This is scarey....

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by skcin

I've seen this show. Scary as hell. The only thing that annoys me is that they're always saying "don't leave your credit cards in the house, don't leave your checks, oh look, he took the spare keys to your car..." OK, so what the hell am I supposed to do with all of this stuff? Carry it with me & hope not to get mugged?

They recommend locking everything in a safe. I guess I'm being lazy, but I don't want to have to go into the attic, unlock the safe, get my checkbook to write one check, lock it back up. Again, I'm lazy.

They do give you good tips about your doors, windows, not putting your name on your mailbox/house, etc.

I also think the safe idea is extreme. When it gets to the point that your life becomes that insanely inconvenient, then there comes a time when you should just be living your life rather than spending all your time preparing for worst case scenarios, right? But I agree that there are little things that people can make of point of doing or not doing, as you said, like locking doors and windows, etc. Some of the things that many of us think are no-brainers don't occur to other people, which is scary.