Is anyone doing Dry January this year? While not swearing off alcohol altogether, I am cutting back in general. On everything I overindulged in during the holiday season. So dryish to steal a line from Miller Brewing. Fortunately, there are more options than ever for nonalcoholic adult beverages. Some of them sound pretty good.
Do you have a favorite mocktail or nonalcoholic beer or wine, Deadsplinters?
Lol, a classic.
I’m not swearing off booze for the month. But definitely not having boozy coffee every afternoon, and drinking bourbon every night like I did over the holidays.
I had a bit of a laugh attack thinking “if ever there is an apt time to dust off this gif…”
My thoughts exactly!
I’m not surprised that you and myo aren’t participating. I’m not really sure who, if anyone, would be.
To be honest there was a time I drank 12 near beers per day in order to cut off the alcohol but in my defense it was long before I accepted the fact that I’m an alcoholic.
If I could remember the brand, I’d have participated. 🙂
I’m not sure I should like that comment…but there is something to be said for self awareness, lol.
nope
i mean..i intend to not drink much…and walk lots…do all that healthy shit
but the moment i give it a name or call it a challenge i am going to find ways to do exactly not that….
generally i dont respond all that well to being told i have to do something….even when its me telling me
I’m the same way. There was nothing like a good old anti drug After School Special to send me out looking for whatever substance I was being warned about. 😂
@farscythe I am telling you right now, and you must obey my authoritay…
…you HAVE to drink today, tomorrow and the next day. Do NOT be some sort of rebel and disobey my authoritay!
okay!
i was planning to do that anyways
healthy time starts next monday…..allegedly
Something tells me that you didn’t miss my point but CHOSE to.
It is the weekend so 🥃 cheers!
Same. Not abstaining, but cutting back. I’ve had several NA beers because of family and friends. I found the Guinness offering decent, and the Athletic Brewing golden ale to be OK.
As someone who never took to sodas I like seeing non alcoholic mocktails on the market. Sometimes I want something a little different but not boozy. I’m going to see what if any they carry at my liquor store.
Sigh – I do not over-indulge, nor do I plan to under-indulge.
You understand balance. Something I strive for but never seem to achieve, lol.
I understand balance, that is why I have a beer in each hand! Although to be fair, sometimes I have a glass of wine in each hand.
It’s good to balance the hops with the grapes.
No, although I remember back when I read The Takeout there were always a few edge-lordy people who got really angry about the idea of a dry January. Something about how it lacked a rationale defined to the exacting reasons they required and therefore was some kind of bad thing?
theres sposed to be a rationale behind it?
i mean…. beyond coz a month of no booze is good for you? (allegedly…personally i have my doubts….theres a lot of reality out there without the dilligaf juice softening the edges…cant be good for your mental health)
doing it in january is insanity tho… with all the big bills coming in and hurt holiday feefees to smooth over
Seems like a weird thing to get upset about but that was Kinja for you. Someone always got their knickers in a twist over something that had nothing to do with them.
I don’t drink much, sometimes I’ll go a few months without having any alcohol at all.
I have enough alcoholics in the immediate family that I try to keep alcohol to a social situation and also, when I get drunk, I like to overeat even more than usual. I have enough issues with my weight, I don’t need to make it easier to eat even more when I’m not hungry.
It’s good that you can recognize the potential for a problem and keep yourself in check.
Full disclosure, like everyone else, I definitely drank a lot more during the Trump presidency.
And then I drank A TON once they called the election for Biden. Like I had kept a bottle of champagne that I bought for 2016 for Hillary that I never opened, that got drank the night they called it for Biden.
Then the next day, a friend came over and we slammed another bottle of champagne and went on a bar crawl near my house.
I don’t remember much of that weekend except a profound sense of happiness. I did save the champagne corks to make Christmas ornaments out of though!