Miss Itchy Fingers made another BIG boo boo. She locked the bathroom door of the master bedroom from outside and after searching through our bunch of keys, we realized that we did not have a key for that bathroom, BUMMER! I remembered reading about Ginnie’s blog post that she used her iPhone card to open up the door that her kids had locked out. I then quickly searched through my wallet and fished out my Bonus Link card (I have no iPhone card, so I chose Bonus Link card, a card that I never use) and tried to open the door. But I realized that for that particular door of ours, the lock could not be seen from the outside, thus a credit card or whatever card cannot be used to open up the door.   I went to other doors in our house to have a look for comparison and the lock of these doors can be seen from the outside, thus can be opened with a card in emergencies, by sliding the card between the door and the wooden frame. My mil and I also tried using coins to open the door but to no avail.
Later that night, daddy came home and took out the tool box. He took the hammer out, placed a stack of newspapers on the door knob and banged the door knob. In the past, he had successfully opened locked out doors using this method. After trying for about half an hour, the door was finally opened! Thank God Baby was not inside the bathroom, other wise she would have been trapped inside for hours.
The door knob was yanked off during the procedure.
A hole on the bathroom door. Check out Baby and Alycia inside the bathroom cabinet in the background!
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good thing no one trapped inside
Shireen, one word of advise, do not use knobs with keylocks form toilets. There’s special ones for toilets that can be opened with a coin and cheaper too. All my bathroom doors uses the coin opening ones. Our concern was not only kids but the elders, in case they faint or accident happens, we can open the door easily. Better change to those types. good luck !
Aiyoyo… thank god no one was in there…
ehhh…why not call a lock smith?!
I think coffeesncookies’s idea is good.
luckily nobody was trapped in the toilet..phew..
ai yah yah…hear also “tau tung” already! luckily the girls are not inside *phew*
haha – Rowena did the same thing too recently. She locked the masterbedroom door and jammed it, so we were trapped in the room. Luckily hubs was outside, but could only sort it out in the morning we could not possiblyt get a locksmith at 1 in the morning!! Think if we get the 2 of them together, only God knows what might happen!
luckily bb wasnt inside the bathroom as what u said..
Agree on Elaine too, change those door knob can open with coins.
Yes, thank God Baby C was not inside….
Yeah i will going to renovate my toilet..use sliding door. no locks…