Do, you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed and why?

    • Matt Shatt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      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…

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
        81·
        2 years ago

        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 207 227(edit, she cheated on me again and I caught her on 06/05, probably caused the weight gain) 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?

        • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          2 years ago

          First step IMHO is to understand what problem your kid is solving by having the door open.

  • It's Maddie!@sh.itjust.works
    551·
    2 years ago

    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!

    • Agr8lemon@lemmy.worldOP
      16·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I put dog doors on most of my doors because of my cat, otherwise she’d just sit at it meowing until it was opened.

  • 0xED@lemm.eeEnglish
    44·
    2 years ago

    Closed because many years ago a firefighter gave a fire safety talk at our elementary school. He told us to keep the door closed at night since it can give you an extra 30 minutes to escape in a fire. For some reason this advice stuck with me…

  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
    351·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • fadhl3y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Likewise, if my door was closed the kitties would scratch from the outside and make a nuisance of themselves.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Gotta train them that doing that doesn’t get them the outcome they want. I make it a policy with my cats that if they wake me up, they get yeeted to the basement.

        When they were new, that meant picking them up and carrying them to the laundry room and closing the door. It evolved to me simply carrying them to the top of the stairs and setting them on the top step, and now all I have to do is open the door when they scratch or yowl and they scatter. It took a while, but now they only bother me at night when there’s another cat in the yard and they want to get to my window to look out.

  • tarjeezy@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    Closed. If there’s a fire in the other parts of your house, you’ll have more time to be alerted and escape.

      • Botree@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        nods I used to sleep with the door shut and locked, and the home alarm on whenever I was out. That’s no longer true ever since the queen demanded that I do neither.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’m the opposite. I like it when the cat curls up on my feet, but I’m not a fan of just letting them stalk through the house and jump around freely when I’m trying to flipping sleep.

      They can’t not do that, so they get shut out. And I taught them early on that if they yowl and scratch at the door on the middle of the night, they’re just gonna get launched down the stairs.

      Cats only get to be the boss if you let them. They absolutely can be trained to not be total tyrants.

  • packardgoose@lemmy.ml
    17·
    2 years ago

    Closed. Damn cat. She’s not looking to snuggle into bed. She wants to wake you up. Why? Who knows.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    Closed. Even a simple hollow core door can offer 30 minutes or more of protection from smoke and indirect fire. More time for alarms to go off and get to safety.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Sometimes, a perfectly terrible fire (in a perfectly unlucky layout of a house) could emit toxic gases / smoke in sufficient quantities to impair you, potentially to the point of not being able to react to the alarm. At that point you may not escape.

  • ewe@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    Open, so that the air that gets pumped into my room can tell the Mr. Thermostat in the hall that it’s actually fine in there and they don’t need to call Mr. Furnace or Mrs. A/C.

    • GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Depending on your thermostat, you might be able to find satellite sensors for each of your rooms. I did this and we can change which temperature sensor the thermostat monitors.

  • StarServal@kbin.social
    12·
    2 years ago

    Closed for AC, but open a crack to let the clingy cat in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out.