Easy-to Miss Home Security Tips for Your Vacation
If you’re relaxing on a Caribbean beach, or enjoying a ski trip to the mountains, the last thing you want to worry about is your home.

Most people know the basics of keeping a home secure while away. Here are
some additional tips that are easy to miss:

• Tell your kids not to boast about your fabulous vacation plans,
especially on social media. The fewer who know that the house will
be empty, the better.

• Ask a neighbour to pick up any mail and flyers dropped at your
doorstep. But don’t rely on that alone. Also call the newspaper and
post office to temporarily halt delivery.

• You can buy timers to automatically turn lights on and off. However,
most will stop working if the power goes out and restart with the
incorrect time when the power comes back on. That’s why you
should keep at least a couple of lights turned on continuously, and
not connected to timers.

• If you’re leaving in the evening, or before dawn, don’t forget to open
the blinds. Closed blinds during the day are a dead giveaway that the
owners are away.

Finally, experts recommend creating a home security checklist, so you don’t
forget anything. That will give you peace-of-mind.