Keyless bliss

You used to be able to buy a fake dog turd with a secret compartment to hide your spare house key. This was especially fun if your yard contained real dog turds. Finding your key was basically a game of Russian Poo-lette.

This was not ideal.

You know what else isn’t ideal? How you can have someone come into your house to feed the cats while you’re on vacation and they can make a copy of your key for like $2.99 and keep it forever. (Pro tip: you won’t get dinged for stealing someone’s Netflix login if you sneak into their house and watch it on their TV.)

The point here is that we now have the technology to give you a lock that works with either your key or your code, and you should probably have something like that. Even if you have some beautiful antique door lock on your very fancy front door, something like this is awesome to have on a back door somewhere in case you’re ever in a pinch. Like…do you do 99 percent of your coming and going through the automatic garage door? That can really bite you if the power goes out.

Speaking of power, this one runs on AAs, which work for a super long time and are very easy to replace when that comes up.

But anyway, this will go on pretty much any door that has a deadbolt. You can set up to six customizable codes for entry, plus generate one-time use codes, which comes in handy quite a bit.

It’s a nice, solid lock. And just $29.99–compare to $80 for retail.

Get yourself an extra bit of security and a whole lot of convenience.