Pre-drinking on a Student Budget

By Lauren Bailey in Going Out, Student Blog

The Key ingredients to making a Snakebite

Want a good night out without spending too much? Of course you do, along with all other students.

At university, it’s essential that you have a ‘pre-lash’ before you head on out. This will save you money when you go out clubbing as you’re already in a ‘good’ state and you won’t need to drink so much when you’re out. It’s like having a party before you actually go out and party.

Trust me when I say that ‘pre-drinking’ will save you LOADS if you do it correctly and if you want to get drunk but not go out, use this guide for a good drunken night in too.

Having a couple of beers or vodka and cokes just to put you in the mood is good before you go out, but you might be missing out on how good pre-drinking can actually be…

1. Go and buy some Sainsburys Basics vodka, actually don’t unless you really are on a shoestring budget! But still, you don’t need Smirnoff. Any tripled distilled vodka is fine.

2. Learn how to make some Snakebites! It’s a must in our house, it consists of beer, any type of cider (the stronger the better though) and blackcurrant juice or cordial. If you buy the beer, cider and blackcurrant in bulk it’s incredibly cheap. It gets you drunk quicker and once you had two the horrible after taste goes and leaves you with weird tasting blackcurrant juice.

The best way to use Snakebites is to have a certain ‘surprise’ thought up by our own Snakebite expert. Ours is Bradley*, the only housemate who can make a proper Snakebite and ends up making them for all seven of us. The ‘surprise’ can be any shot of anything alcoholic you have in your house.

3. Drinking games, especially our favourite the music drinking game. And there are so many you can choose from, here’s a few:

• Roxanne – The Police - Girls drink for every ‘red light’ that is said, boys for ‘Roxanne’ and if you want to take it a step further, listen to the live version of 6 minutes.
• Rollin’ – Limp Bizkit - Drink for every ‘Rollin’’ and swear word.
• Boom Boom Boom – Vega Boys - An oldie but it has to be done, drink on every ‘Boom’.
• Jammin’ – Bob Marley - For every ‘Jammin’’ drink.
• Build me up Buttercup – The Foundations - For every ‘you,’ ‘buttercup,’ ‘build’ drink.
• Bird is the word – Family Guy - Drink for every ‘Bird’. This gets very hard.

There’s always the odd card drinking game too. ‘Ring of fire’ gets you horribly drunk and the ‘Jenga card game’, where you have to place a card with two corners hanging off the edge of a ‘dirty’ pint glass is tricky but funny. The person who fails has to down three fingers of the ‘dirty’ pint and whoever makes the pile collapse has to drink the contents.

‘I Have Never’ is great way to get to know new people if you’re at a house party or if you want to learn some secrets about your house-mates.

‘Fuzzy Duck’ is brilliant, it sounds really silly but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! Someone starts off by saying “Fuzzy Duck” round a circle until someone says “Ducky Fuzz” and reverses the circle. It gets harder if you introduce “does he” into the game and you’ll all end up saying “F**k he does,” or “does he F**k” a lot!

Also, sit around and watch old ‘Inbetweeners’ episodes, the rules are horribly long (look on Facebook for the rules) but it does get you pretty drunk. Plus, right now because ‘Misfits’ is back on E4 there is a Misfits drinking game too!

So plug in your iPod, turn the music up and get those Snakebite surprises going but just remember this is just a pre-drinking session, and you still have to go out after.

Or, if you really are skint, just play these games for a great night in! You’re saving money and still getting drunk!

Take a look at this facebook group for more ideas for drinking games.

See you next week where I’ll be looking at Hangover Cures, because last week I had a nightmare!

*I told Bradley that if he helped me with the Snakebite section I would put his name in this post… Charming, ain’t he?!

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