About 2 months after I quit drinking I went through my ATM info to track exactly how much I spent during my last year of drinking. On booze and beer alone, I spent over $15,000.00 dollars during my last year. I was drinking at about that same pace for close to 4 years. Aside from that I got a DUI 10 years earlier, and the total cost with fines and court fees and a rise in insurance costs was $13,500.00. So I would say in the last four years I spent over $60,000.00 on drinking, and in the last 10 years I spent over $120,000.00 on alcohol or paying off problems caused by alcohol.
I always wondered why I always felt like a couldn't account for where my money was going, come to find out I was pissing $15K down the toilet each year. I am now richer in so many ways!
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