# So how much money did you blow on last night's festivities?
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [January 1, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552 "2005-01-01T13:37:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/1 "2005-01-01T13:37:29Z")
Happy '05!
Tickets for two to the Latino club, including dinner and champagne: $85
Misc. alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks: $20
Two cigarellos: $5
Taxi home: $15
Total: $125
Our first NY’s in 3 years (we became parents) so we splurged a bit. Although I think it was reasonable for what we got.
-Tcat
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/2 "2005-01-01T13:39:24Z")
We stayed home and went to bed early, so $0.
Yeah, we’re boring old farts…
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### Author:  [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/3 "2005-01-01T14:17:05Z")
Smokes: $2
Taxis: $25
Fireworks: $10
Booze: $30
Concert of Mozart’s Requiem: $35
Fried chicken for breakfast: $5
Waking up after a night of debauchery and not knowing where my socks are?
Priceless.
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### Author:  [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/4 "2005-01-01T14:39:20Z")
Two books from Barnes and Noble
$15
From the grocery store
NyQuil (not the Green Death flavor)
Tylenol Cold & Flu liquid
Lorna Doone cookies
Dinner from the deli for 2
Two(!) tubes of Prep H cream
$35
Feeling miserable and not being able to give the hubby a midnight kiss… well, what do _you_ think?
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### Author:  [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/5 "2005-01-01T15:08:55Z")
Alka-Seltzer Plus
Kleenex
Cough Drops
Swiss Cake Rolls
Honey
Lemon
Vicks Salve
People Magazine
Grand Total: $22
I got a kiss, though. My husband and I are sharing the cold this year.
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### Author:  [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/6 "2005-01-01T15:25:50Z")
Dressing up the kids to go to my brother-in-law’s wedding: $0.00
Food at brother-in-law’s wedding: $0.00
Dollar dance with brother-in-law’s bride: $1.00
Watching newly married brother-in-law ride around the reception hall on his dirt bike: Priceless!
My brother-in-law got married yesterday. We took the whole family and had a blast. BIL is also a dirt bike rider and stunt bike fanatic. His reception was dirt bike themed. He had all of his dirt bikes parked around the reception hall and right after dinner he rode one around the reception hall. It was quite a night.
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### Author:  [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/7 "2005-01-01T15:37:11Z")
Lessee–
Subway fare to Greenwich Village from the Bronx–$0 (although I do pay 70/mo for my unlimited Metrocard)
Double cheeseburger at Blue 9 Burger with large fries and custard chocolate milkshake–$9.50
[Pygmalion](http://www.jeancocteaurep.org/season/pygmalion.asp?n=1) at the Jean Cocteau Theater on the Bowery–$4.50 (deal with theater club I subscribe to)
Champagne reception with cast afterwards–$2.00 (I stuck that in the tip jar–non-profit you know)
Walk around the East Village killing time before hopping the F train to Brooklyn for the Prospect Park fireworks watching the couples of all sexes and ages and the trannies–$0
Prospect Park fireworks for 15 minutes starting at midnight–$0 and totally awesome! 😃
Going back to the Village and spending twenty minutes walking around looking futilely for a place that was selling capuccinos–$0
Getting picked up at the end of the line back in the Bronx by a passing friend with a car-priceless!
Happy New Year!!
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/8 "2005-01-01T15:40:01Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#):
>
> My brother-in-law got married yesterday. We took the whole family and had a blast. BIL is also a dirt bike rider and stunt bike fanatic. His reception was dirt bike themed. He had all of his dirt bikes parked around the reception hall and right after dinner he rode one around the reception hall. It was quite a night.
Yes! A friend of mine just got married, and danced back down the aisle after the ceremony to Depeche Mode’s “I Just Can’t Get Enough!” I love weddings and any celebrations that really reflect individuals!
😃
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/9 "2005-01-01T16:17:02Z")
I didn’t spend anything, but the **evils** had **Hamish** and me over to watch the ball drop, and they put out an AMAZING spread. Holy cow.
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### Author:  [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/10 "2005-01-01T17:10:53Z")
Snacks & Candy= 40.00 Soda= 10.00
Pizza= 19.00 Silly String= 22.00
Photo of 8 teenagers having a blast, covered in silly string? Priceless.
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### Author:  [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/11 "2005-01-01T17:16:10Z")
Let’s see … Pack of smokes I won’t open til next week: $4, two 40s of Mickey’s Ice: $4.
Yeah. Either $4 or $8 depending on how you look at it. And that’s the most cash I’ve had to blow in months.
May our New Year have more bloody money.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/12 "2005-01-01T17:21:14Z")
Last night? £0.00
I was working. ☹
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### Author:  [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/13 "2005-01-01T17:45:18Z")
About $15 on a birthday present and card for my Mom (a New Year’s baby). We stayed home and watched TV and drank sparkling cider which my Dad paid for.
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### Author:  [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/14 "2005-01-01T17:52:59Z")
Nothing, considering I was working to help publicize U.S. aid efforts in Sri Lanka and help coordinate logistics of planes landing, which have to be met by press crews and consigned to the right agency. Oh, and going to the airport. And setting up interviews.
Day five or six of twelve-to twenty-hour days. It’s real fun being a USG employee.
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### Author:  [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/15 "2005-01-01T21:24:17Z")
My parents took the bf and I out to dinner with my siblings and their SOs… I have no idea how much they spent, but I feel guilty about it regardless because they’ve spent way too much on us in the last month. My dad also shelled out about $150 for fireworks at their house afterwards, which I wish he hadn’t spent. He’s been working 12 hours days pretty much all month to pay for everything. ☹
My mom had some mail for me from my PO Box and I found $40 in cash in Christmas cards from benevolent strangers that I wasn’t expecting. I splurged a bit and spent about $25 getting a big bag of the smaller firework stuff to shoot off (tiny roman candles that were $1/dozen, blooming flowers, sparklers and such) since my dad and sister’s boyfriend bought the big artillery shells and huge rockets. I ended up with a huge bag of little things that everybody shared in between lighting the big stuff. It was a nice night and neither me or the bf had shot off fireworks in at least a couple years… they’re illegal in the city but my parents live outside the city limits. Rest of the $40 will probably go to groceries either today or tomorrow.
BF and I shared a bottle of a nice bubbly Belgian dessert beer when we got back, but that was an xmas gift from some friends, so that was all the money I spent.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/16 "2005-01-01T21:29:01Z")
A bowl of cereal with a banana: about .25.
But today we entertain the family with champagne and OJ, black bean chili, beer, pico de gallo, tortillas, etc. Haven’t added it up yet.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/17 "2005-01-02T01:39:08Z")
$30 for beer and a little rum.
$50 for [unspecified]
$30 for a taxi.
$2 to watch a lunatic I haven’t seen in five years attempt to insert his penis into a steaming manhole. (The public utility kind.) He received minor burns for his trouble. It was worth the two dollars. Not the high point of the evening, thank god, but certainly one of the strangest. 😃
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### Author:  [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/18 "2005-01-02T01:47:48Z")
The cold medicine was about $5.50. One shot and I was out for the night.
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### Author:  [@Master\_Sparky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Sparky)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/19 "2005-01-02T02:51:19Z")
I probably spent around $160, the reason being that I hosted a small party for friends this year. Over half of the money was spent on a variety of snacks (chips, crackers, meats/cheeses), the rest on some alcohol. Funny, the money spent on snacks is steadily outpacing the money spent on alcohol every year.
On the upside, because most of us “old farts” can’t drink like we did back in our college days, there’s no worry of being hung over the next day. My biggest problem is my sleep schedule has been thrown way out of whack, and taking a major nap today probably didn’t help things as I feel wide awake right now. Ugh…
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### Author:  [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-much-money-did-you-blow-on-last-nights-festivities/282552/20 "2005-01-02T03:37:30Z")
## $7.48 for a bottle of Lindeman’s Kriek Lambic $0.03 for electricity for TV and computer
$7.51 total
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dogbutler, party animal
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