I've seen this come up a bit here so I wanted to share all my fake drinking tips for the holidays! I love beer and wine and I don't like to announce my pregnancies until 12 weeks or later so I have had to fake drink quite a bit in the last couple years. Here are my tips
- grab a beer in a brown bottle and pretend to take sips. You can take it with you to the bathroom and dump it out and refill the bottle with water. You can continue to refill the beer bottle with water all night so you can actually be drinking something. Or you can have your SO/DH casually switch bottles with you. Be aware... this makes for a drunk SO!
- order water or sprite or cranberry juice in a drink glass with a lime. Don't let the bar put it in a water glass as that's a dead giveaway, it has to be in a drink glass.
- sneak in a bottle of non alcoholic wine if you have to get out of drinking wine or again, dump it when you go the bathroom or swap with your SO. Again, warning, when your SO drinks twice as much covering for you, he or she gets sloshed!
- never be ordering at the bar with a friend. Send your SO to get drinks so you aren't caught ordering water with a friend who is like, WHY ARE YOU GETTING WATER?! ARE YOU PREGNANT!? (this happened to me)
- If you must, one sip will not be the end of world. Take your sip then distract to something else! (ie champagne toasts, etc)
Those are my tips! Feel free to add any others. If you enjoy social drinking and don't want to tell everyone you've got a tiny baby in your uterus this is the way to go!
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Re: Fake drinking tips
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I got through a family party on Saturday by bringing my own stash of Welch's Light Grape Juice.
Everytime my Great Uncle poured me a glass of wine, i held it for a little while and then went in the bathroom and poured it down the drain, pulled my large water bottle filled with grape juice out and switched it. No one knew the difference!
I plan to do the same at the cookie swap i am hosting on Saturday, only it will be easier because I can hide the jug of juice in the bathroom vanity.
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My tip to add to the above, act normal! You might think it's obvious that you are faking, but if you are having a good time and being subtle...most likely nobody will even notice you are not real drinking! If you start acting strange or trying to cover it up too much people will start to notice.
Logan 10/20/2010 ~ Addison 8/26/2014