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Purse Safety Tips While Shopping

This guide is about purse safety tips while shopping. Keeping your purse secure when shopping can be a challenge.

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Pay Attention When Using Cell Phone

Pay attention, this is going to be good. That's it, really. If you pay attention; to where you are, who you're with, and what you're doing; things will be good for you and the people around you.

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Exchange Keys With A Neighbor

My neighbor and I exchanged house keys so that we could enter each other's homes in case of an emergency or to feed pets while one of us is on vacation, etc.

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Candle Safety

To avoid forgetting to blow out candles, I tape a note on my purse or keys. If I decide to leave the house, the candles are blown out and I avoid that panicked feeling that comes after you leave your house and then remember.

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Money hidden in a china sugar pot.

Hiding Valuables

This is a guide about hiding valuables. Many people worry about where to safely store their cash, jewelry, important paperwork or identification or anything else that you want to keep protected in your home.

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Hiding Valuables

Any ideas on where I can hide jewelry so it would be difficult for a thief to find, but still convenient for me to get to on a daily basis? I used to keep things in my bathroom medicine cabinet in empty makeup and face cream containers, but when we had a break-in, those items were taken.

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Tape aligned, door locked.

Is The Door Locked?

Every time we went away, someone would have to check the back door to see if it were locked. I put four small pieces of reflective tape on the toggle. If the four are in a straight line, it's locked, if the middle two are sideways, the door needs to be locked.

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Think About Where You Store Valuables

A few weeks ago while I was with my husband at the dentist, our back door was kicked in and cash and items were stolen. Like many, I am sure, I had jewelry in jewelry boxes and cash in my china closet.

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Safely Storing Aerosol Cans

It is extremely important that you never place a can of spray-on oil on, above, or even near your stove. The heat from the stove top can heat the can and cause it to explode.

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Avoid "Death by GPS!"

Don't (pardon the pun) blindly follow your GPS, especially if you're traveling in remote areas. A Canadian couple, Albert and Rita Chretien, learned that lesson the hard way.

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