Holiday Safety and Security Tips
We all get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Busy with work, shopping for gifts, preparing for family to come visit. In short, we get busy with life. Sometimes when we get busy, we try to find ways to cut corners, move faster, squeeze more in, and be a super hero for the season. But when we get like this, it’s the time we’re bound to forget to do something, and we all know the Grinch doesn’t take a day off. So prepare and make things easy on yourself.
Take the time to hide any gifts. Not from the kids. Wait, yes from the kids, but from anybody looking to take advantage of the time you’ve already spent shopping. Lock your shopping in the trunk, or at the very least out of sight in your car. Same thing goes for electronic devices (GPS, iPods, Cell Phones), anything that may be of value in a quick smash and grab. Nobody wants to do a full search while they’ve broken into your car. They want to be gone almost as quickly as they came. So hide those electronics and keep your shopping out of plain sight.
Now lock your car. It seems like such an obvious thing to say but we’re all guilty of it. Running into a store for what we see as a quick “in and out” and when we return we may not even notice what was taken. So simple but I’ll say it again, lock your car.
Back at your well decorated home with lights along the roof line and in the trees and a wreath on the door, not only do we have people who will ruin our holiday, but events that will ruin our holiday. Home alarms now are equipped to deal with so much and keep us ahead of these events. Monitored Smoke detectors are definitely the most obvious of things that people might consider including in their home alarm system. What with all the festive baking and cleaning that are added to your life over the next few months nothing would be worse than leaving the house with something in the oven. Monitored smoke detectors can create an alarm even if you are home and taking a nap and the system isn’t armed.
A properly installed home alarm will also ensure that you only have one visitor over the holiday come in through an unconventional opening. It can also deter would be Grinches from taking off with a sack full of booty and heading off to Mount Crumpet.
In short, make this a holiday season to enjoy. Be safe. Be smart. Take your time, we’ll all get there. Most importantly, don’t be caught in Whoville wondering what happened in the after math. Make sure your home alarm is ready for the Most WONDERFUL time of the year.