chris_oh ([info]chris_oh) wrote,
@ 2008-07-02 09:03:00
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I am going to not drink from July 1st (Canada Day) until January 1st (New Years Day). I've been talking about quitting drinking for awhile. It just doesn't financially make sense. In the past people have been discouraging. Either they want people to drink with them, they discourage you from trying or when you're hanging out they act like your judging them.

I think drinking is fine. It's a fun social activity but there are other things I want to spend my money on. So I am setting this goal of six months and at the end I am going to try to put out a seven inch record for a friend. At the lease I spend 20 dollars a week. That's over 80 dollars a month. At the lease I'll have saved 500 dollars which more than half the cost. If we never sold a copy it wouldn't hurt me because would all be money that I would have drank.

I am posting this so you can hold me to it.

Plus I want to stop drinking to lose weight.



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[info]tastymoogdust
2008-07-02 02:28 pm UTC (link)
I've been thinking about giving up alcohol (beer) too, from the financial perspective and also as a good way to cut calories. A ex-coworker of mine tried this as her new year's resolution, and she said at first she ended up snacking more because she was hungry due to the lost of empty calories.

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[info]chris_oh
2008-07-02 02:44 pm UTC (link)
I've had a lot fun but there is other things I would rather do. A few years ago, when airline tickets where super cheap I could have traveled.

I've also wanted to get into screen printing. Now I'll be able to get started on that in a couple of weeks.

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[info]_digitalpaper
2008-07-02 03:47 pm UTC (link)
i pretty much stopped drinking at the beginning of the year, mostly to help lose weight. (it has helped a lot, when added to the other things i've been doing.) i have saved a ton of money though. when i do have a drink i'll have a vodka & tonic, pretty much no calories there but it's kind of an acquired taste. i know what you mean about people acting like you're judging them though.. i've tried to stay out of bars because i can't handle everyone's comments like "oh so you're straight edge now?"

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[info]chris_oh
2008-07-02 10:45 pm UTC (link)
I've gotten the same reactions. I should just avoid going the bar too.

I am going to be back in Ypsi next week if you're around.

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[info]_digitalpaper
2008-07-03 12:24 am UTC (link)
i'm always around, let me know what's up!

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[info]chris_oh
2008-07-03 12:32 am UTC (link)
I'll be in Ypsi off and on for the next couple of months. I'll let you know.

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