Build a terraced end house with an additional unit (GÜ) on your own

My sister was almost 5 back then, when she, just a few months old, had already lifted me onto the windowsill to throw me out of the window

Then we are all glad that despite the many examples everyone survived. And that without lockable handles. Oh miracle.

I always wonder how we managed to survive without lockable window handles, bicycle helmets, and seat belts in the back seats.

Strange discussion. Of course, it is possible to survive car rides without seat belts, but in accidents, the chances of survival increase significantly with a seat belt (same with bicycle helmets)... so why leave it out? A lock on the window is certainly not absolutely necessary, but it is not a bad invention either, and it is up to each individual to weigh whether they might want to accept a disadvantage in case of fire or whether they want to forgo the additional safety in everyday life (regarding falling out of the window and break-ins).

I always wonder how we managed to survive without lockable window handles, bicycle helmets, and seat belts on the back seats.

Luck, chance, fate, the will of God, etc., etc... This is an abstract discussion. Many want and advise a very long fixed interest rate period just to know what we will have to pay in installments in 20 years. No risk at all! No matter what it costs! On the other hand, a few lockable window handles are superfluous because you yourself survived as a child.

Caution: I have deliberately formulated this in an exaggerated way. The individual "quotes" do not come from one person and are not assigned.

I repeat myself, but I could not reconcile with myself if one of my children had an accident and I had saved a few €. I also bought the child seat new, as well as the bicycle helmets and my son's motorcycle helmet.

USUALLY nothing bad happens. Unless it does. Then I would blame myself.

NORMALLY nothing bad happens. Unless it does. Then I would blame myself.

That's exactly how it is. Normally everything is fine. Just like with all the pools in gardens - how many unattended children "survive" such pools that are completely unsecured - but then there is that handful of children where things go wrong. In the 80s, a colleague of my father's had a car accident. Not a very serious accident, but the little son in the backseat was completely unsecured and died as a result. A few weeks earlier, the colleague had talked with my father about retrofitting seat belts on the backseat.

And honestly, the few euros extra for lockable window handles are a good investment, don't take much effort.

You can definitely overdo it: an acquaintance seriously wanted to let his child go to the playground only with knee pads....