Have you ever considered why you are unemployed? And that drugs and alcohol may not be the wisest choices when you have extremely limited discretionary income?
I'm unemployed because I graduated without preparations for where the real jobs are. I originally had different job intentions, but changed my mind. So now I have to train on some skills and stuff to catch up to the level needed for my new desired job. My skills are science and education. Science is hard to find someone with the funding needed to pay you, that's why I'm not doing science for pay right now. I'm doing the science for free. Education, I've tried, but it pretty much requires a car, you have to drive to people's houses, or at least go to tutoring centers in the outer suburbs, and I don't drive. I've applied for ones that were close enough, but hey, there's a lot of people wanting to do that, so high competition. It goes to those with more experience.
I've cut way down on alcohol, yes. So yea, for now, I'm doing more sober gaming, but that doesn't change the main point for back when I had money. Some of the alcohol is actually leftover from when I had money. Stuff like Scotch and wine have piled up, can be drank for free now, since they were paid for already. Sometime we let people stay over at our house, and they sometimes give us alcohol as a present. Good deal, right? Doesn't cost anything.
weed, yes, I don't buy it anymore. That doesn't mean I can't have any, just less. I can get some from people who will give me a little. I can trade them stuff that I still have leftover for it. I have a small bottle of Johnnie Walker, extremely expensive. It was paid for years ago. I can drink that whenever I want, for free. Most of my alcohol for the next two months has already been paid for, it needs to be drank before moving. That's the advantage of having a collection, and not just drinking everything as you go along. At my poorest, I will be drinking my most expensive stuff, because that's all that will be left, and I couldn't afford to buy new cheap stuff. A bit ironic, isn't it? You can't save it forever, it needs to be drank sometime. If someone wants to trade me a bowl of weed for a glass of wine, fine by me. That last glass of wine isn't as good as that first glass anyways, the bottle will be finished either way.
So yea, cut way back for the time being, but it doesn't change my point about those kinds of games also being fun. I think staying in playing casual video games with people is just as fun as going out to the bar, talking to strangers, maybe trying to dance. It's also a lot cheaper. So I need to have casual friendly video games.
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I loved weed but then I started to breed and had to stop that.
You could maybe have some when they are gone, send them on a sleep over weekend, or off to visit their grandparents. A couple times a year is better than nothing.