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[LanieLovesDisney]

DH is gone to the American Baptist Association meeting in Witchita Kansas this week...leaving me to sleep with a gun and booby trap my house [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

What do you do to feel safe when YOU have to stay home alone? Tell me your stories and I'll tell you mine!

[AKLRULZ]

ROTFLOL - well, I think we live in just about the safest neighborhood in all of America and I'm never scared but I know my wife is glad that we have a security system and a big dog with a bark meaner than her bite when I'm not home! LOL!

[ariel1]

we have a security system, so that helps a lot. my dog is worthless as a guard dog. she would sleep through anything and is only 9 pounds if she did wake up. not a lot of help. prayer is my greatest weapon.

[CRCrazy]

John works strange rotating shifts, so I have gotten used to spending a great deal of time home either alone or with just the kids.

We do have a telephone next to the bed - that makes me feel safer - if I heard something - I could call John or the PD, of course, John is a police officer, but if he's at the power plant, that doesn't help me much, does it.

Actually, I've never worried much about it - I live in a pretty safe rural area, and we do have a big dog - mutt, but he looks like a German shepard. Not much for protection - he's a big wuss, but he looks scary!

Although we do have guns in the house (again, PD requirement), they are safely locked away in a gun safe, and John has the only key in his pocket at all times! I feel much safer this way - I don't like them. Even when John is home, but off duty, he locks his guns - but he does sleep with an old wooden baseball bat next to the bed! I would be much more worried that a criminal would get the gun away from me, and use it against me, than that I would use it!

[GoofyMom]

My DH travels a lot. After one of his first long trips away from home, I informed him we needed a dog. A big one. So we got Goliath. He has a wonderful big dog bark. And a great name. If strangers come to the door I always make sure they can hear me say "Stay Goliath!" DD wanted to name him Pooky, but that would have defeated the purpose! (so that's his middle name) Of course once they see him and his goofy tongue hanging out the side of his mouth and his tail wagging so hard I think he could hit his own nose with it, he doesn't look so scary [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

I also sleep with a phone beside my bed and I double check to make sure the deadbolts are locked before I go to bed.

[simbarel]

My car insurance just had an increase because our neighborhood is evidently getting riskier and my boyfriend's job puts him on the road so often that I'm home alone nearly half the time, but it really doesn't bother me that much. We lock the house at night, but I hardly ever lock my car doors. Watching Bowling for Columbine might put some of your nerves at ease--worked for me!

Have fun with your time alone!

[LanieLovesDisney]

Well, on my first stay alone, I slept with the gun, dog and phone in the living room. There are two doors that close the living room off, but neither of them lock, so I used two picture frames for each door: prop one against the door and one laid on the floor so that if anyone opened the door, they would knock one frame on top of the other and wake me up!

My latest and greatest is for my bedroom, which has a sliding door with no lock...I close it, then put one of our puppy gates in front of it so that if they come in, they'll at least trip over the gate and slow down so I can get em! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

DH laughs at me...we live in a neighborhood full of old people, but I keep thinking about stories of people who live in great neighborhoods getting their houses broken in to!

Oh, and I'm with some of you on the dogs. Mine make good watch dogs, but not good guard dogs. How vicious can an 11 pound weiner dog and a 3 pound chihuahua be?

[loobyoxlip]

Well it's just me and boys and I never worry about it. I usually sleep with all the windows open in the summer. It's a very safe neighborhood. That said, when the boys aren't there at night, I sometimes hear more than I do when they are there. I guess when they are there, I can blame any noise on them?!? I guess it's just something you get used to.

[LanieLovesDisney]

Tina...your icon scares me! Is that chuckie? [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img]

[LanieLovesDisney]

EEK! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]

[Dumbo]

I haven't had to stay alone that much. Just during Boy Scout campouts. I always made sure all the doors were locked. Back then we had 2 dogs. I figured with 2 dogs I was safe.

[luvnwdwgal]

My DH was gone all last week and will be gone again this weekend. Fortunately the area we live in is basically no crime, so I'm not worried at all. We don't even have a telephone upstairs where the bedrooms are. I'm sure you will be just fine!

[wheatenwalker]

It is always just me and my kids. I really rarely worry about my safety, I have a phone in my bedroom and I do have the dog who would bark if he heard anything unusual. We had a security system but I didnt renew it once the 3 yrs were up.I would never have a gun in the house. We live in a very safe suburb and I know if I had to call the police, they would be here quickly. Also, I live in one of the smaller houses in the area so I figure, why would anyone rob us when there are some HUGE houses close by-Sheila

[LanieLovesDisney]

Good point about not robbing me when the NICE neighborhood is just a few blocks away!

[BostonTeaParty]

When my husband is out of town I make the most of it!! First of all, I can sprawl out all over the bed, the remote control is MINE,(I mostly like to watch Comedy Central or The Food Network; Paul mostly watches the History channel). I can chew bubble gum and blow BIG bubbles without comments from the peanut gallery. So I guess it doesn't occur to me to be nervous, 'cause I'm having too much fun!!!