Quick Tip: Home Theft - Don’t Touch Anything!
Home broken into? Don’t touch anything - especially food in the fridge!
Thieves might take food or even meds from the medicine cabinet. Notify the police - the write down what’s missing or eaten. This might seem trivial, but it could catch your thief because of the fingerprints left behind on the medicine cabinet and throughout [...]
Reader’s Home Burglarized - Send Advice
What is it with the burglaries this summer? A reader contacted us over the weekend about a home burglary (he was out of town at the time).
While the burglars didn’t take much (thankfully), and he’s going through the Get Help - Theft page item by item.
However, he’s also concerned that they did take enough personal [...]
Orlando Bloom, $500K Theft and Insurance
Orlando Bloom’s home was broken into and it’s reported  that he lost up to $500,000 of jewelry, cash and artwork. We hope he has a home inventory and riders to cover these items.Â
Be sure you have enough insurance coverage for a theft, fire or disaster. Two years ago, after doing an article on insurance, we realized our home [...]
Panetta ‘Stunned’ - Best of the Week/Friday
Covert government operations? Is this a James Bond movie?
MSNBC reports that CIA Director Leon Panetta has ended a ‘very serious’ covert program the agency kept secret from Congress for eight years.
Panetta was described as “stunned” that he had not been informed of the program until nearly five months into his tenure as director.
Question - [...]
Disaster of the Day - AIG
Since you and I own 80% of AIG, I’d like a few words with the CEO on why he’s rewarding bad employees with multi-million dollar bonuses.
If I lost m/billions of dollars for a company, I’d get fired no matter what my employment contract said.
Keep whatever you have left safe. Here are some good tips.
Teach your [...]
Home Break In - Tips from a Theft Survivor (2 of 2)
Here are Elizabeth’s last five tips. Missed part one? You can read it here.
If you can, find photos and receipts of any of the missing items for insurance purposes. Having trouble? Many stores keep a list of customers and their purchase. For example, it’s pretty easy to find receipts for good jewelry. Another good tip? [...]
Home Break In - Tips from a Theft Survivor (1 of 2)
Here’s a real life home theft experience sent into us from Elizabeth.
Coming home after a family event, she and her husband found a door open and realized that they’d been broken into.
After her experience, Elizabeth has 10 great tips to pass along.
Be sure to have a home inventory list! They had one and it [...]
Spring Cleaning Series: Day #2
Welcome back! It’s Day 2 of our week-long spring cleaning series. (Read Day #1 here!)
Spring cleaning can be a lot more than just cleaning out closets and putting winter items away: how about “cleaning” and organizing your financial house as well!
Pick a topic below and get started!
Insurance
Having adequate coverage is key, just in case the [...]
Spring Cleaning Series: Day #1
Overwhelmed with spring cleaning? Can’t even begin to think about all those chores you have to do for your work, home or car?
Well, not to worry! Bookmark this page or come back and visit us each day this week - we’ll get you ready for spring in no time!
First things first: get organized at HOME!
1. [...]
Top Ten Phone Numbers to Have…Just In Case!
Bloggers Marc and Angel have a list of the top ten phone numbers you should have in your cell phone just in case. You just never know when you might need them!
10 Handy Numbers to Save in Your Mobile Phone [Marc and Angel via Lifehacker]
Also, this brings to mind another blog post from a while [...]
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