# 7,305 days in a row
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 4, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490 "2011-03-04T16:21:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/1 "2011-03-04T16:21:39Z")
20 years, if it’s a bit early for math! I got clean & sober on March 4, 1991, and I’ve been there ever since.
Yep, I’m braggin’ a bit…
🆒
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### Author:  [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/2 "2011-03-04T16:38:27Z")
Good for you. It is hard work.
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### Author:  [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/3 "2011-03-04T17:21:00Z")
Wow! Good for you!
And thanks for posting the date, it’s my mum’s birthday and I better call her. 🙂
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/4 "2011-03-04T17:29:42Z")
Congratulations! That’s an awesome amount of time and effort you’ve put in. Keep up the good work!!
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/5 "2011-03-04T17:45:28Z")
Seconded/thirded/fourthed!
20 years huh? Per [here](http://www.findgift.com/Anniversary-Table/), you need to get yourself something made either of china, or platinum. I recommend both for good measure :).
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### Author:  [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/6 "2011-03-04T19:08:31Z")
Congratulations! You should be proud: that’s quite an accomplishment! That many days will need a really big token - platter sized. 😃
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/7 "2011-03-04T19:14:07Z")
Congratulations!
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/8 "2011-03-04T19:45:07Z")
Congrats, old-timer! ODAAT.
7562 here.
Nice calculator here: [Date Duration Calculator: Days Between Dates](http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html)
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/9 "2011-03-04T19:56:25Z")
**QtM** , I use the “12 step companion” iPhone app, that includes a counter for years, months, weeks, days and hours, plus a digital copy of the big book.
Also, I just bought “The Book That Started it All”, a bound copy of the original BB manuscript, complete with notes, edits, etc. Awesome- and it’s half price on Amazon! 🙂
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/10 "2011-03-04T20:04:37Z")
Brag on! I dig it!
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/11 "2011-03-04T20:08:17Z")
> [@Moirai](#):
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> **QtM** , I use the “12 step companion” iPhone app, that includes a counter for years, months, weeks, days and hours, plus a digital copy of the big book.
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> Also, I just bought “The Book That Started it All”, a bound copy of the original BB manuscript, complete with notes, edits, etc. Awesome- and it’s half price on Amazon! 🙂
Do you have an app which explains why the long form of Tradition Two is shorter than the short form?
I never understood that…
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/12 "2011-03-04T20:12:13Z")
Congratulations, **Moirai**! I hope everyone who is trying to beat addiction is able to have the same kind of success you have.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/13 "2011-03-04T20:16:50Z")
Congratulations; while you were getting clean and sober I was turning eight.
This is awesome news and you have every right to brag. I like how you framed it as a matter of days, because while I have no experience with ending addiction, I think any long-term change is really about taking it day by day. You didn’t succeed for twenty years, or maybe not even 7,305 days, you succeeded for a billion instantaneous moments by making positive choices time and time and time and time again and I’m sure at times it was exhausting.
In other news, I’m starting to feel old.
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/14 "2011-03-04T20:20:59Z")
Awesome! Keep up the good work!
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/15 "2011-03-04T21:44:08Z")
> [@Moirai](#):
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> I got clean & sober on March 4, 1991, and I’ve been there ever since.
I understand the sober part but how did you manage to stay clean all those years? Must’ve saved a lot on the water bill, not to mention soap 🙂
Congrats
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/16 "2011-03-05T03:57:00Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Congrats, old-timer!
Oh my God, that’s right! I’m officially an old timer! Neat!
🆒
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/17 "2011-03-05T04:40:41Z")
Congratulations for making a goal and sticking to it. Although I tend to agree with the _South Park_ sentiment that booze is still controlling your life if you make total abstention a goal. I would never want to go 20 years without alcohol, and have difficulty identifying with the sentiment. But it sounds like you’re happy, so yay 😃
(I hope this isn’t a threadshit, it’s not intended as such)
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### Author:  [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/18 "2011-03-05T05:25:03Z")
No worries. Believe me, the whole world is better off with me not drinking. :D. But seriously, booze DOES control me- I’m an alcoholic. I could never dabble in drinking, even as a kid. Never able to predict what might happen once I started.
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/19 "2011-03-05T05:37:57Z")
You have a right to brag a bit, I would too. Good work staying tough all this time, I admire you.
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### Author:  [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-305-days-in-a-row/573490/20 "2011-03-05T08:16:45Z")
Congratulations.
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