While this would obviously be different for individuals with different savings/spending habits but I thought it would be interesting to know.
Two Questions:
How often are your weekends actually free?
Do you set limits for yourself during a night on the town with the guys? (When you actually have a free night?) What is that limit?
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popped 3 this saturday. cost me 1550 about. usually 30-50 at bars, 60-75 at clubs
$100-$150 on average. I'm in NYC. Go out every weekend.
In Boston. Every single weekend (Friday + Saturday) is free for me, without fail. I typically drop $40-$50 total if just buying for myself. Closer to $75 if the girlfriend is along. Add in dinner for two and you're looking at about $125 for the full night out. If we happen to walk by a Burberry I'm likely out about $500-$1,000+, so need to strategically avoid certain areas when with the lady!
That Burberry on the corner of Newbury is dangerous with a capital D. You are definitely a good boyfriend.
I'd echo CompBanker's sentiments. In Boston. I'll usually spend 30-50 on dinner if I'm out with friends. Drinks are usually taken care of (coupled with the fact that I'm a lightweight). Unfortunately, when it gets cold in Boston, there's not much else to do except go shopping (for me anyway). I try to avoid those hotspot areas or I'd be homeless.
I'm typically free by night on the weekends.
NYC: Averaging $150-$200 a weekend.
All depend on how generous your feeling at the bar. Buying a round for your friends can easily rack up $100. Really does vary though...sometimes you take a chick out and thats dough right there.
i throw down a few tenjimans...
about 50-100 or so per weekend. Preparty saves A LOT
HA I drop $60 on a round of shots... BALLER!
I try and curtail my pissing away of money to the god of bacchanalia, but I can easily drop a C note. Philly can be pretty pricey sometimes.
Let's see pre U-grad I used to drop about 4,000 a month (including going out to eat, bottles, and hoes that came along). post recession back in U-grad about 400 a month.
The unly upside of being humble and broke now is that the pussy is free and the tits are real.
Wait, when did tits being real become a positive?
Out every Friday / Saturday night.. usually 50 per night depending on the bar/lounge
I guess I'm really cheap and no fun. I don't spend a dime. Usually my pals get really drunk and buy shots/offer to buy the beer. Someone is always willing to pick up the tab, just don't let it be you! With eating, I don't! I'm somewhat of a natural chef. And it's always better to cook dinner for a lady, than go eat an overpriced, extremely unhealthy, and unsatisfying meal. The added benefit to this is, the woman will think you are different, and a keeper, for knowing how to cook, and she is more likely to give it up to you because she is full, and in your apartment/house already.
Being a finance major taught me the value of things, and paying for alcohol when there is no need to is certainly not worth it.
I just don't see why people spend so much money at bars/clubs/restaurants. The best things in life aren't overpriced. I guess I've never woken up from a night of clubbing/bar hopping and thought "damn, that was a great idea last night".
idk about no fun, but if you are being serious you sound like a crappy friend...you don't care that you're basically just taking advantage of your drunk friends? and (i assume) not having sex with them?
It's not taking advantage at all. It's called strategic fun. All I know is that, like most people, when I get drunk, I'm buying shots for everyone I don't care what's going on. This happened to me so many times during my UG days, that one night it finally clicked and I realized "Hey, i don't wanna be that chump".
I guess it could be analogous to John Paulson shorting the housing market. Ya he's taking advantage of people, but the housing market would have collapsed no matter what. Drunk people will buy shots, you just have to be strategically placed where you can take advantage of it. It's actually very smart, and I think your kind of mad you haven't implemented this wisdom.
It is not in the fucking slightest bit comparable to this. You are a fucking tight little cunt with the panache of a pineapple. Back in your box.
eyelikecheese, that's some sociopathic logic right there
Go out at least one night per weekend, usually both... drop about $100 if I'm solo or $150 w/ the girlfriend.
If I do get bottles I usually split with a friend and end up dropping about $300.
Note: a bottle of Goose in a very nice nightclub in China goes for about $200 - a drink at a really nice bar is $10. At a normal nightclub, where you're likely to see more hot young Chinese chicks anyways, a bottle can be purchased for $80!
No worrie on my part. I totally disagree, respectfully of course but also appreciate your candor
The whole weekend spending thing depends completely on what you're doing. If you just got out one night and to bars instead of clubs, you can probably get away with spending maybe $50 ($30-$40 on drinks, $10-$20 on transportation). If you go out to a nice dinner with a girl or with friends, you'll find yourself dropping way more. Going out to a dinner with 10 friends and then realizing the bill is $40-$50 a person - we're not talking nice restaurants, more like Brother Jimmy's and four rounds of drinks - then you're going to have a significantly more expensive night.
And if you're buying bottles at clubs, you probably aren't on this forum. Or you are the most fiscally irresponsible 24 year old in the city. I never understood why people like clubs anyways - unless you are completely loaded and can make this obvious to women without having to talk to them (due to conversation being impossible with the excruciatingly loud house music these places always seem to be playing), clubs aren't that great to pick up girls anyway. Now, if someone else has bought the table and is footing the bill, that is another story...
~150 for a weekend on myself, and some rounds here or there. There's always some strategic ways of lowering that though.
cheese - people will remember that down the line. I'm sure they already bitch about it behind your back
No, I don't go out enough for ppl to notice. Plus it's all friends that I've taken care of previously. Don't get me wrong I have spent some serious money on my friends..vacations, tickets, and other non-drunken experiences that I've never regretted.
I guess I got really tanked in west Hollywood this summer and bought a $450 bottle service, woke up and realized that's enough of that conspicuous consumption. I mainly just go to happy hours where beers re
bottles in LA:
top shelf: 400-475 well: 375-425
20% gratuity 10% tax.
your lookin at 975 - 1100 for 2 bottles gets in about 6-9 people.
Vegas:
top shelf: 450-575 well: 400-500
20% + 10%
this weekend zero cause im still fucking jamming.
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In Dubai; I'd day drinking's around $150 a weekend on average and other stuff around $50 to $100.
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