Be Smart (Post 97)

If you would like to start your own ten cent crazy book - read post 1-4 to find out how

Unfortunately, when the holidays are upon us and even when they're not - it's a time to remember home safety - burglars are out there - so here's a list of safety tips to add to your ten cent crazy book - so that perhaps you will deter a thief

Be smart - people cleaning your carpets - painting your house - delivering appliances - working in your yard or neighborhood - could be checking out your home.

Let them in to use the restroom or phone and they could be unlocking a window or checking things out - so they know what they want and where it is.

Nice things in the yard means nicer things inside to take - put up your toys and tools.

Newspapers and mail piling up tells them no one is home

If you have an alarm - can they look through a window and see if it is set

Don't leave your doors unlocked - even if you're in a hurry or just going to be a few minutes

If there's a knock on the door, and a stranger wants directions or offers to do something around your house - be suspicious - they might have been - just checking to see if you were home

A thief will check your dresser drawers, bedside tables, under the mattress, the medicine cabinet and the freezer.

They almost never go into a child's room

If a safe is not bolted down - they will take it

When you're not home - leave on a TV or radio

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