Hiding our drinking--please weigh in!

[Wally22]

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I rotated liquor stores as well, I mean really ?
I hid the empties from the neighbours in the garage and then late at night I would put them in a plastic bag and toss them in the outside refuse containers at the mall.
I live alone now, so don't have to hide at home, but when I lived with others I would put the drink in my desk drawer (I would take work home at night).
I don't drink in public, so no one will know my horrible little secret.
I am also on Day 1 AGAIN, and hope that this is the last day one ever.

[Ishybit]

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Hi everyone,
some real eye opening honesty going on here. Brydlady and kradle, you two can make me laugh and cry all at the same time. what a waste of friggin energy we put into our drinking,stinking thinking. I didn't hide in my purse but I would make up all sorts of excuses to "run" to the store. I have thrown out many bottles in the regular trash so that the neighbors wouldn't see how heavy and loud our recycle bin could be. I did replace the recycle bin because the old one was seriously about to break due to overload. When I take the bin out now, I get a super cheap thrill at how light it is! When ii go to the store, I actually need something. as Byrd says...all ya gotta do is get through this day!
Ishy

[TheSunFlower]

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I said on a another thread I could never hide it. I drink beer and it has to be cold. But, in desparate measures....I would buy Mike's Hard Lemonade and keep it upstairs....drink it...while company was at the house. Gosh, I hate that stuff.

A co-worker of mine had her sister die from this disease. And she was the one to go clean out her apartment. What she found was hundreds of empty wine bottles all lined up neatly in the closet of her sister's apartment. She had not idea why....I did. She knew her sister was an alocholic....she just could not understand all the empty bottles in the closet lined up all nice and nice.

Garbage day around here is always fun....my husband says how "loud" our garbage is compared to others.

[ToMyHealth]

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This is so incredulous to me. It just never occurred or occurs to me to hide liquor. Never went to different liquor stores, even before Costco. Now with Costco we buy large bottles of wine by the case, sometimes get 2 because it's a bit of a trip and don't think a thing of it. Have never had a bottle of anything going elsewhere, i.e. other than frig or liquor cabinet. Have never cared about how much is in recycling & it can be a lot when family & friends are down on holiday.

Some of you certainly are creative. I find a lot of stories funny, and I know they really aren't....but for this naive little Grandma, well they are. I've certainly had my issues, or I wouldn't be frequenting this site so please don't take offense.

TMH

[Kradle123]

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' Loud Garbage'...

Sounds like a sequel to 'Drinking, a love Story'.
I read that this author had passed away. cancer at 42. I plan on getting her book. Thanks for suggesting it?

[LibraryGirl]

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Lol, TMH, it is a bit strange to me as well. I consider myself lucky to not have gotten to this stage. My bf doesn't even drink, but I never hid it and dared him to tell me what to do, lol. He did influence my decision to quit somewhat, because I could see how he was comfortable getting through the evenings without the constant companion of AL.

[Kradle123]

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PS: When I moved to my new house in 2007, I was delighted to find it had a built in trash compactor!
:l

[LibraryGirl]

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Well, I did rotate liquor stores, so I can relate to that, and I also tried to hide all the liquor bottles in the recycling bin. The few coolers I drink now (rarely) can't be recycled, or at least without more effort on my part, because the weekly recycling crew that pick up at the house do not recycle glass. However, I wouldn't be worried at the amount anymore, thank goodness.

[TheSunFlower]

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Kradle....it is a good book. But, it can stir up alot emotions. She did die at the age of 41-42....due to lung cancer. But, I do think her honesty make a mark. And had she not drank....would this have taken her out? I don't know.

[Liath]

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I have to say Kradle, yours was possibly the most elaborate out of these stories. 21 days sober though!

:goodjob:

The book is definitely a worthwhile read. I was upset when I heard the author (Caroline Knapp) died. She is brutally honest about her life, I have read it twice actually. Probably, the first time I felt the need to read it, in 2009, I should have actually quit!

I think it is interesting that so many of us have stories about hiding it, they all sound so insane.. but I did it myself. I never really bought anything and hid it, but if there was a bottle sitting there or I thought I could slam a beer quickly and no one would notice, I would go for it if I was hung over enough. If I was home alone I suppose I would just do it and not even stop to think about it. I want those days to be far behind me!

[Getting There]

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I am on day one again as well. Last year I went more than 100 days but am now back to drinking more than ever. I hide it whenever I can because I know I have an issue and I am guilty and embarrassed that I can't seem to control it. I hide it from my husband. I drink any time of the day he is not home and hide the empty bottles in my closet. When on business trips i go back down to the bar after we have all gone up for the night and have two more to take back to my room so my coworkers will not see how much i am drinking. I am so tired,sad, and angry about my lack of willpower to do what I know is right. I read about many of you being so happy to be free. That is what I am striving for.

[mario]

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I never hid my drinking as such, But I certainly was in mass denial about the quantities that I drank, and was forever saying aah sure i only had a few :-(

[DfromCT]

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I hid my drinking, did a whole lot the last few years in an office that I moved out of my home a few years back into a basement apartment I rent from a friend. Often drank alone, going home with that nice buzz, thinking my wife didn't know. Sometimes I was more successful than others. One of the first things I did this morning, which is day 2 for me, was to clear the fridge both at home and in my office, of all the Heineken's. Fortunately, there was no Tequilla to get rid of.

[K9Lover]

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I never hid my drinking because I am the only adult in the house, and it's nobody's business but mine right? Yes, until I realized how much it was affecting my daughter. That's when I started "sneaking"...pouring beer into a plastic cup with a straw, etc. I DID rotate liquour stores...didn't want to look like an alkie...even when I'd show up at night in my pajamas, drunk, buying more beer. Jeez...glad those days are over. It was a hell of a lot of work!

[Byrdlady]

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Gosh, I feel like a real whack job!! Maybe I shouldn't have revealed all that!! But the question was posed...it is what it is...or was. I also rotated liquor and grocery stores so they wouldn't think I was an alkie and hid empties in plastic bags and stuffed them under the other garbage. My work day was getting shorter and shorter...there at the end I'd start around 3 p.m. Wouldn't remember the work I'd done that afternoon. On weekends I'd hold out as long as I could, but usually started drinking (in the closet, literally) around 10:30 in the morning. I just prayed that I could 'control' it all day long without passing out at 8 on the couch. Not much of a life. I was just going thru the motions and not living at all. AL=The Problem. AL is the problem. I don't have a drinking problem any more. (since I don't drink!). B