Google searches have failed me but I’d think there would be something like this out there. I want to keep a container of coffee creamer in the shared fridge at work but I don’t want it to be a community used creamer. If I could find a thermos with a locking lid making in unopenable by anyone but the owner it would solve my problem.
Would this work? It's Not Your Lunch Locking Lunch Bag | It's Not Your Store
Like this?
ETA: linked to another product but turns out that one is unavailable.
Well, that will work until the offending coworker discovers The Lockpicking Lawyer. Then it just becomes an arms race that the o.p. will find himself periodically on the losing side of.
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I solved this problem by buying a pack of the individual creamer cups that don’t need to be refrigerated, and I keep em in my desk.
I would suspect that if you kept your creamer in a normal, insulated bag, most people would leave it alone. I wouldn’t think lunch thieves would be going through the bags looking for creamer. But just in case, put the creamer in a bottle labeled “Breast Milk”.
I second this. Have used them.
Depending on the shape of your container could you use a lock out type device used for round valve handles? Modify the stem hole side to fit the neck of your container and lock it. The lock out will just spin so the stealer(s) can not unscrew the cap.
With regard to above posted lock:
It fits more than wine bottles. I’ve used them on these bottle preforms:
I hope Richard Feynman doesn’t work at your office.
Just don’t use 31-41-59 or 27-18-28 as your combo and you’ll be relatively safe.
How often do you pour creamer into coffee in a day? It would drive me nuts to have to undo a lock every time I wanted a fresh cup. And it would make me mad at my co-workers that I couldn’t just leave it in the fridge marked “mine”.
I’d probably use it once a day so a small bottle would last a while. It’s a tiny fridge so a lockable lunchbag would never fit. It’s shared by about 10 people over 3 shifts but the overnighters seem to think anything is fair game if left in there.
Will try the YAODHAOD lock on a small bottle and that should suffice. Thanks!
That’s what I’d do. A loose condiment or creamer container in a workplace refigerator could, in the mind of a moocher, be justified as up for grabs. Having to dig through others’ bags removes the possibilty for a misunderstanding.
Failing that, I’d pour the creamer into something clean but odd like an old ketchup bottle or pickle jar. Come to think of it, a hand sanitizer pump might be fun, too.
I think I’d just switch to powdered.
I think it makes more sense to switch to having the offending employees fired.
Oh nice! I should have thought of a 3D printed lock earlier. Thingiverse has a whole bunch of options, depending on the type of bottle you want to lock.