Shopping under the influence—it's one of our favorite pastimes.
Most of us have done it at some point: Chardonnay in one hand and a mouse in the other clicking madly on Zappos.com; a night on the beers convincing you that you can totally beat the house at the Blackjack table; a little champagne steering you into that Louis Vuitton shop when you should be getting into that cab.
In fact, so many of us are doing it that some curious folk are starting to study the phenomenon, looking into who among us drunk-shops the most, and what they buy when they do.
According to a survey on Finder.com about drunk shopping, it seems shoes and clothes are the number one drunken impulse buy, followed by gambling and cigarettes.
And this is interesting: While most booze binges average $139, men tend to spend more than four times as much as women ($233 in a sloshy session versus $54). Gambling is the favorite impulse buy of dudes, while ladies go for shoes and clothes. Both sexes opt for cigarettes as their second pick.
What’s fueling these tipsy shopping sprees? Beer is the leader of the pack, followed by wine and spirits.
Which U.S. state is partying the hardest? New York? California?
According to the survey of 3,123 Americans, we’re looking at you, Idaho, where folks are spending $53 per week on alcohol, totaling $2,747 annually. Add in some drunk shopping, and that can turn into a spendy double habit.
The other states in the top ten on weekly alcohol purchases were Alabama, Rhode Island, Arizona, Iowa, Oklahoma, Georgia, Indiana, Washington and Louisiana, ranging from $46–$21 each week. Considering that these are states in which you get more bang for your buck than, say, in New York or California, and that's a lot of bang for the bucks you're about to drunkenly spend.