Home Security

There’s a busy cross-town street that passes close behind our house.  It doesn’t happen so much any more since cell phones are so common, but we used to often get people knocking on our door at all hours asking to use our phone because they were having car trouble.  We have a tiny peephole in [...]

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It’s easy to find timers to turn on lamps to give your home a lived-in look while you’re out of town.  If you’re like me, lamps are only part of making my house look like I’m home.  My TV is on most nights, and normal lamps just can’t mimic the bright, flickering look of a [...]

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No, it’s not a safe to store your CDs.  It’s a safe for small valuables that looks like a stack of CDs in jewel box cases.   There’s a velvet-lined, oval storage compartment inside that’s 4.5″ X 4.0″ X 2.0″.  It comes with stick-on labels for the spine.  Complete the look by putting a CD under [...]

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You can now add retail-store type security to electronics in your home.  Simply attach the one end of the Sound Protect Security Kit alarm to your computer, game console, TV, or anything you want to protect and the other end under the table or desk ledge.  If anyone cuts the cable or breaks the connection by trying [...]

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If you visit dictionary.com and look up the word security, you’ll find that the top 3 definitions are: 1. freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. 2. freedom from care, anxiety, or doubt; well-founded confidence. 3. something that secures or makes safe; protection; defense. We all want to believe that the safest place is our home. [...]

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