It’s A Wrap: Dryuary 2024 Is Over!
That’s it, we’re done! Sayonara! Chow! Auf Wiedersehn! See ya next year, Dry January! Congrats to every one who made it through Dryuary 2024! At times it was a total breeze. Other times it was a total chore. But if you made it through the longest, darkest, dreariest month of the year without booze there’s some small celebrations coming your way!
Or maybe a big celebration!
This past January threw us a few challenges, that’s for sure.
First off are the normal January sobriety challenges like, it gets dark just after lunchtime. The holiday bills start showing up. There’s football playoff games on Saturdays AND Sundays. Having a beer while the big screen is showing the football playoffs is a natural combination; it’s like peanut butter and jelly.
But this year, January threw us an extra challenge or two. For example, a snow storm. There’s hardly a better time to hunker down with a glass of wine or a nice smoky bourbon than during a snow storm. However, for those of us in Dry January the snowstorm beverages would not be a thing.
However, Dry January wasn’t all a big giant stressful thing to manage.
Some benefits of Dry January
If you did it right, you paid attention to earlier advice I gave you and followed the tips like identifying the weak points or times you might normally grab a cocktail and plan to replace those moments with something else. Maybe you stocked up on ice cream because you found yourself craving something sweet during the month.
Pretty soon after starting Dry January, you likely found some of the benefits kicking in. Things like sleeping through the night, and sleeping a deeper sleep. The obvious benefit would be: lack of hangovers. But there’s other things that you might not notice right away. For example, your skin got better. It became a little easier to focus on challenges. You may have lost weight.
And let’s not forget the money savings. I figure that I saved at least $200 by not buying booze during the month. (LOL, of course some of that dough was spent on legal pot and ice cream!)
But, now that Dry January is over I feel a lot better. I like what I see in the mirror more. And I feel like I’m a lot more in control of the booze. Those are all great things.
If you didn’t make it through or just didn’t try… there’s other opportunities to kick the beverages for a while. Sober’tober (October) is a thing. Some people go dry in February because it’s the shortest month so it seems easier. Still others pick a summer month; though that seems even harder to me than January…
Cheers to getting through! Though I’m glad it’s over.