Half Full Or Half Empty?

Alcohol
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I'm interested to know what you guys did with your empty beer bottles or wine bottles or spirit bottles as there must have been a fair few of them if my own experiences are anything to go by.

I used to hide them everywhere, in cupboards, behind curtains, under the bed... until I could get rid of them, which was usually in batches up to the recycling.

It was stressful trying to think where I could go to get rid of them where nobody would recognise me or I hadn't been to too frequently before.

How did you all cope with that?

Izzy
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Hi Izzy. well I hid my bottles everywhere. In closets in different bedrooms. In dresser draws,wrapped in clothes,under the kitchen sink,behind the refrigator,in the basement,well you got the idea...everywhere where I could stash it. Now I have found a great place to keep it...at the liquor store where it belongs!!!!! lol
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Ha! brilliant answer! The more I learn about alcoholism the more I recognise those traits in myself, it's actually comforting to know it's not just me who is deceitful and sneaky. What that disease makes us do is quite unbelievable at times... I'm still learning!

Izzy

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It was so much work hiding the bottles, and I'd forget where I would hide them! On the way home from work I would roll them up in paper, stuff them in my work bag, drink as much and as fast as I could and then carefully hide the empties in a bag and dispose of them at the local grocery stores' dumpster on the way to work so no one could track just how much I was really drinking! Every spot you could think of I would hide them, plus my drugs...the drugs went behind the workings of the clock, tampax tubes, toes of shoes, My favorite place to hide the bottles though was in the laundry basket so that I could sneak the drinking while doing the laundering. I also use to have a goblet of wine on the sink to just to make it look like I was having just one...then I had a mug of "tea" going in the living room ~ a cut-out tea bag with wine in the mug to try and fool everyone! Wow, what a tremendous amount of work that I put into my drinking and using, I kinda forgot about that, thank God that there is a solution and hope for all of us alcoholics should we choose to grab hold of it...and I am very thankful that I no longer have to live like that and can put my energy and time into living and more productive activities! I must never forget where I came from....Geri
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My daughter used to hide them in her knee-high boots - very clever she thought, but too clever for a snoopy mom. She also had a trap door in her closet that led to our crawlspace water pipes, another fave spot. Finally, right outside her first floor bedroom window, found those when I was doing a spring clean up.

Geri, so nice to see you. How are your girls? You sound real good.

Peace~MomNMore
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I quit drinking beer because I couldn't keep up with the empties. I brewed my own wine in five gallon jugs. I didn't bother bottling the wine, I just decanted it straight from the five gallon jug in to a coffee mug; the decanting process didn't always go smoothly, especially after a few mugs...... good riddance to those days!

one day at a time, Cookster
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I done as much drinking as i could away from home and that is why my binges could last quite awhile.....as there was a handbrake to my drinking at home and when i was flatting in the younger years the more empties the better as it help create the legends that each flat tried to beat, but then the normies grow up and alkys go on

light and love zac