How much are your addictions costing you?

[onestop67]

I quite booze 22 yrs ago, and have saved over 260,000.00 dollars.

Right!

I haven't quit drinking and in 22 years I've spent at least 260,000.00.

As for how much my addictions are costing me...depends on what day of the week it is. It also depends on what you consider the "addiction".

Friday to Sunday, probably $500

Monday to Thursday, probably $500

It's all relative to what that addiction is. Cigarettes? Hookers? Casino?

Hell, there are people addicted to online gaming and comic books.

[jimsenchuk]

On average at 40 bucks a day for 22 yrs (i use to drink a 40 ouncer of whiskey a day)

$40 x 365days x 22years

[LANDM]

On average at 40 bucks a day for 22 yrs (i use to drink a 40 ouncer of whiskey a day)

$40 x 365days x 22years

Wow!!!
Good job quitting. That must have been difficult. I can't imagine actually doing that but I do enjoy my beer and wine. Whiskey in drams not in bottle quantities!

[whatwhat]

Everybody struggles differently, everybody deals with situations differently. Just because you could easily quit smoking, or drinking, or using drugs that does not mean everyone else will deal with the addiction in the same matter. What I might do in a situation, someone else might not do and vise versa.

I always think of my parents. My dad, who grew up suffering physical and mental abuse from my grandpa grew up to an alcoholic and drug user. My mom always compared what she would have done in his situation. But they are two different people, with two different minds and thought processes.

[Thinktank]

On average at 40 bucks a day for 22 yrs (i use to drink a 40 ouncer of whiskey a day)

$40 x 365days x 22years

= $14,600 per year. But even if it's every three days that's still $5,000 per year. $100,000 in 20 years.

[oneh2obabe]

He said he drank a 40 oz. bottle @ $40/day every day so that would be $40 x 365 days = $14,600 x 22 years = $321,200. We could factor in how many leap years are in those 22 years but you get the picture.

[Thinktank]

He said he drank a 40 oz. bottle @ $40/day every day so that would be $40 x 365 days = $14,600 x 22 years = $321,200. We could factor in how many leap years are in those 22 years but you get the picture.

So what?

[jimsenchuk]

Wow!!!
Good job quitting. That must have been difficult. I can't imagine actually doing that but I do enjoy my beer and wine. Whiskey in drams not in bottle quantities!

Thank you LANDM.

I woke up one morning and said to myself, enough is enough, if i don't quit i will be dead in a yr, so i brainwashed myself that i am allergic to booze, no AA, no therapy, just done a life change. Yes it was hard for the first 3 months, but then i had that extra 40 bucks a day, so i started collecting hockey cards, everytime i wanted a drink i would buy a box of hockey cards. Then i specialized in Gretzky stuff, had a room full of his stuff, when he retired i sold the collection to a guy in NY City for a very nice profit. I did keep 4 of his rookie cards though. It really paid off quitting drinking.

[OREZ]

I woke up one morning and said to myself, enough is enough, if i don't quit i will be dead in a yr, so i brainwashed myself that i am allergic to booze, no AA, no therapy, just done a life change. Yes it was hard for the first 3 months, but then i had that extra 40 bucks a day, so i started collecting hockey cards, everytime i wanted a drink i would buy a box of hockey cards. Then i specialized in Gretzky stuff, had a room full of his stuff, when he retired i sold the collection to a guy in NY City for a very nice profit. I did keep 4 of his rookie cards though. It really paid off quitting drinking.

Amazing story. Good for you!

[jimsenchuk]

Thank you OREZ :)

[Queen K]

I can attest to the power of quitting booze too. Not that I spent money like you did Jim, but rather I was getting too comfortable with heading out to bars and blowing cash. Then one fateful day the owner at Flashbacks ignored me. I was trying to flag down someone about a problem with the pool table. I didn't exist to him. Blatantly ignored.

And know what? I worked out how much I had already spent in that bar that particular year. The next day I sat down in the low rent scum hole I had landed in after getting the hell out of a bad relationship and worked out what it would take to get a down payment on a townhouse. And all my "booze money" went to that fund. No more bars. The owner of Flashbacks probably had lots more people through the door, but not my money. The bank got it, but short term, I hated them too.

I've been personally touched by alcoholism, gambling addiction and believe it or not, fishing addiction. Yup, when you life is not well rounded, it all matters. So how does "fishing addiction" factor in this? I know someone who is border-line mentally ill over fishing. It began at a young age, was an escape from a brutal family life if that could be called a family life at all, and became all consuming. when EVERY sentence is about fishing, that's a problem. When relatives have to tell the person that they don't need to hear about every brookie, rainbow and steelhead, that is a problem. When the fly-tieing dominates the livingroom, it's not "cute" it's a problem.

Please no one come on here and tell me fishing is good. No one has to tell me about the great outdoors, the this or the that about it. In this case it's a mental illness. And it's no more fun than dealing with a hoarder or a secret porn consumer.

As for my addiction, it's the internet. Yup, it's costing me time. Time I'm trying to reclaim by going out and doing and reclaiming the stuff I used to love to do without the 'net.

[whatwhat]

I've been personally touched by alcoholism, gambling addiction and believe it or not, fishing addiction. Yup, when you life is not well rounded, it all matters. So how does "fishing addiction" factor in this? I know someone who is border-line mentally ill over fishing. It began at a young age, was an escape from a brutal family life if that could be called a family life at all, and became all consuming. when EVERY sentence is about fishing, that's a problem. When relatives have to tell the person that they don't need to hear about every brookie, rainbow and steelhead, that is a problem. When the fly-tieing dominates the livingroom, it's not "cute" it's a problem.

Please no one come on here and tell me fishing is good. No one has to tell me about the great outdoors, the this or the that about it. In this case it's a mental illness. And it's no more fun than dealing with a hoarder or a secret porn consumer.

As for my addiction, it's the internet. Yup, it's costing me time. Time I'm trying to reclaim by going out and doing and reclaiming the stuff I used to love to do without the 'net.

So true Queen K. Anything can become an addiction when it starts consuming your life. When it starts interfering with your school, work, relationships and other responsibilities then it can be considered an addiction.

[Queen K]

Yes, it's all consuming. And so sad.

[Thinktank]

internet
$68 X 12 = $816/ year

but it's good to have information when you need it.

[ToddT]

I don't normally search out threads that are outside of my region so I'm not sure how I stumbled on this. I find it very encouraging. I've struggled with smoking for basically all of my adult life. Not to the point that it is debilitation or anything, but addictions nonetheless.
I try to quit smoking probably on average about 4-5 times a year to varying degrees of success. Usually I last longer every time I try, but there are times when I quit for only about 8 hours or so.
I am interested to hear what people's experiences with other dugs such as champix are? There is a post I think on page 3 where someone says they used it for about a month and it worked. I've also heard about negative mental reactions to it which turns me off. I'm more of a cold turkey guy.
I wish cigarettes were illegal. I feel like it's the only way I could quit sometimes. Shame on society for profiting on the livelihoods of kids. I started when I was 15 and haven't looked back for 17 years. I've now smoked for over half of my life and I hate it.

As for drinking, lol, well you can't have both.