Help me adult with alcohol.

I like to decant into pretty bottles for the plain old vodka, rum, gin. A lot fancier alcohols come in pretty bottles.

I have a fairly dorky 16 year old son. We don't lock up the alcohol. However, if we were leaving him overnight by himself, I might contemplate it based on my wild teenage days.

If you like the look of a bar cart, and who doesn't, you could set out just a couple of bottles and then accessorize with the pretty glasses, beverage shaker, jigger, a dish for nuts, maybe a small vase for flowers.

J

No kids. Wine is in a very utilitarian rack in the kitchen (or in the fridge!) Spirits on the bottom shelf of a glass fronted cabinet with glassware above:

At the moment, my bottles of booze just sit on the top of one of my kitchen cabinets. I have a tiny kitchen and there is nowhere else for it. DS19 has offered to store it in his bedroom, but that's a sure fire way for it to disappear altogether! I don't imbibe, but both of my kids enjoy a few drinks occasionally. I have never felt the need to lock alcohol away (from the kids anyway, ex-DH was a different matter. )

I grew up in home with the classic wet bar, and DH's family used a cabinet. Neither one of us have ever thought about locking it up, although there was an alcoholic family member in DHs life.

I admit we've checked the levels a couple of times!

We only had the corner cabinet built in wet bar in this house, and removed it long ago. Ours is stored in a furniture piece, with some tools but no glasses. I think bar displays are cool, but there's not a good place for one in our house unless it's a party.

I guess we treat it like any other pantry item.

I normally say we model moderate behavior. But DH went through a period that's just ending. He was quietly drinking while watching tv., 2-3 drinks the past year or more. (ETA 2-4 drinks per evening when he did this, not total 2-3 per year!) Maybe not an alcoholic, but not healthy and definitely numbing and counter productive. He's stopped that and we've tried to include the escapism factor in discussions with our kids. It's an ongoing discussion.

I grew up trying a few gross tastes offered by my parents. DH remember really liking it when he was offered, so it's only with mid teen we've let him taste when he asks.

We keep it in a kitchen cabinet and on a wine rack. We don't have much and we live in a small house so no space for an actual bar.

We have teens but don't lock it up, I have this idea that I don't want them to think it is a mysterious, forbidden treat. Both have sampled wine and such. I don't want them to go out binge drinking in the world at large.

My girls were very amused when I showed them the bottle opener known as the butler's helper and explained how it works.

We have a small built in bar w/ a small refrigerator in our living room where we keep beer and soda. We have built in wine racks for wine storage. Once we open a bottle of wine, it goes in the fridge (both red and white). We keep vodka in the freezer (the vodka doesn't freeze and the bottle doesn't break). We generally don't have many other types of liquor on hand, but when we do, we store it in the cabinet over the refrigerator.

When our kids were teens we didn't keep our liquor under lock and key, but we did keep an eye on the booze. It sounds like we have a ton of booze in the house, but we really don't. At any one time, my husband and I could tell you how many bottles of beer were in the refrigerator or how full the vodka bottle was, so I think we would have known if the kids were getting into our liquor. I'm pretty sure they found other ways to get liquor, but I don't think it was from our stash.

I keep most of mine in a built-in bar in our office. i have a bar storage end table that I use for seldom-used liquor that I don't really need to keep out (sweet vermouth for the occasional friend who likes Manhattans, eg).

My oldest is 14. She isn't interested in alcohol yet. If our lives restructure so that she is around the house with friends when we aren't home, I may start thinking about a locked cabinet (and I have no idea what the younger kids will be like as teens). My parents only kept beer around our house, so that was easy for them to track.

We have a bar in our basement and keep some of the less used stuff down there. The rest is in a kitchen cupboard. Nothing is locked up, my kids are still little.

I have a built in wine rack for wine storage, and I keep booze in a cabinet. I am not really a drink at home type of person unless we are having a party, so my liquor cabinet consists of a bottle of Jack. We usually go out for cocktails.

Like you I grew up in a very mormon family, but with a twist...father is an alcoholic. Alcohol was the dirty little secret in our family, along with many other offenses. As soon as it was offered to me when I was about 15, I jumped on that as fast as I could, what kid doesn't love finding out why things are kept so secret. I drank a lot in high school.

As I grew up & left the mormon cult, I realized that drinking to get drunk is not fun & rather miserable. I also wasn't going to raise my kids the same way. My husband & I were very open about alcohol & other subjects. I only had 1 daughter try alcohol before age 21. My other 3 never did. My oldest daughter that tried it didn't really care for it & rarely drinks now days.

We do not lock up our alcohol & I store it in a cabinet that I purchased from Ikea. Wine is stored in the cabinet in a wine rack. The whiskey & other's are stored on top of the cabinet. I'm on the look out for a copper shaker set & copper tray.

I'm learning a lot about wine & food pairings. I enjoy this very much. I'm lucky enough to live in Oregon's wine country, so we go often to different vineyards & events.

We have a fabulous beer fridge that is a Korean restaurant fridge. It is my most favorite piece of furniture. We keep beer and pop in it, hard alcohol (which is mostly gifts and for looks, lol) on top. I have never worried about the kids. My oldest dd accompanied me to a ball last week and had champagne and wine (she is 18) and did not care for either . They have the odd mimosa at Christmas but that is it, so locking it up never occurred to me.

It's just booze. It isnt meth. I do love ,y beer fridge though!

Kept inside a cabinet. We've never locked it as neither kid was every really interested in alcohol. Only one left is 16 and we have let her have a sip of things probably the last 4 years or so. Most stuff she hates. Last weekend I got some hard grape and orange sodas. She tasted and liked those so maybe I'll have to hide them but probably not.

I think whether you need to lock or not really depends on your kids. My parents should have locked but didn't.

We don't lock up our liquor. I've never seen the need, and unless our lifestyle changes - there really isn't a whole lot of opportunity. If we hit the point where we're leaving our teens over night or otherwise unsupervised for long periods of time, I might reevaluate. There's little we can do about the wine though - we have a pretty substantial wine rack - although they'd probably worry about grabbing the wrong bottle - or they damn sure should be.

If and when any of you find a need to lock up the bottles please make sure the hinges are on the inside of the cabinet. We reached that point with my DS's friends but they just knocked out the hinge pins