Do you close doors when you live by yourself?
2026-04-05 19:03 UTC
Replies (10)
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@FoxyFerengi@startrek.website 2026-04-05 19:16
I keep my doors closed both for climate control and light. I prefer darker spaces but I have indoor vegetable plants in my spare bedroom. I very softly close my doors though, because I'm overly sensitive to sound lol
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@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2026-04-05 19:09
I close some doors at night to reduce the light that comes into my bedroom in the morning, but generally no, not even the bathroom doors. Sounds like your apartment building wasn't made very noise-proof.
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@daannii@lemmy.world 2026-04-05 22:49
I had an upstairs neighbor who wore doc martens around every damn morning around 8 am. I didn't get up until 9 so I found this awful. Anywho. I met her in the elevator. And took a peak at her footwear and that's when I confirmed she was in fact wearing big ass boots. Even in the damn summer! Anyway. I'm also a woman and a decent judge of foot size. So I ordered her some foam slippers. Size 8. Which is average women's size and I thought was pretty close. But I ended up chatting her up a bit about some issue with someone stealing both of ours mail packages. And we decided to grab each other's mail if one of us was around. We exchanged numbers. And magically the boot stomping stopped before I could figure out how to offer her the slippers. I had this whole story how I was going to say I ordered them and they sent me the wrong size and yada yada. I ended up giving them to my sister. But my point is. Make semi friends with them. And maybe they will naturally start being more considerate because then they know the person below them. It's an accountability thing. And if that doesn't work. At least then you are on friendly terms and you can bring up the issues with suggestions on solutions like bumpers for the doors. You can say "yeah mine are also loud as hell and I added bumpers, I have a pack of them if you want me to bring them by". I also got a neighbor's kid to stop letting his dog poop on my grass. Not by bitching him out but going out and being nice and asking him about his dog. Introducing myself. It's a manipulation tactic. But it honestly works very well. They feel guilt instead of feeling vindictive for your hostility.
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@chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-06 07:05
I close bathroom doors, mainly to keep in the habit of doing it
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@Vinny_93@lemmy.world 2026-04-05 19:16
I have neighbours like that. I'm usually very self conscious about being the one who's noisy but they can get it, I don't care. Their kids, barely teenagers, are still up when we go to bed, screaming at each other in their bathroom where we can hear them verbatim. Or being out in the evening on their trampoline in the front yard, we can pretty much join the conversation. I've been in the situation where I heard people moving their furniture around almost daily. It's usually not what you think it is. Most people have no idea how their noise affects others. It can just be someone falling in their seat on the couch that can make it sound like they're moving the couch. This is why our couch is up against the wall, so it doesn't move. We have those little felt things under chair legs to prevent scraping noise. We take our shoes off inside the house. And if we do watch movies, tv or listen to music, even when having a modest party, we keep the music at a reasonable volume so we can still have a conversation. It's common decency that loads of people don't do because they are inconsiderate. Not because they're inherently bad people, they just haven't been taught to take others into account. And they get away with it because those who do, usually avoid confrontation.
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@lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-05 21:40
Sound can also travel very oddly. I grew up in a house where my sibling's bedroom was between my bedroom and my parent's bedroom. I could have the radio on in my bedroom and turn the volume down so low that you couldn't make out individual words if you were standing a few feet in front of the radio, and you couldn't hear it at all in the hallway or my sibling's room, but somehow in my parent's room it was obnoxiously loud. I remember one time I had it on just loud enough to hear my music in my room and I went to my parent's room to talk to them and almost had to yell to be heard over it. I had to use headphones all the time and I couldn't have private conversations in my bedroom if I didn't want my parents to hear.
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@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-06 08:02
- All under the assumption I am alone: - Bathroom on toilet: Depends. Usually yes. - Bathroom shower: Yes. I like it warm :) - Living room (summer): - If it's hot inside and cant open the window -> No it's kept open. - If it's temperate -> Yes - Living room (winter): Usually closed at all times and only temporarily to vent it for fresh air - Bedroom: Closed. I can't sleep with an open door. Dunno why.
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-04-07 00:03
Always did in apartments. Closing the bedroom door gives me another layer between the neighbors and street traffic. I added rubber door sweeps and seals to further dampen the noise. In a detached home, I'd leave the door open during the day but close it when I sleep for added fire safety. I used to have a *downstairs* neighbor who stomped loudly and my pleas didn't work. So I got a subwoofer and played some low-frequency white noise when I needed to drown it out. *After reading your comments, I'd highly recommend this if you can't move out yet.* They seriously need to build more apartments and condos with concrete instead of thin wood in the US. I miss my old apartment when I was in Germany. Nice sturdy concrete walls so my neighbor could blast music all day without bothering me at all.
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-04-07 07:33
I close my front door when I get home, rest my head against it, and whisper, "Thank fuck for that".
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@mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2026-04-05 21:03
Have you tried talking to your neighbour?