Do you leave doors open in your home or close them when you enter or leave a room?

open all round in summer, close the living room door fully to keep heat in in winter.

I leave doors ajar because (a.) we have central heat and cooling, meaning the air should circulate from the vents to the returns. Otherwise, rooms do get stuffy with the buildup.

And (b.) the cat will scratch and scratch and scratch and scratch and scratch and scratch and scratch and scratch at the door all fucking night long, unless you leave it a little open so she can make her entrance and exit.

Generally keep the internal doors shut but a couple of them only pushed to during the day. Maybe a bit more open plan if it's hot in the summer and I'm trying to get a draft going.

Don't care/think about it.

I imagine most people would not which makes me think about it more.

open but i still close the bedroom door when i'm in there out of habit even though i live alone now

I only have flaps of raw bloody cowhide flailing in the wind from my rotten architraves, separating me from the squawking cats, hungry owls and serial killers that roam about in tracksuit bottoms in the dead of night. doors are completely bourgeoisie constructions!

That's West Yorkshire for you.

I literally walked into an attempted burglary in my side door this summer, where the fucking miscreant tried to turn it around to: ffs, you scared the life out of me there - you savage!

I mostly close doors all the way to keep cats out of certain rooms. However, the way my house is laid out, it always feels very open.

Only close doors for temperature reasons or because of guests. We don't even close the bathroom doors.

When I was little I refused to sleep with the closet door closed because of the movie Poltergeist. Had to keep a watch on what was going on in there.

I also refused to sleep with the closet door open as a kid. Not exactly sure how I got it in my head there was something in there waiting to get me.

doors are only closed if
- an a/c unit is on in a room
- it’s the bathroom on a winter morning and i’m taking a shower
- the cat is interfering with my attempts to make the bed

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this was absolutely my most excellent thread idea.

Our house is small. Every room is in fairly constant use; there are no rooms in it that are closed off. This means we heat every room. The heat circulation fan and cold air return works better with doors open. The only time interior doors are closed are for privacy or noise containment. With just the two of us old married people, these concerns are rather infrequent.

Ergo, voted 'doors open'.

I was not born in a barn

Excellent, haven't heard that one in years!

I leave my door closed cos a) I don't care for my roommates, and b) they have two cats that shit in my hallway and a Chihuahua that also shits in my hallway. Ain't letting them do it in my room.

Also I'm a slob and don't want people seeing it

Glad to hear that, Biscuits!

xp!

My sister and her live-in boyfriend often go poop together, or sit in the bathroom to keep each other company during pooping, and habitually leave the doors open so they can talk during pooping. My sister also did this with her most recent ex-, the two exes before that, and with her ex-husband. I kinda think that open-door co-poops are why her relationships don’t last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avb1XbO0EIs

xp i have some questions.

how does she keep finding partners who are cool w/this?

how do *you* know about this?

i have heard about this type of thing with people who have severe crohns and whatnot where it is just a really big part of their life. is that in play here?

v. good questions

also, 'poop together' -- is one using a bucket or is there a special bathroom with two commodes

or -- dear god -- are they taking turns

I pictured some creative seating arrangements

we have an 'open concept' bathroom in? our bedroom. Like, there's no door but it's a bit separated. So if you are sitting on the bed you can see the person in the tub or shower or by the sink. If you are in the closet or at the sink or in the shower you can see a person using the bathroom. Saying all of this though, we haven't close the bathroom door in years unless a special happening is going on.

there's a sink and there's a toilet, jesus guys what's the question here

clicked on this thread by accident. not sure if I should scroll up or scroll down.

'special happening'

I left my door open while I went out tonight by mistake. the animals got in.

so far, don't see any poop. praying...

xp i have some questions.

q. how does she keep finding partners who are cool w/this?
a. I think she must be converting them? idk.

q. how do *you* know about this?
a. sibling is.squatting (ha) at my parents' hunting cabin. I'm managing it for my parents. couple of weeks ago I was in the living room, building a fire, when - down the hall - I heard sporadic hissing noises. I left to investigate, but kinda froze after IDing the sounds as, spray aerosol emanating from the (open door) bathroom. before I turned away, I saw sister sitting on the can, and her boyfriend sitting unabashedly on the edge of the bathtub, holding a can of, like, Glade Powder Freeh RoomSecents or w/e and helpfully misting. they were looking into each other's eyes.

q. i have heard about this type of thing with people who have severe crohns and whatnot where it is just a really big part of their life. is that in play here?
a. no. after incident I confronted sister about her weirdness and asked obvious questions (do you always do this? is it a sex sex thing? a health thing?) and she tried gaslit me for thinking it was odd behavior. she explained that it was cool, she'd always done it, w/ partners w, x, y, z, and *I* was prudish and dumb and why was I so ashamed fo a natural function.

q. also, 'poop together' -- is one using a bucket or is there a special bathroom with two commodes
a. two enter the bathroom. one poos, one watches. switch, repeat.

the explanation inexplicably made things even weirder for me

like what if both don't have to poop. or are their poos synchronized?

like I was imagining this as a "lol well you're in the shower and I need to pinch one off, so live with it" type scenario, not "two people walk in to intentionally shit in front of each other, whilst the other sprays masking aerosol"

can i get your sister email why because she sound intersting

... all of which begs the question: what sensibility does the aerosol preserve?

Some kind of instinct. Memory of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives.”

This co-pooping story needs a trucker hat

for a guy that wrote seven posts in a row about a tarantino-esque three way shit attack recently, im finding the couple-shitting approach to bonding deeply upsetting tbh

also, i was born in a mobile home next to a barn, and if anything it drives home doubly the importance of closing doors imo

We have three large and affectionate house cats. Shut doors at the peril of your carpet. Everything gets pushed to. Even the bathroom when you go for a shit.

I never read the book, but I heard there is a team pooping bit in Call Me by My Name.

uh, your name.

great thread, jed.

doors mostly open at all times for free cat movement

I shit with the door open, thanks.

Even during dinner parties?

I didn't understand the premise of the poll to be exclusively about shitting with the door open or closed, but that subject certainly seems to have captivated most of the participants.

Even during dinner parties?

― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal)

especially during dinner partites

door to the basement remains open because the cat poops down there
door to the three season porch is closed (although I leave a window that opens to it open in spring/fall)
occasionally close the door to the open-plan half story upstairs

every other door remains open unless there’s a specific purpose or I have company over — then I close the bedroom door and close the bathroom door when it’s occupied

soda’s sister story is negatively affecting my ability to form answers, specifically the bit about eye contact and helpfully spraying deodorizer

I just remembered: I also partially bedroom door if the cat is napping in there and I’m being noisy around the house, and occasionally turn the tables if I am sleeping and he’s intent on waking me up

We sleep with the bedroom door open so we can hear if the children are crying during the night. They're teenagers now, but the habit has stuck.
Call me effete, but shitting in front of someone else - unless you're sharing a cell with them - is unconscionable.

I was a small bit more distressed about the sister being ok pooping with the door open with her brother around in addition to the intentional eye contact.

I've dated some women in the past who I bet would've eventually tried to rope me into a situation similar to soda's sister, and I'm realizing now that I really dodged a bullet there.

Dodged a nugget

Before we got a cat, most doors were generally left open, except in extreme seasonal cases of trying to keep the heat in or out of the living room, and except:

- I like to sleep with the bedroom door shut, mainly because I get v bothered by sound and light when I'm trying to sleep

- bathroom doors generally left closed, for no real reason - just seems neater and more hygienic somehow? They do carry sound slightly from the other flats in the building, I guess because they have air vents and no carpet, so it's nice to shut that out

now we have a cat, so:

- no shutting the bedroom door or there will be maowing and scratching

- one of the bathrooms (yes we have two - or one plus an en-suite shower room) stays open a cat-sized gap because that's where the cat litter tray is, and the other stays shut because for some reason I'm paranoid the cat will come in and idk start licking a bunch of cat-toxic toiletries and cleaning products, even though she's never done that in the other bathroom

See, now I'm re-thinking my vote. We really have some doors open, some closed, and it all comes down to where we want cats to be at any given time.

our interior doors are almost always open because of the cats

occasionally we close a door to keep cats out of a room, resulting in sustained scratching and crying

if I close most of the doors, the cats freak out and try to hide because that means someone is about to be captured, stuck in a carrier, and taken to the vet

slightly disappointed the word "ajar" doesn't appear more often in this thread

Thread takeaway: cats are pricks.

(nb We have to leave the doors open because cat is prick.)

Our bathroom doesn’t latch properly unless you push it hard so most of the time it doesn’t get latched and without fail the cat will open the door and come in to be with whoever is currently occupying the bathroom.

We can't leave bathroom doors open because one of our cats will immediately go in and shred the toilet paper.

I always leave doors open unless I am in the bedroom or bathroom doing something private. It's some old superstition of mine. I hated it as a kid when my parents shut the door to take some private phone call that they didn't want me to hear (although I did this all of the time as a teenager). I have a lot of junk and a lot of shelves and I like to hear if something falls off a shelf or something. Plus, in the winter, mice find their way into my home to get warm and have their babies, so if I leave the doors open, I can hear them moving around.

I always leave doors open unless I am in the bedroom or bathroom doing something private. It's some old superstition of mine. I hated it as a kid when my parents shut the door to take some private phone call that they didn't want me to hear (although I did this all of the time as a teenager). I have a lot of junk and a lot of shelves and I like to hear if something falls off a shelf or something. Plus, in the winter, mice find their way into my home to get warm and have their babies, so if I leave the doors open, I can hear them moving around.

Oh, and my late dog Duke was so genteel, he'd never follow me into the bathroom, so I'd close the door so he couldn't see me doing my business. He perceived that waste elimination was "taboo" in human culture - he always did his business in a bush out of view, and buried it afterward. He also never laid on his back lest his wing-wang be exposed.

I'm a doors open kind of guy. Taking a shit is really the only time I close a door

Shitting in front of a partner is weird to me but I've pissed in gje bathroom when my partner was in there brushing teeth or whatever in my last 2 relationships

my cat will purr and headbutt my leg while I’m sitting on the toilet doing my business

he has to know what I’m doing by this point and is just messing with me

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

At least 19 of you are making me extremely concerned.

which sized cat are you

Closing doors is so boomerish.

I found the instagram from when my place was being listed of the ensuite bathroom i was terrible at describing above. The viewpoint is if you are sitting on the bed, open concept. The toilet is on the right around corner, in sight of the sink or closet or shower. We actually don't care since all boundaries have been gone for years and years and years.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMFff0bhR9_/?taken-by=lacasadejuana

*waving at u from bathtub when I come to visit*