TheEnd

I have chosen to make the move and walk away from the AA program. It has been a beneficial move in my recovery, as I was feeling constrained as to what I should be doing all of the time. However, since I have decided to leave, I guess I won't be collecting anymore medallions, which I kind of liked. Anyway, I was wondering if anybody had any ideas about possible replacements to mark my time in sobriety. I was looking on the internet, but there doesn’t seem to be anything specifically made for this kind of thing.

Thepatman

Maybe you can treat yourself to gifts to replace them?

Dee74

I googled aa sobriety medallions and got scads of hits TE
I'm sure you'll find something

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TheEnd

I was thinking of something more specialized that would represent something. I don't want to buy just random things.

TheEnd

I see all kinds of AA medallions, but I was looking for something to replace that since I won't be technically in AA.

Dee74

so you want something that's like an AA chip...but completely different?


LOL. just tryin' to help TE - hope you find something

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Thepatman

Tattoos? ;-)

miko67

Lol .
Yeah I would treat yerself man. Buy something great everytime you hit a milestone. You deserve it

tomsteve

staying sober is a gift in itself for me.

jennikate

Are you a guy or girl? I buy myself an Alex and Ani bracelet to commerate big milestones. I'm also in AA and get the chips.

sugarbear1

I was going to suggest a bracelet or necklace with adding beads or charms for each anniversary

TheEnd

This doesn't sound like a bad idea, although I'm not necessarily looking for something to wear. It can sit on my book shelf, just looking something to commemorate each year.

topspin

Ended up getting a decent bike to ride.

It represents freedom and serenity.

Even when I'm not on it !?!

TheEnd

Situation solved. I decided I will order my own medallion instead of picking it up at a meeting since I don't go anymore. Except now I have the option to get some really nice ones and not the mundane ones they give out on B-Day night....LOL......cool!

fini

when my mom turned eighty, i gave her a nice glass full of eighty stones. little rocks i had collected over the last year specifically for that purpose. with care. some more flat than other, some more colourful, some bumpy, some smooth...
made each b-day after that very easy for the next present. i wrap them nicely
the jar/vase/glass looks great on her dresser and seems to have done the trick of having meaning to us both, somehow.
a woman i know has a jar with a special marble/big swirly glass bead for each of her milestones.
a jar big enough to keep going with.

Leadfoot

Technically, sobriety chips, tokens, medallions or whatever you call them are not endorsed, bought, sold or part of AA recovery. They just tagged along into meetings somehow. It's something adopted at the meeting level but exists at no higher level.

NoelleR

Well, actually, sobriety chips, tokens, medallions, or whatever you call them, are sold at AA Central Offices/Intergroup Offices, which fall under GSO, which falls under GSB.....in AA's organizational charts. So, one could say that they are endorsed by AA.

(o:
NoelleR

MsJax

I wear a silver bracelet that says odaat on the outside of the ID part & my sobriety date on the inside. I got in about 9 months after I got sober. Never have taken it off

I think it would be fun to plant a tree or a rosebush for each year of sobriety too.

TheEnd

I have a sivler pendant, that says "To Hell and Back" has my sobriety date underneath and on the back "To thine own self be true"

I also have like 3 bracelets that I got engraved with different quotes and my sobriety date, but I wanted something that I could collect yearly to symoblize the accumulation.

soberlicious

I have a tattoo across my back that says "To Thine Own Self Be True".