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Friends come straight in round the back :D x

I can tell who is at the door by the way my dog barks! There are only 2 people (apart from us) who dare to walk in my front door.

Big dogs do serve a purpose.

God no! I wouldn't want anyone to just walk in. They can't anyway. There's a locked porch and front door to get through. Different in the summer, if I'm expecting people though. I'm happy for them to wander through the back gate, as they're expecting me to be in the garden.

I do wish my DH and DD would bloody well let themselves in though! Whenever they go out, they ask me if I'm going out, to save them having to take a key!

If I am home alone and having a shower, I do lock the door, because I am the sort that startles and falls over!
And it is nice when people pause in the kitchen to pop the kettle on befre they com looking for me.

All my family walk in and we don't mind close friends doing the same.And that's because by the time we have walked to open the door we have had to go through two rooms to get to the front door, we have always told them just to come in.But if I go to have a bath in the daytime its a bit different because I then lock the door.

Happy for anyone to wander in, ESP if thy put on kettle!

It really does depend who it is, my mum will come straight in without knocking and one or two close friends will come in too but no one else does.

I only ever walk straight in at my mums but I do tend to knock then walk straight in.

I usually lock the door, out of habit and to keep the children in. In the summer I used to leave the back door open into the enclosed yard but not any more. I have an elderly neighbour who is of the Leave-Doors-Open-And-Just-Walk-In generation. And he does. So now the door stays locked.

My bro and sil used to live in a flat that was all on the 1st floor but had its own ground floor front door. They used to leave the front door unlocked when expecting visitors as they wouldn't always hear the doorbell. I was never comfortable with them doing this, as was town centre backstreet location and it seemed rather unsafe.

If we're in and awake, the door's open.

My back door is always unlocked and those that know us well know that so let themselves in. If I don't love you lots you wouldn't know the door was always open so is only people I proper luffs and I'm happy for them just to walk in and shout, "are you decent?".

My parents just walk in, or ring and walk in at the same time. But then I stroll into their house too so fair's fair (they don't live in the house I grew up in so it's not as if it was ever my home)

Other than that most ring and wait unless it's summer and all the doors are flung open in which case most wander in

Those who want to die,walk straight in

I'd rather they did knock. What really gets my goat is when people knock then walk straight in without waiting for the door to be opened or for you to call. Or listening to you saying "hang on a mo."

i usually lock the door. if mil is coming round she usually texts which bus she will be on so i can unlock for her. my best mate does the same.

my dad and sister knock and wait even though they know i will unlock the door 5mins before we get here

other than that we rarely have visitors and don't live in the best area so it stays firmly locked, i hate the thought of some random just walking in

It doesn't really bother me although there have been odd times it's been inconvenient and irritating.

Our house now has a Yale lock so no surprise visits. Where we used to live you could get in without a key but when in the house I'd always lock the door and leave the key in it as it was the kind of area where I didn't want people 'popping in'. A few of my friends tell me to 'just come on in' when I go to theirs rather than knocking the door and I'm only just starting to be comfortable with it. Even though they know I'm coming and they've told me to do it I'm so uneasy just wandering into other people's houses

If I'm in on my own then door is locked and everyone knocks. If DP is home and friends or family are coming round usually they'll let us know first rather than just turning up so we'll leave the door unlocked and they'll walk in (or knock first and hear a shout of "come in, doors open!", anyone else will knock first.

Hate it

Dh sister walks in, also friend who was dropping my dd off walked in in front of h er the other day, right annoyed me.

Try to leave locked!!

Good God, I would be if anyone did that here. We never leave the door unlocked, so it's a moot point really, but bil did once when we had a few visitors popping in&out and the door had been left unlocked, and I was most put out.
I know his mum leaves her door unlocked and he just wanders in there with a 'Hello!', but we don't do that here.

I've never lived in a house where you didn't have to use a key to get in every time you shut the door, in fact I didn't realise there was any other sort till I read a thread like this a few years ago. We replaced the front door 18 months ago and made sure we got the self locking type again, I would hate people just walking in.

My DSs mates just walk in too.

I would hate it.

It would mean having to be dressed all the time.

Family and friends just come in to ours. I lock it (mostly, though we have forgotten occasionally) at night and unlock it in the morning when i've showered and come down dressed. If for any reason I am in a state of undress during the day it gets locked again, this is usually if i've had a run and er, cooled off before my shower

But I like people walking in, our house is a sociable place and the door regularly just opens. I am from a big family as is DP and we both like unexpected visitors most of the time.

no way - i have a doorbell for a reason!