Home Security – Articles Revisited
Home security is a big issue, especially if you live in densely populated areas where people operate anonymously and residences are in proximity to one another. In such environments, there are far more criminals, and it’s important that you play an attention and resource game with your neighbors; you pay close attention to home security [...]
Home Security – Prepare by Thinking Like a Criminal
Home security will always be a serious concern, so long as crime and home invasion remain common. Unfortunately, these are realities of life. However, there are a lot of things you can do to protect yourself, your family, and your possessions, from crime. To begin with, you should look into security systems in your area. [...]
Locked Out? An Easy Method of Prevention
For those of you who regularly or even occasionally find yourself locked out, there is usually one factor that contributes to this awkward situation – distraction. It’s even easier to do when you’re unlocking and locking several doors in a short time. Perhaps you’re locking up the house door, the screen door, the garage door [...]
Key Finder Alternatives – Keep a Spare
Some of us have a key finder so we can clap and find our keys. Okay, that works, but isn’t there an alternative that is simple, inexpensive and fool-proof? I think there are several, so let me offer my insights. Losing keys is a common problem. It’s happened to all of us at one time [...]
Home Emergency Essentials Part 4: Self-Defense (Alarm Systems)
Having discussed methods for strengthening the entry-points to your home, no chapters on home emergency self-defense would be complete without examining the main method for deterring such entry in the first place: a solid, capable alarm system, and of making a would-be aggressor aware that such a system exists. In today’s age of electronic and information [...]
Home Emergency Essentials Part 3: Self-Defense (Window Security)
OK, now we’ve touched upon protecting your house from a home emergency break-in or attack by discussing door security; now it’s time to talk about security for your windows, easily the more vulnerable of the two. As mentioned in last week’s post, the simplest, cheapest and most effective way to prevent such assaults is to lock [...]
Join the conversation...