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?

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.

They are not mutually exclusive. Why do people move here but insist on living in a cultural bubble? Utah Mormons are also pretty insufferable in this regard--they drink tons of soda but arent allowed to have coffee, tea or alcohol.

My grandparents entertained a lot and had a small locked liquor cabinet. I think some posters here are imagining a wine cellar or large armoir full of booze. Most people's "cabinet" is just a shelf.

[Anonymous]

Kid is 16
Beer is in the fridge
Liquor is in the pantry

We don't lock up anything, I trust they won't and I also know I'd be the first to smell it or know they were intoxicated. We don't have a basement, there's nowhere to hide in our mid century bungalow.

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Not yet but we have been considering it.
I'm not too worried about my kids but I don't want to put them in a situation where they have to police other kids.

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We didn't and my now adult kids admit to taking it and adding water on occasion. We never really noticed because we don't drink much. Jokes on the younger kid - he was stealing already watered down vodka. These were both "good" kids and on a short leash. But in retrospect we should have been more careful.

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I haven't yet. Not all concerned about my 15 year old. The 12 year old will be another story!

My parents had a stash of gifted liquor in our dark 1700's basement growing up. Nobody went down there except me when I wanted to snag a bottle.

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Anonymous wrote:Not yet but we have been considering it.
I'm not too worried about my kids but I don't want to put them in a situation where they have to police other kids.

+1 This. I'm pretty sure my kid will ask when she decides she wants to have a taste of something. But other friends will think they are pulling a fast one and try to sneak some.

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We don’t keep booze in the house but if we did, I’d lock it up/hide it. Even if you don’t think your kid would take it, a friend might. My best friend had a bottle of booze and a bottle of adderall disappear and it was her daughters friend, at the end of freshman year

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Anonymous wrote:We don’t keep booze in the house but if we did, I’d lock it up/hide it. Even if you don’t think your kid would take it, a friend might. My best friend had a bottle of booze and a bottle of adderall disappear and it was her daughters friend, at the end of freshman year

Good point on keeping medications hidden, too.
That happened to a friend of mine as well, when a kid who came over for group project homework snagged stuff out of their medicine cabinet.