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The Cutting Down Alcohol Challenge for May & 2026 :)
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13/26 for me today please 😁'Happiness is not a destination but the journey you walk every day'
Jan GC: £74.77/£100
DNF: £1471.53/£6700
Garden sections: 0/21
DNF: 3/45
Save 12k in 2026: #37 £1471.53/£6700
'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'4 -
January 2026 AFD challenge7 days =
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January targetsBlueJ94 7/18
Brie 10cathybird 14/21
Dark Sunday 7/14
doingitanyway 13/25
Dryjan 18Jellybaby 7/TF
jivjules1 15/31
leftatthetrafficlights 13/26
LzzyIsGod 11/21
maggiem 5/10maman 9/10
oceandreamer 13/24
PriceySOS 7/23
redofromstart 14/20
RobM99 14/30
satchmo1 17/25
Season of Mist 15/25
SpireCaptain 12/23
sukeyboo 7/10
tiddles 15/25
Vanlady 14/21
Watty1 25Wishus 20WBF 2/14🌞 🌞 Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞6 -
13/25 please @cathybird an easy one for me as I am back to not feeling like drinking
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 1400/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20255 -
15 today please Cathybird.I drank one glass of wine with a meal out a week ago, as I am allowing myself to drink socially and also when I am on holiday, if I so wish.5
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16/25 for me today please.What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?6
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5/10 please for a very rare AF Friday!
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7 today for me please5
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17/25 for me today please.What would you get if all you got was what you were thankful for?5
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12/23 for me please @cathybird6
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Bit of a disaster day yesterday. I went out for a late lunch with friends and had a (planned) glass of wine - just the one. Great I thought. Arrived home and decided that as I'd already had a drink that day, it would make no difference if I had another. A bottle and a half of wine later it definitely did. So annoyed with myself. I just can't trust myself! The only positive is that I have no inclination to have a "hair of the dog" - one of my tried and trusted excuses of old to drink on consecutive days.
13/24 please Cathybird.
Actually another positive is that this thread is here regardless of whether you are winning or not and you know that no-one will judge you.9
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