Before Leaving The House

We do go out collectively sometimes but thats very rare.We are 16 members so any one member quits and stay in the house.

We have a key hidden in the back yard and the adult children and older grandchildren knew where the key is.

What's the point to lock the door if one leaves a key under the mat?

yeah I have broken into my own home through a window before lol

There is no point locking the door if you are going to leave the key.

Somehow i rarely forget putting my key inside, cuz i always get it stick to my key ring. Better this way out. But i ve help my neighbor to open the door without a key, by using a scissors and a knife.

We do leave the house empty and lock the door and gate, and not leaving any keys in the house. As there are only four of us in the family, including two young children, either my husband goes out on his own, or all of us go out together. As we are staying away from our family, we usually go back to hometown to celebrate some festivals, especially Chinese New Year, so we might leave the house empty for days. I think I have never locked myself out of the house as we are using the lock which the key must be slot in, hence I think there will be no chance for me to lock myself out.

We do have a secret place for that spare house key! And we have that now that I have locked myself out before. I was LUCKY in that I was able to break into the house via a low back window that I knew for a fact was slightly open (it was hard to close). But now it's fixed, so it'd be hard to break in now. Oh, and I lock up everything before I leave - no matter how quick my trip out will be.

I live alone, but I stay most of the time at my boyfriend's place. I do have a security system. I make it a point to lock my doors and windows, and activate the alarm whenever I leave my house for work or when I stay at the boyfriend's place. It gives us a sense of peace that if ever somebody tries to break in the authorities will be alerted. So far my alarm has not been tripped and hopefully that time will not come.

We have a key hidden. Most people in the US have a key hidden somewhere on their property. Atleast one person is always here, but most of the time two are here at one time. We don't have to worry about extended leaves from home as we don't go on vacation! haha.

Of course we leave the house empty, when we go to visit family or we go on vacation. Anyway I would never leave the keys under the doormat.

we have dogs that ferociously bark when they sense or smell something different. But we lock our doors.

We hide a key in our barn. My son lives with us so even when we go camping he is here.

Always cross check twice the lock before leaving the house.

In the past I was at home almost 24/7 when I did not have a working vehicle. After getting a vehicle I am now away from home more often. Most of the time it is only during the day. If we are both away we will lock the doors and leave the tv on.

I think we are fortunate to live in high rise apartments. When you live at level 10 or 20, it is hard for anyone to look at the windows, and check if you are at home or not. If we are going off for a week or more, and nobody is at home, we can ask the police to check out our house when they are patrolling the area.

We have a key hidden in the backyard... I doubt that anyone would ever find it lol!

I have a key to our apartment and my brother also has a key (we live together) and since we are always together when we go out, we are pretty much covered. I have been locked out before, many years ago, and I had to break a window to get inside.

So even if your mother leaves the house you don't like to leave the house empty for too long? Is there a problem with vandalism or breakins where you live, or do you never lock your doors at all? We don't leave an extra key anywhere on the property, we used to leave one on a high shelf on the back porch when we first moved here, and the kids were younger, but now everyone has a key. I have left before and realized just after closing the locked door that my keys were inside. Sometimes I've been able to climb into a window, but mostly in the summer. Other times I make sure the windows are locked and then I hope that I don't forget my keys. Usually, I check to make sure they are in my pocket more than once before leaving for the day. Our house is empty quite a bit as we all work different shifts.

We lock the doors because we have keys to open. What´s the use of locking the door when the key is under the doormat. Yes, I saw this many times in American movies.