Poll-Do you lock the door between your house and garage?

Never.

1. I’m not even sure it has a lock. I’ll have to look when I leave for work.
2. If it does indeed have a lock, we definitely do NOT have a key. Lol

Actually we don’t have keys for any of our doors. DS has one for the front door so if the power is out and we can’t open the garage, we could conceivably get a key with minor hassle.

Always. It's too easy to open garage doors.

We no longer have an attached garage. However, our previous house did. Even though we were kinda rural and on a dead end street, I kept all of the exterior doors locked all the time simply because I probably wouldn't hear someone busting it. The interior door was locked any time I did not have my hearing aid in, when we were gone, and at night.

There has been a rash of break-ins in a neighborhood where 95% of the houses have attached garages. They're kicking in the exterior door and then just entering through the garage. Most of the houses reported their interior doors were not locked. This same neighborhood is having their cars broken into. In some cases, the cars aren't even locked and purses were left in them. WTF? We are a city with crime, not hole in the wall Tony town with no traffic lights! Lock your damn cars. My parents who live no where near this neighborhood have turned paranoid and have started locking their interior door in the garage all of the time instead of just when they go out of town. My sister is extremely paranoid and has closet rods in her windows, multiple locks on her doors, and has talked about buying those door stops that schools have to stop shooters in the classrooms.

So we did for awhile, AND then I had a dumb blonde moment.

I was in the garage, garage doors closed and and tried to go through the house door, which I don't have a key for.

OMG it was locked

I am now trapped in the garage.

Panicking I call my husband. I am near hysterics. I AM TRAPPED IN THE GARAGE. As he answers the phone I turn around and stare at the HUGE black button on the wall.

I start laughing my ass off.

How trapped in a garage can you be when you can hit the garage door opener button?

Always.
We have a keypad lock on it so you don't have to be carrying a key and it's fast and easy for us to unlock it.

We added this when we realized that anyone could walk in the house totally unnoticed - my husband could be in the backyard doing yard work for a long period of time, and when he's doing that, the garage door is up. If I leave to run errands, or I'm not home, it's obvious there is only one car in the garage. Someone could be in and out of the house without him ever knowing they were there.

Sure, someone could steal something from the garage, but this way they can't so easily get in the house. His car locks automatically, so is always locked. I don't ever leave my purse or keys in the car.

We don’t. I know all the reasons we should, but we don’t.

We lock all outside doors, including the garage, as we come in them. Well, except that I don't always keep the door into the garage from the backyard locked. It sticks, so it won't seem unlocked if someone tries it, and sometimes I want to get in the garage without going all the way around.

Same. Nothing of value is left in the cars.

 Although at my present house my garage isn't attached to the house but in my previous house it was.The lock on the garage door was nowhere near as good as any locks on the doors to the house. I always lock the garage door in this house too even though it isn't attached to the house.

No, because we have a security system that we arm at night or when we are away.

I voted other since we have a detached garage. In the past when we have had an attached garage, then the door to the garage was always locked. We have 4 exterior doors on our house and they are all locked no matter the time of day. My parents used to live in a very small town and never locked their doors during the night. I was forever locking my dad out of the house due to habit when I would visit them!

I've told her that she needs to leave herself options. She's more afraid of someone breaking in than of a fire.

We never lock the door between garage and house, heck half the time we don't even lock our front door. I am forever opening the garage door to throw recycling into the bins we have out there it would annoy me if it was locked.

It is sadly ridiculously easy for someone to get into our house, regardless of whether or not I leave the garage door open. Seriously, it's easy to break any window and then open the door, right?

I have two big dogs. Okay, they're teddy bears, but if they hear a noise they'll alert me and scare away anyone who doesn't know them. They have BIG barks. I do count on them, but I'll be a little more careful come fall when my son leaves for college.