aihflvt

TwoJacks's question about hiding places brought this question to mind. Was there anything related to your drinking that you were sentimentally attached to? For me, giving up my personal mug above the bar at my favorite brewery was difficult, although completely worth it.

stillsleeping

Wow. The Monopoly board where we used to cut coke. Didn't get rid of it, but did give a good clean. Still haven't played Monopoly since...

Firehazard

The beer steins I inherited from my father were given away.

CarolD

My social circle ...all at best...excessive drinkers..:but
that is why AA and new friends became vital for me...

BTW..many of my old crew died from various alcohol related causes since then. ...

Here is a link about my dead friends....

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...d-friends.html
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BASEjumper

Not much. I used to drink from a 1 liter stein I got from a festival in Germany, and a stein from the hofbrauhaus in Munich.

I still drink from them sometimes, just not alcohol. Don't talk much anymore with my old drinking buddy. A trifle compared to everything I've gained from sobriety.

desertsong

My mom's wine glasses. They're gorgeous, with a lovely etching of a hummingbird on each one. Not that I ever used them because I was a whiskey drinker, but the sight of them in the cupboard with the rest of our drinking glasses was just too much. They're now in a box in the garage because I can't bear to part with them but I can't look at them every day either. I suppose maybe one day, when I'm at least a year or more into sobriety and we have friends over, I can pull them out for our guests who enjoy wine. But not now, though. Not now.

Dee74

Like Carol - my old life & my social circle...but we all survived...and I thrived

I know I'm leading a much more authentic genuine and happy life now

D

doggonecarl

Nope. By the time I quit drinking, I was drinking 24 and 40 oz bottles of malt liquor. Nothing sentimental about that.

Emma18

That Hofbrauhaus is amazing. They make fantastic food there.
Probably the drinking itself. I drink juice from my beer steins and glasses I got when I went to Germany.

bmwcycle

A ton of Martini shakers and glass, still have just do not use.

FattyMcFatty

None of it, I don't miss anything. I'm very VERY happy with a clean conscience, early mornings without the shakes, and I'm feeling GREAT each and every day...!

hypochondriac

Interesting thread..

I'm too early to miss anything but I did contemplate getting rid of my wine glasses seeing as I don't use them anymore..but then maybe I'll just use them for water, they're just glasses right? I did have to learn to be ok with drinking out of my gin glass though, that was a tricky 5 minutes.

I'm currently desperately seeking the perfect mug for my tea

Vlad

A cold beer after cutting the grass on a hot day.



Then I remember what that beer will lead to.

alcoquit

When I was lonely alcohol was there, just drinking and watching movies was fun. I will miss my friends and places back in home where I could get so many variety of foods. I will have to avoid those drinking places now.

midgetcop

I get nostalgic thinking about drinking a cold beer on a hot, summer day. Ditto when I think about a beach and travelling down south.

I get nostalgic thinking about the microbrews that I used to love, and the excitement of trying a new brew.

As nostalgic as I get, I certainly don't miss all the negative aspects of drinking. There ain't a beer tasty enough, or a day sunny enough to drive me back to that.

soberlicious

I didn't give up anything of value. I only gained.

eJoshua

My homebrewing equipment, my martini glasses, my martini shaker and assorted jiggers and bar tools. My really expensive and really cool corkscrew. My old bedroom where I used to hide and get wasted.

Like doggonecarl, by the end of my drinking days those items were collecting dust anyways, since I switched over to drinking vodka straight out of the bottle. As far as the room goes... I moved. I don't miss any of it.

Ranger

I'm about as sentimentally attached to something from my drinking days as a cancer survivor is sentimentally attached to chemo!

After all, that's how I feel most days....like a terminally ill patient who was given an unlikely repreive.

The kicker, of course, is that unlike the patient I didn't know I was sick. But, that's alcohol for ya.

Tippingpoint

Me too.

I don't feel sentimental about any of it. It's odd really. I sure did love drinking when I was doing it, but that's all changed now. I only see poison now.

I drink perrier out of a wine glass from time to time - not sure if that counts.

GirlFromCO

It was most difficult to give up my victim mentality. I really did not want to take responsibility for me. Of course, it was the second best thing I ever did