Giving up/ Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 16

cathybird

marahouti said:

Thank you for crunching those numbers cathybird, that is a huge amount of money!😲 I wonder 🤔if shaggy knew what she was starting?
I am 19/21 for yesterday please. X

I'll just mention this because I've been thinking about the thread in the past couple of days and feeling a great sense of pride in all the money we save ... The challenge was actually started back in 2008 by a poster called In Search of Me in response to a few comments from other posters that they wanted to cut down. I'm not sure at what point Shaggy joined but it was some years after that I think? ... None of the original posters are doing the challenge any longer and I don't even know if they're still posting on MSE. It would be interesting to know tho. Some may have taken up bad habits again but some also probably found like Honey Bear that they had refrained from drinking long enough to not have to post every day any more. Our longest-standing member at the mo I believe is the lovely maman, who's been posting for about eight years I think? ... Maybe longer? I always think of the challenge as belonging to all of us, as in everyone who's taken part in it since day one.  There are links to all the old threads in the first post of this thread and they do make quite interesting reading! At 12 years and 8 months it must be one of the longest-running challenges on MSE.

cathybird

It's not an AFD for me today ... got a birthday celebration, it was my birthday on Monday and I have two other friends who had very recent birthdays, so we are having a socially distanced get-together at a restaurant where we can sit outdoors ... it's not exactly great weather for it but still looking forward to it.

cathybird

October

7 days =

14 days =

21 days =

28 days =

Target reached =

Target beaten =

October targets

AnnieG 14/25

Arkers 12/TF

Barny 16/25

cathybird 19/21

Coveredinbees 1/8

Cuppa 5/18

happydenial 11/20

lantanna 12/15

Leftpeg 3/14

maggiem 18/21

maman 10/10

ManPants 20/31

marahouti 19/21

PriceySOS 11/20

RobM99 21/28

Season of Mist 16/28

smushesma 1/TF

sukeyboo 10/10

WBF 8/17

ALL WELCOME TO JOIN!

AnnieG

Hello everyone, 15/25 today please

lantanna

Happy belated birthday cathybird

sukeyboo

Enjoy your birthday drinks cathybird 🥂

AnnieG

Happy birthday Cathybird! 

marahouti

Belated happy birthday 🎂🍸wishes cathybird. Enjoy your celebration. X
Thank you for the information about the thread, I had no idea that it had been going that long☺️. X

maman

Happy belated Birthday cathy, and enjoy your evening. 😊

We're fortunate here that we're still able to eat inside restaurants in groups of up to 6. It amused me that where we ate today said on the menu they add 10% to bills of groups bigger than 6 so they'll be losing out. 😉 I don't like that practice anyway.

Yes, I have been here for ever. 😁 I can go it alone but checking in is a good habit I've traded for a bad one. The thread has improved massively from the early days IMO. Although it's always been Giving up /Cutting down in the title, it used to have many people with serious drink problems and some who'd 'seen the light' and just couldn't accept that some people just want to cut down.☹️

RobM99

When  gave up booze (July) I turned to...gasp...minty choc-ices!   Given those up now as well. now - cheese and biscuits!