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Where to get rid of alcohol

95 replies

Oliversmumsarmy · 03/12/2018 11:28

We are tea total. I don't know anyone who drinks more than a glass of wine occasionally.

The issue is I seem to have amassed from tombolas, raffles or DD getting given the odd bottle from work now and then a stock of alcohol.

Where do people get rid of it.

Some of it is obviously very expensive wine.

(6 bottles in a hamper from Harrods and just had another hamper delivered)

Even got a big bottle in a case that is supposed to be around £850 for a bottle and this is a magnum.

The issue is I would like to get rid of it but I don't know where.

Is there somewhere I could get vouchers for something I actually want or somewhere it can be sold.

OP posts:
Narya · 03/12/2018 11:31

Can you re-gift some of it to family or friends and save yourself money on a few Christmas/birthday presents? Perhaps not the £850 one though Shock

AamdC · 03/12/2018 11:32

I wish i had this problemGrin

CoteDAzur · 03/12/2018 11:32

Sell it on EBay

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Amibeingnaive · 03/12/2018 11:33

I find my mouth handy for such situations.

AamdC · 03/12/2018 11:33

AmiGrin

southnownorth · 03/12/2018 11:34

I’ll have it Grin

Believeitornot · 03/12/2018 11:34

Ask your friends if they drink.

Then regift it

Fairenuff · 03/12/2018 11:36

Donate it to a local school for Christmas hampers raffle.

AdamNichol · 03/12/2018 11:38

I can give it a loving home. Honest.

cheesywotnots · 03/12/2018 11:38

You could see if a wine dealer would buy the 850 one from you, they might be interested in some of the others. The rest you could give to teachers, postie, neighbours if they're friends, friends and family. Anyone getting engaged, married, birthdays coming up?Might be worth telling the person giving you the harrods hampers thay you don't drink alcohol, I imagine they're quite expensive.

SleepingStandingUp · 03/12/2018 11:41

Donate it to some local charities to put into their raffles etc? Something like the V expensive wine could do well on a charity auction. Or inside me.

But going forward I think just be more honest.
First prize is to Oli's Mum, and it's a bottle of wine. Actually I don't drink, can I have the chocolates / ease just redraw.

Do you mean DH not DD? Again can he suggest passing ito n at work / raffling it off / politely decline as he's teetotal

SleepingStandingUp · 03/12/2018 11:42

And yes, if the hampers are gifts, please just talk to the gift giver. It isn't a cheap gift and you don't want it. Be honest

isitwinetimeyet16 · 03/12/2018 11:49

There are companies who would buy it from you - off the top of my head The London Wine Centre always advertise on LBC.

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Oliversmumsarmy · 03/12/2018 14:23

Narya only have 2 members other than immediate family and they don't really drink.

Friends again I have offered but as they have said they wouldn't drink a whole bottle and it would just end up going down the sink which for a £30+ bottle of wine is not really going to do it justice.

Only have one neighbour and only know their last name because I once got a letter intended for them.

You can't sell on EBay.

I will check out the London Wine Company.

Yes I did mean dd. She works in catering for big events and occassionly if it is a company that they have been catering for they are not interested in taking 20 bottles of wine back to the office so they tell them to divide it between the catering staff.

The Harrods hamper is a thing a client of dhs gives out to people each year.

I am looking forward to clearing the space and making some cash.

OP posts:
BMW6 · 03/12/2018 14:28

You are teetotal, nothing to do with tea......

Gift it to local old folks home.

LittleMissNaice · 03/12/2018 14:30

Goodness me, I don't think I've ever spent £8.50 on a bottle of wine, never mind £850. (Would you take £8.50, OP?)

LoniceraJaponica · 03/12/2018 14:33

I'll have them. Can you not refuse the one given at gifts and explain that you don't drink? I would hate to give someone a gift like that if I knew it was just going down the plughole.

At tomboloas if I win something I don't want I just put the ticket back for someone else to win. Why can't you do that?

I drink tea as well BTW Grin

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Oliversmumsarmy · 03/12/2018 14:47

The £850 bottle was bought as a gift many many years ago.

I can’t remember who by but I think if I remember it was from a tour of a French vineyard on holiday.

Looked it up on google and couldn’t believe the price.

I think they only paid the equivalent of about £8.50 for it.

I am definitely not gifting over a £1000 to an old folks home.

It can sit in my cupboard like the £8.50 bottle until it goes up in price.

I have declined the prizes when they are alcohol on a tombola but with a raffle someone usually tells me what I have won after the event.

OP posts:
Ratbagratty · 03/12/2018 14:49

Sell on your local Facebook site? Or you could organise your own charity tombola?

halcyondays · 03/12/2018 14:50

Auctions sell alcohol.

halcyondays · 03/12/2018 14:51

As in local, physical auctions, not eBay.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/12/2018 15:50

OH is a wine enthusiast and might be able to tell if the £850 bottle of wine is still OK to drink. Can you say what it is?

Could you not donate it to a charity that auctions stuff off to raise money for children's cancer charities or something similar?

Harrykanesrightsock · 03/12/2018 15:54

Do you never have guests who drink? Not that I don’t believe you it’s just a very unusual situation where no one you know drinks alcohol.

Do you work? Are there work colleagues that would appreciate it?

MountainWitch · 03/12/2018 16:22

If it was many, many years ago it may not be of any worth at all now. Not all wine ages well and some wine ages well and then once it's past its peak it's minging.

Donate it to charities to put into hampers.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 03/12/2018 17:44

Eek it might be like vinegar now Op of you've not stored it correctly!

Lots of people can drink a bottle of wine, not sure why you think it would go down a sink?!