The value of the goods in my house

I was watching the discovery channel the other day and they were talking about different security alarm systems the army are using at their bases around the world. It was quite fascinating to think the money that the government is putting into such things.

Mind you the army does have quite a bit of expensive materials that they wish to keep as safe as possible. It got me thinking the equations of should you be spending money on a security alarm system that is relevant to the value of goods in your house?

If that is the case then I wonder what the rule would be. Would it be security alarm system = value of goods / 100? Even if it was that, I would have to spend some more on my alarm as it only cost me around 50 dollars to begin with.

I am pretty certain that the value of my goods is more than $500! Though I could be wrong math was never my strong point lol!

But the money the government were putting into their security was insane, we are talking billions and billions of dollars. Crazy money but like I say, when you are trying to protect fighter jets etc you need to really invest in your security systems.

Now if only I had a plane, I would fly away from this god forsaken street. Just heard news of another break in 4 doors down from me. Apparently they stole pretty much everything in the house.

I keep advocating the use of having a burglar alarm installed somewhere in the house or at the very least have a burglar light outside your house to off put any would be criminal. So far it has helped me out.

That is a good way to end this post by asking what measures you take to make sure your home is safe. What are you doing to improve your home security? I would love to know, later ladies!

Bad news for my neighbour

I bumped into one of my neighbours the other day. This neighbour unfortunately had a break in around a week or so ago and I managed to get her side of the story as to what happened. It was quite sad in actual fact.

Anyway, it all happened on a Monday, it just happens to be the day that her husband goes to the pub and she does the weekly food shop. A young man (who is now in police custody thankfully) decided that he would break in to the house to get their TV and their video game console.

The reason for the break-in? The young gentleman needed money to pay for drugs, sad so very sad.

Anyway as she was describing the situation I told her that I had this home security slash safety website and I asked her if I could write about her incident here. She said it was fine and was looking forward to being famous lol.

She did mention to me that she took no precautions with her home security, no house alarms, no motion detector lights no nothing.

I told her she needs to get a professional round to do a complete installation of some alarm devices and get the placed secured fast.

It’s hard to feel totally sorry for her as everyone in our neighbour hood knows how bad the crime rate is in our street. We hear about break-ins nearly every second week, that is why I am so clued up with these alarm devices and such, because I fear for the safety of my family.

To my neighbour, if you ever get round to reading this I hope you really do take the steps to improve your home security love, if you don’t you are putting your families safety in jeopardy and you will only have yourself to blame.