We have them both at home and at a holiday house we let out. Visitors are given the code before they arrive and just let themselves in leave them in the key safe when they go home. Works fine! Both of them are not in visible places but behind gates.
We went out once for a whole day and left the door unlocked with nobody at home. We both thought the other had locked up! Everything was OK though. We never lock the door when we are at home, I guess I just do what my parents did.
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This topic reminds me of those little plastic battery powered fobs that were briefly popular about thirty years ago. The idea was that if you’d mislaid your keys at home a sharp clap of the hands would activate a beeping tone. The problem was these little gadgets would go off at the drop of a hat, probably why they didn’t catch on.
Add in the fact that it’s quite often deaf old doddery folk like myself that tend to misplace keys, then the idea of having a beeper one can’t actually hear didn’t help make them saleable either.
Wonder what happened to that Dragons Den invention…if you dropped your keys off a boat, the fob would magically inflate (might even have beeper and flashed a light) to help you locate them.
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When I first moved into this house, the locks didn’t align in the door jamb, so had to leave the door unlocked for a couple of days until they fixed it.
I piled up a selection of “traps” at the door at night, just in case. Good job there wasn’t a fire! 
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Is that from a Vincent Price movie?
Indeed it is Dex.
The Pit and the Pendulum.
Vincent Price, my favourite actor.
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Now why didn’t I think of that?! Such a good idea!
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That is impossible with my front door as the internal locking knob will not turn with the key left in the front part of the locking mechanism.
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