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Post by treetop on Dec 18, 2020 8:17:32 GMT -5
I can make with out it but I don’t know I could go that long sure love a cold one on the deck after a long hot day working or when I’m grilling out Congrats to you Believe you me, there's plenty of those same moments when I want to have a drink. However, I started drinking at a young age and drank in excess. Alcoholism has it's nails into a lot of my family members and I had to make a choice to cut the head off the beast while I still could. Although I have pretty good self control and feel that I could get by with an occasional drink, I just don't feel like I should tempt it. My good friend Steve that I go up north to Canada with his dad drank and it got ugly very ugly lost about everything he had he ended up in AA made it 20 plus years before he passed unfortunately by the time Steve’s dad joined AA Steve was well on his way he just quit on his own I’m not sure but I believe he’s 15 plus years now he’s about the same as you says he could but he believes he could be back to his old ways in no time so he doesn’t
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2020 8:24:42 GMT -5
I can make with out it but I don’t know I could go that long sure love a cold one on the deck after a long hot day working or when I’m grilling out Congrats to you Believe you me, there's plenty of those same moments when I want to have a drink. However, I started drinking at a young age and drank in excess. Alcoholism has it's nails into a lot of my family members and I had to make a choice to cut the head off the beast while I still could. Although I have pretty good self control and feel that I could get by with an occasional drink, I just don't feel like I should tempt it. That is great that you made the right choice. When I worked for Sam Adams the Plant Manager was the same way. He could not drink without going into alcoholism issues. My brother n law is the same.
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Post by esshup on Dec 18, 2020 9:10:13 GMT -5
I bought the Evan Williams. I did not like it. Not near enough Egg Nog flavor. I do not need the booze in my Nog. Most of the times I just get the Prairie Farms brand. I think Prairie Farms has a better flavor than the Southern Comfort eggnog that I tried. I recently tried the Kroger house brand and about threw it out. Waaayyy too much vanilla flavor and it just wasn't "eggnog".
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Post by mstr2175 on Dec 18, 2020 22:42:53 GMT -5
I gave in at the grocery store today.. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/3xmrC6f3/F18-DD575-8456-45-A9-B1-F1-ECDAA5-DC9-E01.jpg)
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Post by genesis273 on Dec 19, 2020 5:42:03 GMT -5
I gave in at the grocery store today.. ![](https://i.postimg.cc/3xmrC6f3/F18-DD575-8456-45-A9-B1-F1-ECDAA5-DC9-E01.jpg) 🍻I hope you enjoy it asuch as I do!🍻
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Post by budd on Dec 19, 2020 9:37:39 GMT -5
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Post by bullseye69 on Dec 19, 2020 9:53:59 GMT -5
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Post by Russ Koon on Dec 19, 2020 12:43:53 GMT -5
I can and do have a nip once in a while, but keep it down to one smallish drink, and nothing on a regular schedule. I never really developed a serious problem with it but a few times when I was a young adult I had enough of a brush with it to see how addictive it can be after being a regular part of my routine for just a short time.
The first time was when I had received a quart of Canadian Club as a wedding gift, and had put it on a back shelf and forgotten about it until the next summer when I was studying mechanical drawing through a correspondence course to boost my chances for getting into an apprenticeship at work. Those summer afternoons sitting at the drawing board in our little rental house with no A/C went easier when I fixed myself a large Coke. And one day I spotted that CC bottle and thought that a shot of that might make the Coke even better. It did, and a week or so later, a second Coke and CC tasted even better, and soon it became two shots in each one. Never got loopy or wobbly in the least, or really felt any physical effect at all from those amounts. But when I finally ran out of that one quart, I found myself the next afternoon standing in the section of the drugstore in town that every guy at high school had known was the place that never checked ID's, counting my pocket change to see if I had enough for one of the tiny bottles and still could buy the necessaries for rest of the week until payday....and I realized what I was doing, and put my pocket change back in my pocket and got the heck out of there!
After a couple years of being careful about even small amounts on a regular basis, I was in a car pool at work while my car was in a shop. The guys in the pool were in the habit of stopping at a local bar every pay night for a few beers and some games on the shuttle bowling machine. The old semi-retired mechanic who was rebuilding the engine in my car took six weeks to get it done. Probably had something to do with the empty beer cases he had stacked in his garage. Anyway, when that first pay night ended at work and I was driving my own car again, I went a couple blocks out of my way on the way home and drove past the bar..."be a good place to cash the paycheck"....
Had to fight the steering wheel a bit to keep going for home instead. Another little alarm bell had gone off just in time. That taught me that I had to watch out for weekly habits as well as daily ones, and I eventually learned that I wasn't safe in developing monthly ones either, a few years later, so I became very wary about ANY drinking on a regular routine. That has been the rule that has kept me out of trouble for fifty-plus years since. I will still have the glass of wine with a good steak or a beer with a nice spaghetti, but not every time, and not more than one on a given evening.
Never had to even come close to "hitting rock bottom" to get the message, but I've seen it with family members and in-laws, and others and can appreciate the battle they fight and sometimes win. Our biggest family get-together these last several years has been the Christmas party at my sister's place, and has long included the adult gift swap where the gift can be "stolen" three times after being opened. One or another "adult beverage" had become one of the more popular gifts to unwrap and the most frequently and repeatedly "stolen" after opening. Last year, there was a new rule passed around well in advance of the party that the gift exchange should not include any alcoholic beverages whatever, due to at least a couple of the guests having difficulties or being in recovery. Took just a little of the fun out of the gift exchange, but not really that much. We still had a very good time there without any alcohol being served or available with the meal, or inside any of the gifts. And if anyone felt like THAT was a downer, I bet this year changed their minds! This time it will be a Zoom party if there even is one.
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Post by esshup on Dec 19, 2020 22:02:37 GMT -5
I saw that in the local Walmart the other day.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Dec 19, 2020 23:36:40 GMT -5
To those keeping a sober line. Keep up the trail you are on. One day at a time one minute at a time egg nog is good milk is good soda pop is good. Family is good job is good and friends are good. ONE DAY AT A TIME! I'm no saint but I know your path though not the exact path.
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