Your home should be a place where you and your loved ones can rest, relax, and feel safe together. However, you might live in an area where you feel less than safe sometimes. Or, you may have had a string of break-ins or burglaries in your area that makes you worried about the safety of your home and family. If this is the case, there are quite a few things you can do that will help to keep your home and family protected as well as give you some peace of mind that everything and everyone is safe. To show you how you can do this, here are three tips for keeping your home safe for your family.
Landscape Wisely
Some homes and families might find themselves being bigger targets for crime than others simply because of the way their home is set up. If your property is easy to hide in or shielded by a lot of shrubberies, burglars might think they’ve found the perfect place to commit their crimes. Because of this, Kathleen Baty, a contributor to Today.com, recommends that you landscape wisely by keeping hedges, shrubs, and bushes trimmed around your home. Also, try to make a clear, lighted path to your doorways so that you can quickly and easily get inside if need be. And finally, you might want to place some less hospitable plants, like rose bushes or other thorny plants, right under windows so as to deter anyone from coming in through them.
Consider Installing Timers
One of the best ways to keep your home protected from intruders or from other hazards is to have someone there. If a home looks like it’s occupied, it’s much less likely to get taken advantage of. But you can’t just sit at home all day guarding your house. To combat this, Marian White, a contributor to Moving.com, advises that you put timers on things like your lights and TV so that you can turn those things on or off even if you’re not home. At the very least, this will give the appearance that there’s someone there.
Get A Dog
According to Monique Seitz-Davis, a contributor to Safewise.com, people are much less likely to try to mess with a house when there’s dog present. Even if you know your pup wouldn’t hurt a fly, someone who doesn’t know your family might be too scared to try to break in if there’s a big dog waiting for them on the inside. And for those who don’t have a dog, you can still put up a sign that says “beware of dog” or some other message that makes it seem like you have a dog protecting and guarding your home.
If you’re looking for ways to feel safer in your home, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you do just that.
Originally posted on September 12, 2018 @ 2:44 am
