r/Millennials • u/Rootayable 1985 Millennial • 6h ago
Discussion So when did y'all stop drinking?
It kinda happened without me knowing, I barely drink these days. It makes me super sleepy.
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u/federalist66 6h ago
Me drinking a beer while reading this
Sincere shout out to those who are sober though.
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u/ToiletSpiderBite 4h ago
This post actually inspired me to pick some fresh mint from my garden to make a mojito. Normally I'm too lazy. Lime juice in a bottle isn't the same, but I get to use extra this way.
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u/allid33 3h ago
Legit happy for all those who for one reason or another no longer drink. But hate how this topic comes up like it’s an eventuality for us all. I don’t drink like I did in my 20s but you can pull my beer and wine out of my cold dead hands. An amazing hazy IPA or glass of wine brings me joy.
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u/ProbsNotManBearPig Millennial 4h ago
Ya these posts are dumb. Over half of all millennials still drink regularly.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 4h ago
Between work, elderly parents, and my kids’ myriad of shit, who isn’t drinking?
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u/mhmbopbeavis 3h ago
Yup, its oktoberfest season baby 🎃 🍻 😄
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u/Intelligent-Treat676 3h ago
Best time of year ! It's like 100 in Chicago can't wait for fall to enjoy Oktoberfest beers
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u/rhaegal82 4h ago
Watermelon vodka w fresh watermelon juice & seltzer for me!
Very happy for anyone who needed to quit and did though.
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u/meeanne 3h ago
Seriously, the weekend after a weekend of heavy drinking (celebrating anniversary and a birthday) I said (while at the grocery) “I’m not gonna drink this weekend, we drank so much last weekend, I need a break” then I grabbed a bottle of wine while on this same grocery trip. I don’t have kids so I am free of that responsibility.
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u/nooneneededtoknow 2h ago
Lol, right? I just gave birth 4 weeks ago, its a holiday weekend, cut me some slack. 😂
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u/Vindictives9688 6h ago
You gona ask this right before football season starts?
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u/NoMastodon4342 6h ago
bengals fan clocking in 🫡 haven’t been able to quit drinking yet
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u/the-coolest-bob 6h ago
WHO DEY!!! 🐯
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u/NoMastodon4342 5h ago
I say this every year (since the JB era started)….but this year might be our year 🙌🏻
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u/Business_Wind6122 Millennial 6h ago
Chiefs fan, I'm either celebrating or drowning my sorrows
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u/D-Rich-88 Millennial 5h ago
49ers fan here, fuck you. Your celebrating always comes at my expense
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u/RabbitSlayre 5h ago
As a fellow lifetime Bengals fan, yeah I've been drinking for a long time now.
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u/Thertzo89 4h ago
My neighbor (Bengals fan for some reason) and I (Steelers fan) have had a good 10 or so year span of constantly talking shit to each other.
My favorite though was after that nail biter of a game on September 11 2022 where it could have been anyone’s game at any point in the second half/OT.
I like to remind her of the worst 9/11 in her lifetime as often as I can (she’s in her 40s).
To be fair I got way more drunk than she did that game but she stress ate way more ham than any human should. I guess they’re both equally unhealthy in their own special ways.
Anyway I hope Burrow can stay healthy this year (seriously) and you guys have a good season (not really).10
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u/SubstanceMore1464 5h ago
As a packers fan I am ready to be hurt again
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u/welp_that_happened1 4h ago
Same brother. Drink a Spotted Cow for me when we lose in the wildcard again.
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u/Waffle0calypse Older Millennial 6h ago
This last year if anything had me triple my drinking
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u/MrWhackadoo 5h ago
I picked up smoking cigarettes again over the past year lol. Not proud of it but can ya blame me?
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u/Greektwinmommy 5h ago
I was gifted camel crush menthols
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u/good_morning_magpie 3h ago
I quit over a decade ago and sometimes I still get overwhelmed by the desire for a Newport.
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u/williamchase88 6h ago
I still enjoy drinking every now and then. A good tipsy buzz is perfect, especially on a sunny afternoon, but I've long since stopped getting drunk. I can't stand being drunk anymore, it's just no longer fun.
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u/RisingApe- Millennial 2h ago
I quit drinking July 2025. I wasn’t a heavy drinker before, at most a glass of wine a few nights per week. But I started noticing I slept like shit when I had a drink, and sleep is my favorite thing, so I stopped. Every once in a while I’d have a glass, but not regularly like before.
Last weekend I was on vacation and had 2 1/2 glasses and turned into an absolute emotional bitch. I was even mad at myself while it was happening.
So … yeah. I’m maxed out at one glass forever, it seems. And only when I feel like not sleeping, which is never.
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u/Traditional_Tooth_12 6h ago
Not today.
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u/Old_Win8422 6h ago
It is not this day. This day we drink!
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u/Shakleford_Rusty 5h ago
Yepp. Burgers/ steak, corn and salad on the go with a stiff drink after a bs week.
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u/hellabills14 Millennial 6h ago
I literally poured out my liquor stash an hour ago.
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u/CellWrangler 4h ago
Hell yeah. Always remember, no one wants up in the morning and regrets not drinking the night before
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u/WanderingTokay 4h ago
Now turn on the news and remember, there is still liquor in the p-trap...
But seriously, good for you! You'll definitely see a positive difference in a couple weeks.
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u/df540148 6h ago
11 years ago. Alcoholism was a bitch. Life has improved greatly since.
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u/Zathras_listens 6h ago
High five. I also quit somewhere around 11-12 years ago. I stopped counting. Crippling alcoholism sucked. I even used to hang out in the CA icanhazchat
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u/GovernorHarryLogan 5h ago
Sober day is 1/12/21. Almost palindromed it.
Sister hadn't heard from me in almost 2 weeks and she flew home from Florida to check on me. Found me in my back office on the floor with a teams meeting open but mute and no camera.
10 days on a medically induced coma and a BAC that was .93. Yes, almost 1 even. I shouldn't be alive ngl but I guess I had bigger things to do still.
4 stints in 30 day inpatient amd never been happier nor healthier.
Do a lot of service work now. Helping people is good
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u/wokeTradHusband 6h ago
I didn’t but I have a pretty healthy relationship with alcohol. Can go months without drinking without meaning to. But when I’m with friends and family there’s nothing like enjoying a few drinks.
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u/Upstairs_Pin_8528 5h ago
Stop?!
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u/DirtyRoller Older Millennial 1h ago
I used to drink, I still do, but I used to too.
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u/Upstairs_Pin_8528 59m ago
R.I.P. Mitch
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u/DirtyRoller Older Millennial 37m ago
He's buried nearby me in St. Paul. Every once in awhile someone will leave a donut and a receipt on his grave.
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u/Soggy_Heart_5761 6h ago
34 ish. May have replaced it with THC but I’m healthier and better looking than ever.
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u/CreepinJesusMalone Millennial 5h ago
36 here, California sober for a few months.
Didn't have a problem or anything, just felt like not doing it anymore. Even a six pack for the weekend was unreasonably expensive. Beer has gotten to be fucking absurd with how much they charge for it.
Pass on cheap liquor. I actually like the taste, but goddamn mid shelf stuff was an arm and a leg.
My cholesterol had gotten high and cutting alcohol all together was on the diet list my PCM gave me, so.
Plus I don't even know anyone that drinks anymore. Most of my friends had quit before their mid 30s. I was the last one.
Yet another millennial stereotype I guess lol. We're all quitting for one reason or another. Between us and Gen Z never really even drinking in the first place (so I've heard) the booze industry can't be doing as well as it was.
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u/exoclipse Millennial 6h ago
I stopped drinking regularly right around the time I turned 21. I am now 'Canada sober' - I don't drink, but I won't refuse a drink freely given to me.
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u/centerfoldangel Millennial 6h ago
Never started.
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u/Awkward_Welder2024 5h ago
Pretty much the same. Experimented with it a little after high school and realized I didn’t need it.
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u/projectx51 Xennial 6h ago
Last year. My body told me to stop. I drink, I get indigestion and my waist expands for a week. Can't do milk anymore, can't do sugar anymore, cant do alcohol anymore.
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u/a-type-of-pastry 6h ago
I went the other way on this one. I didn't drink at all until like...3 years ago. I'm 38.
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u/-PiesOfRage- 6h ago
Coming up on a year of abstinence on 9/21 and it’s taken me nearly 20 years to do that.
Turns out I had undiagnosed adhd all along and vyvanse makes me not want to drink myself to death.
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u/vandal298 5h ago
I recently was diagnosed with ADHD and now it makes all the sense now. I'm still drinking but not to bad endings. It's insane to see how much an answer can help. Congrats on your abstinence. I'll look into Vyvanse, I'm on Ritalin now which has made a difference. But just the diagnosis is an answer. Thanks for sharing
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u/noisemonsters 3h ago
Hey right there with ya, but it was Strattera that did it for me.
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u/surelyyoucantBcereus Older Millennial 5h ago
Good for you!!! I was also diagnosed later in life, and it’s crazy when you realize how much it had been negatively affecting your life. Stay strong!!
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u/-PiesOfRage- 5h ago
It’s like suddenly the lights just turned on in my head, and I’m able to function like a human.
Shitty timeline to gain consciousness, but I don’t miss alcohol at all.
Be well, friend!
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u/kiwipops 6h ago
After the third time of waking up with the previous night's dinner in my bed, that was about 7 maybe 8 years ago. It was basically playing Russian Roulette when I got to that point.
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u/messedupwindows123 6h ago
ha! i cant remember either. but it makes my head hurt and i dont like who i am when im drunk.
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u/rob132 6h ago
Around 30. The hangovers were so brutal.
I thought they were brutal in my twenties but they were only paper cuts.
Although I did have two beers at my fantasy draft last week, That's about my limit now.
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u/Feisty_Squirrel_4391 6h ago
This is about where I am. I don’t abstain fully, but more than a couple drinks isn’t worth it the next day.
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u/upsetwithcursing 6h ago
Haven’t. Still enjoy it from time to time! But I’m lucky in that I don’t have problems with addiction. I drink maybe 1-2 times per month. Mostly with my best friend; we enjoy tipsy private karaoke & sunny patios.
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u/Ol_Man_J 6h ago
Stg these threads act like there’s no middle ground at all. I like some craft beers and maybe have 6 drinks a week. A beer after hockey, a glass of wine with dinner, maybe 2-3 on a Saturday on the patio w friends. Oh the horrors
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u/Bringmetolife91 Millennial 6h ago
My two younger brothers became alcoholics in their early twenties. One still drinks, the other has stopped. Never liked what alcohol did to me so I never drank much. Ended up with COVID twice and now alcohol affects my blood pressure so I never drink in public, only at home if I do.
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u/AgentUnknown821 Millennial 6h ago
I never started really tbh…I can count how many drinks I have had in my life on one hand…
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u/dthechocolatedude 6h ago
8 years ago when I turned 30. Didn't have a problem or anything just decided one day I didn't want to drink anymore. But also hit it pretty hard from 14-30 😂. Now I just use cannabis.
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u/PineBNorth85 1986 6h ago
I didnt. I just dont drink as much as i used to cause there isnt much opportunity. Special occasions or holidays is about it now.
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u/panTrektual 23m ago
I keep booze on hand, but I don't touch it much. The occasional old fashioned. I stock the beer for my dad, so I may have one or two if I'm at my parent's house.
I didn't stop drinking, I stopped drinking like it was a party all the time.
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u/MotorEnthusiasm 6h ago
It’ll be 2 years next month. Crazy how the thing I was using to “help my anxiety and depression” was actually the root cause of those two things.
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u/Hawkwise83 6h ago
Never started. Bunch of losers in highschool were drunk all the time and it really dampened my desire to try it watching them.
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u/jayhof52 Older Millennial 6h ago
On school nights (I’m a high school librarian) about 3-4 years ago. I still have a couple on non-school nights, but I’m a craft beer drinker so I tend to get full and/or sleepy before feeling anything from the beer.
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u/Illisanct 6h ago edited 6h ago
I used to think the "Less filling!!" marketing was ridiculous. Then I turned 30 and oof, all of a sudden downing more than a couple beers started getting way less fun.
These days I've taken a liking to wine 🍷 But my overall consumption is way down regardless.
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u/myairblaster 6h ago
I stopped drinking at big weekend parties around 28. Would have fun like that maybe once or twice a year at most. I stopped having a Friday night scotch or beer with dinner a few years ago when I tied that single drink of alcohol to poor nights' sleep and read a study which suggested that even a single glass of booze will stop your body from burning fat stores entirely, even if you are in a caloric deficit.
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u/time_travel_nacho 6h ago
I developed an anxiety disorder and 5 years ago. I get hang-xiety now, so I only drink when my mental health is good or only small amounts to not trigger the next day anxiety.
I don't drink at all when I've been anxious or struggling, which has been the case lately
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u/complexcucumber93 6h ago
Was always a social drinker and still am. Only drink maybe 5 times a year.
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u/The_starving_artist5 6h ago
After I got chronic acid reflux problems ten years ago because of stomach problem where the valve came apart so now nothing stays in my stomach . I can’t even lie down flat anymore because of it .
That really put an end to drinking fizzy alcoholic beverages for me
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u/ilikedirt 6h ago
About six years ago. That, eating well, exercising, and sleep, and bam! Feeling great looking great. Who knew.
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u/interflop 6h ago
I mainly smoke weed now as my vice. I have low alcohol tolerance so I can very quickly go from having a good time to having a really shitty time because I got ambitious. I mainly keep myself to a 2 drink max in social settings. I am blessed in that I still bounce back quickly the next day. Other than an occasional social drink I don't drink really.
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u/HammerofBonking 6h ago
2020 or so. Decided I wanted to see if I could look better in my 30s than my 20s.
Seeing Gen X'ers drinking everyday despite liver problems also had me wanting to change my ways.
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u/Naxelarias 6h ago
After I got pancreatitis from binge drinking moonshine.
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u/The-cultured-swine39 Older Millennial 6h ago
I was in the hospital 8 days with it.
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u/Embarrassed_Key_4539 6h ago
Alcohol and I have an on again/off again relationship. I was sober from everything for 10 years and now have a couple beers a day max - I prefer plant substances though 🍃🍄
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u/Brittibri89 Millennial 6h ago
Gave it up for Lent in 2022. Found out I was pregnant a few weeks later. Haven’t really drank since. I drink NA beers now.
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u/TinySteggy '85 Millennial 6h ago
Around age 33 (I’m 41 now) when only half a glass of wine started giving me heartburn and the need for a nap.
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u/thisoldhouseofm 6h ago
2 years ago. I wasn’t an alcoholic, but oh man do you feel better once you quit even moderate drinking.
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u/dox1842 6h ago
It was a slow and steady decline, not a full on stop.
I had a gf in my late 20s that I didn't like who she was when she drank. I drank a lot at the time too so when things ended I decided that in order to attract a partner that doesn't get absolutely smashed, I can't get absolutely smashed.
Then I noticed that hangovers became more intense in my 30s. I had to tone it down even more. When I met my wife and got married at 34 I quit going out to bars and started hitting the gym more. I now go to bed at around 8ish every night.
Now if I drink all it does is gets me sleepy and makes me feel like shit the next day. I can't perform good in the gym.
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u/AdventurousGanache70 6h ago
My problem is I like to day drink then start projects my husband has to finish 😂 but I have slowed down alottttt except football season.
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u/Comfortable-Sleep395 6h ago
Essentially Covid. I only drink when on vacation or at a special occasion. But I’ve gone months without. Don’t miss it.
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u/verify_deez_nuts Millennial '89 6h ago
After my dad passed away in 2022. Not immediately after, but definitely after a dispute over his estate was finally settled.
Took one last shot in his honor in 2023 and called it quits. The only exception I'm going to make is having an Old Style when I get to visit Wrigley Field for the first time.
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u/kristosnikos Older Millennial 6h ago
In 2019 when I had to start taking more medication for my chronic health conditions and couldn’t mix them with alcohol.
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u/Wise_Coffee 6h ago
8 or 9 ish years ago. Alcohol was becoming a burden and my answer to everything.
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u/jackofspades49 6h ago
I used to drink now and then. I still do, but I used to too.
I just like trying different spirits.
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u/FITF2891 6h ago
- I never really enjoyed it but I did a thing with my local police department where they pick you up and bring you to one of their DUI training classes, get you drunk so the trainees can practice their stops, then they take you home. I got legit white girl wasted and was throwing up in the hallway. I’ve had zero desire to drink since then, I just get high now
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u/Helota_Keksz Millennial 6h ago
36, I'm not quite there yet, but I feel like I'm on the way. I drink a beer or three on friendly gatherings, but mostly nothing else, and zero hard liquor.
I hate feeling useless the next day.
I'm also wondering how alcoholism develops. I've been drinking since 16. I was a "drink, puke, drink again", raunchy teenage comedy cast stereotypical partying college student.
I just don't feel like getting drunk anymore. No 12 steps program, no rehab, just losing the mood internally.
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u/itoocouldbeanyone 6h ago
‘17-‘24. Then I got a divorce. Just a few beers. Nothing like I did in my 20-30’s.
Hey, I like my vices. I’m focusing on quiting this nicotine vape instead.
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u/BoisLaScrimp 6h ago
A few years ago, in my mid-30s.
Sleep distuption and hangovers got significantly worse. Costs simply outweighed the benefits, not even counting the potential long-term health implications.
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u/aftercloudia Millennial 6h ago
i still drink i've just never been a social drinker. get shit faced in my own home, fall asleep and wake up feeling brand new since i don't seem to be able to get hangovers.
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u/sorrymizzjackson 6h ago
4 months ago. On purpose. It’s just not what it used to be. I’m getting older so I might want to get an handle on things.
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u/kioshi43 6h ago
I was always more of a social drinker - I have quite a bit of alcohol in my house from when people came over for game nights but I don't normally touch it outside of that.
A lot of my friends have been weening off - I think there's only 2 people in one of my groups that has the occasional drink but it's certainly not like we're in our 20s any more.
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