'Dry January'

[Khandro]

Is anyone trying it ? Will anyone join me ?
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a25656740/dry-january-benefits/

[bookbinder]

alavahalf, you're all heart! Kind to lonesome bottles, and saviour of the vine!

[Mamyalynne]

Jackdaw, they even have the nerve to charge £14 a bottle for it too.

[Stickybottle]

Nope.

[alavahalf]

As A rule I treat them like puppies in a window.. If you buy one .. You should never leave one on its own.

[Jackdaw33]

£14? you're joking! I can get a litre bottle of the full monty for £16.

[ummmm]

I barely ever drink nowadays so going without is not an issue for me. I don't feel like I'm denying myself either. Sleep so much better, have loads more energy and my eating habits have vastly improved.

[jno]

do you have to get one red and white so you aren't accused of operating a colour bar, alavahalf?

[Sunk]

I did it last year.
No need to do it again. Got the T-shirt.

[alavahalf]

Only a few months ago I was told to drink no Beer, lager, red wine or dark spirits. All down to intolerances.
So for the past few months I have been doing my research and have found that Vegan wines are quite acceptable and I have no reaction to them. My research would be going to waste if I have up now.. hence my wine rescue mission ...and yes I have found both Reds and Whites that do away with the headaches.
Therefore I am not discriminating!

[woofgang]

For most of my adult life i spent long periods alcohol free...3 or 4 months at a time on oil tankers and one week in 5 to 7 weeks when DH worked in a refinery and was on 24/7 call. It was never an issue and we didn't go wild when we could drink.

[diddlydo]

I have no intention of having a dry January or indeed any other month. Naughty pleasures keep us going in these miserable times.

[emmie]

haven't touched a drop this Christmas and nor months before, don't feel like it to be honest. I have some champagne which a friend bought me for birthday on CD, i will drink when the time is right, which isn't now.

[diddlydo]

A glass or 2 or 3 might make you feel a whole lot better.

[pastafreak]

I go through phases...last year I had no booze for several months at a time. That's pretty common for me.

[gness]

I began 2020 being very poorly. I recovered just in time to greet Covid and "enjoy" a not so good nine months....hardly tasted a properly pulled pint of G.
I'd be bonkers to willingly join in this... and anyway, where would I find a friend or group of people in the wilds of Kerry to keep me company in non-drinking activities?

[emmie]

who?

[emmie]

that was supposedly to be to diddly

[Khandro]

Sorry but I can't accept those whose intake is inconceivably low. Mine is normally likewise high. I have been on the Dry January since just after Christmas, it ain't easy but I can vouch for all the benefits it says on that website; Slept much better, and dreams? Mon Dieu, les rêves, quels rêves. & a few pound lighter to boot.
Carry on guzzling suckers. Later.

[gness]

If not drinking makes you call other members liars and suckers perhaps you should open a bottle, Khandro.

[pastafreak]

Are you saying you don't believe those who claim not to drink much?