Schlage Locks

Another one of my review mom friends mentioned this little mishap, so I'm gonna too. Because life is funny.

A couple weeks back, I was getting ready to have a big garage sale when I had a lull in construction workers at the house, but I had also just gotten zapped by Mother Nature again so I was computerless for quite awhile. Imagine my surprise when FORTY Schlage locks were delivered in the middle of garage sale prep. You know it's a bad sign when the UPS trucks backs into your driveway to unload...they aren't delivering you a few books from Amazon at that point, no sirree.

My second thought was, somebody at Schlage went to work with a hangover! Because I can't think of a whole lot of homes anywhere in America that have FORTY outside access doors. Donald Trump, maybe. Me? Not so much. Try four. Not forty.

Anyway, mistakes happen but it was just a very crazy funny mistake. If those lovely, gorgeous gals at Mom Central want to have forty diamond tennis bracelets accidentally sent to me, I'm on board for that!

I was pretty excited about having a keypad entry door option on the house. Up until recently, we didn't even have a lock with a key for our "back" door. It was either deadbolted from inside or not. Not really very convenient in some instances. Like if we're over at the inlaws and the kids want to ride their bikes back home early and hang at home without us while we sit out and enjoy a glass of wine...no can do. Kids can't get in the house.

Thanks to Schlage I may have more relaxed evenings getting rip snorting idiotic on merlot with hubby's folks. I know that sends a chill down the spine of many of you but my inlaws are actually cool. Oh, and it's hard to get rip snorting on merlot.

But I digress...

I was a little nervous about hubby putting the lock on our door. He's handy with the basics. You know, hammering something, hanging something, hacking down a tree limb. That kind of stuff. But with a lock that has to function exactly so...oh boy. Crossing the fingers.

He took the Turtle approach - slow and steady wins the race. He very carefully and methodically followed the instructions to ensure proper installation. It says on the box that with the one-tool installation it promises to "replace existing lock with a screwdriver in less than 30 minutes". I think it took him right at 30 minutes, but I think he triple and quadruple checked every single direction before he did stuff.

And?

NO SWEARING.

Not that I'm ratting him out as a habitual swearer, but this is one of those activities that can induce such a reaction. Just sayin.

Thus, Schlage = F-bomb free. Thereby, it is safe for installing with children and the elderly present.

And, oh shiny! And, oh buttons for programming!

Coolest option ever? You can have up to 19 user codes! So, as it stands right now, the entire Duggar Family including all 17 current kids and mom and dad could all get in the house with their own code. Although, if the entire Duggar Family was trying to get into my house, at first I would probably call the cops because that is a WHOLE lot of people and I'd probably think we were under attack.

Anyway, it's a nice lock, and it's guaranteed to fit. Unless you have some kind of crazy weird door, this sucker's gonna go right in. And there are a number of finishes, so it will match any other hardware you already have. Unless you are a freak and have hardware in your home picked out by a hippie from the 60s who was whacked out on hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Some of the highlights about the product include:

• Flexibilty to choose; switch from automatic relocking to unlocked as needed
• Provides additional layers of keyless security & protection inside your home or office
• Ideal for garage entry doors, home offices, computer rooms, utility rooms, etc.
• Easily replace most exisiting locks with a screwdriver in about 30 minutes
• No programming required; preset with two user codes so it's ready to use right out of the box.

The hardest part, it would seem, might be deciding what user code to use for the keypad entry if you're choosing your own. If I was still in high school, it would probably be something like the number of Emilio Estevez posters I had in my room.

My thanks to Mom Central (especially Karen who I am pretty sure is a former Miss America) for the cool new lock. I'm going to play the key pad all day. And so will the kids, probably. And, at some point, we may just lock ourselves out and never get back in because we're having so much fun. Good thing it's sunny out today.