Do you lock your door when you are at home?

[yvr girl]

Poll question: Do you lock your door when you are at home?

Are you a man or woman? Where do you live? (Urban, rural etc.)

[davidinalameda]

1. only if I'm going to bed

will I lock the door

and sometimes I forget to do that

[Midlodemocrat]

2. I always lock the doors. I am a female

living in the burbs, but I am skittish, so when I am in my office working, I make sure the doors are locked. When the kids get home, I usually leave the office and by then, they are running in and out, so it is pretty futile to lock the doors.

[sui generis]

3. male, house in the burbs

I only lock up at night -

[Missy M]

4. I voted never when I'm at home except...

...when we go to bed. I am a female and live in an urban area.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

5. it depends

if i am asleep or if i am going to be doing something where i wouldn't be able to hear someone enter (like playing music/taking shower) i will lock the door, otherwise i leave it open.

i am a male.


edit: maybe you need a "sometimes" lock my door option?
i didn't vote

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. I just keep em locked.

I'll forget otherwise.

on edit: male

[flamingyouth]

7. I always lock the door. And usually turn my alarm on.

Woman living alone in an urban area.

[donheld]

8. Only sometimes when i am awake

Most of the times when i go to bed, although there have been times i left the front door unlocked all night. I live in the heart of Denver so that's not a good idea, but all's well that ends well i guess.

[Shell Beau]

9. I am a female, I always lock my door unless my husband is home

and it is daytime. My door is always locked at night. I have 3 dogs that will warn me, though, if anyone is coming. They bark at a fly, but I know when it is serious. I'm always scared I'll be in the shower and some freak will be sitting in my house when I get out, so yeah I lock my door.

[indy_azcat]

10. Always lock 'em.

Waaay too close to Detroit - and not close enough to Canada :)

[tjdee]

11. I'm amazed at the number of open doors in my neighborhood.

This was actually in Bowling for Columbine, right, this whole 'only Americans lock their door' or whatever....

Anyway, I always lock my door. I don't want anyone, nefarious or not, coming into my house without my knowledge or consent.

My neighbors, on the other hand, leave their doors wide open...many of the people that go to church with me leave them unlocked.

Yo, that's nuts. :silly:

I'm a girl, I live in a mildly surburban (but not as safe as you'd think) area.

[LeftyMom]

12. Always

and I lock the car doors while I'm in the car, too. Apparently people don't do that out in the sticks (according to the in-laws, door locks are for city people, or closing the place up while you're out of town) but around here everybody does. My doors are locked at anytime nobody's in the process of walking through them.

[progmom]

13. i have a three year old and a dog

to keep one or both from wandering off, the front door remains locked.

[yorkiemommie1]

14. yes. always

front AND back doors. there's been a series of breakins in this city. our street is a quiet one in a good area but majority are retired.

we are seniors ( i can't believe it-how'd i get so old?!) and my husband and i always lock the door. i'm more paranoid than he is, tho.

[notadmblnd]

15. hell we've gone to the circus and left the door open

the front door is usually kept locked, but the backdoor never is.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. Only because I don't want the kids and cats to escape.

[maxsolomon]

17. i lock when i leaves the womenfolk at home

the 16 year old thinks i'm nuts, but there's no way in hell i'm not locking the front door behind me if i leave her there alone.

my ex roommate didn't lock the front door or the apartment door to our tenement the summer after i moved out, and she got raped. of course, it WAS in a ghetto, and i live in ward & june cleaver land now.

[_testify_]

18. always locked! Male, grew up in NYC - story behind it:

When I was a kid, there was a shooting at a house around the corner with a very similar address and the cops showed up at ours instead. It was very late and my oldest brother was awake watching TV. the house rule until then was 'last one to bed locks up'. The cops came rushing in and cuffed my brother, who was in his tidy-whities having milk and cookies.
After that, the door stayed locked. We'd rather it be broken down than have someone (even the fuzz) let themselves in.

[MindPilot]

19. front door usually locked unless I forget

never lock the back door because any one could crawl throw the giant dog door, but they would be eyeball to eyeball with a pair of dogs who require a giant dog door.

Also keep the garage & shed locked if I'm not out there. I never even turn my back on my car without locking it.

On edit: male, urban area

[kodi]

20. no, house is fenced in with 5 big dogs. meter man won't even come in yard

back in the country.

only place to live.

[GardeningGal]

21. I lock the front door.

The back door is unlocked. Except for the night last week when I somehow managed to leave the doors unlocked. Good thing I live in a pretty safe neighborhood, I didn't realize I had left it unlocked until the next morning.

:crazy:

[supernova]

22. All doors open

I never shut a door.

But, then again, I live alone. :7 B-)

Edit: last week I left for work and came home to find the back door wide open. I guess I never locked it when I left. But no one had come in or bothered anything. I was lucky.

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. I usually do when I'm alone...

I'm a female that lives in the burbs...but today is too nice to be locked up inside the house so I have the front door open, the windows open and the door to the back deck open. This house reeks of winter staleness and I needed to air it out

[funkybutt]

24. Sometimes, usually before bed

I should lock it more. I have great neighbors and a big dog.