Sober October

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    I lasted until October 2nd. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    I failed. 
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Congrats!
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    hedonist said:
    Congrats!
    Congrats? for failing?
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,668
    I find it much easier to go dry in January/February. Fall time is party time!!
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    PJ_Soul said:
    I find it much easier to go dry in January/February. Fall time is party time!!
    yeah, i really think it would have been better to do this after new years, like you said. oh well. i'm still going to keep going, and if I find myself in a situation where it calls for a beer, so be it. I won't beat myself up over it. 
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Beer sucks. Gatorade is better.


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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    My dry January is going great…I have yet to be rained on.  Life’s positives.
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,362
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do you call your wife "dude"?  :lol:    

    Agree that it would seem odd to claim sobriety and then do drugs but to each their own and any real sort of commitment people make to themselves and keep would seem to be a good thing, to me. 

    The idea that it is only 30 days, to me, makes it easy. 
    I expect that if someone has a physical addiction to drugs or alcohol that this could be a very different experience for them. 
    Absent that, to me it is only an exercise in willpower.

    Now...if the deal was try to to never do it again, or to go without for a year?  To me, that would seem a totally different thing.
    To be fair, I have on good authority you call your wife "Sir" sooo....
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,809
    edited January 2022
    darwinstheory said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Do you call your wife "dude"?  :lol:    

    Agree that it would seem odd to claim sobriety and then do drugs but to each their own and any real sort of commitment people make to themselves and keep would seem to be a good thing, to me. 

    The idea that it is only 30 days, to me, makes it easy. 
    I expect that if someone has a physical addiction to drugs or alcohol that this could be a very different experience for them. 
    Absent that, to me it is only an exercise in willpower.

    Now...if the deal was try to to never do it again, or to go without for a year?  To me, that would seem a totally different thing.
    To be fair, I have on good authority you call your wife "Sir" sooo....
    It was [redacted]
    Post edited by F Me In The Brain on
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,389
    all ages forum? you dont say.....
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    It’s that time again! 
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  • Purple Fairy Tree
    Purple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,055
    It's also stoptober
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,120
    I love this idea, but I will have to pick another month. October means boys weekend in Austin. It does not necessarily mean excessive alcohol intake, but it does mean bloody marys at the circuit of the americas.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,809
    Get_Right said:
    I love this idea, but I will have to pick another month. October means boys weekend in Austin. It does not necessarily mean excessive alcohol intake, but it does mean bloody marys at the circuit of the americas.
    I do a 30 day stretch late April into May, timed to end on Memorial Day weekend.  It is a good idea, just pick the dates that work for you.
    Enjoy CoTA
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,120
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Get_Right said:
    I love this idea, but I will have to pick another month. October means boys weekend in Austin. It does not necessarily mean excessive alcohol intake, but it does mean bloody marys at the circuit of the americas.
    I do a 30 day stretch late April into May, timed to end on Memorial Day weekend.  It is a good idea, just pick the dates that work for you.
    Enjoy CoTA
    Thanks, truthfully I could use a 30 day breather after COTA and into Thanksgiving.
  • Stove
    Stove Posts: 370
    More like sober...for the foreseeable future....
  • CantKeepmedown
    CantKeepmedown Portland, Maine Posts: 3,119
    January is a good time to try, but also the start of the NFL playoffs. Tough to go through those weekends without a beverage or two.

    February is the best month to try. Even if you start after the super bowl and extend a few days into March to make up for it. I can usually find something going on in every other month that would involve me having a beer or 2 lol


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