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Inexpensive Lockbox

jaihawk

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Our 14 year old son has started to steal crap from his sister's rooms. Mostly small stuff like their snacks or headphones. I'm looking for an inexpensive option for a box with a latch that I can put a padlock on for them. Everything I see online seems to be an ammo box, which is too small. Thoughts?
 
jaihawk said:
Our 14 year old son has started to steal crap from his sister's rooms. Mostly small stuff like their snacks or headphones. I'm looking for an inexpensive option for a box with a latch that I can put a padlock on for them. Everything I see online seems to be an ammo box, which is too small. Thoughts?
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Can you put a deadbolt on a closet?
 
Any kind of cheap lockbox you get is going to be able to bust in to relatively easy. Is this something your daughters want?
 
jaihawk said:
Our 14 year old son has started to steal crap from his sister's rooms. Mostly small stuff like their snacks or headphones. I'm looking for an inexpensive option for a box with a latch that I can put a padlock on for them. Everything I see online seems to be an ammo box, which is too small. Thoughts?
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As a LE veteran, there is more of an issue here that needs to be explored.
 
TheRealJohnCooper said:
As a LE veteran, there is more of an issue here that needs to be explored.
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Yeah...if OP didn't mention his age, I would have suspected a 4 or 5 year old doing it, and maybe locking up a few things until you could straighten him out would make sense. A 14 year old?! Unless he is developmentally disabled, a lockbox is not going to solve the problem, much less address whatever the root cause of this behavior is.
 
jaihawk said:
Our 14 year old son has started to steal crap from his sister's rooms. Mostly small stuff like their snacks or headphones. I'm looking for an inexpensive option for a box with a latch that I can put a padlock on for them. Everything I see online seems to be an ammo box, which is too small. Thoughts?
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Al Gore is the guy to ask.
 
jaihawk said:
Our 14 year old son has started to steal crap from his sister's rooms. Mostly small stuff like their snacks or headphones. I'm looking for an inexpensive option for a box with a latch that I can put a padlock on for them. Everything I see online seems to be an ammo box, which is too small. Thoughts?
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I steal snacks from my kids rooms all the time. Also iphone chargers.

I call it taxation.

You don't secure your fruit snacks you are on your on in my book.
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