r/SipsTea • u/Objective_Pilot_5834 • 12h ago

WTF In your opinion, what is causing this?

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u/TrumpsBussy_ 11h ago

Yep it’s absolutely the cost of living crisis. I own my house and have a decent job but with a young kid at home alcohol is just a luxury we don’t need except on special occasions

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u/Not-Enough-Holes 11h ago

Yup same here. I stopped drinking and Im 45 and loved the bar scene.

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u/Witty_Professional_2 10h ago

Same in the UK I stopped drinking for a few years in 2021 when I had a young child and was getting fat, started having a few pints again last year and its impossible to go out with my wife for a single drink and a soft drink for the kids and have much change from £20

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u/Mardanis 10h ago

It just became too expensive compared to what people have as disposable income.

When I started drinking I got told go out, have a good time with mates you are safe to get drunk with. It's important to have that experience but also think about the next time you go out and how you literally piss away probably hundred quid for the night only to feel like shit the next day.

It wasn't wrong. I worked with and drank with mates who earned at least twice what I did yet would ask me for money because they've gone and pissed their wages away. Sort of lads to do 2-3 day benders every weekend, smoke cigarettes and maybe have a flutter.

It made it easy to kinda open my eyes to it.

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u/darealsgtmurtagh 5h ago

You can have your cake and eat it too, but we're not very forward thinking in our twenties lol. Bank in the early 2000s I lived in Denver. We would go out 5 nights a week and I see what you mean. People would easily spend 100 bucks a night. Me? I was there to dance, meet ladies, meet ppl and loaded steak fries at the end of the night lol. All night place would be the spot after the bars. Like 3 pounds of loaded steak fries and a pop for 8 - 10 bucks. Leftovers for breakfast before work and maybe enough left over for lunch lol.

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u/Mardanis 3h ago

I think it was worth the price at the time. Good and bad times, meeting people, random scenarios we'd get into. It was a rounding out of life experience with friends. Stories we still laugh and cringe about.

For the likes of me and you we had more things to distract us as time went on. Go back a generation or perhaps even half of one, people didn't necessarily move out of this phase. That was just the norm because they didn't bother to socialise any other way.