Here are a few home security ideas during the busy holiday season:
• Don’t openly display Christmas gifts in the front windows of your house.
• Use an inexpensive light timer to program interior lamps and ask a neighbor to pick up fliers, mail and newspapers.
• Don’t hide spare keys just outside of the front door.
• Unsecured sliding glass doors and windows can be seen from a distance.
• After Christmas break down the boxes of your new gifts and put them inside your garbage can.