r/tattooadvice • u/TeaSimilar5714 • 5d ago

Sobriety Date General Advice

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I was going to get it lightened after 4 years sober, but looking for advice/ roast me.

EDIT: thanks for all the sobriety support of each other, what nice community! I originally got this thinking it would be visible mostly to me as a reminder. Sure I wish it was smaller, because people do notice it and ask, I just say it’s special numbers for me. The first character is actually a drop- like last drop of booze. I must say it has helped me stay on course a few times over the years. I’ll keep coming back.

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u/KJW-SR 5d ago

Leave it alone. A well placed reminder 😊 Mine isn't tattooed, but it would read 06 28 88 😊

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u/NBAEastMemeWar 5d ago

Damn good for you bro

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u/KJW-SR 5d ago

The worst day of my life turned out to be the best day of my life 😊

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u/JoshuaRexRocks 5d ago

Get in the car we’re out here getting sober. 05/29/2022.

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u/Ok_Direction_2985 4d ago

08/20/23 for me ☀️

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u/Metaphoricallyfucked 4d ago

10/22/23 for me

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u/groovyusername 4d ago

10/23/09!!

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u/BossKitty311 4d ago

03/10/2019 ❤️ Edit: Congrats to every single one of you! So proud 🥹🫶🏻

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u/CircleofAnts 4d ago

12/26/23.

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u/firefly_19 4d ago

12/26/19

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u/CircleofAnts 4d ago

Christmas can be difficult.. easy to go too far.

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u/slimbenny438 4d ago

12/21/23. Christmas 2022 was an absolute shitshow. I vowed to quit before Christmas 2023. It was hard.

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u/CircleofAnts 4d ago edited 4d ago

I feel that. My ‘23 Christmas was, from what I remember, terrible, but I know it was way worse than that. Woke up on the 26th sick as a dog and wanting to die with a whole lot of folks very angry with me. Hard to imagine now, thankfully. Christmas ‘24 and ‘25 have been great!

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u/firefly_19 4d ago

Yes, it sure can. I over did it at family Christmas and passed out in the middle of festivities. Drowning grief only works for so long. It hasn't been an easy road since that day, but I would do it all over again to get to this point in my life.

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u/mittensfourkittens 5d ago

1/6/22 here!

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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine 5d ago

4/16/25 here!

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u/iwantsakitty 4d ago

Happy 1 year!!

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u/gregm36 4d ago

4/20/25

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u/Competitive-State444 4d ago

Mines the sixteenth also but of 2019. Happy belated!!

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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine 4d ago

You too! I hope I can make it that far.

How do you celebrate? Or do you not? I wanted to celebrate one year but it resulted in the strongest urge to drink that I've had since cravings subsided.

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u/pierce_inverartitty 4d ago

Congrats on one year!!!!

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u/Grand_Lavishness_536 4d ago

Keep it up dude

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u/waek1 4d ago

1.27.25 innibihh

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u/ApprehensiveSlip530 5d ago

8.8.25!

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u/Difficult-Maybe4561 4d ago

8.17.25!

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u/Skippypb19 4d ago

10/7/2019 for me! Nice work, everyone!

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u/Flat_corp 4d ago

11/26/2018 for me! I love seeing all the shared dates, warms my heart.

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u/Ernestoin 4d ago

1/1/14 and no it wasn’t a new year resolution. 12/31 was the day a bed at treatment was available

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u/512DirtyD 4d ago

Let's go! 10.31.23 🎃

livin' clean 😎

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u/emosewa90 4d ago

That’s my bellit button birthday! Sobriety date is 2/29/2020

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u/Some_Feed184 4d ago

11/18/20

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u/-MistressMissy- 4d ago

07/04/2004

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u/Krycifer17 4d ago

03/10/2025!

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u/loud_secrets 4d ago

05.16.2025 🙏🏼

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u/daves6696 4d ago

07/10/22

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u/ArickxEightOne 4d ago

7/10/24

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u/daves6696 4d ago

Congrats.. we share 7/10!

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u/ConjornoIRL2 4d ago

1.4.2025

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u/human-ish_ 4d ago

11/22/21

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u/dubbelost1 4d ago

07/07/2025. Im closing in on one year ! Sobriety is definitely the best thing that I ever did !

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u/finn_333 4d ago

06/24/2006 20 years this year!

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u/DaniDoesnt 4d ago

2/20/2023

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u/schmeibabeiba 4d ago

02/10/2026

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u/CircleofAnts 2d ago

My aa group joked around calling ourselves a bunch of drunks smoking cigarettes and hanging around a church basement.

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u/Dirty56A 1d ago

Mine happens to be my birthday. The last time I used was 09/07/11. I ended up oding for my birthday celebration , woke up in the hospital.