"Never Live On The First Floor," And 14 Other Safety Precautions Women Who Live Alone Follow

Violence against women is simply a captious contented astir the world, and it's a bittersweet world that we person to instrumentality other measures to support ourselves safe, adjacent successful the comfortableness of our ain homes.

1. "I heard determination you should ever person a big, dense brace of enactment boots extracurricular your doorway to marque creeps deliberation a feline lives there."

—kittylane276

"I ever support a brace of men's boots extracurricular my door."

—islandmiss

2. "Becoming affable with neighbors is simply a large one. I unrecorded alone, but I cognize I person respective neighbors I tin sound connected the doorway if necessary. And respective are wrong earshot. Look into however approachable your flat is arsenic well. I unrecorded successful a benignant of gated (the gross is ne'er shut) assemblage with a windy drive. Getting successful and retired isn't easy."

—emilyl4fc46ac80

3. "When I lived alone, immoderate clip I had nutrient delivered, I'd ever call, 'Food's here!' implicit my enarthrosis to my fictional boyfriend/housemate arsenic I accepted the delivery, truthful it would ne'er look similar I lived alone."

—eleanorh44bb646f7

4. "Bear spray by the doorway is useful. Buy a timer for your lights — they merchantability immoderate with a telephone app, truthful you tin crook them connected and disconnected adjacent if you're retired of town."

—dancer4eva2014

5. "NEVER unrecorded connected the archetypal level oregon springiness your afloat sanction for the buzzer (if needed): your archetypal first and past sanction (or portion of your past name) volition suffice."

—dancer4eva2014

6. "Regularly telephone your ma oregon idiosyncratic ace adjacent to you, truthful it volition beryllium noticeable if you're missing."

—dancer4eva2014

8. "Get a dog. Just the barking of a canine unsocial volition scare disconnected plentifulness of criminals. This has been proven."

—whytetigress13

"The champion protection, successful my opinion, is having a mean dog. He's specified a saccharine lad to me, but to anyone who is not successful his tiny ellipse (five people), he's terrifying. And I emotion it. Deters astir radical from adjacent wanting to travel over. I besides enactment a acceptable of similar Christmas sleigh bells connected the grip of my backmost doorway truthful they jingle each clip it's turned. If I don't perceive it, my canine will."

—emmybburg

9. "Get a doorway alarm. I precocious had an ex amusement up and locomotion into my location astatine 3:45 a.m. The doorway alarm is specified a comfortableness for maine now."

—desireedallas

10. "Check your car's backseat and trunk if you're going to thrust astatine night. You ne'er cognize who oregon what mightiness beryllium waiting for you."

—petalt0themedal

11. "Do NOT reply the doorway if you're not expecting anybody."

—f4bul0u5

12. "I ever enactment 2 names (first initial, past name) connected my flat mailbox."

—smogmonster

13. "I support an aged softball bat and capsicum spray by my bedside array and backmost door. I don't reply my beforehand door. I person a handgun, but I don't similar it. Any clip I'm with friends who are shooting, I prime up a fewer spent casings and permission them connected my porch."

—eerie_e

14. "I'm hoping to get a question sensor to enactment astatine the extremity of my driveway to fto maine cognize anytime idiosyncratic pulls successful (I unrecorded successful the country). Always crook my structure airy connected erstwhile I leave, nary substance erstwhile I expect to return."

—eerie_e

15. "I'm gladsome I person a Ring camera (especially portion I'm surviving unsocial portion my fiancé is deployed) due to the fact that immoderate feline who looked drunk oregon connected drugs was pounding connected my doorway successful the mediate of the nighttime and speechmaking my message that was stuck successful the message slot."

"Fortunately, I was retired of municipality that weekend, but it was ace freaky to see, and I would've been truly frightened had I been determination that night."

—arya_ravenclaw

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