Locked Medicine Cabinets and Alcohol Recommendations

MileHighMaam · February 2014

We had our first home study yesterday and got the list of everything we need to do to the house. Curious if there are any recommendations and suggestions on what people did to lock away their medicine and alcohol. We have a fairly extensive alcohol collection beer, wine and hard liquor that we need to have locked away but still need relatively easy access to.

IdigDirt · February 2014

Can beer not be in the fridge? Do you have a cabinet you can put one of those kiddie locks on? For meds we just have them in a high cabinet over the sink and our LW said he "thinks that should be fine" but we will find out if we ever have our inspection.

lorifromwi · February 2014

We have a pretty nice selection of adult beverages as well. We are doing a kiddie lock on our liquor cabinet and are putting a lock on our wine cellar in the basement (ok it's a closet with a wine rack in to). If you are looking at placement of infant or toddler, I would think kiddie locks would be plenty.

MileHighMaam · February 2014

I'm not sure if beer can be in the fridge we will have to ask that during our next meeting. We currently have all of our wine on 3 separate wine racks/cabinets - none of them can have a lock on them. The wine racks are all open.

Our target age range is 3-8 so I don't know what their exact requirements are for locking away the liquor.

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mtendere · February 2014

We didn't have to have our alcohol locked, but it has to be out of reach. Medicines do have to be locked, though, so we bought a locking cabinet from the garage section of Lowe's and put it in our walk in closet. For daily meds that we want out, we bought a small combination lock box for the bathroom counter and we have another downstairs for out pet meds. I imagine the same thing would work for alcohol if it has to be locked, or if you have a cabinet you can put a padlock on, that is another option we considered. There are locking medicine cabinets and the like, but we found the simpler cabinets at lowe's would for everything we had to lock up
and were lots cheaper. If you take a stroll through a home improvement or hardware store, you'll see lots of locking options - file cabinets, tool cabinets, locks than can be installed on doors or cabinets you already have. Amazon has options, too.

Good luck!

daniandbri · February 2014

We put a rubbermade cabinet in our pantry that had a lock on it... And we had a drinking party to clear some out. We don't drink much but seemed to have quite the collection.

arbutusbride · February 2014

We store out alcohol in the basement. Since we are DIA our SW did not see a problem with this arrangement. When the child is older and able to access it we told her we are planning on putting a lock on the door.

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