Two things come to mind, one or either of which I have not thought about in forever…
Always having a plan of what was around to drink… making sure there was something and never not anything…
I do remember one night drinking grape juice, vodka and soy sauce, ran out of bloody mary stuff. Yuck.
And… ugh… there was a time of taking stimulants to be a “wide awake drunk”…
Searching at 2am for any micro pieces of hashish on the ground, between wood floor strips, scratching the weed grinder for thc…until the dealer is open again. Can’t say I miss that
Edit: Oh, and I realize this thread was about drinking 
I am guilty of the drinking quickly before food. The lies to the shop people made me remember a Covid specific one. We were supposed to only shop for essentials once a week, so I always had to add sanitary items or medicine to the basket when buying my wine so that it would look like the wine was an afterthought. Probably still working through that backlog of stuff now 
This thread is about ANY drug of choice…
It doesn’t matter what it is, it’s darkly hilarious how similar our habits are to each other, and how we can relate. The wonderful addict brain
Oh yeah! Even before/after COVID…I’ve got all this good food in my cart, and the beer just somehow made it in there…
I would buy so much cheap champagne when the shops open for alcohol sale at 7AM. Because somehow getting wasted on mimosas that early is MORE acceptable than on beer (in my mind)
Yes, that lovely sound of empty cans crunching and bottles clanking as you take your bag of trash outside. It’s like no matter how quiet you try to be it still sounds like the ice cream truck from hell.
Ok another one then…
When i was out of drugs, I used to take all the joint butts, open them, collect what was left inside in order to make a new DISGUSTING joint. Oh boy that was awful
Good times I mean, I’ve drunk the dregs of warm beer leftover from all my bottles the night before. That’s pretty similar. And gross 
I even tried the alcohol hand sanitizer once so desperate i was to keep the drunkness going…what a state to be in 
My 4th grade teacher drank shots of Lavoris mouthwash in class. We were none the wiser.
The worst for me was vanilla extract…OMG
I wrote some really crappy poetry in my journal while drunk. I must have fancied myself as another Robert Frost at the time.
Our active alcoholic asses had a lot in common.
I hope we won’t go back in that place.
One time I was so desperate to get some alco I wanted to raid the gardens in neighborhood hoping to find some beers (it’s common here ppl are leaving crates with beer in the back yards)… It was Sunday and shops were closed. Luckily I didn’t. But it crossed my sick mind.
Brushing my teeth very early because I am getting prepared in case I fall asleep while i drink… lol
Always keeping a roll of Mentos in my pocket to cover up the booze breath.
Drinking beer from the big coffee mug (early in the day) in case somebody gonna see me thru the window. Probably also to lie to myself somehow.
My thing was Hall’s cherry cough drops. People would ask why I always smell like a cough drop.
I wish I went with the sugar free version. Ended up having major issues with my molars from years of storing those things like a chipmunk.
The stash. I’d come back from the store with a bottle or two of wine looking like a perfectly normal person who moderates and has sane amounts of alcohol during the weekend, but there was always a secret bag with cans of wine or a bottle with a screw cap that went deep into my closet because there was never enough once that first drink went down. Then once the shame cycle set in, smuggling my sad, empty stash down to the dumpster, always wondering how it got so big. Ugh. THE HORROR.
I’ve never admitted this to a soul…so might as well admit it to a bunch of strangers across the world 
. A couple times I drank mouthwash to hold off withdrawal symptoms until the liquor store opened (which then led to all the rituals previously mentioned). Absolutely freaking disgusting and surely awful for my insides. So grateful not to be in that place today.