To just be very bored of Dry January

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I do it every year. I've given up making 'fun' mocktails and just stick to tea and water. Pretending it is anything other than not drinking wine is a waste of time.

I don't have to do it but I do and having decided I stick to it. But it's sooooo boring. I actually like large glass of wine on a Friday me. I dance and make jokes. In Jan DH and I talk and do efficient things. It's all so....functional

AIBU to think that sober Resurgam is boring Resurgam?

Dry January is so fucking stupid.

If you don't have a drinking problem why bother? And if you do then a dry month is the least of your problems.

Just have a feckin drink and stop virtue signalling how bloody healthy you are failing to be.

The people who say they don’t get why it’s a ‘thing’ don’t seem to realise that there are many different people out there with their own individial relationships with alcohol. People may have realised that their consumption has crept up, and they need a month off to ‘reset’. People might want to give up for good but that seems too daunting, so Dry January is a more manageable target to aim for initially. They may want to lose a couple of lbs or save a couple of £’s. Whatever their reasons, it is generally a positive change for the individual and people saying ‘why is it a thing? Not drinking is easy for me’ isn’t particularly helpful.

Elocutioner to those people who have a drink problem it might be just the thing they need to spur them on to giving it up for good!

I do it because I'm related to a recovering alcoholic and need to remind myself that wine is not necessary to life. It is my personal way of trying to make sure that a happy habit never becomes any more. It is unlikely to do so but having seen what it alcoholism does first hand it is what I do for me. It's emotional not rational.

I generally drink on Fri & Sat evenings, during the week too if I go out. I have been out in January and I don't drink. It's fine.

It is however boring and I am thankful that it is only a month a year and not the rest of my life.

I don't get dry January either, presumably it's aimed at heavy drinkers who just start again in February.

Or heavy drinkers who realise being sober is actually preferable and decide not to start again in Feb? Or decide to just drink at weekends from Feb onwards?

I’m doing it to lose some weight, it is bloody boring. I do miss my weekend wine but i’m not craving it

It is boring. But I've saved a shit load of money...and I'm sleeping better. So it's not all bad

I don't think dry Jan is for people who normally only have a couple of glasses of wine a week.
It seems to be for people who need to 'reset' their relationship with alcohol or have overdone it during Christmas which are valid reasons.

It all depends on your personality and relationship with alcohol. If I deny myself anything I just want it more and obsess over it. I don't believe in dieting or denying yourself (within reason) and prefer to self moderate but that's because I can.

So I'd never do dry Jan, as it would probably have the opposite effect for me come Feb. I try and have the required 3/4 nights alcohol free during the week and not too much other nights!

My DH is doing a dry January and I am being supportive. Roll on February.

Elocutioner to those people who have a drink problem it might be just the thing they need to spur them on to giving it up for good!

It was for me. Doing it last year was hell but it was the kick I needed to make more permanent changes. It was definitely the catalyst that led to me quitting.

If you can enjoy drinking, do it moderately and it isn't having a negative impact on your life then more power to your elbow. Just ignore Dry January. For those of us struggling with alcohol it's a useful tool in the box, not the only one by any means but a very handy one.

Exactly BerkInBag.
I don’t get why people are so shitty about it. If you’re happy with your alcohol intake, crack on. Ignore Dry January. It doesn’t affect you at all. If it helps even one person who has a difficult relationship with alcohol to cut down, surely it’s a good thing?

I enjoy a drink, I really do. But I think it's pathetic when not drinking alcohol for 1 month takes such momentous effort and is deemed worthy of being a thing!

You know what's boring? People who talk about alcohol. What is even more boring is people who complain about not drinking alcohol.

If you have to do dry january because every other month is so 'wet' then you have bloody issues.

AlonsosLeftPinky so you have no empathy for people who might struggle with their alcohol intake for all sorts of reasons, such as bereavement, stress, self medicating for health issues etc?
I’ve never been fat. I’ve never had food issues. Does that mean I’m entitled to think people who go on a diet and find it difficult to lose weigh are ‘pathetic’?
I also don’t smoke. Can I call all people who are trying and struggling to lose weight pathetic?

If you have to do dry january because every other month is so 'wet' then you have bloody issues

Yes, they probably do. Which is what they’re trying to address by having a Dry month.

And if they have got ‘bloody issues’, surely a bit of empathy wouldn’t go amiss?

Do it, or don’t do it. It’s everyines choice and only that person knows the reasons why they choose to partake. It could be because they have a tricky relationship with booze, to save money, to lose weight.

Whatever it is, people are so fucking judgemental. It makes me sick.

Let people be. What harm is it doing those of you who wish to brand others “pathetic” for doing so.

If something like this, which isn’t effecting your life directly, winds you up this much, then I suggest you find a way to make your life more fulfilled.

Agreed notsohippychick. And if reading threads about it bores you so much, stop reading them.

It has the feel of another marketing ploy to me - ‘veganuary’, fad diets, health cures - just something for shops to flog in the post Christmas lull and dry January is another gimmick of that ilk.

Don’t drink to excess and here’s no need for a dry month.

I for one misinterpreted the thread title as meaning more ‘to be bored of people harping on about Dry January’ and I suspect I’m not the only one. If it had read ‘to be bored of doing Dry January’ I wouldn’t have clicked on it.

I think this tread has attracted its fair share of people who want to anonymously moan about people who are doing Dry January tbh!

Don’t drink to excess and here’s no need for a dry month

Oh to be so perfect. How about

‘Don’t eat too much and you won’t need to go on a diet’
‘Don’t start smoking then you’ll never need to quit’

If it’s a marketing ploy Bringondrunkfeb then someone doesn’t understand the point of marketing, which is usually to sell something. I’ve said approximately £70 so far, so I’m not sure who’s gaining from me doing it, except me.

something for shops to flog

What are they flogging? You think they’re making more money from someone who doesn’t drink for a month that from someone who does?

January is unremittingly dreadful. It's cold, damp and dark. I'm broke from Christmas and fed up of jumpers drying on radiators. Why would anyone want to make it harder for themselves by eschewing wine, steak pie or cheese? Dry July maybe. But dry January? No way!