I couldn't come up with the answer to this, so I'm on my 3rd and final beer of the game. Hopefully I can find the answer sometime in the future, but it's not today. Idk, I feel like waiting all the way until kickoff, and only having 3 is better than the alternative where I probably would have started a lot earlier and been a lot worse off by now.
I’m still dry but idk if I’ll make it through out the whole game. One daughter gave me some new whiskey glasses and another one gave me a bottle of bourbon that I want to try. My son is on his way here so one day I will do dry January but this one might not be the one.
I am just going to start at noon today and go an extra few days as "punishment" for forgetting. As long as I am done by February 11th, I'd like a beer at the Super Bowl.
You’re supposed to put it in the freezer and the design in the glass is supposed to keep the booze cold with out whiskey stones or ice. The inside is meant to be a replica of Mt Everest
Doing it again this year, always a nice reset. However, we are going to Commanders-Cowboys gam Sunday....sober NFL game sounds like actual hell so I'm thinking I'll tack on a few days in Feb to makeup for it. Maybe go until SB.
Never understand why it has to be January. I get coming out of the holiday season and fully support any level of sobriety but from the Super Bowl to St Patrick’s day is the month stretch that’s the easiest. January has playoff games still and March madness is after St Patty’s day.
January's perfect for me but I really don't care all that much about the nfl, ending my run with the Duke game the first week in February is money
I had knee surgery in August and was medically cleared to go back to my gym today. Figured I'll do a month of full on good living. Gym, no booze, no thc (which means way less sweets etc) to see how it feels.
To me, it seems like dry Jan is about resetting one’s relationship to alcohol. While it may be easier to do it when “there’s nothing going on”, I think it makes a lot more sense to do it after the holidays when people may feel boozed out and extra motivated to take on a challenge.
Yeah I was just saying that’s how I see it. I said all that but I’m definitely cutting way back regardless of going completely dry through January. Probably limit myself just to some beers on game day. May say fuck it and just do the N.A. ones. Its just a lot easier for me not to want a drink if there isn’t a game on.
Also if your initial reaction is, "oh but there's a sport game or random holiday that I just need to get drunk for" then you should probably...reflect on that.
That shit is so stupid. "Hey let me take a month off from drinking. Well, It's February now, I'm gonna go get hammered this Friday because I took a month off of drinking!". For real alcoholics that struggle everyday to stay sober, it is a really weird concept, imo.
Hopefully dry Jan acts as a wake up call for a person or two before they’re too far down the path. Wouldn’t call it stupid.
Both sides have valid points. FWIW I make jokes in this thread that I wouldn’t in the sobriety thread because I don’t think it would be appropriate. Dry anything for me would be not drinking 4 times in that month. I want to do it because I want to see if there are any legit benefits form not drinking for a month but not because I need a holiday reset since I don’t drink anymore during the holidays that I do throughout the year.
Giving it a try this year. Had people over for the MSU hoops game last night and just drank water. I typically go to the bars to watch games on wknds though and have no idea how I am going to do that. I also have a retirement party for a family friend this wknd. I would feel bad sitting at a bar for a game and only drinking water. Just tip the bartender/waiter some money even if I only drink water?
Bars are used to dry January at this point. Most will have non-alcoholic beers or you could ask the bartender to make you a mocktail.