Sensibly Planning Your Holiday

Home safe vacation
- Ask your close friend (no big mouths) to spy on your house when you are away and entrust them with spare keys.
- Have a security alarm and forget not to leave a house key and the code with someone you trust.
- Make sure that you lock all outside doors and windows and set your burglar alarm if you have one.
- Turn off electrical and cooking appliances before leaving.
- Purchase a security system with which you can access lights and appliances or set schedules to automate them via smart phones or personal computers.

Smart Tips
- Leave the curtains exactly the way you keep them when you?re at home. But at the same time let it not be too open, encouraging people to peep into your home. And do remember to move expensive items or cash from

outsiders? vicinity.
- Never leave lights on to pretend to passerby?s that the house is occupied. Electricity bills will soar high. But instead smartly purchase a light switch timer that can turn your lights on and off automatically according to a programmed schedule.
- Don?t leave extra keys in hiding places where they can be easily found, like under a plant pot or on a window sill
- Hang some old clothes on the line and leave old shoes outside the front door
- Better to go in for a home delivery service for the last meal just before the holiday and avoid forgetting to throw away the leftovers.

Tips To Manage Your Calls During Holidays
- Divert your home phone to your mobile or lower the volume on your phone
- Let your answering machine say ?We can?t come to the phone right now? instead of ?I?m on holidays and will be back on??

House Arrangements
- Cancel newspapers or milk deliveries.
- Trusted friends or neighbours can help you collect post.
- Leave important documents and valuable items with other family members or a bank. Alternatively lock them in a safe
- Cut the lawns and trim back any plants that thieves could hide behind
- Empty your fridge by throwing away edibles that would rot and stink, if not insects are going to take a ride on you once you are back home. But on your way back after the holiday, bag some quick buys to manage till the next day of your grocery shopping.
- Make sure that you clear up the garbage before leaving, without causing inconvenience to your neighbours.
- If you have a trustworthy house sitter, better ask them to sleep at your place during nights and water your plants.
- You have a pet, then either take him with you or if you intend to leave him at a boarding, make the necessary arrangement ahead.
- Pick up clothes you had given for dry cleaning.
- Vacuum your furniture and cover them up.
- Vacuum clean your house and mop it before you leave. It?s easier to live in it once you get back.
- For a pleasant smelling house place 500g of bicarb soda into a mixing bowl, add half a teaspoon of lavender oil, half a teaspoon of tea-tree oil, quarter of a teaspoon of oil of cloves, a few drops of rose oil and mix thoroughly. Divide them into saucers and place it around the house.
- Put a few hydro bubbles in your plant pots before leaving. It helps them to be moist.

Do?s
- Make reservations, weeks ahead for your travel and stay.
- Documentations and paper works for travel should be done much in advance.
- Your home insurance policy should cover you against theft or loss while you?re away, but you should still check the details of your policy to confirm which parts of your building or contents are protected.
- Call your bank and credit card company customer service departments. Alert them to the fact that you will be traveling in the coming weeks and give them a list of all of your travel dates and locations.
- Check with your medical insurance carrier or read your insurance policy prior to your trip to determine what your medical options are in the event of an out-of-town emergency.
- Make sure your cell phone plan will adequately cover you while you?re away so you don?t return from vacation to a cell phone bill that is significantly higher than normal.
- Get necessary vaccinations for you and your children.

Don?ts
- Don?t hide valuables in your underwear drawer or under the bed as they are classic hiding places which any thief can suss out.
- If you take a taxi to the airport, avoid discussing your holiday plans with the driver unless you know them
- Avoid discussing holiday plans where strangers may hear details of your absence from home. And if you have children, make sure they don?t blurt it out.
- Do not put your home address on your luggage when you are travelling to your holiday destination.
- Never blab about your holiday on social networking sites.

Source: http://www.fwdlife.in/sensibly-planning-your-holiday/

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