3 months sober and still finding bottles...
3 months sober and still finding bottles...
When will it ever stop!! Everytime I clean I find another one in some real creative hiding place! Just found a bottle cap under the bed while looking for a pair of shoes. LOL... I know many of you can relate. I actually chuckled a little and thought about how pathetic I must have been laying in bed drinking Smirnoff Ice and watching CSI Miami and Intervention all those nights.
Yes, I had a few during "Intervention" on A&E.!!!!!!!
Yes, I had a few during "Intervention" on A&E.!!!!!!!
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The same thing happened to me. When I moved and started packing I found bottles and beer cans everywhere. Just the other day I opened a guitar case I hadn't used in over a year and an empty vodka bottle fell out. I had to do a mass cleansing and got it all out of there so the new place wouldn't be tainted and I could relax.
Raises hand.....I found an empty beer can in my closet this week. I was looking for some art supplies because I'm starting to do some drawing again since my sobriety. (I'm doing a lot of things again, since sobriety!!!)
There was the empty can in there, tossed into my art supply box. It was a symbolic moment: as long as I drank, I never achieved the motivation to draw or paint. Instead I was using the boxes and bags in my closet to toss empty cans and bottles into!
I threw it away and went to my AA meeting....
There was the empty can in there, tossed into my art supply box. It was a symbolic moment: as long as I drank, I never achieved the motivation to draw or paint. Instead I was using the boxes and bags in my closet to toss empty cans and bottles into!
I threw it away and went to my AA meeting....
Another hand raised... While deep cleaning recently I found an empty vodka bottle in the back of a cabinet. Kind of freaked me out. I looked at the bottom to see if there was a little sip left. *slap*. Fortunately it was bone dry.
OMG - how many empties hiding around these days - think I locate them all and then, like you said - clear a sweater, box of shoes, box of cereal off a shelf and there it is! And I check too for a sip or two in the bottom of the bottle, but there's never anything there - thank goodness.
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My husband found a beer bottle under a closet. I never even liked beer so had to be really desparate to drink it. I used water bottles but I do smell them if I find one laying around.
Toomuch - Of course it was bone dry we are not that stupid.
What a shame for us!! Thank God we are getting better.:ghug
Toomuch - Of course it was bone dry we are not that stupid.
What a shame for us!! Thank God we are getting better.:ghug
Would somebody please explain to me why alcoholics hide bottles?
I never felt the need to hide bottles, though I have hidden cigarettes and nicotine patches from my wife and I know why I did that, so that she would not find out I was smoking and/or addicted to nicotine.
I never felt the need to hide bottles, though I have hidden cigarettes and nicotine patches from my wife and I know why I did that, so that she would not find out I was smoking and/or addicted to nicotine.
Count me in a chronic stasher of the boozing evidence. I hid bottles so no one at home would know I was drinking. I hid travel mugs full of wine in cabinets/closets throughout the house that way whatever room I was in I could gulp some down. The next day when I had a moment alone I would sneak the bottle out to the garage to put in the trash can.
Yeah, I know wine wasn't intended to be ingested that way but...That's why I'm here.
Yeah, I know wine wasn't intended to be ingested that way but...That's why I'm here.
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