Where to store alcohol in a home with teens

[Anonymous]

My teen is not adventuring into alcohol but I’m unsure about his friends. We have a spare fridge in a main part of the basement with alcoholic beverages that my husband and his friends use. Where to store this to eliminate teen access?

[Anonymous]

Do the boys hang out down there?

[Anonymous]

I used to fill the vodka bottle back with water to the level it was before lol. I also think we drank some really questionable things that were cocktail ingredients sitting in the cabinet for 20 years.

If you’re worried about it, put the bottles behind a lock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the boys hang out down there?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Does your husband need to keep beer? Can’t he buy it before his friends come over?

[Anonymous]

If you’re worried, keep an indoor camera on the alcohol that alerts your phone when someone goes near it.

[Anonymous]

Move it to the garage, or take the alcohol out and put it in the fridge before kids come over.

[Anonymous]

We hide ours in various places around the house and make sure there is no beer in the fridge if friends come over

[Anonymous]

Locked cabinet
Master bedroom closet or room where you are going to be when they are there? probably not fool proof, but better than loose in the basement

[Anonymous]

Master closet.

[Anonymous]

Put a simple lock on the fridge or add another smaller fridge with. Lock just for the booze and leave the other one for non alcoholic beverages.

[Anonymous]

Locking up alcohol as if it were a gun is insane. Try parenting instead.

[Anonymous]

We leave it where it is and trust our kids. We talk to them about it and they know their friends can’t drink. They have nice friends so it hasn’t been an issue.

[Anonymous]

Nowhere.

[Anonymous]

What? You have bigger problems if you can't trust them not to help themselves...