Agr8lemonWhen sleeping, door open or closed?
It's Maddie!Door open. My kitty sleeps in bed with me and she likes to come and go in the night, she’d wake me up if the door was closed!
Yep, I had a cat that would paw on the door if it wasn’t open. I decided to see how long he’d stick with it. My sanity broke at 2 hours. He won and it was open from that night forward.
EmanuelI installed a little door in my door for this exact reason. Best of both worlds.
Door Inspector here. Do you have a permit to install a door inside another door?
I was granted one upon presenting my previously tattered door. The cat was declared innocent, and I didn’t press charges
I believe you. I will let you off with a warning because you have a presumably cute cat.
WaitingForNextYearDo we get a cat tax here‽
CeruleanRuinXzibit said it was okay.
GlitzyArmrestI put dog doors on most of my doors because of my cat, otherwise she’d just sit at it meowing until it was opened.
Same. Otherwise I’d have the door closed.
Closed, got to keep separation from the pets so I can sleep peacefully. Don’t need a cat purrkoring off my face at 3 am.
Lol @ purrkoring
Depends, if it’s hot enough to need the AC, door closed. If not, door open so I can open the window and get some airflow.
Open - just me and my husband here and it keeps the room cooler.
BillyThanks for sharing dicksinabag
Door open if it’s hot, usually with the fan pointing out the door. If it’s REALLY hot, fan directly on me.
Open slightly so I can let air flow my room from the window
Closed, to keep the monsters out.
Closed and LOCKED. What if the monsters can open doors?
Closed, locked, and BLOCKED. What if monsters can pick locks?
VcioHear behind door
2 is set, 3 is bidding…
CalcProgrammer1If LPL is the monster, no door will stop him
httpjamesClosed, locked, blocked and ARMED. what if the monsters have telekinesis to lift the blockade?
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOXWouldn’t they just use telekinesis to disarm you?
Implying the monster doesnt have a portal under your bed already
rynwhat if the monsters are ghosts
I refuse to acknowledge the possibility of ghosts! All monsters must have a physical form!
Ghosts have to stay out if the door is closed, it’s the law.
Can’t argue with ghostlaw.
You can use the luigi board
Hey Mario, itsa ghost!
amenotefWhat if they are already in and now they can’t escape!
InfiniteFlowClosed, to keep the monsters in…
Open because pets
Came here to say the same. Used to be closed then I got a cat and now I can't imagine waking up without her napping on me
Greatly prefer it closed, but leave it cracked for the kitty.
queermunist she/herClosed, I’m 2nd shift so my wakeup time is late enough I have to block all sunlight.
Closed. This can be lifesaving in case of a fire.
This right here. As a firefighter I’ve seen it. Also nowadays if the door is open I can’t sleep…I just keep opening my eyes and seeing that open door…
Alright, so here’s the deal.
I don’t like the setup of my house, but it is what it is. My kids room door is at a 90 degree angle to ours. I’ve always wanted to install and practice an escape since we’re on the second floor, but my ex wife had a problem with that (go figure). When I manage to get her out of my house, how do I go about retraining my kid with this? He absolutely refuses to sleep with the door shut, even with one of us in the room, and if he wakes up with it shut, it’s bloody murder.
Her logic (that’d I have been overridden on) is that I am literally 4 steps away from his bed in an emergency, and I could leap in, close the door and escape through that window. Mind you I’m 207 lbs and deathly afraid of fire.
What I want to do is install one of the fire escape ladders that rolled through the window and practice going down that with my kid before working on getting him to close the door at night.
Is there an order I should do these things? Like door first, then escape? Or escape first, then door?
ddhFirst step IMHO is to understand what problem your kid is solving by having the door open.
Did you even click the link provided? It provides some pretty good reasons with examples and a video demonstration of why it’s so important. I don’t know anything about your ex wife or what your living situation is, but maybe show it to her not as an “I’m right you’re wrong” thing but as a genuine safety of your kid thing.
As for your child screaming bloody murder, there comes a time when you need to realize you’re the parent and they’re the child. For obvious reasons they are not equipped to make decisions regarding their own safety, which is why they’re supposed to have you. Sit down with and have a conversation with them Mr. Roger’s-style (meaning don’t treat them like they’re an idiot), maybe try and make a game out of it. If they still scream then honestly too bad, let them cry it out. You don’t have debates with your child about if they can stick a fork in an outlet or not do you?
This. He asked for parenting advice and this is good shit.
I don’t debate shit when it comes to safety with my kid. To be honest, it isn’t even a doubt in my mind that his door should be shut. It’s his mother. But I think you (intentionally or not) may have said exactly the way I need to go about this:
It’s about his safety. Not her sleep. a few bad nights of sleep is worth it (to me at least).
Closed. Like to keep my room temperature like 10°C lower the rest of the house during the night
Closed. If there’s a fire in the other parts of your house, you’ll have more time to be alerted and escape.
Closed because I’m afraid of the dark most times. My cats don’t care they run around the living room. Dog sleeps with me on the floor at the bed to protect me.
Closed because when I bought my fridge I never considered that it can be so loud. Otherwise open.
Closed because when I bought my fridge I didn't consider that it can be so loud.
ConditionOverloadAlways closed. Gives me a fighting chance against the nocturnal intruders ya know?
Like fires.
Closed, because I don't wanna be snuck on.
Writerly GalDoor half open so the cats can walk back and forth, but not so much that it’s too light in the morning.
Sparky678348If my door is closed my kitty cat will constantly remind me of that
closed
dobeltipClosed, i don’t like mosquitoes.
Prefer closed, but like many others here, the cat doesn’t allow for that without making her opinion VERY well known.
Open in summer, for ventilation. In winter it stays closed to let the bedroom be chilly, without affecting the rest of the place.
SpaceBarOpen because of the damn cat. We love her though.