"house" in the Big Book

The house was taken over by the mortgage holder, my mother-in-law died, my wife and father-in-law became ill.

With a certain satisfaction I reflected there was enough gin concealed about the house to carry me through that night and the next day.

If he can afford it, he may have liquor concealed all over his house to be certain no one gets his entire supply away from him to throw down the wastepipe.

Here are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums—we could increase the list ad infinitum.

Likes Brown. sex relations— Wants house put in Security (fear) her name.

So we clean house with the family, asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of patience, tolerance, kindliness and love.

The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house.

We seldom had friends at our homes, never knowing how or when the men of the house would appear.

Your house is filled with strangers.

But the head of the house has spent years in pulling down the structures of business, romance, friendship, health—these things are now ruined or damaged.

The head of the house ought to remember that he is mainly to blame for what befell his home.

They can hardly fail to approve these simple principles, though the head of the house still fails somewhat in practicing them.

Liquor incapacitated father for so many years that mother became head of the house.

Many a distracted wife has visited this house to find loving and understanding companionship among women who knew her problem, to hear from the lips of their husbands what had happened to them, to be advised how her own wayward mate might be hospitalized and approached when next he stumbled.

Impressed by those who visited him at the hospital, he capitulated entirely when, later, in an upper room of this house, he heard the story of some man whose experience closely tallied with his own.

Now, this house will hardly accommodate its weekly visitors, for they number sixty or eighty as a rule.

The answers will come, if your own house is in order.