Not really an impulse buy.
But a little bit of insight into my lifestyle.

I take home about £1200 a month. Yes it's a shit job but what can you do. Take away £100 for rent (still live with folks) and £20 for my phone contract.

I rarely buy new clothes, rarely buy CD's, I don't drive, rarely buy computer games, DVD's, Books, Takeaways, fancy gimmicky ipods, guitars, anything.

75% of my income goes towards drinking. I'll goto the pub on Friday night, not think anything of taking out £100 just for the Friday. then Saturday could be anything between £100 to £200. Just sitting in the pub getting wankered.

What a sad sad existence.

BUT I FUCKING LOVE IT!

I sense my e-cool rating has just gone stratospheric.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 May 2009, 12:55, 11 replies)

Alcoholism is ace one you have it under control
but it also eventually makes you fat.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:00, closed)

I'm working on the beer belly
Because the summer is for going topless at music festivels, and spending time at the beach.

Very hard to shift though.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:09, closed)

Not really an impulse buy.
But a little bit of insight into my lifestyle.

I take home about £1200 a month. Yes it's a shit job but what can you do. Take away £100 for rent (still live with folks) and £20 for my phone contract.

I rarely buy new clothes, rarely buy CD's, I don't drive, rarely buy computer games, DVD's, Books, Takeaways, fancy gimmicky ipods, guitars, anything.

75% of my income goes towards drinking. I'll goto the pub on Friday night, not think anything of taking out £100 just for the Friday. then Saturday could be anything between £100 to £200. Just sitting in the pub getting wankered.

What a sad sad existence.

BUT I FUCKING LOVE IT!

I sense my e-cool rating has just gone stratospheric

Sorry, but are you actually me?
( currantbun is nubtnarruc backwards, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:25, closed)

Shit so I am... It is.... Bahh!
So add schizophrenic split personality disorder to the alcoholism. :)
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:43, closed)

What the hell do you drink?
Taking out say £20 for taxis, kebab, and getting into a club, that's still £80. There's no way I could drink even half that, though I suppose with me being a student I dread paying more than £2 a pint. Still, £80 on alcohol?
(mysterious_w, Fri 22 May 2009, 15:40, closed)

Subject.... Alcohol!
Could be a southerner, they have it expensive after all.

As a side note, if you were to spend that money on Marijuana instead, you would spend half as much, and at least keep the weekends productive.

Yes, thats marijuana and productive in the same sentence. You didn't read it wrong!
(d347hm4n Fraggin your ass!, Fri 22 May 2009, 15:44, closed)

This is
exactly why I ended up smoking instead of drinking at uni. And now.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Fri 22 May 2009, 15:46, closed)

Yes, I wondered that as well...
...must be buying bottles of Grey Goose or something.

I don't know, pint of mild was good enough in my day !
( I_Was_Mordred, Fri 22 May 2009, 15:54, closed)

It's strange to calculate
But with a group of say 8 guys through the day-time, a round will cost you £20-£25.

Typically one or two of this group will skin out and go home - pah lightweights. So you're only going to see some of that money back. And say another 2 people join the group and you just so happen to buy a round while they're there, you're again extending how much you've spent compared to how much you're getting back.

So I could spend £25 for technically one drink of my own, and then get 5 drinks back out of that. 5 single vodka redbulls barely get me tipsy, so next thing you know the rounds right back to you.

So buying the second round the same principles apply, what may appear quite non-consequential (one or two people running off) has already set me back, and going onto my 6th (to 10th) vodka, I'll have spent £50.

By this time it may only be 6pm. I'd imagine before moving on theres time to buy another 2 rounds each, so possibly 15-20 vodkas each with a loss of arund £100 - before we've moved down town!

By this stage I'll be approaching hammered and the rounds will be all to fuck. So I'll be buying all sorts of drinks at different bars in close proximity. So you can see how it spirals out of control from that initial £100 for a couple of rounds.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 May 2009, 17:01, closed)

I thought I was bad spending £60 a night in jillys back in 92
your liver must be the size of a football. and completely shagged, as well.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 19:47, closed)

mr weeker
you remind me of me and I felt compelled to write and hope this mail doesn't come off as a lecture but more some sound advice.

I've pissed it up for years and it has become my lifestyle as it does for many people and I have very few regrets however, I don't know what age you are or where you're at but I'm guessing the amount of booze you buy for other people would surprise you, not to mention what you spend on yourself... try this, I look back and wish I did earlier... start saving a few quid... just something every month.. just whack it into a saving account and get by on less, it's so so easy to spend money when you're drinking and whatever is in your pocket will go. You wouldn't miss 200 if you got used to it,

In a couple of years you will have built up evidence with the lenders that you are a constant saver, if you want a mortgage you'll get one.. get a tennant in and your mortgage will be really small, less than rent... living with the folks is fine but you want your own place... paying rent is sometimes required but ultimately a trap.

Life is funny and the years fly by, tis one of my regrets that I didn't start saving earlier and bought so much booze for cnuts that never buy back... hopefully I'll have my own gaff next year rendering my years as an older man in a house at least... and after a year or two of struggle I'll be set up for a lifetime of affordable living and frequent drinking , a place for parties , and free rent when I'm an old fella.

off to have a few scoops tonight after work, wahey !

anyway chief hope you read this, I know horses for courses and all that but time flys like fuck and for us on low wages a small degree of shrewdness pays back nicely.... hope you take this in the spirit it was sent,

John


oh yeah impulse buys... how about 30'000 euro on a warehouse full of granite tiles half of which look like shit and all of which are exactly the same fucking size 1 foot by 1 foot, thanks to the amazing 'product range research and refinement' as administered by my brother while hagling with the yellow fellas chinaside...

anybody want some really cheap granite tiles ?
(The Cats Twat, Fri 22 May 2009, 19:53, closed)