Do you lock your liquor cabinets?

[Anonymous]

Parents of teens and tweens, where do you store alcohol? do you lock it up? Keep close tabs on your quantities? Starting what age?

We had a big party scheduled for March 2020 and then barely touched anything through the pandemic so still have a big stash of hard alcohol. It occurs to me that I should start giving away before my kids or their friends start to show interest.

[Anonymous]

We don’t- haven’t seen the need yet. Our kids don’t generally have friends over- or not for super long periods anyway- when we are not home. Oldest is a freshman.

[Anonymous]

No. We have alcohol in the pantry and our kids know to not touch it

[Anonymous]

Mostly in the linen closet. Our kids know where it is, but guests don’t.

[Anonymous]

We have a wine fridge that locks and I’m buying a lock for our beverage fridge that has beer and seltzer in it. I’d rather it just not be an option for my DD.

[Anonymous]

Yes I just recently did this. I have a teen and I think it’s the responsible thing to do especially when they have friends in the basement all the time.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we hide ours as we don’t have a locking cabinet. I am 100% sûre my kids would take it if we didn’t.

[Anonymous]

As a teen, I stole my parents' liquor and added water to make it look like nothing had been taken. Turns out, two of my younger brothers were doing the same thing.

Then we became of legal drinking age. And my mother couldn't understand why my father was suddenly getting drunk after two drinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mostly in the linen closet. Our kids know where it is, but guests don’t.

What? That is bizarre.

[Anonymous]

It’s in a kitchen cabinet. The kids know and don’t seem interested. I’m not concerned, but they are 12 and 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teen, I stole my parents' liquor and added water to make it look like nothing had been taken. Turns out, two of my younger brothers were doing the same thing.

Then we became of legal drinking age. And my mother couldn't understand why my father was suddenly getting drunk after two drinks.

Is this true? That’s hilarious.

I always thought that the reason my parents drank whiskey is they knew the kids wouldn’t touch it. We did get into the mixers (mostly 7-up) and that was big trouble!

We never locked our liquor- once DS got way drunk (not on ours) and well, never touched the stuff again. The “problem” worked itself out -

I was making g&t and Aperol spritz at a party last summer and my 18-yr-old tried it and promptly spit it out. An acquired taste.

Now, i don’t think it’s responsible to keep white claw or wine coolers (remember those?) within reach - or “hard root beer” or “twisted tea” or sweet stuff like that - too tempting. But our kids aren’t going for DH’s boutique beer or my fine wines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teen, I stole my parents' liquor and added water to make it look like nothing had been taken. Turns out, two of my younger brothers were doing the same thing.

Then we became of legal drinking age. And my mother couldn't understand why my father was suddenly getting drunk after two drinks.

That’s so funny. We did the same things. We’d pour it into those little Tupperware containers that you use for salad dressing.

When my oldest hit around 14, he started taking our alcohol. He was such a goody two shoes that we had no idea. But apparently he was enjoying martinis in our hot tub for months before we realized what was happening.

So we locked up our alcohol. But then kid number two accessed it by taking the hinges off the cabinet every time he wanted it. So we just trashed everything. Kid number three has nothing.

[Anonymous]

Ours is locked up, mostly to help my DD avoid any situation where friends want to drink it and then she's in the position of policing it. This way it's out of her control.

[Anonymous]

No, it's not locked.

[Anonymous]

No. Never have. Kids are 20, 19 and 14.