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Americans spent $40 billion while drunk shopping

Your bar tab might be high, but that might not be the the highest bill you receive for your evening.ย A new report found that Americans picked up the credit card and spent close to $40 billion on drunk purchases last year โ€” that’s right, BILLIONS! According to Finder.com, 26 percent of people made one or more booze-fueled buying decisions in 2018, which equals out to be a whopping 53.4 million people drunk shopping. More than half of the 2,100 individuals polled claim some of those late-night orders were purely hunger-fueled, but 10 percent admitted to buying cars, and 14 percent admitted to buying vacations. The number of people drunk shopping has actually decreased in recent years, but how much they’re spending is way up. Collectively, Americans dropped $39.4 billion on drunk purchases in the past 12 months โ€” up from $30.43 in 2018. Finder reports that on average, we spent…