How to Keep SAFE during the Holiday Season!!!

Just me here to remind you how to keep a safe, healthy, and happy Christmas. Although Christmas is the time of giving, people don't give much thought about criminals in the parking lot of the mall. If you're a woman (even if you go to the mall in the daytime), bring along family members or friends.
2. Don't have your money exposed not just on your way to your car, but in the store too. If you ride the bus you especially need to do this because people have gotten attacked at bus stops.
3. Even in "Safe neighborhoods", DON'T go shopping early morning hours and late night. Although you want to miss the crowds and show up early, what's more important your safety or the presents.
4. Park in well lit areas
5. Bring only what you need in your purse in case of a purse snatcher. That means leaving behind pictures, a lot of money, make-up, tissue, credit cards, health insurance cards. Bring only the amount of money you need.
6. Shop online, but make sure the place is ligit. www.amazon.com, www.craigslist.com, www.ebay.com
7. Another option that a lot of people are doing this year, is buying gift cards. Barnes & Noble have theirs, McDonald's, movie theaters, and restaurants just to name a few. Hint: My brother's friend's mom got a gift card for her and her husband to the "Cheesecake Factory".
8. As much as you want to show off your pretty Christmas tree in the living room window, make sure people who approach your house, can't see the presents.
9. Cover presents in your car when you go somewhere else to shop. But make it believable that you're not hiding things. For example, throw a sweater on the presents, don't fix it to be just right.
10. Never park your car near a van. Why? Because people can open up the van, and kidnap you. When approaching your car, look inside the cars next to yours for people.
11. Carry a form of self defense.
12. When driving during the Christmas season, keep your eyes focused on the road. There's lots of people who are too busy talking through blue tooth, looking for their CDs, or turning their head to talk to others, that that quick they get in an accident in the traffic and lose their life(lives of others).
13. Make sure before you leave wherever that you are wearing your seatbelt.
14. Make sure no one's following you as you drive or walk back home.
15. Wait until the holidays are over to take your driving test! Yes, it's exciting to earn it, but try following that advice.
16. When traveling with children, be aware that there a predators out their looking at your children as prey. Keep them in sight at all times. In the blink of an eye, children have been abducted. It's hard to find them in crowds. There's what I call a "Child Leash". You put it on your wrist and your children's wrists so you won't lose them. I was watching a movie yesterday called "Baby For Sale". As sad as that sounds, people do sell babies and children.
That's all I can think about right now. Thanks for reading. God bless all of you. Take care of yourselves during this hectic Christmas season. Let's celebrate Christmas with remembering Jesus's life in the bible, and Santa Claus. Later Alligators
Much Love,
Elysia