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Old 12-01-2012, 07:22 PM
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i keep getting the wrong stupid f'kin chip

i went to get my 30 day last week and the chip giver gives me a 24 hour, i go to get my two month today and they give me a 1month

i just want whats rightfully mine

if they dont give me the right chip i might as well just start drinking again
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:29 PM
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LOL!!!

I can relate, totally. I am OCD about my sobriety coins. I lost one from my pocket a few weeks ago and was a mess for 3 or 4 days until I found it. I once saw a 1 year get 2 6 month chips because the secretary ran out of 1 years. That's just wrong!

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Old 12-01-2012, 07:34 PM
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higher power telling you to pass those chips to a newby yourself....then get yours to show others it works.

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Old 12-01-2012, 07:35 PM
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someone passed me a 26 year chip when I had one day.

I was able to give it to my sponsor cause that particular meeting was out of 26 year chips then......
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:45 PM
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I didn't think they had 2 month chips.
I thought it went 24 hrs, 1, 3, 6, 9 months, 1 year, 18 months, and just the number of years after that.
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Oh there is a 2 month chip, that's for sure. I have gotten a couple.
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:48 PM
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they are available for every month for the first year, 18 months and every year from 1 through whatever, although some are special orders

the history of chips is interesting, but since bill w didn't really like clapping or celebrating (it fed the ego) these aren't more than traditions created within each meeting....

Clarence had a medallion he put a hole in for each year of his sobriety, he was the youngest of the first 100 people in AA and his medallion had 46 holes in it at the time of his passing.

Sister Ignatia used to give a St Christopher medal or some coin to those in early recovery and told them to come and give her the chip back if they were going to drink.

A woman went to a bar to drink, she dumped out her purse and a chip was in it. The bartender asked what it was and she said it was her AA chip. He refused to sell her any drink and told her, "We don't serve alcoholics here," and showed her the door.....

Marbles were given out in the UK....something about "losing your marbles" began back then......

Do your own search on the history of chips! They've been around since the early days of AA!
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:51 PM
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Is recovery about chips?
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:53 PM
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Speak up ...

I still only carry my 24 hr coin... And if you went last week for a 1 month and today for a 2 maybe try going a little more often then once a month..
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Old 12-01-2012, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by IndaMiricale View Post

I still only carry my 24 hr coin


THE most important coin! I keep my 24 hour in my right pocket, and my current coin in my left. Shows me where I'm at and how I got there. Early on it served as a reminder in case I reached in my pocket for beer money, I'd have to bypass the coin.

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Old 12-01-2012, 08:00 PM
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I only keep my current chip
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I keep my coins in my wallet...one 24 hr and one current sobriety.
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:03 PM
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I remember when I first came in and a guy approached me outside about my marbles.. LOL.. Love it..

Thanfully I still have mine and his card... never can have enough tools in the box.
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:13 PM
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From what I've seen, different meetings do different chips. The one I go to every Sunday gives them for each month up to 1 year. I get my 4 month tomorrow
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:23 PM
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You can do your own research on the origin of popular sayings, too.
It’s Up to You; A Story of Domestic Bliss, by George V Hobart, dated 1902: “I see-sawed back and forth between Clara J. and the smoke-holder like a man who has lost some of his marbles.”
Random House Dictionary of American Slang
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:29 PM
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it is different for all I got rid of my medals and chips but kept the 24 hour my buddy gave me because he earned it
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:32 PM
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I only have 2 chips, my 24 hour chip and my 1 year chip. I didn't bother picking up any of the others, it doesn't matter to me.

I agree with some of the other folks who said the 24 hour chip is the most important.
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Old 12-01-2012, 08:38 PM
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I had zillions of 24 hour chips. I don't want to see another one.

I made an assumption about the marble statement, so I retract that one. The marble story is true, but I don't remember how it works.
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Old 12-02-2012, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by MycoolFitz View Post
Is recovery about chips?
for me it is

thats how they sold me on giving the program a try
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Old 12-02-2012, 10:57 AM
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Kind of off topic, sorry, but I have heard of bars that will give a person drinks for their AA chips. But it is one of those "I know someone who knows somebody" scenarios, which immediately triggers me to think that it simply urban legend. Anybody else heard this? Anybody else SEEN this (so I can dispel my urban legend conspiracy theory, lol)

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