pumpkinny

keeping track of where I last bought and planning my trip home based on where to buy my booze. Making sure to rotate wine/liquor shops out of fear of becoming a regular. I don't miss having to find places to dispose of my extensive empty bottle collection(I referred to this in my head as the "the bottle project") so that neighbors won't notice. So much more to add, but that's what I've felt relief from this morning as the Sanitation depth was doing bottle collection.

Anna

Yes, it becomes exhausting, doesn't it!

petals

so good to know im not alone in this.xx

Foolsgold186

I don't miss having to find places to dispose of my extensive empty bottle collection(I referred to this in my head as the "the bottle project") so that neighbors won't notice.

God that was a job and a half, I used to wrap all my bottles in paper so they didnt clink (they still did tho, or at least in my paranoid mind they did!) and dependant of the size, dispose in the hope I was never seen! If I put half as much effort into sobriety that I did with the buying and disposing of drink i'll be doing good

L x

bigsombrero

Agreed on the "bottle project" as well as the "rotating liquor stores". Near the end of my active drinking days I was actually ordering my groceries online, and when I found out I could also order liquor, it was Game Over. I had them deliver the booze right to my house, and for every $100 I spent in groceries about $75 was alcohol-related (booze, beer, wine, mixers, etc). I remember having to also "measure" how much alcohol was in a bottle when my girlfriend left the house, so that when she came home, she wouldn't know I was already onto the next bottle.

It's amazing how wrapped up our lives become in this addiction. So nice to be free, glad you are feeling the same way! Congrats and keep it going.

ccam1973

Sounds all too familiar! I finally started dumping the empty 1.75 empty bottles at the car wash trash cans. Took lots of drive-by's to make sure the wash was empty before i could fill up their cans... After switching to beer, the trash men would leave warning notes on my trash cans if i didn't bag all of the beer cans. I guess they didn't like the clanking of the empty cans free-falling into their truck; LOL...

so glad those days are over.

Janis

Rotating liquor stores and hiding bottles around the house so my roommate wouldn't know how much I was really drinking. The only person I was actually fooling was myself. I'm still working past the shame of that but at least I'm not living that life anymore.

soberjuly

I did the exact same thing. If my kids were with me, I kidded myself I was going to the liquor store for the ice cream.

Mountainmanbob

yes - traveling around town in my old drinking days
as I look back now
was a very hard way in which to live
always knowing where the next store was
not to mention the several DUI's and many crashes

MM

Angel1555

I don' t miss the shameful memories of how drunk I was the night before and driving home drunk at 3am. Then feeling like crap the next day, then starting again that night as I started to feel better.

PurpleKnight

It was quite stressful organising my drinking when I look back, it's great to not have to worry about all those things again!!

ElleDee

I did the same. Double wrapped and then buried in the garbage under coffee grounds or something so my partner wouldn't notice or look. The biggest mistake I made with a bottle is throwing one into the laundry basket planning to take it out and I forgot. My partner was like "What's this?" I lied... but surely didn't fool him. That's another thing not to miss... all the LIES!