(MONEY Magazine) – $30 Average amount per person spent on liquor during the December holiday season, according to Impact, a newsletter for the wine, spirits and beer industries

$15.45 Average amount spent on liquor during each of the other 11 months of the year

$33.21 Average total at the grocery checkout counter for an American who drinks beer, according to American Demographics

$23.06 Average checkout total for someone who doesn't drink alcoholic beverages at all

$115 Price of the Screwpull Lever, described by its manufacturer as the "world's greatest corkscrew," at Sherry-Lehmann.com

$69.95 Price of the Rabbit, a corkscrew based on Screwpull's design, introduced last May after the latter's patent expired, at the same site

$280 Added annual cost per driver in auto insurance premiums, out-of-pocket expenses and taxes due to the expense of alcohol-related crashes, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving

--SRIDHAR PAPPU