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Post by jenis40 on Feb 14, 2017 17:23:18 GMT
I don't have kids so I keep mine in a wine rack and cabinet. My vodka I keep in the freezer because I like cold martinis. My parents didn't keep alcohol in the house really but most of the teenagers I knew had no trouble procuring alcohol in rural, small town Montana. 😏
This is one of those subjects that make me some what glad I'm not a parent. While I wasn't a hard partier in high school I did partake before I was 21. And I knew people who were, some of whom I wonder how they survived those years.
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Post by jenis40 on Feb 14, 2017 17:30:24 GMT
I understand what you are saying Gennifer . I'm still scared to try alcohol. It's more of not knowing how I'll handle it, what is my limit kind of thing. I feel like I have to always be very alert because of my son with special needs. My husband has a drink or 2 on the weekends. He doesn't lock up the alcohol. Ultimately there is no reason to drink alcohol if you don't want to. I have lots of friends, both Mormon and non-Mormon, who don't drink, mostly because they don't like the taste. If you really want to try something, I would start with a small glass of a sweeter wine like Reisling or Gewurztraminer. As a woman I have a 1 drink max on an average day and 2 drink max on a special occasion.
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Post by compwalla on Feb 14, 2017 17:31:51 GMT
My oldest is nearly twenty and we have never locked up the alcohol. He just has never seemed that interested in drinking. Weed, yes, and he has admitted to LSD use but alcohol no. Most of our bottles are stored in a high cabinet in the kitchen and the others are stored in my husband's drink fridge in the garage. (Maintaining a beer fridge in the garage is pretty much a state law in Texas.)
I don't drink much and my husband is very into craft beers so it's always just been something we've had in the house that wasn't treated as any big deal. I like a mojito now and then but since it uses so many fresh ingredients I have to plan my mojitos in advance so the rum being stored in a high cabinet is not a big deal. It's here but we don't highlight it. I never had any desire for a bar or a bar cart or anything. We just don't drink enough to make it worth it.
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Post by belgravia on Feb 14, 2017 17:37:22 GMT
Ok, full disclosure, my daughter is 14 (legal age here is 18). We have a built in wine rack in the kitchen. Bar cart in the dining room, as well as some liquor stored in the sideboard. Full bar downstairs, and in the summer there is a stocked bar fridge outside on the deck. So obviously, nothing is locked up. I almost always offer her a sip of whatever I'm drinking. So far, she's hated pretty much everything We don't believe in making it something "taboo," we'd rather be up front and open about it.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 14, 2017 17:47:00 GMT
We are our own liquor store in the house I think. All of us are legal and yet the alcohol is kept out of reach. Why? I am not sure. We have 2 cupboards in the kitchen full of hard liquor like rum, whiskey, cognac, vermouth, brandy, and liqueurs. We have a cabinet in the basement that is FULL of wine. I don't know what good wine from bad wine is but the red is on the top and white is on the bottom. Then we have a cabinet in the basement that has all the duty free stuff that gets bought. There are another 15-20 bottles in it. I think it is all spares of the stuff upstairs. There is also a garage fridge full of beer and wine.
We take our alcohol very seriously apparently. There is no chance we will ever run out at this point.
We offered DS sips of wine or whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. He didn't ever want anything. I am not sure if he drinks at all. I know he has 3 beers of his own in the garage. (I think they are his). There are also my Mike's Hard Cranberry and Strawberry Lemonade. No one touches them as they are too girly for the men. They like their stuff I guess.
I am told not to use the "good" red for making dinner. I don't know what a "good" red from a "regular" red is as a bottle of red wine looks the same to me (don't tell me to just open a bottle of red wine-you'll get what you get if you tell me that). I have asked what is the difference and get a "wine blah blah blah grape blah blah France blah blah Okanagan blah blah." I need concrete details like "it's on the left" or look at the top. It's too much detail for me. He belongs to a wine club with all his friends and they like their wine parties.
I wouldn't say we are heavy drinkers but I would say we are serious or conscientious because all of what we have is "good".
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Post by pierkiss on Feb 14, 2017 17:48:11 GMT
We keep it in a cabinet we have designated as the liquor cabinet. The wine is stored in the basement on our wine racks. The only liquor we keep refrigerated is vodka, and that's actually in the freezer.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Feb 14, 2017 18:44:45 GMT
Always had the alcohol put away in a cupboard, but not locked. Offered our girls sips while growing up in their teens. One dd has always been interested, one not at all. They have pretty much remained like that. The one with the interest turned 21 this wk. Had the big, going out, I'm 21 party, and she did well. Didn't get fall down puking drunk. I think it has to do with our open policy, and open discussion of it. She's also a bit of a control freak, so that too.
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Post by tanya2 on Feb 14, 2017 19:18:34 GMT
We keep a fair bit of alcohol in our house actually which is funny since we are only social/weekend drinkers. Hard liquor in a cabinet over the fridge, wine in the wine rack as well as a full shelving unit of wine & beer in the basement. DS is of legal age so some of that collection belongs to him. DD is only a year away from being legal, so honestly we're fairly lax on drinking rules around our house. I've never had any issue with underage drinking - but only because nobody in my family is excessive about it so there haven't been any red flags to worry about
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Post by anniefb on Feb 14, 2017 19:20:59 GMT
No kids. I keep everything but wine in the pantry and have a couple of wine racks in the garage. When I was growing up my parents always had a drinks cabinet.
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Post by polz on Feb 14, 2017 19:32:23 GMT
Well our wine cellar is in DD's bedroom. That's how the former owners built it. Kids know not everything is for them. Like cookies at every meal or cigarettes (We do not smoke, but most kids know that's for adults). DD is 16. No lock on any alcohol at our house.
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Post by Menjiness on Feb 14, 2017 19:36:23 GMT
Former Mormon here also. We have a cabinet that is our alcohol center. It is in the dining room. We also just started cocktail Sundays. We make a mixed drink and enjoy. I have a 23 and 17-year-old daughters at home. We make a watered down version for the 17-year-old. She enjoys being part of the fun and she is open about not drinking outside the home. Her joke is why drink the cheap stuff when my parents have the good expensive stuff at home. She likes to taste everything and we are ok with her doing that.
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Post by ~summer~ on Feb 14, 2017 19:37:51 GMT
I don't lock anything up. And I have teenagers.
Wine is just in fridge or on counter -- most liquor such as brandy, port, cognac, vermouth (I do a lot of French cooking lol) is mostly for cooking and is in the kitchen.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Feb 14, 2017 19:40:11 GMT
I love the look of this drink cart. Of course mine would have a lot more bottles. Lol
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Post by Nanner on Feb 14, 2017 19:46:25 GMT
It's currently stored in a bar cabinet in our dining room. The centre section of that cabinet is a wine rack and the hard liquor is the cupboard alonog one side. Glasses, decanters and such are on the other side cupboard. The house we just bought (and move into next month) has a small wet bar in the basement family room. We'll be putting the bar cabinet down there as well. Apparently, we're buying a kegerator so we will have a beer on tap at home, once we move in. Or so I'm told.
ETA: My kids are adults now, and no longer live at home with us, but we never locked up the cabinet when they were teenagers. DD in fact, didn't even try alcohol until she was 23.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 14, 2017 19:59:18 GMT
we don't have kids, so I can't help you there. We have a small liquor cabinet in our kitchen and display the liquor bottles on top of it. The wine glasses, cocktail shaker, ice bucket, etc. are also stored in this cabinet. We have a smallish selection of alcohols on hand to make the cocktails / drinks we like-- tequila, Grand Marnier, peach schnapps, and a few other things. And my boyfriend's bourbon and cognac collection, maybe about 10 bottles or so. There's space below the countertop for about 8 bottles of wine to be stored horizontally. We don't keep a large selection of different liquors; just a few things to make the cocktails we like. Our liquor cabinet is in our kitchen where there is a west-facing window. I try to make sure the sun doesn't shine directly on the liquor bottles in the afternoon. eta: besides the occasional bottle or can of beer, my dad only ever had ONE bottle of alcohol- a bottle of Drambuie, and it was stored in the cabinet above the stove. Due to the heat, that's not really the best place for storing liquor, is it?? I don't have a photo of it, but our liquor cabinet has: two closed cabinets below where the extra bourbon is, along with the extra placemats and dishtowels; a section for wine bottle storage; two drawers for storing the corkscrew, wine stoppers, bottle opener, etc.; a metal countertop for the liquor bottles and cocktail shaker set; and two upper glass-door cabinets where the wine glasses are displayed. We bought it online somewhere. we have this hutch, in a lighter brown with a metal top: wooden hutch
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Post by stahija on Feb 14, 2017 20:11:04 GMT
I don't have kids so I keep mine in a wine rack and cabinet. My vodka I keep in the freezer because I like cold martinis. My parents didn't keep alcohol in the house really but most of the teenagers I knew had no trouble procuring alcohol in rural, small town Montana. 😏 This is one of those subjects that make me some what glad I'm not a parent. While I wasn't a hard partier in high school I did partake before I was 21. And I knew people who were, some of whom I wonder how they survived those years. Sounds like I had a very similar upbringing. I'm from MT too, and my parents kept their liquor out in the open. I wasn't much of a partier in high school but I would have never thought to drink theirs. There were many other places to get it than from my house. I don't have kids either so our alcohol is sort of all over the place (beer in the garage fridge, wine on the counter and in the wine rack, bar in the basement).
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Post by Gennifer on Feb 14, 2017 20:12:22 GMT
I understand what you are saying Gennifer . I'm still scared to try alcohol. It's more of not knowing how I'll handle it, what is my limit kind of thing. I feel like I have to always be very alert because of my son with special needs. My husband has a drink or 2 on the weekends. He doesn't lock up the alcohol. It's taken me years to get to this point... one of the best pieces of advice I had was to drink enough to get buzzed at least once, just so I can recognize the feeling. I've yet to get drunk, and don't anticipate wanting to ever. But, yeah, it's hard knowing what are the acceptable levels: Can I drive after having a drink with dinner? How much does it take to get drunk? Will I know I am? These are all things that other people figure out in their twenties.
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Post by carhoch on Feb 14, 2017 20:23:07 GMT
I was raise in Switzerland where legal age for drinking is 16 but you cannot drive tot the age of 18 and I have never seen nobody put the alcohol under key over there, this is really an American thing !
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Post by rickmer on Feb 14, 2017 20:37:31 GMT
Can I drive after having a drink with dinner? How much does it take to get drunk? Will I know I am? These are all things that other people figure out in their twenties. i am a drinker (and always have been). my rule is one drink and i still drive, any more than that, i do not. bottom line, i have had 4 mixed drinks and "felt fine" but had one and half glasses of red wine and felt "buzzed". as women, my understanding is we metabolize based on many factors so "one drink" limit works well for me. as for storing liquor, nothing under lock and key. my daughter is in grade 11 and often has her friends here. oh well - if they nip into something, i will figure it out. i was a teenager myself - i am pretty sure there are no new tricks. i don't believe in alcohol being a big mystery. all three of my kids (15, 10 and 9 at the time) tasted some root beer flavoured beer at the cottage last summer, have had sips of their dad's beer or my cocktail before.
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Post by tincin on Feb 14, 2017 20:44:42 GMT
When I have alcohol in the house, I store it in one of the kitchen cabinets. I've never had a child bother it, to my knowledge, and if they did they didn't do anything that involved me finding out they got into it. I don't tend to keep much liquor because I am a wine drinker.
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Post by peasapie on Feb 15, 2017 3:44:46 GMT
Don't be dumb like me. When my kids were growing up we barely ever drank but had alcohol in the house for parties. We kept the vodka in the freezer, and one day we tried some and it had gone bad and turned watery. So we threw it out. Ten years later I overheard my kids talking about how mom and dad were oblivious to them taking the vodka out of the bottle and pouring in water. I thought I was such an aware parent.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 15, 2017 3:55:04 GMT
I used to have a bar and the alcohol was just on the shelves on the wall. We ended up pulling the bar out and now the grog is stored in the pantry. I don't actually drink alcohol, but I get given a lot of wine through work, so I have heaps of wine in the pantry. DSO drinks Baileys, beer and bourbon. The Baileys and bourbon is in the pantry and the beer is in the outside fridge. I never worried about DD getting into the alcohol (she's 19 now so she can legally drink) but I think I will start hiding it or locking it away in a few years when my now-12yo DS may become tempted.
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Post by StephDRebel on Feb 15, 2017 4:12:39 GMT
We have a ton but rarely drink at home. It's in a shelf in the laundry room Intel I find a cute way to display it, wine is in a wine fridge in the kitchen and beer is in the fridge
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Post by gorgeouskid on Feb 15, 2017 4:21:01 GMT
I used Pinterest to set up my totally cute bar- both styling it and buying the booze and accessories. I have it on two shelves in my kitchen. I don't have a lock up because we don't have kids over (small house + introvert only child.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 4:33:10 GMT
We have a tall buffet that is made into a bar. The alcohol and glasses are stored in the top and the extra things are stored below. Our kids are too small to be left alone at home and too short to reach the alcohol so it won't be something to think about for a few years. We will probably remove the liquor if they were ever left home alone (when they are teens) but other than that, we will go with the threat of checking up on them.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 15, 2017 4:36:58 GMT
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! For some in our extended family, it might as well have been because it was just as destructive. My parents would have a mixed drink or two after dinner most nights, and they never locked up their booze. Maybe they should have because just about every one of my siblings besides me had problems with alcohol and/or drug abuse. One brother now is a recovering alcoholic, another one is still a raging alcoholic, one died of a drug overdose and that scared me straight through most of my high school days. DH's parents were both alcoholics. It ended up being a major contributing factor (health) in both of their deaths, neither one made it to 70 years old. I drank some when I was younger. I don't like the taste of most alcohol and wine so I never drink at all now. DH will have a beer or a drink on occasion. Because there is so much addiction on both sides and because I believe there is a hereditary aspect and predisposition for some people to addiction, I worry about it with DD and talk to her about the dangers of using alcohol or drugs. We don't keep what we have here locked up currently because she's only six, but it's definitely something that we will pay close attention to later on. I've read that most kids (who sneak it) try their first alcohol when they're about 11-12 years old, so I refuse to fool myself into thinking that it's something kids don't mess with until they're older.
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Post by k8smom on Feb 15, 2017 4:47:37 GMT
I'm lucky enough to live in Oregon's wine country Me too! Are you in Yamhill county?
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Post by milocat on Feb 15, 2017 4:50:38 GMT
Ours is downstairs in the storage room where the deep freeze, Costco run overflow stuff is stored etc. I don't have room to store it upstairs. We don't drink hard alcohol very often so it doesn't need to be super accessible. I rarely drink. Hubby and the people we have over are big beer drinkers so they grab beer and throw it in the fridge. I'm not going to lock it up from my DDs aged almost 16 & 14, unless it were to become a problem then I guess we wouldn't have any in the house. The legal drinking age is 18 here.
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Post by Jili on Feb 15, 2017 4:55:21 GMT
We have some hard alcohol that is stored in a cabinet above our range/microwave. We rarely drink that stuff, and some of it has been up there a LONG time. Dh tends to get bottles of tequila and vodka from work as gifts. I'll drink a vodka drink 1-2 times per year, but neither of us touches tequila unless we're making margaritas (which we usually go out to get).
Wine is stored in a wine rack in our dining room, as well as in the fridge when it needs chilling. Same goes for beer, but we're more into wine.
We've never felt the need to lock up the booze. It's just never been a concern of mine in terms of the kids. It's just like anything else we have in the house.
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Post by Lexica on Feb 15, 2017 5:03:11 GMT
I grew up in a home with alcohol in an unlocked cabinet in the pantry. I never even considered taking it because my father drank too much and I hated seeing it. Both of my sisters stole booze from home by pouring some into another container and adding water to bring it to the same line it started at. My mother didn't really drink at all. Maybe a beer when working in the backyard on a hot day, but that was about it. Unless they went out, she would order a single mixed drink. My parents never noticed that the stuff at home was watered down. Or if they did, I never heard about it.
I enjoy a good Merlot, and an occasional beer. I didn't really have it around when my son grew up because his father was an alcoholic and I didn't want to worry him that I might turn into one too. I don't remember how old he was but he came downstairs one day and saw an open beer on the kitchen table. He went around the corner, came back, peeked outside in the back yard, then finally asked me who was over. I told him no one was visiting, why? He swore there must be someone hiding because he had never seen me drink a beer before. I didn't realize that was the case. It was my beer. I asked him if it bothered him. He said it really did because he was afraid I would drink like his dad did and then he would have no one to depend on.
I had the choice to either model moderate responsible drinking or just stop having any at home around him. I chose not having any at home because he was really upset about it. I did tell him that I had wine when I went out with friends and that not everyone that had any alcohol turned into a major drunk. I wanted to model the responsible route, but didn't have it around the house. I had him in with a therapist at that point for some things going on with his father. I asked the therapist for input and he agreed that due to my son's extreme reaction and feelings of anxiety over seeing me with a single beer it was not healthy for him to see me drink. I would mention going out for drinks with girlfriends or meeting a guy for a drink. That seemed okay and he didn't freak over my drinking away from home.
He went through a big drinking phase in his early 20s. It really worried me because of his father. He hated watching his father drunk and eventually grew out of the phase himself. He might have an occasional drink now, but I really doubt he gets drunk. He has a business that he is very proud of and a girlfriend that he loves, so I don't think he'd return to those drinking days.
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