Locking the Refrigerator

Yeah, the ability to lock your fridge would be nice. As things are now, having an open-plan home or a home where the kitchen entrance is an open archway just makes things frustrating when people come over.

Really, we've needed that since TS2, with nannies who just randomly made Baked Alaska whenever they showed up. Remember that hot mess?

"coogee78;c-17434334" wrote:
Locking fridges would be great. I like to get my sims to cook several party sized meals to last them a while. It is very annoying to watch other sims clean out the fridge at an event, especially when there is already low hunger/high calorie party food out for them.

Easels and cauldrons would be good to lock as well, I'm sick of having to scrap paintings and stop my non magical sims from cooking in the cauldron all the time. Admittedly these are not as bad as the fridges, but if they can lock objects, they might as well lock all the ones that it does not make sense for other sims to be using.

Yes this drives me crazy and why I want the feature added.

"Suceress;c-17435387" wrote:
I'd like to lock my real life fridge bc a certain household member keeps eating all my food. LOL.

I wasn't aware that visiting Sims would raid the fridge too. I only had a Sim over once & he got on the computer while my sim was performing songs so I kicked him out of the house and locked the computer. I would absolutely want to do the same thing with the fridge. If my somewhat antisocial sim has any guests over, I don't want them raiding the fridge.

So, I "second" this suggestion.

If you live in Sulani then you are constantly getting forced neighbours bringing you food Social Event, which you cant end early, where they bring a big plate of pork. If you let them in, they go straight for the fridge and clean it out in my experience. While I am a big RPG player and because of that normally get into the stats and gameplay side of thing more than the roleplay, I can't eat pork because it makes me feel really nauseous. I can't even smell it without feeling a little ill. So none of my sims eat pork, meaning that instead of the game just replacing what the visiting sims steal, I have a bunch of sims I did not invite crowded outside my door for ages or stealing my food and generally making a nuisance of themselves if they get let in until the timer runs out.

This is a good idea. I don't like that if I invite some Sims over for a party and they just eat all of my food!! Locking refrigerators like doors (where you can lock them for particular sims or everyone) would be a great add on for the Sims 4.

This is a really great idea.

You could turn it around so sims don't have access to it. Or block it with a chair.

"Marduc_Plays;c-17277420" wrote:
Sims below a certain friendship threshold (or without the "always welcome" trait, or owning a key) shouldn't even attempt to raid the fridge. Every played Sim gets thrown out of other households for doing so, so it should be bad manners vice versa.
Same for Computers.

Yeah like who goes around to an acquaintance’s house and raids their fridge then sits on a computer???

I hope they add this option because i really hate others sims going into my sims fridge. Even in real life, I have an issue with people going into my fridge without asking permission.

That bugs me too. If I have a dining room separate to the kitchen I tend to lock the kitchen to everyone except the family and staff.