For those who drink alcohol...

[AngelPants]

Not budgeted here. I am not having anything at the moment but normally a glass or two of white wine or gin and tonic with dinner, once or twice a week. DH is red wine, he has one or two glasses with dinner on a sunday.

[Amy_jellybean]

Far out I feel like an alcoholic posting in this thread hahaha.

Alcohol is budgeted for us, we both like a drink and we both like good quality stuff.

DH gets $75 per week to spend on beer, he works away on a mine and can only buy beer by the stubby so it works out more expensive. He would drink on average a 6 pack a night.

I will ususally have two glasses of nice wine ($18-$25 per bottle) a night (obviously when im not pregnant!) or a vodka, lime and lemonade. We have a very well stocked bar as we travel overseas about 4-6 times per year and buy top label spirits duty free.

My parents make their own wine as well so we dont pay for red wine. We have bbq's/theme nights/****tail parties approx once every 8 weeks and we normally supply all the alcohol so a lot of our spirits get used up in yummy drinks.

[luna moth]

Hubby brews his own beer, but does it from grain with high quality ingredients. We spend up to $90 a month on that, and it gets us two kegs. Sometimes he sells a keg or takes one to a party and people chuck in. Last time we did it, three kegs pulled in $225, so our "investment" was made back.

Anyway, we always have beautiful craft beer on tap.

Spirits get bought duty free on work trips, and come out of hubby's allocated fun money, so don't affect the budget. I have a huuuuge backlog of gin.