This is a great thread. One of the blessings of sobriety is the ability to look back and laugh at the past.
I totally get the going to different places to purchase wine (just in case the clerks notice) 
Or the I’m having book club over (to explain why I’m buying wine at 8:00am). Eventually I just went to Costco where everyone buys in bulk (no explanation needed).
Thanks everyone for the morning reminders on why the choice to be sober. I really needed it today.
Hugs
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It seems like a lot of us did it.
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Hiding bottles and “rearranging” the trash so I could hide the labels and avoid the clacking sound. Urgh.
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To be honest I do such mistakes SOBER! Once I showed up to shiatsu therapy one day early 
Better one day early than later to the original appointment. And sober laughter about it 
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Checking out the wine selection in the corner shop like I wasn’t sure what to pair with what for my “dinner party” so eventually buying 4 different wines “just in case”. I thought I was so clever disguising that they were all for me and probably wouldnt last until the next day where I would have to do it all again in a different shop.
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Hilarious!
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Where I live we can only buy alcohol in specific stores with limited Open hours (owned and set by the government) but the cheap champagne has been my thing for years. And it was exactly what I got back to when I relapsed. Champagne and chocolate, champange and seafood, Mimosas for breakfast and so on. Just because it didn’t feel like drinking,it didn’t feel that bad,it was only champagne. And it felt classy. Never paired drinks with food though,only with sweets and snacks. Because I don’t really like the taste,I just like the buzz.
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Yep…I remember hiding bottles inside empty cereal boxes in the recycling bin.
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Ha ha the hiding of cans and bottles thinking i was so clever when in reality id just chucked them in the bottom of a cupboard what my wife would eventually need to go in or using some old ladies bin cupboard in our flats and trying to get away with her drinking 30 cans of lager or cider 
genius when drunk i wasnt.
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Hiding from my kid’s. As if a small child couldn’t see right through me. Stupid, just stupid.
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That clip was HILARIOUS That’s exactly what it’s like. Thanks for the share. 
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Boy, did this one hit close to home! 
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Another one of my little strategies was whenver I’d buy something at the grocery store I would get cash back with my debit card, and go buy a cheap bottle of rotgut at the liquor store with it so my purchase would be “off the radar”. That little scheme didn’t work after a while.
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That’s exactly how it felt!
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Bringing alcohol IN to the house was often a challenge. I would DoorDash beer. But I hated doing the walk of shame past my family. SO, I found “clever” ways of smuggling in a beer one at a time. I’d hide the pack under my car or something and bring one back in my big jacket…down my pants…tucked in a pair of shoes that had previously been left outside…OMG the insanity 
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I can relate to that! I always found sneaky ways to bring alcohol inside and then add it to my existing stashes, wild!
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Something I don’t miss is feeling like I have to at least walk and go get it for others. Like they buy and I fly or feeling bad that I say no to getting alcohol after friends might have bought it the day be4. Feeling like I have to pay it forward
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Another “tradition” I used to have when I was drinking was going to the liquor store and telling my wife I was only going for 2 tall beers and a travel shot, and buying 3 travel shots and drinking the extra 2 shots when I would park the car in the garage so I was already more shots in then what I said I would be having. Not very proud of that lol
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Yep done that one as well
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