I was driving through Canada and booked the only non honeymoon suite available in this town called White Horse and when I opened the door the entire room was covered in beer bottles. They were all stood upright in perfect rows with room for the doors to swing open and a walkway to the bed and bathroom. Most fucking bizzarre thing I’ve ever seen. Like, did a group of OCD alcoholics stay here? I ended up getting the honeymoon suite for the price of the regular room though.
As a former 1.75L/a day of kraken ( was less than $20 after tax at the local liquor store) drinker, good shit on damn near a decade! I’m at a little over 2 years myself
Former alcoholic here. You start with the expensive stuff because you deny that you have a problem (both to yourself and others). Once it starts being a financial burden is when the switch is made to cheaper stuff.
Crown is not expensive, at least where I live, and it’s very smooth and easy drinking. Nothing special flavor wise but if you just like the generic taste of whiskey and want one that goes down easy crown is a solid pick.
Two of the most severe (yet highly functioning) alcoholics I've known were RIDICULOUSLY orderly. Like the one guy used to wash AND DRY his kitchen and bathroom sinks every morning before work. The other has a garage that looks like a high end tool store, with some tools almost a hundred years old, but perfectly maintained. Crazy .
I have known quite a number of what I call 'maintainence alcoholics' over the years. Basically they are people who are able to successfully balance working and getting income and keeping a decently normal environment around them while still also being an alcoholic. A lot of them wait until 2 seconds after work ends to start drinking for the day or maybe the'll just have a few at lunch but not too many. Many others are self employed and set their own schedule. Since they drink daily, they can be decently functional even when drinking and often don't get super plastered until after the work day is over. They rarely drink so much that they can't have a fairly normal day time schedule including throwing out trash and doing dishes.
Often they have weird stupid sounding reasons why they think they are not acoholics. Human self delusion can be truly amazing. For instance one person would say that he's not an alcoholic because alcoholics drink before noon. He'd wait until exactly noon time to pour his first drink for that day. Another guy my friend knew would say that he's not an alcoholic becuase he never buys big bottles of liquer. Instead he'd buy many many small shots and drink a ton of tiny shots. Until his liver almost died and he somehow got a transplant and I think he quit drinking due to that, last I heard.
Not to be a pedant, but, do you mean a Functioning Alcoholic? I think of maintenance alcoholics as someone who is weaning off alcohol and drinks throughout the day to limit withdrawal symptoms.
Every single one of these are the old 750ml bottle design for Crown. Diageo switched over to a new design last year that is taller, narrower, and uses different labels and caps. I spent most of last year working with the new design leading up to its release, and can easily spot the difference. If this tenant had a drinking problem, they’d have new bottles in this collection. These were saved for something that wasn’t important enough to take them when they moved.
That's what I was about to say, there's a slim chance they can't bring themselves to throw away glass bottles, then their friends were like "oh yeah you save bottles? I have some you can have".
I always have the urge to save jars as extra containers for household objects. I decided I can have 3 empties saved "just in case" and I can't keep any more until those have a permanent use lol
That is actually a good discipline to get into over hoarding stuff. I can’t bring myself to throw out stuff because I will probably need it a week later. Instead of hanging onto a bunch of things I can just keep 3 and buy more if needed.
In my drinking days I would leave empty bottles of whiskey all over my kitchen cabinets where eventually I would pour every last little drops into a glass for one more shot. I used to fill up an entire large recycling bin with nothing but Jim Beam 750ml bottles.
My roommate lied about being in a program. He was drinking on the sly the whole time and we eventually figured it out. He’d been filling empty Bud Light cans with whiskey and drinking that instead. One weekend he went on a bender so bad we had to hospitalize him. While he was out we did a full sweep of the apartment and found almost 30 Jack Daniel’s bottles of every shape and size hidden everywhere. Buried in the sofa, in the back of cabinets, behind the TV, in the cat tree, you name it. It was astonishing. The fallout wasn’t pretty and I haven’t had a drop of Jack in twenty years as a result.
This is exactly what we alcoholics do. I lied so much about my drinking that even I thought it was the truth. I hid alcohol in just about anything and everywhere you could think of. It’s crazy how much alcohol gets a hold on you. Even after you loose just about everything you still want to drink. It’s insanity.
We had a dude start work at my old job a long time ago. I worked at Petco. New guy showed up chewing mint gum and we started finding empty alcohol bottles hidden all over the place, especially in the bathroom and the warehouse. Once I was pulling out the cat food from a high shelf and a big glass bottle flopped out and almost hit me. Of course we knew who was doing it, the fact that he was often staggering around and couldn't remember what happened 5 seconds ago also helped and also the mint gum, but corporate wouldn't let us fire him without 'proof.' Ah yeah, good old corporate, LOL!
Yup sounds spot on. I use to take mini shooters of Jim beam into work and drink them in the bathroom and ide wrap them up in napkins and toss them in the trash. I would chew gum, eat mints, constantly drink water, smoke cigarettes all to mask the smell. It didn’t fool anyone. The only fool who believed it was me. Bc I was really good at my job my boss gave me many chances. Way too many. Eventually he had enough and even though I worked for him for 13 years I was let go. Burned that bridge.
Same here. I had a bit of a wake up call (literally, because I was asleep) when my trash can was so full of glass bottles, it was so loud when the trash truck picked it up, I thought someone was breaking in.
You can see where they said “fuck it” more recently and just chucked some on that middle shelf. I wonder if the cleaning was spurred by a different chemical compound?
If you drank an average of one shot per day it would take you 8-10 years to amass this many bottles by yourself (25.3oz bottles, 1 shot is 1.5oz, roughly two weeks per bottle and did a sloppy estimate of how many bottles).
If you went through a bottle per week this still looks like four years worth of bottles and then some.
This is a bottle nearly every day if my estimating isn’t broken (I am not a math pro at all).
It adds up faster than you'd think. I used to go through a half gallon of vodka every two or three days. Those little pint bottles wouldn't last a night.
I had a poker acquaintance/friend die at 34 from liver failure.
Went to his house a few times and he had a spare room filled with empty cases of beer.
I remember him saying he brought the cases back for the 10 cent refund on the bottles and got $1600 dollars. There were 16000 bottles of beer in that room.
It was a sad tale. I wish i was a closer friend to him where i could have had more of an impact.
Yeah those are 750s. Dude probably drank at least one a day. My main question is, how is this mofo functional enough to afford a 750 or more of crown a day? That shit is expensive.
Depends on your spending priority. Many people can spend $30 a day on stuff including food and gas and whatnot. Apparently this guy's priority was crown.
Yeah but you gotta sleep sometime. Then you wake up 5 hours later, heart trying to literally bust it's way out of your chest, shaking so bad that you can barely get the bottle to your mouth, then you throw up your drink, piss out your ass on the toilet, feel like you're dying, and after throwing up a couple shots, the booze finally starts to absorb through your stomach and you can keep shit down again.
It takes time. One doesn't start there, rather, it's a place you end up. I don't recommend it. If not for a medical marijuana card and a supportive spouse on her own recovery journey, there is no doubt in my mind I'd be dead if I hadn't set the bottle down. Eight years later and it's still a battle. I slip up, I relapse sometimes, but it's nothing like it used to be.
Some people are just built different. I can drink a 1.14l of vodka a day. It's pretty easy until you stop. For a lot of hard liquor alcoholics a 750ml is a waste of time and money to buy.
Damn, a 750 of vodka gets me 2 or 3 good sessions of drinking, though the most I've ever done is 8 shots in a night. I simply couldn't keep any more than that down nor did I want to be any drunker lol
That dude is gonna drink himself to death soon. Same exact thing happened to YouTuber MittenSquad. Hilarious guy but had a similar amount of empties in one video and was dead not too long after, before he hit 30.
One of my best friends apartment looked like this, but with tequila bottles. It was clean aside from that, paid his bills, worked full time all that. Drank himself to death a couple months ago. Sucks.
A friends father got his DOCTORS IN HISTORY, while downing like 3-4 vodka bottles a day. He luckily had a crash while drunk (no one except him got hurt and some property damage), which ended in him getting sentenced to do an withdrawal and allat. Had some relapses which ended in more withdrawals, and he’s been sober for slightly over a year now. Sadly his son is kinda stepping in his footsteps, being at 2 bottles a week, 3 if it’s bad. I remember him saying he’d never start drinking and so on…
Still get his videos recommended sometimes. Think he was insecure about his looks so he ended up drinking a lot. he actually suffocated after passing out instead of literally drinking himself to death though
Thanks for the encouragement. This is more a recent problem. I was around 15 months sober starting mid-2023 and just recently relapsed. I've done it before, I can do it again.
Been a bottle a day drinker myself and you can do it man. If you’re looking for a sign let this be it. From the bottom of my heart I wish you the best. You honestly can do it
Yes you can. I’ve gone out after having about the same amount of time sober. It’s extremely hard the second third or tenth time. It took me two years of believing every day was my last day drinking and that I’d get it under control again. I was vomiting blood and was in extremely bad shape. I’m happy to say that I have 3.5 years sober again. I don’t know how you stayed sober in the past and I don’t believe there’s only one way to get and stay sober. I had to have my ass literally kicked until I was willing to put in the work and change my life. If someone like me can do it so can you. Good luck to you friend!
As a supportive non sober person, respectfully, leave it to me instead!
My dad would've gotten his 30 year chip this year if he'd lived this long. Died at 57. He was 14 years clean by then. Of course, opiods filled the gap due to his chronic spine issues. COD was diabetes II officially but I know the drinking helped cut him loose early.
He was a good man. Loved his family. Fought hard from start to finish.
Do yourself and me a favor and add a couple more years on your life.
I used to drink a half bottle every other day. I used something called the Sinclair Method to stop doing that. You just take naltrexone an hour or so before drinking. It's not difficult, nor is it very expensive (I had a couple online sessions with an ARNP and the drug is pretty cheap... way way cheaper than rehab) and I didn't even have to stop drinking.... just the desire to drink eventually goes away - similar to how Chantix works for smokers. Took about 16 months for me, which is about twice as long as normal, but I hardly ever drink now, and don't ever have cravings. Don't even like whiskey anymore. And there's none of that "take it one day at a time" bullshit - I'm just completely over any desire to drink. Worth looking into if you're interested. Just my experience from one person who struggled to another.
Each bottle has about 15 standard drinks in it. 6 people living there.
That’s about 2-3 drinks per day, per person. Not absurd when put like that… but I’m willing to bet it’s not split equally (likely one person has the biggest problem and they don’t even realize it), and also more likely binging on weekends instead of sips through the week, which is worse for your liver. Think of it like your liver getting lightly tapped by some punches of alcohol, versus getting absolutely decked a few times a week. Can’t get used to punches like that.
200 bottles at $25 each is $5k. If the tenent was there for 6 months, that's $833 per month. Drinking is an expensive hobby. It's not surprising that they didn't clean. Alcohol destroys the body. The act of moving would have been enough to wear them out.
For the amateur maple syrup operation, Crown Royal bottles are perfect. Have seen them cleaned and used, even people seeking them out. Maybe alcoholic, maybe reusing glass bottles.
It's not necessarily naive. It's simply acknowledging that we can't know for sure what is going on just from these pictures. One can understand that it is likely that alcoholism is involved while also acknowledging that it might not be involved.
The liver is surprisingly good at being abused, if you started off with a fresh liver and drank like this but kept eating regularly and staying hydrated you could probably make it a few years. The longer you drink like that though the harder it becomes to eat and do all of the other important stuff and it begins to spiral from there. Genetics plays a big role as well though, some people could drink like this to old age while others will die within years
In my teens and 20’s, lining the kitchen with whiskey bottles and having piles of aluminum cans all over the place was just part of the game. In my 30’ and 40’s, it was the same, but it was the empty bottles of Crown Royal and Weller Special Reserve that were “impressive” and what a collection of empty, high dollar booze bottles I had. I had the taste for fine whiskey and bourbon and treated myself to the fruits of my labor.
Once you’ve gone to the opposite side of drinking where it’s no longer a source of fun, enjoyment, and happiness… it’s difficult to see these photos because I did that kinda shit. I see despair and hopelessness here. I see the only goal of just hoping it would all be over and done with soon. After everything else was gone or had been destroyed by my own hand, there were things like this sitting around as a constant reminder that if I didn’t or couldn’t get my alcohol, the withdrawal was incredibly difficult and, ultimately, impossible to even get out of bed without taking something from those bottles to calm my body.
The individual who’s consumed and collected like this isn’t (or wasn’t) happy and I can assure anyone who’s taken the time to read this that it’s a particularly ugly station in life to find oneself doing this all alone at home in their 60’s. It’s the medicine you need and every single shot glass is filled to the rim with anguish and regret.
Three years, eight months, and twelve days free of it as I type. It’s morning and I know I will do battle in order to remain sober today. If all works out and I keep my head in the game and focus on what’s real and important, I’ll go to bed sober. Then, there is tomorrow…
my liver aches just looking at that. You just look at it and think "I wonder how many bottle of Crown it takes to cause me to need a liver transplant?"
Taking the deposit for an hour of cleaning is illegal in many states. The landlord cannot touch the security deposit in my state without providing receipt for work that had to be done and regular wear and tear is not an acceptable reason - not that it stops them from scamming constantly college students.
If I was charged $1,800 for filling a couple of garbage bags, I’d be up their ass!
Speaking as a poor person, society is nothing but traps trying to squeeze money out of those who can't afford to fight back. The reason being poor is so expensive is because they are juicy targets. It blows my fucking mind we don't have five dozen dead landlords every 2nd of the month. I don't know how tow truck drivers aren't being slaughtered en mass by people with nothing left to lose.
Think about how unhinged the 1 percentile of most unhinged people is. That level of crazy is on every single block in America.
Surprisingly orderly for a apparently pretty severe alcoholic.
A man has got to have a code
Oh indeed
Unexpected Omar. Always welcome.
True dat.
No doubt
Sheeeeeeeeiiiiiittttt....
There he goes, giving a shit when it's not his turn to give a shit.
Say what you will about Nihilism, dude, at least it's an ethos.
*the tenets of national socialism
Ugh. I'm famous for getting quotes mostly right
Thanks for the correct line
You Biff-ed it!
Make like a tree and get outta here!
thats about as funny as a screen-door on a battleship
If the rule they followed brought them to this, of what use was the rule?
It's not the rule that brought them here, but it's the rule they held on to.
Awesome.
If you can't put the 'fun' in functional alcoholic you need to go to a meeting.
line in the sand
I was driving through Canada and booked the only non honeymoon suite available in this town called White Horse and when I opened the door the entire room was covered in beer bottles. They were all stood upright in perfect rows with room for the doors to swing open and a walkway to the bed and bathroom. Most fucking bizzarre thing I’ve ever seen. Like, did a group of OCD alcoholics stay here? I ended up getting the honeymoon suite for the price of the regular room though.
Oh man. White horse is a vibe. That checks
I've always wondered... do they kill the Whitehorse with a Yellowknife?
Or a moderate alcoholic with a hoarding problem
Yeah, during my severe stage of alcoholism I was drinking one of those bottles every day. Looks like 2-3 months of bottles max.
But if you're going to drink so much, why drink expensive stuff, and if you're going to drink expensive stuff, why drink something that tastes so bad?
I meant in volume only. I drank exclusively Evan Williams in the 1.75L size. Had to maximize alcohol content per $.
Oh yea, you were definitely an alcoholic ><
True dat. 9.5 years sober now though.
Proud. Great work my friend.
9.5 years! You did great! Congrats.
Fun fact, Evan Williams is marketed as a premium whiskey in Asia, thus is much more expensive. Quite silly, really.
As a former 1.75L/a day of kraken ( was less than $20 after tax at the local liquor store) drinker, good shit on damn near a decade! I’m at a little over 2 years myself
Former alcoholic here. You start with the expensive stuff because you deny that you have a problem (both to yourself and others). Once it starts being a financial burden is when the switch is made to cheaper stuff.
I started with makers, then Tito’s, then Svedka.
Crown is not expensive, at least where I live, and it’s very smooth and easy drinking. Nothing special flavor wise but if you just like the generic taste of whiskey and want one that goes down easy crown is a solid pick.
Crown Royal is not expensive. One of those is like 35$CAD
Two of the most severe (yet highly functioning) alcoholics I've known were RIDICULOUSLY orderly. Like the one guy used to wash AND DRY his kitchen and bathroom sinks every morning before work. The other has a garage that looks like a high end tool store, with some tools almost a hundred years old, but perfectly maintained. Crazy .
I have known quite a number of what I call 'maintainence alcoholics' over the years. Basically they are people who are able to successfully balance working and getting income and keeping a decently normal environment around them while still also being an alcoholic. A lot of them wait until 2 seconds after work ends to start drinking for the day or maybe the'll just have a few at lunch but not too many. Many others are self employed and set their own schedule. Since they drink daily, they can be decently functional even when drinking and often don't get super plastered until after the work day is over. They rarely drink so much that they can't have a fairly normal day time schedule including throwing out trash and doing dishes.
Often they have weird stupid sounding reasons why they think they are not acoholics. Human self delusion can be truly amazing. For instance one person would say that he's not an alcoholic because alcoholics drink before noon. He'd wait until exactly noon time to pour his first drink for that day. Another guy my friend knew would say that he's not an alcoholic becuase he never buys big bottles of liquer. Instead he'd buy many many small shots and drink a ton of tiny shots. Until his liver almost died and he somehow got a transplant and I think he quit drinking due to that, last I heard.
Not to be a pedant, but, do you mean a Functioning Alcoholic? I think of maintenance alcoholics as someone who is weaning off alcohol and drinks throughout the day to limit withdrawal symptoms.
Every single one of these are the old 750ml bottle design for Crown. Diageo switched over to a new design last year that is taller, narrower, and uses different labels and caps. I spent most of last year working with the new design leading up to its release, and can easily spot the difference. If this tenant had a drinking problem, they’d have new bottles in this collection. These were saved for something that wasn’t important enough to take them when they moved.
I have a bunch of crown bottles too, I had a couple friends that would give me their empties.
I don't know.
They're in the shed so they aren't taking up valuable space, they'll get thrown away eventually
That's what I was about to say, there's a slim chance they can't bring themselves to throw away glass bottles, then their friends were like "oh yeah you save bottles? I have some you can have".
I always have the urge to save jars as extra containers for household objects. I decided I can have 3 empties saved "just in case" and I can't keep any more until those have a permanent use lol
That is actually a good discipline to get into over hoarding stuff. I can’t bring myself to throw out stuff because I will probably need it a week later. Instead of hanging onto a bunch of things I can just keep 3 and buy more if needed.
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He was collecting royal blue string bags not bottles.
Can't be an alcoholic, there are many bottles that aren't bone-dry. /s
In my drinking days I would leave empty bottles of whiskey all over my kitchen cabinets where eventually I would pour every last little drops into a glass for one more shot. I used to fill up an entire large recycling bin with nothing but Jim Beam 750ml bottles.
Same...been sober off the booze for almost a year now. Hope you're doing better.
Almost one year is fukn amazing! I’m not drinking so that alone I’m going better.
Hell yeah brother!
My roommate lied about being in a program. He was drinking on the sly the whole time and we eventually figured it out. He’d been filling empty Bud Light cans with whiskey and drinking that instead. One weekend he went on a bender so bad we had to hospitalize him. While he was out we did a full sweep of the apartment and found almost 30 Jack Daniel’s bottles of every shape and size hidden everywhere. Buried in the sofa, in the back of cabinets, behind the TV, in the cat tree, you name it. It was astonishing. The fallout wasn’t pretty and I haven’t had a drop of Jack in twenty years as a result.
This is exactly what we alcoholics do. I lied so much about my drinking that even I thought it was the truth. I hid alcohol in just about anything and everywhere you could think of. It’s crazy how much alcohol gets a hold on you. Even after you loose just about everything you still want to drink. It’s insanity.
We had a dude start work at my old job a long time ago. I worked at Petco. New guy showed up chewing mint gum and we started finding empty alcohol bottles hidden all over the place, especially in the bathroom and the warehouse. Once I was pulling out the cat food from a high shelf and a big glass bottle flopped out and almost hit me. Of course we knew who was doing it, the fact that he was often staggering around and couldn't remember what happened 5 seconds ago also helped and also the mint gum, but corporate wouldn't let us fire him without 'proof.' Ah yeah, good old corporate, LOL!
Yup sounds spot on. I use to take mini shooters of Jim beam into work and drink them in the bathroom and ide wrap them up in napkins and toss them in the trash. I would chew gum, eat mints, constantly drink water, smoke cigarettes all to mask the smell. It didn’t fool anyone. The only fool who believed it was me. Bc I was really good at my job my boss gave me many chances. Way too many. Eventually he had enough and even though I worked for him for 13 years I was let go. Burned that bridge.
Good on you.
Toilet tank was my go to. Kept the vodka cool.
That’s fucking greasy
I hope you are in a better place now, friend. That much Jim Beam sounds like my worst nightmare
Thanks. I’m not where I want to be but I’m definitely not where I use to be. One day at a time.
from the outside looking in, you're doing great. I'm another rando on the internet wishing you all the best.
Same here. I had a bit of a wake up call (literally, because I was asleep) when my trash can was so full of glass bottles, it was so loud when the trash truck picked it up, I thought someone was breaking in.
Ohh, I cringed at trash day for a while.
Those are the piss bottles
Way of the road, Bubs….
So the tenant drove long haul then.
Mobility scooter from the microwave to the TV.
Just cleaned my brother's house. Filled two contractors bags with empty mini bottles.
Bold of you to assume those contain alcohol... or anything drinkable...
Those ones are probably the piss bottles
I call it "investing in my future"
Alcoholic? I’ve been drinking for 30 years and it’s all i think about and i still haven’t gotten addicted so i doubt it’s happening.
Keep it goin Shady
You can see where they said “fuck it” more recently and just chucked some on that middle shelf. I wonder if the cleaning was spurred by a different chemical compound?
Where is the massive pile of purple bags?
he made a coat out of them
Found it
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Truly a labor of love.
The power of tailoring makes even crown royal bags look good
The shades are the 'piece de la resistance' though
honestly? kinda goes hard
Amazing.
That drip looks so fire
I know someone with multiple quilts made out of sewn-together Crown bags.
Then where does he store his dice?
Cape
I’ve seen a blanket of them before, so it wouldn’t be a surprise.
The casket is lined with them.
They all found new lives as shift boots on honda civics
It always goes down smooth.
What do you think he used to move everything out with?
Look for a purple tent in the yard
Filled with wheat pennies to give to grandchildren if they're anything like my Nan.
How long were they in residence?
/is this 1 year for 1 person or 10 years for 10 people :)
One dude officially renting, multiple friends. 6 months.
Holy shit
You should have seen the condition of the rest of the house.
I mean, you could show us...
no no, it's for later karma in a new post
"Hi guys since everybody requested a follow up here is [...]"
Id love to see the condition of his liver 😭
What liver?
An overworked one, that's for sure
Liver? I hardly knew her.
i imagine it was just as orderly?
Most crippling alcoholics would have no difficulty downing at least one of these every day.
From a quick check there is around ~160 bottles in the images. There's probably even more around the house we're not seeing.
6 months is crazy.
If you drank an average of one shot per day it would take you 8-10 years to amass this many bottles by yourself (25.3oz bottles, 1 shot is 1.5oz, roughly two weeks per bottle and did a sloppy estimate of how many bottles).
If you went through a bottle per week this still looks like four years worth of bottles and then some.
This is a bottle nearly every day if my estimating isn’t broken (I am not a math pro at all).
Back when I was drinking heavily I'd down 26-40oz per night. Tolerance is an amazing thing.
6 months?!? That's complete insanity even for a dozen people.
It adds up faster than you'd think. I used to go through a half gallon of vodka every two or three days. Those little pint bottles wouldn't last a night.
I had a poker acquaintance/friend die at 34 from liver failure.
Went to his house a few times and he had a spare room filled with empty cases of beer.
I remember him saying he brought the cases back for the 10 cent refund on the bottles and got $1600 dollars. There were 16000 bottles of beer in that room.
It was a sad tale. I wish i was a closer friend to him where i could have had more of an impact.
Over how long of a period did he drink the 16000 beers? At my current rate it would take me like 30-40 years.
2-3 yearsish I think.
14 a day? Damn
Rookie numbers. I started on hard liquor when a 30 pack over a day stopped working.
Alcohol aside, isn’t that upwards of 3000 calories a day?!
Yep. I was drinking a 12 case and a bottle a day at one point.
Lost my brother-in-law. But ya. What are alcoholics really good at? Recycling.
Take one down, pass it around, 15,999 bottles of beer in that room.
Pretty sure those are the standard 750ml crown bottles
Yeah those are 750s. Dude probably drank at least one a day. My main question is, how is this mofo functional enough to afford a 750 or more of crown a day? That shit is expensive.
It's cheap as far as booze goes here in canada
A 750 of crown goes for $33 in my state. You can get bottom shelf liquor for like $8 or $13 for a 1.75.
Depends on your spending priority. Many people can spend $30 a day on stuff including food and gas and whatnot. Apparently this guy's priority was crown.
How? I would be non stop vomiting
Can't be hungover if you never stop drinking
Yeah but you gotta sleep sometime. Then you wake up 5 hours later, heart trying to literally bust it's way out of your chest, shaking so bad that you can barely get the bottle to your mouth, then you throw up your drink, piss out your ass on the toilet, feel like you're dying, and after throwing up a couple shots, the booze finally starts to absorb through your stomach and you can keep shit down again.
I've been down that rabbit hole.
Fuck
It takes time. One doesn't start there, rather, it's a place you end up. I don't recommend it. If not for a medical marijuana card and a supportive spouse on her own recovery journey, there is no doubt in my mind I'd be dead if I hadn't set the bottle down. Eight years later and it's still a battle. I slip up, I relapse sometimes, but it's nothing like it used to be.
Some people are just built different. I can drink a 1.14l of vodka a day. It's pretty easy until you stop. For a lot of hard liquor alcoholics a 750ml is a waste of time and money to buy.
Damn, a 750 of vodka gets me 2 or 3 good sessions of drinking, though the most I've ever done is 8 shots in a night. I simply couldn't keep any more than that down nor did I want to be any drunker lol
I'd drink two 1.75-liter vodkas per week. But I bought them from different stores so nobody knew I was an alcoholic. (Almost 7 years sober now.)
Username checks out.
Person was Crown Loyal.
Rand... I am the liquor
Loyal with cheese.
My D&D group would like to know what happened to all the dice bags
Roll a persuasion check to get u/mikegates90 to tell you. DC10.
That dude is gonna drink himself to death soon. Same exact thing happened to YouTuber MittenSquad. Hilarious guy but had a similar amount of empties in one video and was dead not too long after, before he hit 30.
Edited for grammar.
One of my best friends apartment looked like this, but with tequila bottles. It was clean aside from that, paid his bills, worked full time all that. Drank himself to death a couple months ago. Sucks.
A friends father got his DOCTORS IN HISTORY, while downing like 3-4 vodka bottles a day. He luckily had a crash while drunk (no one except him got hurt and some property damage), which ended in him getting sentenced to do an withdrawal and allat. Had some relapses which ended in more withdrawals, and he’s been sober for slightly over a year now. Sadly his son is kinda stepping in his footsteps, being at 2 bottles a week, 3 if it’s bad. I remember him saying he’d never start drinking and so on…
The lesson here is to recycle your empty booze bottles.
Yeah .. bringing mine to the bin tomorrow, just to be sure...
That's right about now isn't it?
Funk soul brother
roc-roc-roc-roc-roc-roc-roc-roc
roc-a-fella, roc-a-fella
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
It's just missing a comma
Edit: okay so it wasn't a very good, joke
Still get his videos recommended sometimes. Think he was insecure about his looks so he ended up drinking a lot. he actually suffocated after passing out instead of literally drinking himself to death though
Dang I had no idea. I used to watch his fallout videos all the time back in the day.
Hard to count but I got around 181 crown bottles. Probably safe to round it to 200 in the pictures alone.
How long were they there?
6 months according to OP 😳
That’s about a bottle a day (these appear to be fifths). Hopefully he wasn’t the only one drinking them but that’s still a fuckton.
Ngl this is how my kitchen is right now. I usually go through 0.5-1 bottle a day...
😣 that’s rough, I’m sorry. I hope you can find your way out of it before long.
Thanks for the encouragement. This is more a recent problem. I was around 15 months sober starting mid-2023 and just recently relapsed. I've done it before, I can do it again.
Been a bottle a day drinker myself and you can do it man. If you’re looking for a sign let this be it. From the bottom of my heart I wish you the best. You honestly can do it
Thanks, and everybody else replying. I needed to hear that today.
You've got this.
I will not drink with you tonight r/stopdrinking
You can, and it kinda sounds like you know you probably should
Yes you can. I’ve gone out after having about the same amount of time sober. It’s extremely hard the second third or tenth time. It took me two years of believing every day was my last day drinking and that I’d get it under control again. I was vomiting blood and was in extremely bad shape. I’m happy to say that I have 3.5 years sober again. I don’t know how you stayed sober in the past and I don’t believe there’s only one way to get and stay sober. I had to have my ass literally kicked until I was willing to put in the work and change my life. If someone like me can do it so can you. Good luck to you friend!
As a supportive non sober person, respectfully, leave it to me instead!
My dad would've gotten his 30 year chip this year if he'd lived this long. Died at 57. He was 14 years clean by then. Of course, opiods filled the gap due to his chronic spine issues. COD was diabetes II officially but I know the drinking helped cut him loose early.
He was a good man. Loved his family. Fought hard from start to finish.
Do yourself and me a favor and add a couple more years on your life.
Good luck to you.
Hey I hope that you’re able to stop if that is what you want to do. ❤️ you’re awesome and you got this!
I used to drink a half bottle every other day. I used something called the Sinclair Method to stop doing that. You just take naltrexone an hour or so before drinking. It's not difficult, nor is it very expensive (I had a couple online sessions with an ARNP and the drug is pretty cheap... way way cheaper than rehab) and I didn't even have to stop drinking.... just the desire to drink eventually goes away - similar to how Chantix works for smokers. Took about 16 months for me, which is about twice as long as normal, but I hardly ever drink now, and don't ever have cravings. Don't even like whiskey anymore. And there's none of that "take it one day at a time" bullshit - I'm just completely over any desire to drink. Worth looking into if you're interested. Just my experience from one person who struggled to another.
Thanks for the advice. I've heard of it before, I'll look into it.
That was me as well for years. 230 days sober.
Congrats, man! That's a big achievement. Hope you have fun celebrating when you hit a year (sober, ofc).
Don’t shame yourself for it, but try to take care of yourself homie
It's going to kill you, you need to slow down a lot. A bottle of liquor a week is too much. Get help if you need it.
My brother drank himself to death with that kind of behavior. Be cautious.
He was only 31.
Each bottle has about 15 standard drinks in it. 6 people living there.
That’s about 2-3 drinks per day, per person. Not absurd when put like that… but I’m willing to bet it’s not split equally (likely one person has the biggest problem and they don’t even realize it), and also more likely binging on weekends instead of sips through the week, which is worse for your liver. Think of it like your liver getting lightly tapped by some punches of alcohol, versus getting absolutely decked a few times a week. Can’t get used to punches like that.
200 bottles at $25 each is $5k. If the tenent was there for 6 months, that's $833 per month. Drinking is an expensive hobby. It's not surprising that they didn't clean. Alcohol destroys the body. The act of moving would have been enough to wear them out.
I was going to say that this has to be an expensive habit, thanks for doing the math!
For the amateur maple syrup operation, Crown Royal bottles are perfect. Have seen them cleaned and used, even people seeking them out. Maybe alcoholic, maybe reusing glass bottles.
Wow, I wish I had your level of optimism and fantasy. It's naive as hell, but would certainly be much happier.
It's not necessarily naive. It's simply acknowledging that we can't know for sure what is going on just from these pictures. One can understand that it is likely that alcoholism is involved while also acknowledging that it might not be involved.
That's pretty literal naivete. Lacking wisdom. A wise person knows exactly what's going on in that picture.
The point you're trying to make can be applied to everything. Now you're getting into Descartian philosophy.
I am surprised they have not lost their liver.
Oh, I'm sure he knows exactly where his liver is. It's not working, but he knows where it is.
The liver is surprisingly good at being abused, if you started off with a fresh liver and drank like this but kept eating regularly and staying hydrated you could probably make it a few years. The longer you drink like that though the harder it becomes to eat and do all of the other important stuff and it begins to spiral from there. Genetics plays a big role as well though, some people could drink like this to old age while others will die within years
This person single handedly keeps my province afloat.
Lost the deposit on their liver as well.
Obviously they needed a lot of dice bags.
In my teens and 20’s, lining the kitchen with whiskey bottles and having piles of aluminum cans all over the place was just part of the game. In my 30’ and 40’s, it was the same, but it was the empty bottles of Crown Royal and Weller Special Reserve that were “impressive” and what a collection of empty, high dollar booze bottles I had. I had the taste for fine whiskey and bourbon and treated myself to the fruits of my labor.
Once you’ve gone to the opposite side of drinking where it’s no longer a source of fun, enjoyment, and happiness… it’s difficult to see these photos because I did that kinda shit. I see despair and hopelessness here. I see the only goal of just hoping it would all be over and done with soon. After everything else was gone or had been destroyed by my own hand, there were things like this sitting around as a constant reminder that if I didn’t or couldn’t get my alcohol, the withdrawal was incredibly difficult and, ultimately, impossible to even get out of bed without taking something from those bottles to calm my body.
The individual who’s consumed and collected like this isn’t (or wasn’t) happy and I can assure anyone who’s taken the time to read this that it’s a particularly ugly station in life to find oneself doing this all alone at home in their 60’s. It’s the medicine you need and every single shot glass is filled to the rim with anguish and regret.
Three years, eight months, and twelve days free of it as I type. It’s morning and I know I will do battle in order to remain sober today. If all works out and I keep my head in the game and focus on what’s real and important, I’ll go to bed sober. Then, there is tomorrow…
my liver aches just looking at that. You just look at it and think "I wonder how many bottle of Crown it takes to cause me to need a liver transplant?"
How do these people collect a metric fuckton of alcohol bottles and not realize they have a massive problem?
It's actually hoarding sickness I've seen it with other things like milk bottles / cola cans / plastic bottles etc.
The thing is compared to the normal hoarder , these type of people arrange these things really nicelly on top of each other.
The liquors calling the shots now randy!!!
How does one say “I have a pickled liver.” without saying anything.
A lot of kids probably got there first dungeons and dragons dice bag from here.
Taking the deposit for an hour of cleaning is illegal in many states. The landlord cannot touch the security deposit in my state without providing receipt for work that had to be done and regular wear and tear is not an acceptable reason - not that it stops them from scamming constantly college students.
If I was charged $1,800 for filling a couple of garbage bags, I’d be up their ass!
Speaking as a poor person, society is nothing but traps trying to squeeze money out of those who can't afford to fight back. The reason being poor is so expensive is because they are juicy targets. It blows my fucking mind we don't have five dozen dead landlords every 2nd of the month. I don't know how tow truck drivers aren't being slaughtered en mass by people with nothing left to lose.
Think about how unhinged the 1 percentile of most unhinged people is. That level of crazy is on every single block in America.
It ain't for no reason that when when that healthcare CEO died, more people cheered than were appalled.
Was this even in Canada?
After a certain number....it's no longer a collection 😅
I had a relative that drank so much Crown Royal that made several blankets out of the purple bags
crown loyal
Poor dude, someone needs some help there man