Do you lock your liquor cabinets?

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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?

You're over thinking this. Yes, some people have like a fancy liquor cabinet or a bar cart or something. But what everyone is really talking about is just "the cabinet that you keep your liquor in." For us, it's the cabinets above the fridge. Too high for every day use, fine for liquor that we only get down once in a while.

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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.

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

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Know for a fact that our kids did not drink during HS, unless we gave it to them at family events or the other parents asked if our kid could have a drink (during senior year when they'd be hanging out with friends at the vacation home---and it would be a single drink)

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For us, it's the cabinets above the fridge. Too high for every day use, fine for liquor that we only get down once in a while.

This is also where we keep booze and now that we have a high schooler we are thinking of something more secure. I really don't want to add a piece of furniture. Are there locks that actually work for cabinet doors? Not those magnet locks to keep out toddlers. If you are locking up your alcohol, please share the specifics. TIA!

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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.

I'm the poster and, yes, absolutely true. When I got into my mid 20s, mom started asking, "Do you think your father's an alcoholic?"

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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.

No. This is ridiculous. Like saying you should lock up the bleach in case the kids drink that. The trick is to raise them so they don’t steal your liquor, not so they can’t steal your liquor. Erecting a physical barrier between your teenagers and something you don’t want them to get is a simplistic solution and won’t stop them getting their hands on booze if they really want it.

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One time I took vodka and replaced the rest with water. A few weeks later my mom had her best friend over and they made drinks. The best friend took a sip and said "wow this tastes like water" and my mom shot me dagger eyes and said "It probably IS water!" That was the first time I had ever taken anything and I was a straight A, introverted nerd, but my mom wasn't as dumb as my teenage brain thought

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Dh and I really only drink beer or wine so we don't really have anything in the house regularly because if we get a bottle of wine or 6 pack of beer for a Friday night for example, we will drink it or just have a beer or 2 left.

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We keep some in a closet. Never occurred to me to lock it up. Kids never have touched it.

I guess the answer depends on your kid’s personality and likelihood to explore alcohol.

I never took alcohol from my parents either. It didn’t taste good to me.

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We have a bottle lying around somewhere. It's probably turned into vinegar by now.

Kids have tasted champagne, wine and beer in our home country and don't like the taste of alcohol. Which doesn't surprise me because their father and I don't really like alcohol either, with some exceptions.

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This thread has someone saying their kids have fake IDs but they dont steal from home??? 😂 Hilarious.

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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.

No. This is ridiculous. Like saying you should lock up the bleach in case the kids drink that. The trick is to raise them so they don’t steal your liquor, not so they can’t steal your liquor. Erecting a physical barrier between your teenagers and something you don’t want them to get is a simplistic solution and won’t stop them getting their hands on booze if they really want it.

The barrier slows down impulsive teens. It's worth it. Yes, they will find another way if they are determined. Groups of young, impulsive teens need guardrails. Between peer pressure and new curiosity, like others are saying, I don't want the temptation there or the consequences of other peoples' kids accessing liquor in my home.

Don't think that I haven't also parented and had all the hard conversations.

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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.

You literally drink so much liquor/alcohol that you require a special cabinet for it? Drunkard.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread has someone saying their kids have fake IDs but they dont steal from home??? 😂 Hilarious.

Mother of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:You literally drink so much liquor/alcohol that you require a special cabinet for it? Drunkard.

Well, I do put all of my dishes in one cabinet, all of the spices in another cabinet, so, yes, I have a cabinet where I store alcohol. It's called organizing, not requiring a 'special cabinet'. Idiot.

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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.

You literally drink so much liquor/alcohol that you require a special cabinet for it? Drunkard.

A real drunk doesn’t need any storage because they go through it too quickly.

I really hope you’re foreign from a Muslim country and not just as stupid as you seem.