Originally Posted by
soberlicious 
I don't regularly attend meetings, but I'm not gonna lie. I like getting a chip for another year. I like celebrations, clapping, smiling... LOL the same way I like red patent leather peep-toe pumps, but neither one is the cornerstone of my sobriety.
Hope this isn't too far OT, but I recently passed an anniversary and did absolutely nothing to commemorate it. Same thing for the last few years. I figure if I'm not in a chip-giving program, why would I show up to get one of their chips?
But I know many others who, even though they are not in a chip-giving program, do show up at a meeting of that program to get a chip each year.
I'm not judging what anyone else does, believe me, I'm just interested in knowing what, if anything, my secular friends do on their anniversary. I don't want to get a chip, but I'll admit--the anniversary of the day I quit drinking is an important day for me. The day I declared my freedom.