Ah, yes, the bottle recycling!
I'd got to that horrible stage of drinking and hiding the bottles (which DH knew I did, and he knew I knew). So it is lovely not having to recycle anything except empty bottlegreen elderflower cordials.
Financial - not noticed yet. I've been buying myself loads of food-type 'treats', which I need to slowly stop doing. It was a good strategy though.
I hate having more time, but the effect on my work is good (except when I sleep through library opening! 
), so that's positive.
I think the best thing is not waking up feeling horribly guilty for what I was doing to my body. My whole body used to ache and I knew I was messing up my liver. It's wonderful waking up and realizing that I'm not drinking and giving my body a chance to recover and sort itself out. The other thing that's nice is that I can realistically see myself getting through a pregnancy now. Before I felt really scared about getting pregnant because it seemed so likely I'd have drunk far too much in the time before the test came back.
(Not that we're trying yet, but we're broody - esp. after spending all day yesterday in the Borders Agency surrounded by couples with cute babies!)