pour em out and fill em with tea lol

If they are not opened give them as gifts to people that don't have a problem with alcohol

Sometimes I go to bars to see people getting drunk and realize just how lucky I am. There is nothing wrong with what your doing, I know that you wouldn't give up your sobriety. Ya know that you are showing how strong you really are and I respect that. As long as you know that it is not a problem for you I don't see any problem. I keep booze around for company,mind you it took me a while to get to that trusting myself point and it still crosses my mind, but I know I would never do anything to give up what I have accomplished.

i know i could keep a bottle of gin in my house, i can't stand the stuff. so, if it's stuff you wouldn't drink even when you were drinking, and you trust yourself, i don't see the harm, but you could regift or fill 'em with tea.

yeah, I think I am going to see how it goes and I may regift.....and if I get temped I will be the first to admit it and get rid of them.....thanks for the idea:) christmas will be here befor ya know it...lol

I live with other adults. There are a number of bottles of liquor around my house. The night I quit drinking I did NOT run around my house pouring all the alcohol in house down the drain. First of all, it wasn't all mine, and, second, I made up my mind I was NOT going to live my life being afraid of alcohol in a world where alcohol is legal and ubiquitous.

I told myself, "You know what -- I'm going to make this easy on you. You want a drink? Right there it is. You're over 21. It's legal. You want it -- go drink it. I'm not fighting with you the about this the rest of my life."

So that's how I handled it. Those bottles are still here for when we have guests. I have no interest in them. They've never remotely been a temptation. I don't know -- maybe it was using reverse psychology on myself, but just knowing it was here, and having given myself permission to drink it anytime if that was what I REALLY, REALLY wanted to do, took the allure out of it for me.

i feel the same way broken...I can go to the store when ever I want...its soo easy to get it if I want it anyways....I dont....and im glad to hear others are like that too....I dont want it to scare me (alcohol) and it doesnt...I want my sobrity more

If I had any real sobriety time, I'd be fine! I know that, because I did have many years, and alcohol sat in my fridge for whoever wanted it.

Now...I couldn't do it...not yet. I know ME! lol.

I was just reminded of a memory or two...I was about 15 or so when I was getting into my mom's liquir and mixing it with Kool-Aid and TEA! It was disgusting! but I drank it for what I wanted it for! Sure wasn't for the taste! (after a few drinks tho, it did get better...lol)

Get rid of them, I hear that kinds of stories time and time again, they end up drinking them somehwere down the road.

I don't know about you but, I would just keep the bott;es. I still don't think I would trust having the stuff in my house. I've had some pretty desperate things going on in my life today. I know I could go out to buy it but, it gives me that extra time to think about it. Tom

Ashley I think even though you can go and buy some at the store you should get rid of them because if you get some bad news your mind will register that their is alcohol in the house and you will find out how cunning alcoholic is. I have seen many slip from making this mistake I wish you all the best with your choice.

Ashley I remember early in sobriety someone ask me if there is any alcohol I don't like and I remember saying at the time yea Sake he said to me if you were desperate and there was no other alcohol around at the time and the only drink you had was Sake would you drink it I said yes but I guess I am a real alcoholic. Make the right decision.

Krm I wonder if Daniel went back into the lions den to see how the lions where.

God bless...

Lionel

Give em to your party junkie friends...

For the first few months of my sobriety I could not even keep Listerine
or rubbing-alcohol around because I was acutely aware that they had "alcohol" in the list of Ingredients.

I can now because I no longer look for alcohol in bottles nor in lists of ingredients. I would not recommend that you keep anything with
"alcohol" until you have a solid first step (powerlessness) under your belt.

Get rid of them. There are plenty of other "pretty" bottles that don't contain alcohol in them. What is the point in keeping them???