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POLL: Do you lock your house?
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Re: POLL: Do you lock your house?
It is usually locked until I get a chance to go get the mail (hubby locks it on his way to work). Then it's unlocked until he comes home (6:30 PM). Once hubby gets home, he locks the door on his way in and it stays that way.
This...well, the door that leads to the garage is unlocked during the day, but the rest of our doors are locked all the time.
Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
"Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church
Pretty much the same here.
I don't lock it because we live in the middle of freakin' nowhere, yet less than half a mile from the police station. I called about a deer with a broken leg and there were TWO squad cars here in under 5 minutes.
One of our neighbors went to Europe a couple of years ago. They were gone for 3 weeks and their front door was inadvertently left standing open the entire time. Their house is full of antiques from one end to the other, as well as expensive silver and electronics. Nothing was touched. It's a pretty safe place to live.
DS - December 2006
DD - December 2008
Basically I'm lazy and I think having to always fumble with keys/locks is really f'ing annoying. Our door is opened and closed DOZENS of times a day. Seriously. We can't go 20 minutes without someone coming in or going out.
I don't even lock the door when we leave the house. If someone wants to break in they're going to find a way regardless of whether it is locked and really, I don't give a sh!t about anything in here. Let someone take it. It can all be replaced.
I would, of course, feel differently depending upon where I lived. My sister lived in New Haven, CT and I wouldn't sit in her condo watching TV during the day without a locked door. Another sister has had her home broken into THREE times this year. Her doors are always locked but that doesn't stop anyone from busting out her windows. Here, in my neighborhood/town? Not so much an issue. Sure, bad things can happen anywhere, but statistically it's much less likely.
ETA: If I lived in an apartment, regardless of how safe an area, I would always have my door locked too. Too many people coming and going all the time, drunks going to the wrong door (after all, they all look alike), etc.
This. The door the leads to the garage is always unlocked when we're home during the day and gets locked when we go to bed, but it's never locked when we're gone. I know, that's backward. You can't get into the garage so you can't get into the house. We both drive cars that have keyless start so it's a pain to dig for the keys to get into the house when we get home. the front door is always locked unless a visitor goes out it and we forget.
This.
In the summertime I'll leave the back door open if we are in the backyard, but the front door is alway locked unless we are in the front yard which is pretty rare. Totally safe suburban neighborhood. I wouldn't hesitate to leave the front door unlocked while I took the kids for a bike ride or a walk, but it makes DH uncomfortable so I don't do it. Better safe than sorry I guess.
Just part of our personal culture. Unlocked homes are very normal.
Although I have to say that last fall when I heard knocking at the downstairs door after 9pm, I was slightly freaked. I mean, nobody would accidentally knock on that door if they came to the house.
It was a wild turkey pecking at the door. Dumb bird.
We never did growing up. My mom just couldn't keep track of keys. It was a very low crime area.
And now I live in a doorman building. I lock the door most of the time, especially whe DH isn't home at night. But with 70 other apartments and a doorman keeping an eye on the only entrance I don't feel unsafe leaving the door unlocked when I am Ina rush an can't find the keys. In 15 years and 3 (doorman) buildings I have never heard of a break-in in any of my neighbors' apartments.
With the home invasions around here, we keep the doors locked at all times. Or I should say I do. My DH is from Vermont and forgets it's not like that here.
It's always locked. We mostly use our garage to come in and out so there is no need to unlock the front door.
We have a keypad for the garage so my ILs come in through the garage with the code.
Aiden 10.17.07 Emma 07.15.10
who is going in and out that many times? oh do you have a fenced yard so your kids can go play by themselves? We don't...
Everyone, LOL!
Yesterday, for example: I come and go from work. Dh comes and goes to work. MIL left the house a couple of times, her home health aide came by. UPS delivered a package. Fed Ex delivered a second package. I went outside several times to check the mail, get something out of the car, feed the chickens, etc. Little boy from next door knocks to see if kids can play. They come in and out at least a dozen times over the course of the next hour. A friend stopped by to show me his new car.
But the worst offenders? The pets. Scratch/whine at the door. Get up and let them out. Scratch and whine to be let back in. Get up to open the door and let them in. Repeat this process every 15 minutes for the entire day damn. I wish we had a pet door, but our house only has one door (no back door) and I don't want to install one in our front door.
this.