https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 28 May 2026 01:04:37 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-389626 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:26:57 +0000 tororojo 389626@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I never tried it when I was underage, it just didn't appeal to me. I studied abroad at age 20 (I think? maybe 19) and drank some in Europe, but it wasn't illegal. Didn't drink here until after I was 21. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-389519 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:31:40 +0000 mamimami 389519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: I think I may have gotten around to telling my mom a couple of years ago maybe? So after a safe period of 15+ years had gone by. Man, I loved that sitter LOL. She actually had her reasons for taking me to the bar. It was New Years and I wanted to go to a party with a total deadbeat who probably would have driven drunk etc. So it was the lesser of two evils I guess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-389109 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:06:27 +0000 heartonastring 389109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably when I was 3 or 4. My parents raised me in the European tradition in which they were raised - alcohol (wine) was never off-limits. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-389084 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:55:10 +0000 birdofafeather 389084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i was 19 and it was right before i went to italy to study abroad. my BFF from college said that i had to drink with her before i went, so we made an italian feast and drank a bottle of wine.</p> <p>but i guess before that, my dad gave me sips of his budweisers.... still can't drink them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388915 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:00:33 +0000 Shutterbug 388915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 15, and it was either grape vodka or vodka and grape juice. Actually, I think it was that Pucker stuff. Blech! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388913 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:00:20 +0000 MrsTiz 388913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Tried it? Probably 10.. I was a bad child and was drinking a lot and fairly often at 14-15. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388899 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:58:19 +0000 mrs. wagon 388899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: ...gosh, I miss college. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388897 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:57:59 +0000 mrs. wagon 388897@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Coco Bee: hehe. Yup. that was me. Then I spent the next year and a half getting TOTALLY FREAKING WASTED every thursday, friday, and saturday night. oops. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388893 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:57:23 +0000 Mrs. Pen 388893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrs. wagon: goody two shoes ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388891 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:57:14 +0000 Mrs. Pen 388891@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: bahaha omg!!! wow... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388890 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:56:57 +0000 Mrs. Pen 388890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sloaneandpuffy: omg I would KILL the babysitter... did you ever tell your parents? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388870 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:52:42 +0000 mrs. wagon 388870@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>the night of my 21st birthday! it was a glass of champagne. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388848 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:45:23 +0000 SugarplumsMom 388848@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>12?! A boy in the 6th grade had a bunch of us over and his parents ween't home. His older brother was supposed to watch him but he took off somewhere. They had a bunch those tiny bottles and he opened a few so we could smell and taste it. I think I licked the Kalua. Everyone just thought it was super gross, no one had more than a sip. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol/page/2#post-388815 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:32:55 +0000 Mrsbells 388815@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First time was around 20. I've never been drunk though. And I wasnt really impressed with it, which is why I dont drink now. Parents werent drinkers either </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388810 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:31:04 +0000 wheres_c 388810@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents let me have sips etc starting around age 8.<br /> The first time I got intoxicated was when I was 16 - The summer after I graduated high school, right before I started college. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388253 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:55:59 +0000 HLK208 388253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember asking my parents to try their wine or beer when I was 8. I thought it was gross.</p> <p>When I was 14, a friend and I snuck some vodka to a church retreat. So baaaad. We didn't get drunk, only a few sips then started gagging. Her parents (who were cops) caught us. At 15, I went to my first party and got drunk. I was obviously a terrible teenager. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388244 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:35:32 +0000 DigAPony 388244@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 15. But I didn't get drunk until I was 18--the day after high school graduation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388166 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:57:27 +0000 .twist. 388166@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My parents would let me try sips of their beer or wine. </p> <p>However, on my own and in excess, I was 14 at my friends house, her mom bought us all coolers to drink all night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388165 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:56:29 +0000 softcream 388165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>our parents let us sip beer or wine while we were growing up, but i always thought it was gross. that was probably what they were trying to get us to think.</p> <p>i never tried alcohol again until my sophomore year in college at a house party, but it was only half a cup of jungle juice and i was done for the night!</p> <p>next time was right after turning 21, out at dinner with my parents. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388158 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:53:27 +0000 lemondrop 388158@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PrincessBaby: the drive through daiquiri shops is one of my favorite Colbert Reports.... "Almost a good idea"</p> <p>I've always gotten sips of beer and wine from family growing up, it was never a big deal. I liked my grandparents' Old Milwaukee so much I would steal the cans and hide under to table with them! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388082 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:03:21 +0000 Minnie_Girl 388082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was 20 and drank spiked punch by accident. That was also the night I met DH. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388072 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:00:36 +0000 mamimami 388072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Other than sips with my parents? 15. My babysitter (parents were out of town) snuck me into a bar. So, yeah. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388058 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:56:37 +0000 Freckles 388058@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had beer mixed with sprite when i was 13. It was in one of those tea cups at a Chinese restaurant. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-388052 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:54:37 +0000 pinkcupcake 388052@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably about 15 or 16? I think it was probably a wine cooler or Mike's Hard Lemonade :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387721 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:24:46 +0000 ladyfingers 387721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not until I was 18 and away at college! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387345 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:17:46 +0000 meredithNYC 387345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Oh my God, I would love to hear how the conversation between your mom and grandmother went down! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387324 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:15:04 +0000 mrsjazz 387324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meredithNYC: Ha. I think we liked it because I remember drinking it more than once. We were sad once my mom found out and the special juice was no more. Little alkies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387319 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:14:36 +0000 chopsuey 387319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>20! Didn't like it :T </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387318 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:14:20 +0000 Trailmix 387318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>14, at my parents' annual memorial day BBQ...I had a college-aged family friend sneak me drinks! What a rebel I was :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-old-were-you-the-first-time-you-tried-alcohol#post-387317 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 20:14:08 +0000 meredithNYC 387317@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrsjazz: Whoa! Hahaha. Was that to get you to go to sleep? And did you like it? I remember accidentally having a sip of my mom's beer when I was about 6 and I was disgusted. </p>