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Post by JeriJet on Feb 20, 2019 21:57:20 GMT -5
Good heavens -- can't imagine having any bedrooms without locks!! Even children need to feel they can attain privacy when wanted.... and, locked doors can usually be broken through in case of emergency.... or, they might have "emergency" keys kept elsewhere in the home. A fairly simple lock can be used -- doesn't have to be Fort Knox.
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Post by RebeccaLee on Feb 20, 2019 23:11:19 GMT -5
Can't imagine having locks except on the bathroom! I remember my brother using a nail to pop the bathroom door lock whereby I would scream ...😆
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 8:05:18 GMT -5
Good heavens -- can't imagine having any bedrooms without locks!! Even children need to feel they can attain privacy when wanted.... and, locked doors can usually be broken through in case of emergency.... or, they might have "emergency" keys kept elsewhere in the home. A fairly simple lock can be used -- doesn't have to be Fort Knox. I'm an only child, who lived in a three bedroomed semi-detached house. Apart from me and my parents, my grandma lived with us until she died when I was 15. Not one bedroom had a lock on the door, as soon as I entered my teens my parents would knock before entering my bedroom. My parents were quite friendly with a family up the road from where we lived. Mr and Mrs Hastings had three children two boys and a girl. Terrence who had his own bedroom was two years older than me, his sister Angela also had her own room, she was a year younger and finally there was Harold who at three slept with his parents. Neither Terrence or Angela's bedroom had a lock on their doors. When Harold was five the family went to live in New Zealand so I've no idea if Harold got his own bedroom in the house where the Hastings now lived or whether he had to share with Terrence.
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Post by JeriJet on Feb 21, 2019 10:40:23 GMT -5
Good heavens -- can't imagine having any bedrooms without locks!! Even children need to feel they can attain privacy when wanted.... and, locked doors can usually be broken through in case of emergency.... or, they might have "emergency" keys kept elsewhere in the home. A fairly simple lock can be used -- doesn't have to be Fort Knox. I'm an only child, who lived in a three bedroomed semi-detached house. Apart from me and my parents, my grandma lived with us until she died when I was 15. Not one bedroom had a lock on the door, as soon as I entered my teens my parents would knock before entering my bedroom. My parents were quite friendly with a family up the road from where we lived. Mr and Mrs Hastings had three children two boys and a girl. Terrence who had his own bedroom was two years older than me, his sister Angela also had her own room, she was a year younger and finally there was Harold who at three slept with his parents. Neither Terrence or Angela's bedroom had a lock on their doors. When Harold was five the family went to live in New Zealand so I've no idea if Harold got his own bedroom in the house where the Hastings now lived or whether he had to share with Terrence. Odd, to me, that families can be so different.... can't understand why some families have such an objection to locks on doors, when my family considered them normal, maybe a privilege...
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Post by sdw on Feb 21, 2019 11:54:06 GMT -5
Where I used to live and before we built an upstairs my bedroom was beside the kitchen, and to get to other rooms in the house,we had to go through my room.After we remodeled my sister and I had our bedrooms upstairs, my room was at the head of the stairs, I had a little bit more privacy.Now where we live,it's almost like I have my own apartment, but I don't have a kitchen. I can lock my door if I want to. I used to close my door ,but since there is cats in the house, I don't close my door,I do close my door when we are going on a trip.
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Post by JeriJet on Feb 21, 2019 12:56:51 GMT -5
Now that I live in an apartment, I don't even let my apt's superintendent have a key to my front door ! .... learned that in my county at least, you only have to permit entrance by management when an appointment is made ahead of time... but, if an emergency occurs and they have to break down your door, you have to pay for the repairs !! -- that's okay with me. As a child, my parents were always good at knocking if my door was closed, but could never trust my sisters !! A particular problem was when I was doing any creative writing -- couldn't stand having someone just barge in....
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Post by clyde on Feb 21, 2019 15:22:33 GMT -5
In the house where my husband grew up, there were no doors on the bedrooms, so locking wasn’r an issue. The boys were in an upstairs loft area, and the girls on a sleeper sofa in the living room area. Too many children, too little space!
I had a door and locks, but if a boy was visiting, the 90 degrees to the door jamb rule applied- imposed and enforced by my Father!
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Post by carol on Feb 21, 2019 19:00:54 GMT -5
During the winter we often keep the bedroom door mostly closed at night as we like to have cooler room to sleep. In the summer it is left open to get the cross breezes to cool down as we don't have ac. I also noted a sliding lock on the girls room. Really! Never would have been allowed in my house growing up. As Johnboy's room was often the guest room I can see that one having a lock. Didn't see one on the parents room... Its strange that the lock isn't seen on the parents room since the same set was used for both rooms. The furniture is just changed according to whose room it needs to be in the scene..
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Post by rabner59 on Feb 21, 2019 20:18:10 GMT -5
The house that I grew up in Kentucky,was a farm house build in probably around 1920 .All the heat was down stairs and there were vents in the floors upstairs.And as long as there was heat down stairs it stayed warm upstairs.
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Post by JeriJet on Feb 21, 2019 20:26:10 GMT -5
The house that I grew up in Kentucky,was a farm house build in probably around 1920 .All the heat was down stairs and there were vents in the floors upstairs.And as long as there was heat down stairs it stayed warm upstairs. Yeah -- that's just like my grandmother's farmhouse....
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 3:43:30 GMT -5
I'm an only child, who lived in a three bedroomed semi-detached house. Apart from me and my parents, my grandma lived with us until she died when I was 15. Not one bedroom had a lock on the door, as soon as I entered my teens my parents would knock before entering my bedroom. My parents were quite friendly with a family up the road from where we lived. Mr and Mrs Hastings had three children two boys and a girl. Terrence who had his own bedroom was two years older than me, his sister Angela also had her own room, she was a year younger and finally there was Harold who at three slept with his parents. Neither Terrence or Angela's bedroom had a lock on their doors. When Harold was five the family went to live in New Zealand so I've no idea if Harold got his own bedroom in the house where the Hastings now lived or whether he had to share with Terrence. Odd, to me, that families can be so different.... can't understand why some families have such an objection to locks on doors, when my family considered them normal, maybe a privilege... Could be the way things are done differently in America to the way we do things in the UK. A good example being people's names. When I started to take a more proactive interest in The Waltons, I was surprised by the way Mary Ellen and James Robert were addressed by there first and second given names. In the UK if a person has two given names, its customary to address that person by either the first or second given name only. To call someone by their two given names in the UK then a hyphen needs to be added so you would have Mary-Ellen or James-Robert. Although I was Christened with one given name, I had a second added at my confirmation, but it could never be added to my birth certificate. That's what I was told when I needed to apply for a copy of my birth certificate for the purposes of obtaining a passport.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 11:12:06 GMT -5
Now that I live in an apartment, I don't even let my apt's superintendent have a key to my front door ! .... learned that in my county at least, you only have to permit entrance by management when an appointment is made ahead of time... but, if an emergency occurs and they have to break down your door, you have to pay for the repairs !! -- that's okay with me. As a child, my parents were always good at knocking if my door was closed, but could never trust my sisters !! A particular problem was when I was doing any creative writing -- couldn't stand having someone just barge in.... Like you I live in an apartment or flat as it's known in the UK. Because it's a retirement home the manager must have access to it in case of an emergency. I have a pendent with a device which has button I can press to alert the manager or a remote center if she's off duty in case I need help of some kind. Other people who have a key to my flat are my next of kin. The building is fully alarmed with CCTV on the exterior of the building. There are three smoke detectors in each flat, if one is triggered the alarm in the building sounds, at the same time an alarm sounds in the fire station, which as the crow flies is less than a quarter of a mile from where I live. Two fire appliances arrive less than five minutes of the alarm going off, I can even hear them departing the fire station as it's that close. When the alarm goes off any of the open interior fire doors in all the corridors closes, thus providing a firebreak as well as means of containing smoke. The door to my flat is two inches thick and filled with sand. There are two stairwells front and back as well as two fire exits in addition to the main entrance doors.
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Post by Johnny on Feb 23, 2019 0:30:40 GMT -5
Two fire appliances arrive less than five minutes of the alarm going off This must be more of U.K. thing. This is the first time I've heard of a fire engine called a fire applianc e.. Appliance in the U.S. refers to things like a stove, refrigerator, sump pump, air conditioner, dehumidifier etc.. Two common constructs of fire engine are pumper and ladder trucks.
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Post by patriciaanne on Feb 25, 2019 10:22:11 GMT -5
We never had locks on our bedroom doors growing up--neither did my parents. I never thought much about it, really. I'm sure my parents would not have allowed it for safety reasons. We were extremely sound sleepers and if there had been a fire, someone would have had to awaken us and/or carry us out.
I do think when children are of a certain age, it's nice to be respectful and knock before entering. And a good idea to teach children to do that.
As an adult, I think locks on bedroom doors can be a good thing. It helps create a "safe room" in case the security of your home were ever breached. Just make sure you have a charged, working phone in that room. Some people suggest keeping an old cell phone (as long as you keep it charged) because even a cell phone that doesn't currently have a calling plan will be able to call 911.
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Post by Marilyn on Feb 27, 2019 12:35:45 GMT -5
I wonder how the Waltons heated the upstairs of their house? I know they had a big fireplace downstairs, but those Virginia winters are pretty cold when getting up to milk the cow in the morning. Also, Grandma and Grandpa were probably chilly in their little alcove. Maybe they had a furnace - they never seem too bundled up. We lived in a 2 story farmhouse and heated it with a big stove in the living room. Each room upstairs had floor vents and the hot air from the stove came up through those. Worked well!
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