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

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Closed, to keep the monsters out.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Closed and LOCKED. What if the monsters can open doors?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Closed, locked, and BLOCKED. What if monsters can pick locks?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Closed, locked, blocked and ARMED. what if the monsters have telekinesis to lift the blockade?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Implying the monster doesnt have a portal under your bed already

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Closed, to keep the monsters in…

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Closed. This can be lifesaving in case of a fire.

link

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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…

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I installed a little door in my door for this exact reason. Best of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Door Inspector here. Do you have a permit to install a door inside another door?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year 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...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I feel exposed if it's swung all the way open though. I just leave it ajar for the kitty.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Open, to let my stupid cat out otherwise he cries.

(I love him)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Closed. Open is a fire hazard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sure is; here's a video demonstrating the effectiveness. Shutting your door can mean the difference between life and death. I encourage anyone to watch or re-watch this, just to hammer it home.

Unfortunately, my cats can't deal with shut doors, so if there's ever a fire in my apartment, at least we'll all go together πŸ™ƒ

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Using thermal imaging cameras, researchers found that closed-door rooms on both floors during the fire’s spread had average temperatures of less than 100 degrees Fahrenheit versus 1000+ degrees in the open-door rooms. β€œYou could see a markable difference that a person could be alive in a room with a closed door much longer,” says Kerber.

Gas concentrations were markedly different as well. The open-door bedroom measured an extremely toxic 10,000 PPM CO (parts per million of Carbon Monoxide), while the closed had approximately 100 PPM CO.

https://fsri.org/programs/close-before-you-doze

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fire protection 101. Closed bedroom doors, interconnected smoke alarms so when one goes off they all go off, and at least two exits per room.

We have fire ladders in the upstairs rooms and, most importantly, we've done drills so we know how to use them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

we've done drills so we know how to use them.

Had a house fire in '88. You're a fucking hero on that with actually practicing. We were dumb but super lucky as we just lost everything and noone.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow. Meow.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

open so cats can walk freely

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Open. I have dogs and cats. I wouldn't get a second of sleep if i locked either dogs or cats out of the bedroom

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CLOSE YOUR DOORS. Closed doors give you a much better chance of survival if your house catches on fire.

CLOSE BEFORE YOU DOZE

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Closed unless it's too hot in my room. Feels uncomfortable leaving my door open. It'll let me hear killers coming

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My country is extremely dangerous, so we have locks in every door and their reinforcements. So no, im never sleeping with a door open.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

closed. Don't want to see no ghosts up for a midnight stroll through my halls.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Open, because my cat sleeps on my bed/floor

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always closed. Gives me a fighting chance against the nocturnal intruders ya know?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Open so my cats don’t kill me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

After reading that pretty much everyone that doesn't have a cat/dog sleeps with a closed door makes me feel like a weirdo but open door, I don't see the point of closing the door when I live alone and fire isn't a concern I have > it's basically impossible that it reaches my bedroom

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Closed. I have an 18 year old who has been working the closing shift a lot this summer. I don't want to be woken.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

If my door is closed my kitty cat will constantly remind me of that

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Closed because I am a mammal and I indulge in the nesting instinct.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not fully closed, so the cat it's less annoying through all the night.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Closed, I hate open doors and always close then whatever room I'm in. I don't know why, it just feels weird.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Closed, safer when fire

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

closed door because roomates, but open balcony door for maximum fresh air and feels of nature.

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