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The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for December & 2025 :)
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Morning, 13 for me please.3
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December AFD challenge 20257 days =
14 days =
21 days =
28 days =
Target reached =
Target beaten =
Entire month =
December targetsBlueJ94 14/18
cathybird 18/21
Dark Sunday 4/14doingitanyway 18/25
Dryjan 18dustydigger 21Jellybaby 13/TF
leftatthetrafficlights 19/20
maggiem 4/10maman 12/10
oceandreamer 18/24
PriceySOS 23redofromstart 20/20
RobM99 17/30
satchmo1 18/25
Season of Mist 17/25
sukeyboo 8/10
tiddles 14/25
Vanlady 17/21
Watty1 11/20
Wishus 20WBF 6/14🌞 🌞 Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞3 -
19/20 for me today please 😁'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £0/£100
DNF: £0/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'3 -
18/25 for me today please.What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?3
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Good morning folks, I'm declaring early for today, so. 17/21 please cathybird.
Yesterday was not AF but I didn't really enjoy it.
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I wasn't AF yesterday either, although I was celebrating as it was my last day at work. I didn't go mad though which I was pleased about. I did get a lot of bottles of wine from people who don't know about my relationship with drink. Thanks to this thread I'm happy to put them in the cupboard to either re-gift or have on special occasions. Mind you, I'm feeling strong at the moment, I'm fully aware that they could be a problem at sometime in the future. Tbh, if I was drinking like I used to, I don't think I would have trusted myself to retire as I was realistically only sober when I was at work. I've said this before but honestly Cathbird, your work with this thread saves people from themselves and I won't be on my own to say that I can't thank you enough.
Anyhow, declaring early today so 18/24 please.7 -
Happy retirement Oceandreamer!! Enjoy your lie ins etc
Great idea to regift too, I'm also doing some of that (Bailey's anyone, yuk!)
And absolutely agree, as we all will, THANKYOU cathybird, you're an angel
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Happy retirement Oceandreamer
20 for me pleaseMy mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
GNU Mr Redo4 -
If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 350/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20253 -
@oceandreamer and @Vanlady aw thanks xxx I wish I could say the thread was my idea but it wasn't! It's really the work of lots of different people over the years, not least everyone who takes part. Yay that it helps (and it helps me too) xxx
@oceandreamer, do enjoy your retirement xxx 4
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