Do you lock your liquor cabinets?

[Anonymous]

DD is only 13, so we haven't done it yet. The girls haven't done anything to lead me to believe that they're interested in liquor, including going to the basement bar. DD has said that when she's older, she would probably like to have parties, and would host it in the basement. At that point, I would absolutely lock up the liquor. Hell, she said we should lock up the liquor, in case someone decided to sneak it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. If they want liquor, they can get it. There are certain liquor stores that don’t card. I am teaching my kids that alcohol is a part of life to be enjoyed in moderation, not some terrible thing that needs to be kept under lock anx key.

We're doing the same.

We emphasize never drinking enough to lose control, certainly never drive, can call us any time and we'll come get you and your friends, and to keep an eye on your drinks so someone doesn't slip something in.

[Anonymous]

No. My kids are not partying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. If they want liquor, they can get it. There are certain liquor stores that don’t card. I am teaching my kids that alcohol is a part of life to be enjoyed in moderation, not some terrible thing that needs to be kept under lock anx key.

This was how I felt too, until...

My kid who I didn't think was interested in alcohol yet and a small group of friends took a full bottle and did a bunch of shots.

Some of them ended up dangerously drunk. At 14.

I encourage all of you to lock it early, then it's not a new thing after an incident like this. Your other option is to never let your kid be in the house alone.

[Anonymous]

I made some stupid alcohol choices as a female in college. A 16 year old boy? LOL. Heck yeah, I'm locking that cabinet.

[Anonymous]

We started locking it when DD has friends sleepover, because they are all in the basement together and that's where we keep the liquor.

But we do this mostly because I wish my parents had locked up our family's liquor when I had friends over in 8th/9th grades. I don't drink and wasn't drinking then, but several kids/"friends" I grew up with (who obviously were pretty crap friends at the time) absolutely wanted to use a sleepover to push boundaries. The easy-to-access alcohol put me in a very uncomfortable position. Luckily nothing dangerous happened but I stopped hosting kids over after that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t have liquor cabinets. So no I don’t. Is this a real thing? Who are you needing to lock it from?

[Anonymous]

we put bottle locks on wine and liquor because one of DDs friends was caught drinknig it straight from the bottle. She is 14. I tried to tell the (very very strict parents) and they did not believe me. this friends is not allowed over any more.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t have liquor cabinets. So no I don’t. Is this a real thing? Who are you needing to lock it from?

In other words, I don’t drink liquor so there no liquor in the house except for maybe an occasional bottle of wine once or so a year.

[Anonymous]

Not yet but I should because my oldest is almost as old as I was the first time I stole liquor out of the cabinet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I don’t have liquor cabinets. So no I don’t. Is this a real thing? Who are you needing to lock it from?

In other words, I don’t drink liquor so there no liquor in the house except for maybe an occasional bottle of wine once or so a year.

You’re really asking if liquor cabinets are a real thing because you don’t drink liquor? Moron.

[Anonymous]

We have beer in our fridge and 2-3 bottles of wine in a cabinet. Not locked but stealing wine or beer is more evident than open bottles of hard liquor.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are toddlers, but you bet I'll lock that up when they're older.

So many of these posts are SO naive. I was the good kid who never had parties, never went to parties, was bookish, nerdy, never got into trouble, straight As, super responsible. I had a small group of friends, all similar in behavior. We had sleepovers at each other's houses from time to time, never anything anyone would describe as a party. All supervised by parents, they were always home. And all in a completely different area of the house then where the liquor cabinet is.

But I was sneaking booze out of my parent's liquor cabinet starting at 15 to drink with my friends at each other's houses. By the time I graduated high school, that liquor cabinet was all bottles filled with water.

And of COURSE I knew the rules and expressed to my parents that I had no interest in drinking. Put on a good act about how "It tastes so gross!" We weren't "hanging out by the liquor" - it takes 1 minute to pour liquor into a water bottle and take it to another room. Eventually the host parents would fall asleep, and we would stay up and drink. Quietly! No rambunctious behavior besides what would be expected for three teen girls having a sleepover. But we were plastered.

So, yeah. Lock your liquor, folks.

I was also a bookish and very responsible kid but I never stole my parent’s liquor.

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My kids are now 25 and 20 and never stole from ours either, and our house rivals most well stocked high end bars.

+1. My kids are now adults and never stole from us. I am fully aware that they drank-I saw their fake IDs and even bought them liquor in college, but they never stole from us.

You're naive.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are toddlers, but you bet I'll lock that up when they're older.

So many of these posts are SO naive. I was the good kid who never had parties, never went to parties, was bookish, nerdy, never got into trouble, straight As, super responsible. I had a small group of friends, all similar in behavior. We had sleepovers at each other's houses from time to time, never anything anyone would describe as a party. All supervised by parents, they were always home. And all in a completely different area of the house then where the liquor cabinet is.

But I was sneaking booze out of my parent's liquor cabinet starting at 15 to drink with my friends at each other's houses. By the time I graduated high school, that liquor cabinet was all bottles filled with water.

And of COURSE I knew the rules and expressed to my parents that I had no interest in drinking. Put on a good act about how "It tastes so gross!" We weren't "hanging out by the liquor" - it takes 1 minute to pour liquor into a water bottle and take it to another room. Eventually the host parents would fall asleep, and we would stay up and drink. Quietly! No rambunctious behavior besides what would be expected for three teen girls having a sleepover. But we were plastered.

So, yeah. Lock your liquor, folks.

I was also a bookish and very responsible kid but I never stole my parent’s liquor.

+1

My kids are now 25 and 20 and never stole from ours either, and our house rivals most well stocked high end bars.

+1. My kids are now adults and never stole from us. I am fully aware that they drank-I saw their fake IDs and even bought them liquor in college, but they never stole from us.

You're naive.

Far from it. They got it elsewhere. Not from us.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are toddlers, but you bet I'll lock that up when they're older.

So many of these posts are SO naive. I was the good kid who never had parties, never went to parties, was bookish, nerdy, never got into trouble, straight As, super responsible. I had a small group of friends, all similar in behavior. We had sleepovers at each other's houses from time to time, never anything anyone would describe as a party. All supervised by parents, they were always home. And all in a completely different area of the house then where the liquor cabinet is.

But I was sneaking booze out of my parent's liquor cabinet starting at 15 to drink with my friends at each other's houses. By the time I graduated high school, that liquor cabinet was all bottles filled with water.

And of COURSE I knew the rules and expressed to my parents that I had no interest in drinking. Put on a good act about how "It tastes so gross!" We weren't "hanging out by the liquor" - it takes 1 minute to pour liquor into a water bottle and take it to another room. Eventually the host parents would fall asleep, and we would stay up and drink. Quietly! No rambunctious behavior besides what would be expected for three teen girls having a sleepover. But we were plastered.

So, yeah. Lock your liquor, folks.

I was also a bookish and very responsible kid but I never stole my parent’s liquor.

+1

My kids are now 25 and 20 and never stole from ours either, and our house rivals most well stocked high end bars.

+1. My kids are now adults and never stole from us. I am fully aware that they drank-I saw their fake IDs and even bought them liquor in college, but they never stole from us.

You're naive.

My parents had a liquor bar and I never drank from it. Not everyone is interested or attracted to booze. You’re naive.