did you toss out the liquor?
 

So i am wndering about this, when you REALLY decided you were done drinking what did you do with the alcohol in your home? I have half a bottle of vodka in my cabinet and at first i said i was tossing it out but it's still there... why? Why can't i just throw it away. I should right? What did you do (considering, you didn't already drink it all ;))

That's a question I never would have to answer because I always drank until everything was consumed. I can remember tipping the bottle to my lips and sticking my tongue up the neck to see if I could get just one last drop.
I would suggest you get rid of the alcohol. No need to temp yourself this early in sobriety....or ever.

I have half a bottle of vodka that's been there for 2 months. I get a lot more satisfaction knowing that I can resist it. So far so good!

Yes, I threw everything that I had out. My roommate and I had a lot of leftover beer from our Superbowl party, and there was something empowering about throwing it all out and saying "I'm really done."

Fortunately my roommate doesn't care if we have alcohol in the apartment, which is good, because I don't think I'm ready for that yet. Made it through day 15 today and my first real alcohol craving since quitting. Not so sure that would have happened if alcohol was available in the apartment.

We usually drank it all, but kept finding surprise "leftovers" for about a month after we quit. We poured it down the drain, and that is my advice to you.

yep and as always talked about having a bar in the basement. I always laugh because it would be in empty bar. we drink everything until it's gone. when I'm hungover, I always toss it down the drain. because as long as its there... I will find an excuse to drink it.

I had it taken out of the house for me by friends. We had a case of wine that friends picked up and carried out of the house while I watched. I will be forever grateful to them for doing so. It was something that I could not do.

If you're committed to not drinking, then why have the alcohol there? Many of us have done the dump the booze down the drain ceremony. And then picked up later. I know I have. If I am hanging onto a bottle, then there is lurking notion in me that I will be able to drink normally at some point. Not the healthiest thinking, for me.

I poured out what I had left and made it like a ritual flushing it down the toilet as if pouring it out of my life. Like Paul99 mentions I have tried to flush out the booze before and for one reason or another would fall back into buying more today I just hope to make it through the day. I feel as if you don't have it you might be less tempted but that is my opinion for what it is worth.

We have no alcohol in the house, ever. We don't serve alcohol here.

It keeps life simple. :)

I think it's dangerous to keep your drink of choice in the house especially early on in recovery. It's too easy to just pick up in a weak moment. going to the shop etc takes longer and you may change your mind en route

Throw it out. I have throwing out so much booze in my life. Drink...next day wake up feel like crap, only thing that made me feel some what better is pouring the alcohol that I did not finish down the sink. NO MORE DRINKING not if it makes me feel this way...only to be pissed at my self that night...crap...why did I do that...and then buy some more...silly I know...but true.

I threw it all away.

I would NEVER have my drink of choice in the house, and when friends come around for a meal and bring a bottle I make them take what they didn't drink home. However I have had beer and red wine in the house since before I stopped and have never given them a second thought.

I can't immediately remember deliberately by my choice throwing out booze.

Maybe I did at some time.

I do remember that my last drink was the neck of a bottle of port that I then spent some time contemplating until I poured out the rest and haven't drunk since.

Today, I don't have anything with alcohol in it in any places within my control. If I find anything, like recently I realised my mouthwash had alcohol in it, (that's a primer for me (the taste and even minute amounts absorbed) that if I know of and don't stop exposing myself to it it has in the past led to relapse for me) so I found a non alcohol content version. I don't agonise over it, but I'm not going to risk my sobriety in any way. Today.

I was a wine drinker and there wasn't any to toss! That was all gone...

I serve alcohol to others when I make family dinners...I'm the one with problem and it is not my place to tell my family what they should drink.

at the end of the evening, it goes into a box and my brother takes it home with him...he can enjoy a rum and coke and stop at one or 2, my SIL can have a glass of wine with dinner or a vodka...it probably lasts them 3 months.i might save 4-5 ounces of white wine for flavoring cooking, I freeze it in a small container.

when i stopped drinking there was nothing left in the house to dispose of...I had finished it all.

I took a 2/3 full handle of vodka and glug glug glugged into the toilet immediately. Wine got packed up taken out of the house. The empties got taken back to the store. All gone. All of it.

The action was symbolic in some ways, and it helped me to understand what I had decided to do.

I had my husband hide the wine in his bike room. That did not work, I found it easy but took two sips and gagged at myself, poured it out, and have not touched any since then. I don't think it is a good idea to have any alcohol around. Knowing it is there only adds stress to life and creates an invisible tension among the people involved.

Yeah I would drink until there was nothing left. So nothing to throw away!

did you toss out the liquor?
 

Nope, but that is just ME, we are all different. I recommend each individual do what is comfortable to them, in maintaining their sobriety.

I was throwing booze out regularly only to buy again the next day. This lasted for a while, but the last time I threw away it stuck. I don't have alcohol in the house anymore.

Whatever I had I drank. I sure wouldn't leave any around after I quit. That's me though - you might be different.

Over the past six months, I've probably thrown more alcohol away than I consumed. My routine had been:
Buy 750 ml bottle;
Drink way too much, feel ashamed;
pour the rest away before I pass out in bed or when I wake up with a hangover;
Feel ok by 5:00 the next day and buy a new bottle on the way home;
Repeat

Not a healthy routine for the mind, body, or wallet

Of course I should have bought nips, half-pints, or pints, but that wouldn't have made sense because at 5:00 I was always thinking I would drink just one or two and stay in control

Poured the remaining quarter of a bottle of wine down the sink and haven't bought any more. My hubby doesn't drink anymore and was a driving force behind my stopping, and my daughter doesn't drink on a regular basis and at the most brings in hard cider when a couple of her friends come over. That's rare.

If I had half a bottle of vodka left in the house, I'd be thinking of ways to drink it and replace the levels with water so no one would know I got into it. Vodka was my sneaky drink. When my husband would get on my case about my wine, I would stop off an get a small bottle of vodka and hide it and then add it to whatever soft drink I had around. Look, Ma! No wine! That should have told me I had a problem.

Everything except the Chambord. Even raging drunk and thirsty for more I can't drink that syrup. Zero temptation there. None. Everything else had to go.

I've wondered about this too. On my last drunk.....and after a horrible fight with my husband, I said some horrible things and came out to pour another drink. He was furious and begged me not to drink, while taking our drinks of choice to the trash can. I finally asked on day 4 if he really threw it away, or hid it in the garage like when he "threw out my sons messy room trash". He really did. It was taken always. day 2. Whew!

But........we still have the "special occasion" wine ($$$) and other stuff I bought for recipes or smallish drinks. I have not been tempted yet, but I refuse to buy the stuff we drank regularly (tequila, whiskey, vodka). My dad drinks whiskey every night, but have not had him over since I quit 2/24. I need to tell him so he isnt caught off guard and can prepare appropriately.

I hope I can serve it to others sometime, but nowhere near ready to even think about that. My husband has been so supportive and quit with me. Well, except the night I went to the hotel with my daughter and her friends for her bday celebration. I found his empty beer bottle still on the counter.

I poured out my whole liquor cabinet on day 1/2. Got a bottle of pricey vodka for Christmas as a gift weeks later. It sat in the freezer for 2 months.. Got opened at a gathering we had at home a few weeks ago. Its half empty sitting in the liquor cabinet now lol.

It can sit there now that Im a little further on in recovery. If it starts to bother me it will go down the drain with no remorse or hesitation.

Im sure my friends will come by and finish it soon enough.

I still have some wine laying around too. Thats my wife's business now.

yes i poured three beers into the dirt after my recent stupidity. also eliminated all dope dealer numbers from my phone. no turning back now.

I never had the problem with tossing it out from a cabinet or where ever in the house because I was a sneaky, alone alcoholic while I was drinking it was me, myself and I. So I thought nobody knew but of course going in the garage, a walk, etc....... I came home different than when I left. The LQ was my cabinet.