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Hi everyone,

Welcome to Recovery Happy Hour

where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens

after we stop drinking.

I'm your host Tricia and in almost four years of not drinking I've saved over 20 grand. That's enough money to buy either a used Honda Civic or 2,220

packages of frozen meatballs from IKEA. Thank you for joining me.

Guys, drinking is expensive.

And that's the topic of today's introduction.

Drinking is expensive.

I have a tracker app on my phone that tells me how much money I've saved by not spending money on alcohol.

And today it says $20,370, but I think that number is actually a low estimate and that it could be closer to about

$26,000 which is just nuts. So a little backstory. When I quit drinking I also owned a business that I had just put a

bunch of money into to expand our kitchen space that we were in. That's actually

one of the reasons why I got sober because I was about to take on this huge project and I knew that I wouldn't

survive if I kept drinking the way that I was drinking.

So I started getting into recovery and spent my first full year learning how to not drink. I ignored a lot of the

rest of my life. I let my debt continue to build without really thinking that much about

it. I kept working on my business and I learned how to be sober. That was my

number one priority and after year one when not drinking was my new normal I

poked my head out of the sand and I realized that even as someone who considered

myself as a highly functioning alcoholic and fairly responsible, I had neglected some major areas of my life, my finances being number one.

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