food and 2 cats' worth of cat supplies combined.
IHopeMyKidsDontSeeThis
You're saying someone on imgur took a screenshot of a news article that left out key info and was deliberately misleading and it got to the frontpage anyway? I'm shocked.
MerriMod
Honestly, even the article itself buries the lede pretty deep.
kurastwolf
I'm a teetotaler, this fancy trick saved me $0/mo for the past 33 years for a grand total of $0 saved on alcohol.
GlenL
Either she had some really pricy tastes or she was going to be dead soon
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
500$/month for booze is way too much
Keairan
It's shit like this that makes me glad that my drinking habits are fairly light if not cheap. Being able to make a 4-pack of cider last for a month is quite the boon to my finances.
AbortedSandwich
That's alot of pabst blue ribbon
vincentleeprice
Most of this article is b.s. but as someone who doesn't drink alcohol or smoke. It makes it so much easier to save up but not that much.
Shaodyn
How the hell do you spend that kind of money on alcohol and not end up in the hospital?
YoureWaifuAShit
functional alcoholism
IHopeMyKidsDontSeeThis
Really expensive wine.
TheSecondPiewackit
Johnnie Walker Blue Label.
Mobouncetotheoz
A cocktail at most restaurant bars here in Philly are between $12-15 each and you don't get all that much for that so it def adds up if those drinks are out of the house
Shaodyn
I did a bit of math, and that's actually not a lot of drinks at that price. Still, yikes.
Mobouncetotheoz
I appreciate you doing the math as I am way too lazy to. Yeah I don't drink but the bummer is most virgin drinks you'll get charged close to the same.
schizznatt
Cocktail bars in cities.
scandelaria
That's less than 2 drinks everyday of week. 10 drinks/weeks. Doesn't seem that crazy to me...
liveOffOfDownVotes
What liquor store do you buy booze from? That price is quite high 12 packs are only 15 bucks
TK421isAFK
I mean, I guess if you're buying them all at a bar. I assumed she was buying top shelf and drinking at home.
WyldStallynsRule
I get mid-tier beer for no more than $20 per 12-pack. That's like, 10 beers a day for $125/week.
EclipsePhase
Look, I don't know you so please don't take this the wrong way... 2 drinks a day, every day is a lot.
scandelaria
Oh, I don't drink like that. Those numbers just didn't send up flags for me. Maybe she lives in New York or San Francisco or something. Then it's only like 5 drinks/week, I guess.
ArdentNature
It should.
GreyKnightTemplar666
I bet the context is over 5 years or something. Honestly, I get a 4 pack of hard ciders on new years and I'm good to the next new year pretty much. I may get the rare occasional mix drink if I'm out too eat, but that's maybe once a quarter of a year.
Shaodyn
8 years, according to the article. Still, $500 a month on alcohol is a lot.
ROBOTvsMAN
GreyKnightTemplar666
I know, I'm a wild man
MerriMod
The lady quoted - Casey McGuire Davidson - stopped drinking in 2016, so 7 or 8 years depending on when this article was written, being published so close to the New Year. In any case, she's a sobriety coach and explains on her site that her alcoholism had gotten so bad that she was drinking multiple bottles of wine per night at her worst points. She wasn't just casually enjoying a glass or having fun with friends at a restaurant - she was boozing herself into blackouts at home on the regular.
DrBlackJack
Eight years, at an estimated $500 a month. I'm guessing it was her liver that forced her to stop...
QueenOfTheFey
Eh, if she has the budget to spend $500 a month on booze, she was either an alcoholic or pretty well off. I've got a friend who likes to drink a bottle of high end wine every friday and that runs her 100-200 bucks a bottle. She's a lawyer, so she's making fancy wine money
iamlamp2
That's less than $20 a day at the bar every day. Not too unreasonable for someone who drinks at the bar every night.
InfocalypseRising
Eh. $500 a month might not be that many actual drinks, depending on what you're buying.
GreyKnightTemplar666
And where you're drinking. I heard ballparks are stupid expensive. And I can't imagine how much a beer in a bar say in New York is.
iamlamp2
That's only 10 $50 nights or 20 $25 nights which is pretty easy to do.