Technology finally saved my butt...

[Sigarms]

Hide a key and have a garage door keypad.
The last thing I would trust is the internet and an app.

If you would of read and comprehended what I written, I happen to agree with you.

I can still triangulate using a compass and topo map, let alone still be able to read a road map. That does not mean that I don't use my phone for GPS when needed when driving.

 

[Sigarms]

I made the mistake of telling my wife where the key was hidden. One day she locked herself out and used the key. And then one day I locked myself out and the key wasn't there anymore. She doesn't remember what she did with it after using it.

If you are relying on a hidden key and you live with others, be sure to have TWO hidden keys. One for you and one for them to lose.

Good idea Eddie.

I mentioned it was a VERY long story...

We both have one spare key hidden, but without going into the circumstances, it just so happens that we needed to find another location (after 15 years in one spot), and my wife brought that spare key indoors the week before she left (that's when I knew I was in doo doo when the key wasn't where it was supposed to be at and I remembered why). In 15 years living here, we only had to use that spare key 2 times. added the fact that in original location, it was kind of a pain in the butt to to get it, and then put it back. Ironic that this happened one week after we brought the spare key indoors and my wife wasn't home.

The whole situation revolved around a bunch of variables coming together that if one variable would of not happened, never would of been locked out in the first place.

When my wife and I go for a walk during the week, someone is generally always home, when both my wife and myself aren't home away from the house, the rule is if no one is outside, ALL the doors to the house remained locked (even living down a long driveway where you can't see the house from the road).

 

[MossRoad]

Last time we locked ourselves out of our house, I used a special set of skills developed in my youth to get back inside.

 

[k0ua]

Last time we locked ourselves out of our house, I used a special set of skills developed in my (misspent) youth to get back inside.

There, fixed if for ya.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Last time we locked ourselves out of our house, I used a special set of skills developed in my youth to get back inside.

Yep... I've creeped through a few windows myself... :shocked:

 

[Sigarms]

You guys make me laugh (in a fun way)...

When I got locked out last night, first thing that went through my head is OK, how am I going to bust in? (in my younger years, I knew how to use a screwdriver, tree felling wedge, hammer and some flat sheet metal if by myself, but I wasn't going to bring that up in my original post :laughing: ). The added reality is it seems like houses made today are better made than 50 years ago per window construction, and I'm not a professional burglar, so the only option I saw was a forced entry, which, depending on the damage I could of caused, could of cost more than calling out a professional locksmith.

Lucky for me, my father has never brought up around out dinner table around my boys on how I use to break into his old house when I got locked out.

Ultimatley I'm not a fan of mobile apps for home use, but in this one instance, it really did help.

 

[Sigarms]

That's why I have hid-a-keys... I would be too worried that someone in India could also open my garage

In general, not to worried about only the garage door being able to be opened by someone else. Still more to go through after than if you're at that point of opening the garage door, you're still at forced entry in which case you would could of just bypassed the garage door all together and go to the front door.

 

[fried1765]

In general, not to worried about only the garage door being able to be opened by someone else. Still more to go through after than if you're at that point of opening the garage door, you're still at forced entry in which case you would could of just bypassed the garage door all together and go to the front door.

I still live in the house I grew up in.
For 80 years....unless leaving town for days, doors are never locked.

 

[Sigarms]

I still live in the house I grew up in.
For 80 years....unless leaving town for days, doors are never locked.

That's great.

As long as I've been alive, I've never had a house I lived in broken into. However, I will always lock the doors to my house when I leave the house to drive somewhere (no different than when I lived in a trailer in West Virginia or worked in DC).

Likewise, in 30 years as a civilian, I've never had to use a gun to protect my life, but in most cases I will always carry a firearm (legally of course).

That siad, for the last 15 years living where we are at now, I NEVER locked my car doors around the house as I don't leave anything valuable in them. So, if you were to open my wifes car and open the garage door to try and steel anything in our garage, generally speaking, it probably won't be worth your time

When my wife and I go for a walk late in the say, our boys (and my father) know the code to retrieve the shotguns on each floor. Old saying is "better safe than sorry".

I would probaly trust YOU, but I don't trust every living two legged creature out there no matter where I lived.

 

[aczlan]

I made the mistake of telling my wife where the key was hidden. One day she locked herself out and used the key. And then one day I locked myself out and the key wasn't there anymore. She doesn't remember what she did with it after using it.

If you are relying on a hidden key and you live with others, be sure to have TWO hidden keys. One for you and one for them to lose.

A guy at work had a problem with locking himself out (something about how the door hit the wall would make it lock), so he changed his lock set out for one of the ones with a keypad on it and now he just uses that.

Aaron Z