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December 14 2018

How to Keep Your Home Safe from Burglars during the Holidays

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The most wonderful time of the year is coming up: Christmas. With all the decorations, shopping, several parties and lots of fun coming up with this holiday season, people tend to forget to secure their homes due to this busy time. But there’s no need to worry! We listed several tips for you to stay safe and secure during this holiday season.

Don’t post about your travel plans

If you’re planning to go traveling for this holiday season, make sure to not post about your travel plans on the internet. We suggest you post about it when you’re home again. When you post about your plans to travel, burglars will know when you’re away – so you’ll basically invite them to break into your home. So, save yourself the trouble and post about your lovely vacation when you’re back in your home again.

Inform a neighbour you can trust

Make sure you’re informing at least one neighbour when you’re going out of town this holiday season. You can ask them to keep an eye on your home and to report any suspicious activity. You could also ask your neighbour to keep your walks cleared of snow and to pick up your newspapers and another kind of mail while you’re out of town. Make sure your house looks inhabited. This way, you’ll scare burglars off from trying to break into your house.

Hide Christmas packages

You want to hide your gifts from your children, but you should also make sure that the gifts are hidden from potential burglars. Of course, pretty wrapped gifts under a decorated Christmas tree looks nice, but it’s also an invitation for burglars! So try to keep your Christmas tree, with the gifts underneath, away from windows. When you aren’t home, it’s even easier for a burglar to break through a window and to grab all the gifts. Also, don’t forget to take care of gifts that you haven’t received yet! Thieves are also on the lookout for deliveries or other unattended packages

Watch your Christmas lights!

Research has shown that December is the deadliest month for electrical fires. Before you’re hanging the lights in the house or in the tree, make sure to inspect the strands to make sure there aren’t any frayed cords or cracked lamps! When there is a cracked lamp or a frayed cord, make sure you’re replacing the lamp and throw the crowd away when there is a frayed crowd. This way, you’ll prevent your house from catching fire.

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October 5 2018

Ways to Keep Your Home Safe from a Burglar

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Now that the days are getting darker and colder, it seems like thieve season just has started. But don’t worry, because we set up a list of how to keep your home safe from a burglar.

Anti-Burglar Tip 1: Adopt a dog

Thieves are more likely to avoid a home where a barking dog is present. So if you have always wanted to adopt a dog, then this is your best excuse!

Anti-Burglar Tip 2: Set up lighting spots in your garden

It’s important to keep your house from being a dark place where thieves can easily hide. So setting up several lighting spots in order to scare off thieves is definitely no luxury at all.

Two energy-saving options are:

Installing solar lights that will automatically turn on when it’s getting dark.
Installing motion-triggered lights that will turn on the moment any kind of motion gets detected.

Anti-Burglar Tip 3: Don’t let your mail pile up

Make sure you take care of your mail when you and your family are leaving the house for a holiday! You don’t want thieves to see your mail all piled up; they will know nobody is present at your home. You could, for example, ask a friend or neighbour to take care of your mail.

Anti-Burglar Tip 4: Use timers on your electronics

Using timers on your lights, televisions, and stereos set to turn on at various times when you’re not home can help to make it look like you are present in your home.

Anti-Burglar Tip 5: Also be sharp-eyed during the day

When we think of burglaries we usually things it happens at night, while a lot of break-ins are often happening during daylight hours. Always be sharp-eyed and always make sure you lock the doors whenever you are leaving the house.

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