Prices of your vices? (smokes, beverage...)

[bczoom]

The guy from the beer store called me the other day and told me the beer I drink is going up in price. Pissed me off but anyway...
Got me thinking about what I spend on my vices.
Between beer and cigarettes, it's getting damn expensive. I'm guessing I spend almost $10/day.

 

[chowderman]

gave up the smokes years ago - last year at Mohegen Sun Casino (CT) I out of curiosity I checked the price: $20/pack
the clerk said "Well, that's casino prices....." jeesh - Las Vegas handed out cigarettes and booze free, not so long ago.
the also didn't charge for parking either . . .

now . . . Indian reservation mail order sources were making a killing sending (untaxed) cigarettes UPS/Fedex to (many) states.
that got stopped somehow. it was illegal, I think UPS and Fedex were promised to have their hides nailed to the flag pole if they didn't voluntarily stop blatantly illegal pick-ups.

Remember Eric Garner? he and his buddies made a living by driving to VA/Carolinas, buying cheap cigarettes, 'smuggle' into NYC and sell as "loosies" aka single cigarettes.

 

[Gary O']

Prices of your vices? (smokes, beverage...)​

Not noticeable

I roll my own

The local tobacco store sells a nice size bag of full flavor 'pipe' tobacco for $10
Makes more than a carton of rollies (shorties like Camel straights)

I don't smoke much
Just after a meal, with coffee
So, no real expense

Knocked off heavy drinking altogether
I'll have a couple beers mid/late summer
or
A pull off my jug of Glenmorangie single malt in winter, or, with a friend
That's it
That jug is around 5 years old

I feel sorry for folks that buy factory cigs
Gotta be a financial hit

 

[FrancSevin]

No noticeable change.

I don't drink that much &,,,,,;

The wife costs me the same as always.

 

[m1west]

Don't smoke or drink, and I grow my own vice at a couple hundred bucks a year. So less than a dollar a day. Wife? thats another story.

 

[Melensdad]

I used to buy Old Forester Birthday Bourbon for $39 a bottle. It is a collector's item, highly sought after by traders and collectors. I paid $239 for the last bottle I got in September. I buy 1 bottle a year, as soon as it is released from the distillery, my local shop gets 3 bottles a year, he saves 1 bottle for me and sells it to me at MSRP. Secondary market price is about $1200+ a bottle right now.

Almost all bourbons are sky high in price. Almost all the prices have gone up.

It is my only vise. Fortunately my "pusher" for bourbon used to be one of my customers so we have known each other for many years. I get first pick on most everything he gets. But then again, I am a repeat customer who buys the high end stuff.

But chicken thighs used to be 99 cents a pound and, on sale would drop down to 69 cents a pound. That was only 2 or 3 years ago. Now it is hard to find them below $2.49 a pound and $2.99 a pound is closer to normal.

 

[waybomb]

Been building a wine cellar, so to speak, most from a site called last bottle. Great deals.
Have about 250 bottles now. Mostly cabs, some pinot, barolo, Bordeaux, chianti. and some blends.
I still have many bottles of scotch and tequila from when my buddy had a large liquor store.

 

[FrancSevin]

The clogged drain in the basement caused me to discover my old wine cache. I mean some 30 bottles all together have come from it. I totally forgot they were there.

Some since 2010.

Temperature in the unheated below grade space was mostly in the fifties. Stored on the floor the wines seemed to have done okay. My task now is to consume them. Tough job but someone has to do it.

At least the prices are right.

 

[waybomb]

A now decreased friend rediscovered about ten bottles of chateau Margaux. We opened every one and every one had gone bad since they weren't cared for. What a shame. I believe they would have sold at a few hundred each.

 

[EastTexFrank]

I still have many bottles of scotch and tequila from when my buddy had a large liquor store.

How come I don't have a buddy like that?

 

[FrancSevin]

The fruit wines, after 12 years, were off a bit but palatable.
I'm downing them daily.
Crown Valley Blackberry and Elderberry.

However,
The Liebfraumilch was excellent.

 

[NorthernRedneck]

Smoking? Gave that up even though I was never a heavy smoker. At my worst, I wasn't even close to a half pack a day. Now, in the same category as smoking as it's legal for both recreational and medical in Canada, Marijuana? I use daily for chronic pain. I rarely smoke it though and that's only after 9pm as a muscle relaxer before bed until my pain meds kick in. But throughout the day, I have a small vape pen which gives just enough of a dose to calm the nerve and muscle spasms in my back and legs allowing me to walk without a cane most days. Without it, I'm using a mobility scooter barely able to stand. It's also for this reason that any future trips to the states for more than a day are very limited for me as it's legal both here and in Minnesota for medical purposes but illegal for that 50 feet at the border. Last summer was an eye opener when we went to Duluth Mn for 3 days. I had to leave it behind and basically go with only naproxen for pain. That reduced me to using my mobility scooter to get around. Very disheartening to work your ass off for 7 years to being able to walk without assistance to being reduced to a cripple on a mobility scooter.

Drinking? Very little during the winter month. Summer time at camp though is a drunk fest every weekend that's growing old quickly. Maybe a 30 pack for a 3 day weekend? I hope to change that this summer though as we're in discussions about possibly selling our seasonal camp next year and doing more actual traveling with the fifth wheel camper we bought last year. That and I'm growing tired of the drunken drama every weekend.

 

[m1west]

Smoking? Gave that up even though I was never a heavy smoker. At my worst, I wasn't even close to a half pack a day. Now, in the same category as smoking as it's legal for both recreational and medical in Canada, Marijuana? I use daily for chronic pain. I rarely smoke it though and that's only after 9pm as a muscle relaxer before bed until my pain meds kick in. But throughout the day, I have a small vape pen which gives just enough of a dose to calm the nerve and muscle spasms in my back and legs allowing me to walk without a cane most days. Without it, I'm using a mobility scooter barely able to stand. It's also for this reason that any future trips to the states for more than a day are very limited for me as it's legal both here and in Minnesota for medical purposes but illegal for that 50 feet at the border. Last summer was an eye opener when we went to Duluth Mn for 3 days. I had to leave it behind and basically go with only naproxen for pain. That reduced me to using my mobility scooter to get around. Very disheartening to work your ass off for 7 years to being able to walk without assistance to being reduced to a cripple on a mobility scooter.

Drinking? Very little during the winter month. Summer time at camp though is a drunk fest every weekend that's growing old quickly. Maybe a 30 pack for a 3 day weekend? I hope to change that this summer though as we're in discussions about possibly selling our seasonal camp next year and doing more actual traveling with the fifth wheel camper we bought last year. That and I'm growing tired of the drunken drama every weekend.

With the price of fuel and campground stays, plus the travel drama. You may consider getting your own piece of property for camping and recreation

 

[NorthernRedneck]

With the price of fuel and campground stays, plus the travel drama. You may consider getting your own piece of property for camping and recreation

We have a nice seasonal site for camping. But Duluth Minnesota is a 4.5hr drive south of here across the border. We often travel down to go see concerts.

 

[waybomb]

Is cars and boats a vice?

 

[bczoom]

Is cars and boats a vice?

I'd say so. In the case of you and your fleet of vehicles, I'd say it's more of a vice than a hobby.

 

[PGBC]

I don't smoke, never have, and my alcohol consumption is probably less than $50 annually.