Living at home as an adult can turn small things into way bigger arguments than they should be.

Imagine buying your own snacks with money from your internship and asking your family multiple times to at least ask before taking them, but they just laugh at you and keep doing it.

What would you do? Would you continue sharing with them? Or would you take the next step to keep them out of your food?

In the following story, one young man finds himself in this situation and is forced to take the next step.

Here’s what he did.

AITA for locking up my snacks so my family can’t take them without asking?

I am a 22M, and I buy my own snacks with allowance from my internship.

If I leave my snacks in the kitchen, they get eaten.

So, I keep them in my room. Even then, my family (parents and younger sibling) still takes them without asking.

They don’t understand that it’s the principle here.

I’ve asked them multiple times to at least ask first, but they say it’s not a big deal and laugh it off.

After it kept happening, I bought a small lockbox and started keeping my snacks locked up.

Now my family says I’m being selfish and mean for not sharing. I don’t mind sharing if people ask, but I really don’t want my own things taken without permission.

AITA?

Yikes! Most people would do the same thing he did.

Let’s see how the folks over at Reddit feel about him locking up his food.

This reader goes the other way.

According to this comment, if they don’t share, he shouldn’t share.

These are expensive decoys, though.

This mom also hides snacks.

He should’ve quietly locked them up.

Either way, sharing is always the best option, but only if they share with him, too.

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