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How Much Money Have You Burned

I know that from the start of 2002 to the start of 2003 I spent every penny of £38,000,the vast majority of it spent on crack and heroin and soMe of it spent on flights abroad for holidays.
I wouldn't normally have had access to so much money but the cash came from selling my house after my wife passed away.
As you can imagine my head wasn't in the best place at that moment in time and all I wanted to do was keep wasted and avoid the pain I was feeling.
 
Thousands of dollars on marijuana, acid and research chemicals. Pretty ridiculous to look back on, if I was as motivated to make money as I am to use drugs I could be rich.
 
After some rough math I'd say somewhere between $30,000 over the past 8 years. The majority has been spent on weed which was bought on bulk relatively speaking ($100-200 at a time.)

Jesus Christ, I never realized it was that much. Never really thought about it before.

On a more positive note, I have a clean record which has given me the opportunity to start my career. That is far more important than the monetary costs of the drugs.
 
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Easily getting on for a quarter million pounds over the course of a 7 year Heroin and Crack habit, spending 40-50 quid a day absolute minimum but could be 2-300 quid a day and very often was for a good long time when the thieving was easy and the money good. Average that out at a conservative 100 quid a day every day over 7 years then and it's about bang on a quarter mill. It may even be more than that. Doesn't even bear thinking about really. If I'd put the time and energy I spent thieving to better use the world would be a very different place.
 
Tens of thousands easily. I currently spend atleast 250 a week on drugs and alcohol, usually more... I have had long periods of spending quite a lot more than that as well as numerous expensive binges. I haven't exactly kept track but I couldn't fathom that it would be any less than 25K all up, probably more.
 
I totally forgot to factor in OTHER DRUGS. With heroin/opanas/weed/mdma/EVERYTHING i've ever bought, prob more than 25k. I only started abusing opiates in 2009 also lol. So only THREE YEARS of hardcore abuse

There was a point where I easily spent over 100$/day on opanas. Someone asks "omg how did you do that? my job doesn't pay that much!" My job didn't pay that much either, lol...
 
I'm confused, I thought the USA was the wealthiest country on earth, but I keep seeing all these posts where people say they don't make more than $100 usd a day, Whats the reason for that ?, I spill 100 a day when I'm sober, I can make 200 to 250 a day cash here in Oz just working hard as a shit kicking labourer, I wouldn't get out of bed for 100 a day and I'm not qualified to do anything, whats going over there in Uncle Sam land ? why are you all so fucking broke ?
 
When I started outpatient a few months ago my counselor figured it out for me and it was about three thousand over a few years. Pretty depressing. It didn't keep me clean though. I'm sitting on my couch staring at a wall where my tv used to be because I pawned it a few weeks ago. It's a cycle for me. I get clean but than I just think about where I'd be if I never started using to begin with...that makes me depressed so I just say f-it and go use again. I start thinking I already f'ed up enough I might as well keep going.
 
Surprised no one here has actually gained money since they started using. Well...it wouldn't be a very good thing to admit now would it?
 
I'd estimate at least $10,000 over the last five years. Which sounds horrible at first when I think of what i could buy for $10,000, but even if I didn't do drugs most of that money would have been spent on other entertainment instead. It's not like it would be sitting untouched in my bank account. So boo hoo, whatever. At least I didn't go into debt, steal, or pawn off my shit (yet) for a drug habit.

Even drinking at a bar one night a week ends up costing about two grand a year. Add shit that I don't buy but many people do like cable, video games, movies, coffee/energy drinks and I really don't feel bad, even though I'm sure this justification sounds a bit pathetic.
 
£163040.00 - On coke & speed over last 10 yrs accounting for periods of abstinence not accounting for 'fuck it let's get some more' occassions. It is probably nearer the 200k mark factoring those occassions in.
 
insane amouts. couldnt even tell you but easily in the hundreds of thousands, probably more. just spent on heroin
 
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manicmama said:
£163040.00 - On coke & speed over last 10 yrs accounting for periods of abstinence not accounting for 'fuck it let's get some more' occassions. It is probably nearer the 200k mark factoring those occassions in.
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fuck, I'm originaly from devon, left 30 years ago, I didn't think there was 200k's worth of drugs in the whole county, lol.

Don't suppose you could mail me a Pasty from Ivor Dewneys in Exeter could you, A pack of Bowyers pork and beef sausages wouldn't go amiss either.

:)
 
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I thought about this a few days ago when someone else brought it up. I estimated that my basic drugly needs amount to about 300€ per month - that's been calculated to cover me for cigarettes, cannabis, beer (alcohol for getting drunk is extra), and amphetamines. This is a fairly conservative estimate, as I will often smoke a lot more cannabis and occasionally drink more beer/wine/liquor.

My consumption dropped when I moved to the Netherlands as drugs are much cheaper here. In Finland I would easily spend 500€ on weed alone in an average month. Not gonna bother calculating a total, though - it's pretty pointless. I've spent more money on drugs than anything else, and I'm never getting it back, so the least I can do is not waste time pining over it, and be glad that at least I've mostly had fun doing drugs.
 
Jeez - only about a grand, nothing compared to the people in here.
Though I'm a 17 year old student who had a job for about 5 months in total, on £2.50 an hour!

God knows how much is to come though!
 
i spent every penny i could spare on drugs for over ten years solid. nothing to show for those times. just spotty memories of being wasted and thinking i was having fun.

well, i was having fun, but i would rather have done something useful with my life for most of those years.
 
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