How do you fund your nights out? Need to budget!
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!I hear you man! Starting uni in September, but I've been working the last 7 years. Some nights I could go and spend in excess of 100, most I did was 250
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!We do have a few in the car. Spend about 8 quid on pre drinks but then I go mental and spend everything I have in the club!!
I think I will pre drink (£6), buy two drinks in the club (£6-8), entry fee (£5-8), kebab lol (£4) and hopefully that will be my limit of spending (so that's £26 at most). Or I can just go out less?...NAH!
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!unless your in london or having expensie cocktails it shouldnt cost £8 for two drinks in a club- most clubs on student nights do deals like £1 or £1.50 drinks, so two should cost £4 at most. Also again unless your a guy in London the entry fee shouldn't be as much as £5-8- it should be closer to £3-4, or less if you put your name on th guestlist. And snack when you get home, its cheaper.(Original post by MancBoy)
We do have a few in the car. Spend about 8 quid on pre drinks but then I go mental and spend everything I have in the club!!
I think I will pre drink (£6), buy two drinks in the club (£6-8), entry fee (£5-8), kebab lol (£4) and hopefully that will be my limit of spending (so that's £26 at most). Or I can just go out less?...NAH!
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!All that seems awfully expensive. £8 for two drinks?! Wow.
My husband and I go out roughly once a month. We spend :
£20 babysitter
£30 petrol to and from hotel/home
£10 pre-club samosas and poppadums
£5 taxi fare there from hotel
£4 entry fees
£20-£25 drinks between us (4-5 double vodka and irn bru each - at a rate of £2.50 a drink)
£5 taxi back to hotel
£10 next day brunch
total : £104-£109 between the two of us.
plus we pre-book a hotel, which costs anywhere between £10-£25.50 depending on whether I've been able to get a sale room or not.
So, ignoring the costs that wouldn't apply to you (hotel, babysitting, petrol, pre-club meal, taxi), we spend £39 between us on entry fees, drinks, and food afterwards.
Divide that by two, and that makes £19.50 each.
So...why are you spending £40 on your own? That's insane! And you reckon that even if you cut down on your expenses, you're going to be spending £26 still?
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!Take a set amount of cash. I always give my taxi money to my friends (when I'm going out at home, there's no need for taxis in Loughborough) before we get into the club and then the rest of the money I have is mine to spend.
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!I always pre-drink before going out, for example a bottle of wine for around £5. £1 towards a taxi with mates on the way out. Two or three drinks out plus entry if it's a weekend would be about £10. I try to walk back because it saves money on a black cab on the way home which usually ends up about 6 pound if I'm on my own so just makes the night more expensive. Also avoid getting food, or id I do just get chips and not a kebab lol so it costs about £2 instead of £6!
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!Well we drink doubles. So that costs around £2-3 each for a double vodka lemonade. A beer costs around £2.50. So I usually have one of each so that makes it around £5.50 or £6 at most.
Entry fee is around 3-5 quid.
Kebab is a must. There's nothing better than having a kebab after a piss up but yeah I guess you're right I need to calm down on it. I am also weight training so I reckon these kebabs are a bad idea!
Pre drinks, me and my mate share an £8 Smirnoff. I usually accompany it with a £1.50 bottle of boost. So I guess that makes it around £5.50 or £6 at most if I buy chewing gum/breath mints.
So all in all I could end up spending £17 or under £20 at most. I shall try this on my next outing and see how I feel.
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!I make the mistake everytime of taking out my cards
Though recently I've started withdrawing only a set amount, say £20. On event nights (you should be aiming for these) we get:
- Pre-drinks - £6-8
- Entry - £3-4 (look for the guys selling wristbands)
- Drinks inside - ~£10 (on events we can get vodka redbulls for £1 each)
- Loose change = Mcdonalds after
Overall, smashed night. Oh and be selfish, don't buy your friends drinks. They didn't bring the cash, their loss. Although you can spare one or two for a sweet girl (or boy if you're a girl who buys men drinks?)
The biggest expense I've ever had on a night out was £70. Can barely remember the night. Was a christmas thing, ended up at several different bars and clubs :OLast edited by BigLampshade; 02-04-2012 at 02:15. -
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!Start predrinking earlier then. It saves you money and its fun at the same time! We'll start an hour or two before we go out and its always the best part of the night. If you need to buy more than 1 drink once you've got in, you're doing something wrong.
The only place i really buy drinks is the student union because its so cheap (£1.80 for a pint) and we don't need to bother with cabs. If we're going into the city centre i'll usually spend between £15-20, cab there and back is £3 and entry fees are never more than a fiver, plus one drink and some drunk food afterwards. I've done nights out where i've bought nothing other than the cab + entrance fee, its easy if you drink enough beforehand. Just set yourself a limit. -
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Re: Need to budget my nights out!Predrinks I would say spend about £4 for a 4pack of beer/lager(Original post by MancBoy)
We do have a few in the car. Spend about 8 quid on pre drinks but then I go mental and spend everything I have in the club!!
I think I will pre drink (£6), buy two drinks in the club (£6-8), entry fee (£5-8), kebab lol (£4) and hopefully that will be my limit of spending (so that's £26 at most). Or I can just go out less?...NAH!
Cheers for the advice though!
Club entry fee should NOT be more than £5 with student ID
3 drinks at £4 each - 12
cheese and chips/quickly microwavable food at home from poundland- 3 pounds
12£ max
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