Do you shut and lock

[hereyago]

I just had knee surgery from sleep walking.

Oh gosh I'm sorry. are you ok now? i actually used to sleep walk when I was a kid, we lived in a townhouse.

 

[frijolefrito]

I lock EVERYTHING and if I could I'd build a moat around my house with lions and tiger covering my backyard. I'd make the kids clean up the animal doo doo.

 

[Disney Doll]

My father was a cop.

I lock doors and windows.

We live not too far from the Petit family....the people in CT who had the home invasion ehere the mother and 2 daughtes were raped and killed and the father was beaten severely. They lived in a "nice safe small town".

When DH starts yapping at me for locking doors and windows I look at him and say "I have 2 words for you. Petit Family". 'Nuff said.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

I sleep in the living room, first floor, front door is open, but the screen is locked. Now it is a total screen, and anyone could get through it, but DH makes me lock it. Our window don't open enough for anyone to squeeze through and the other bedrooms have child stoppers.

A few days ago there was a shooting at the Rec Center down the road. I still don't feel afraid enough to close up the door.

The back door is locked though.

 

[hereyago]

We live not too far from the Petit family....the people in CT who had the home invasion ehere the mother and 2 daughtes were raped and killed and the father was beaten severely. They lived in a "nice safe small town".

When DH starts yapping at me for locking doors and windows I look at him and say "I have 2 words for you. Petit Family". 'Nuff said.

That was such a tragedy, horrific, gives me chills thinking about what that family endured.

 

[sunnyday123]

My father was a cop.

I lock doors and windows.

We live not too far from the Petit family....the people in CT who had the home invasion ehere the mother and 2 daughtes were raped and killed and the father was beaten severely. They lived in a "nice safe small town".

When DH starts yapping at me for locking doors and windows I look at him and say "I have 2 words for you. Petit Family". 'Nuff said.

That poor family.

I forgot to add, my doors are ALWAYS locked. There was a local woman a few years ago who was gardening out back. A man walked in her unlocked front door, killed her husband and when she came in beat her, raped her and then kidnapped her. They found her a week or so later. It was a very nice, safe neighborhood. There is no place that is truly crime free, and leaving doors unlocked it just a gamble that I'm not taking.

 

[dnoyes]

I live in Boise idaho. It is still legal here to shoot you if you are on my lawn. What is this lock thing you speak of? .............

 

[si-am]

I hardly ever open the windows unless it's in a room actively supervised-- our screens are in need of replacing, and I'm always afraid one of the cats is going to push through!

 

[hereyago]

I live in Boise idaho. It is still legal here to shoot you if you are on my lawn.

 

[MrsJackSparrow4Life]

Yep

The only time our windows are unlocked is when we open them occasionally to let a breeze in.

 

[disykat]

All first floor windows closed and locked - and we don't have air conditioning!

When I was little, a friend of my brothers (who was in high school at the time) caught a cat burgler who had been hitting houses all over our area. It was all over the newspaper. He realized someone was climbing in the window, pretended to be asleep and when the guy left the room he went to the nearest phone in his parent's room(before cell phones) and called the police. The police arrived while he was still in the other side of the house.

I worried a lot about cat burglers when I was little. Our room was far enough from a phone and the house was small enough that I wouldn't have been able to sneak there.

 

[kacaju]

I live in a split level. My downstairs bathroom window stays locked since it is right at our front porch! All my other windows you would need a ladder to get in, so no if it is nice out those windows stay open.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yep, crazy family who are still alive + I once had a 6 foot male delusional crack head walk in on me alone in my apartment (convinced my guardian angel saved me) + the news = safety first + caution + ADT

 

[Disney Doll]

Pretty much everything I have ever read about burglars is that the key is to make your house harder to get into than the guy next door.

The "average" burglar (the one who is looking to rob you and not brutalize you) wants to be able to get in & out easily and quickly. He doesn't want to deal with fancy locks, barking dogs, alarms and all the other things people do. He knows that somewhere in your vicintiy issomeone who will have left a door unlocked, a window open or something that will make it easier than your house to get in to.

 

[princesspiglet]

Yes, most definitley. Our house was broken into 7 years ago in our old neighborhood when DH forgot to close the living room window one night. I woke up to find the burgler in our living room stealing DH's laptop and he ran away. He was eventually caught.

It scared the crap out of me thinking that he could have done anything to my DD who was upstairs asleep in her crib.

Now with DH deployed to Afghanistan, I not only have all the doors and windows locked, but I also have ADT installed on every single door and every single window. I also have a motion sensor alarm set up in the living room that would capture anyone trying to make his way down my hall to the bedrooms.

Besides that, I also have a 9mm fully loaded in a locked safe next to my bed. The safe requires either mine or my DH's fingerprint to open and once I put my fingertip on the sensor it can be unlocked within 2 seconds.

I am not taking any chances.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

I only open my upstairs windows. Window air conditioning units are only in the upstairs windows, too (which stinks when we get those occasional nice, cool days during the summer and the AC is in the window. ). I've been toying with the idea of getting an AC unit for a downstairs window but I just can't bring myself to keep that window open for the world to see. And I don't even live in a high-crime area.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Pretty much everything I have ever read about burglars is that the key is to make your house harder to get into than the guy next door.

The "average" burglar (the one who is looking to rob you and not brutalize you) wants to be able to get in & out easily and quickly. He doesn't want to deal with fancy locks, barking dogs, alarms and all the other things people do. He knows that somewhere in your vicintiy issomeone who will have left a door unlocked, a window open or something that will make it easier than your house to get in to.

This is exactly what I tell DW. She gets a little nervous even having the upstairs windows open at night because you can climb up on the roof to gain access. The truth is, though, that climbing up onto a roof is not something the average burglar wants to do.

Easy in, easy out is all they care about. Even something simple as a table full of glass vases in front of an open window will make a burglar pause, due to the possibility of making too much noise.

 

[Micca]

Usually it's either too hot or too cold to have the windows open, so they are almost always closed and locked.

 

[njmom47]

Always.....DH works overnights and dd and ds and I are alone. Our bedrooms are upstairs. Our kitchen windows are the perfect height to get into due to the deck. Living room windows are a bit more difficult but since the kids have broken in more than once through them, they are accessible. And unfortunately, we only have 3 10-15 lb burglar deterrents (see my signature!).

 

[Toad_Passenger]

I only open my upstairs windows. Window air conditioning units are only in the upstairs windows, too (which stinks when we get those occasional nice, cool days during the summer and the AC is in the window. ). I've been toying with the idea of getting an AC unit for a downstairs window but I just can't bring myself to keep that window open for the world to see. And I don't even live in a high-crime area.

You can actually get locks that are installed on the windows that the AC units are in. This prevents someone from knocking the unit out of the window and gaining access. We only have 1 window unit downstairs, and I installed 2 of these locks on the same window (one on each side).