What have you given up and the reason

I gave up working, or did they give up on me? No more work in Vegas, but how would I like working in Ohio or Alabama. No interest in moving to either state as teachers' qualifications don't transfer across state lines. Moving would have hosed my wife's career and income, so a hard no was easy for us.

Through bad timing I found myself coming home at commuter time last week. I don't miss that malarkey one bit.

Discovered this week that a bill to get rid the WEP and GPO on social security has been sent to the senate. Should it pass, my income will have the little cushion I've been looking for.
 
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Anything I gave up on is due to finances. Inflation and the consequent rise in prices have really cut into everything. The wife and I used to really enjoy going out to local restaurants to have something different on a regular basis. Take the kids & grandkids out to give them a break from the same old thing. Now we might manage one meal out a week and half the time it is me going and getting it and bringing it home. The grandkids get treated to dinner out maybe once a month (still nice for our kids who hand them off and go do something themselves) but it costs a lot more than it used to. I quit smoking years ago, still love a good steak and a glass of Scotch is always nice in the evening. Done moderately I don't worry about any health issues from small pleasures.
 
I gave up trying to master a flintlock rifle well enough to be competitive. I won top shooter at our local club shooting event after a couple years with a percussion rifle, then decided to take on the flintlock challenge. I was told it would take about a pound of priming powder (4F) or so to get really good, I did that and more, built a terrific rifle from a quality kit, had the best guys teach me everything they knew and I finally gave up after four years or so and went back to percussion. I still shoot the odd flintlock for fun but as far as competition goes I gave up the ghost. My reasoning is that I don't have enough time or the strength required at seventy three, the skills required for shooting a flintlock are much higher than those to shoot a percussion rifle. The follow through alone is enough to challenge a competent rifleman, it is much akin to shooting a handgun or bow and arrow, follow through is everything. You can obtain the perfect sight picture on your hold but the delay after the trigger is pulled and everything else that goes on is where my problem was. Off the bench a monkey can shoot nearly anything, off hand is where the challenge is and that is where I suffered flintlock frustration. I even purchased a quality spring air rifle which closely approximates flintlock operation....thats my story.
That and anyone that ever asks me about starting in the black powder muzzle loading game I tell them they need to start with a flintlock if they are young enough and or have the upper body strength required...youth is wasted on the young. If a new black powder shooter starts off with a flintlock and decides to switch to percussion he will be a much better shooter having already mastered follow through which is required but not as significant as it is with a flintlock.
 
Narragansett said:
Let's say from the beginning of COVID, what have you given up, either to improve your health or it just costs too much?


I also cut my alcohol consumption down to near nothing.
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On strong recommendation of my GI physician's assistant, I quit cold on alcohol consumption back in January 2023. It remedied or improved substantially two specific conditions that could have given me big problems if left unchecked. Happily the servers at the Eagles know me and keep a jug of unsweetened ice tea for me.
 
I have backed off on the heavier caliber handguns.
I can still handle the recoil, just don’t enjoy the Magnums as much as I used to.
Shooting a lot of 22s!
 
Golddollar said:
On strong recommendation of my GI physician's assistant, I quit cold on alcohol consumption back in January 2023. It remedied or improved substantially two specific conditions that could have given me big problems if left unchecked. Happily the servers at the Eagles know me and keep a jug of unsweetened ice tea for me.
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A number of years ago doc told me to not mix alcohol with the meds he had just put me on. Being the way i am, had a cold one the next day. Could barely get up the day after, and have abstained since then with very minimal exceptions.

Still truly miss whiskey night, as it was my only chance to be calm, cool and sophisticit.
 
Trying to give up on processed garbage. Wife is making bread that not only tastes better but doesn't have all of the extra preservatives in it. The last loaf of store bought bread sat around for several weeks. Oddly enough it didn't mold. Still threw it away anyway. Went out and bought meat from a group that doesn't use steroids or antibiotics on their cows.

Not stopping testosterone shots or working out 3 days a week. Everything in the right amounts. I already gave up smoking 15+ years ago so don't need to worry about that. I am not a teetotaler but just don't drink as much as I did when I was 25+ years ago.
 
I quit going to the barber shop. Eleven years ago I had a blood clot in my lungs and the doctor put me on a blood thinner for a month and told me to shave with an electric razor. Nearest nothing way to shave I've ever seen and never heard of anybody bleeding to death from a razor cut so went back to my blade razor. My great grandson was living with us and scared of the barbers clippers so we got a pair to play with at home so he could determine that they wouldn't kill him.
I was going to get a haircut the day they closed the barber shops and we had clippers so I told my wife to put on the #2 head and give me a haircut. She still cuts my hair. She works cheaper than my exbarber and looks better. Larry
 
Gave up alcohol and cigars......

... yeahs ago. Practically eliminated McDonalds, Burger King and Hardees. I don't do anything and I'm already boring as hell. I can't give up much else.

Since alcohol makes me ill any more, the only thing I miss is the cigars, but I'm holding my own. My sinuses/allergies are doing so much better than I don't want to mess anything up.

I enjoy chess, but it's like smoking. The more I play the more I want to play and I've got better things to do with my time, so I decided to put it on the far back burner.

I'm REALLY trying to control my diabetes better and am making some progress, so I've about given up eating.:(

BTW: None of this really had anything to do with Covid.
 
I quit smoking over 50 years ago. I quit hunting about ten years ago do to age. I quit chasing girls some time back. Now for entertainment I get on the Forum. See what the Golden Years do to a guy. Having Thanksgiving with my son and his family, my grandkids and 4 greats. But a glass of red wine is soothing. Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here.
 
Nothing really. I have not eaten much fried food in years for weight reasons but I sure am not cutting it out entirely. Only consume alcohol occasionally because I enjoy a little straight whisky every once and a while.
Well I did finally go cold turkey on believing anything coming out of the mouths of bureaucrats.
 
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