My DH & I are self employed. As long as I can remember Friday & Saturday evening's have involved either going out or cooking a meal & popping open a bottle of wine. The older I'm getting the more I'm realising even this amount affects me the next day & worse interrupts my sleep through the week. MY DH is on the same page. We decided a few weeks ago to give up this habit & only have a few on special occasions & it feels great. The best feeling is falling asleep easily & not waking up every 2 hours.
This aside. My question is to those of you on the same path. How do you celebrate the anticipation & excitement of that Friday feeling without involving a few drinks over the weekend. I actually don't miss it but there was definitely something about the naughtiness of popping the cork after work on a Friday & thinking no work until Monday. We still have a couple of drinks on a rare night out or a celebration or on holiday but the Friday night at home habit is gone for good.