Home Defense and Emergency Preparedness

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Beware of Online Job Scams

As the worldwide economy falters the number of online scams is increasing. Most recently a wide range of job offers has begun to arrive with e-mails. Almost every one of these offers is a classic case of e-mail spam. Some contain malicious code, others seek to gather personal information to use for identity theft and many are just trying to get some of your money.
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Posted in Scams and Fraud

What is Hypermiling?

The next time you are following a car that starts off very slowly from a light or stop sign, or begins to slow down well before reaching an intersection, don’t get upset and start cursing at the driver. That person could be a hypermiler who is saving quite a bit of money by extending his gas mileage–and doing his or her part to help the country achieve energy independence.
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Posted in Energy Efficiency

Selecting an NOAA Emergency Weather Radio

No home should be without an NOAA emergency weather radio. NOAA Weather Radio, also called NWR, uses a network of more than 980 transmitters to alert the public about approaching or imminent serious weather threats.
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Posted in Emergency Preparedness, Health and Safety, Home Security

Fooling the Bad Guys

My family is originally from Chicago, which is where I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. Crime was so rampant in my neighborhood that we used to joke that it wasn’t good enough to just lock something up; it needed to be welded to the floor or it would get stolen.
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Posted in Home Security

Building a Family Emergency Kit

You never know when a disaster will strike your area. Every inch of the planet is subject to possibility of storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires or floods. Terrorist attacks are also a very real threat in many major cities. Once a disaster strikes, it is usually too late to gather the essentials that you need for survival. Every family should prepare an emergency kit with the items you will need to sustain you until help arrives.
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Posted in Emergency Preparedness

Where to Obtain a Free Credit Report

In the USA you are legally entitled to receive a free copy of your credit report once per year from each of the three major credit reporting agencies. If you want a copy more often than that, you will probably have to pay for the copies from each of the three credit reporting agencies.
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Posted in Financial Issues, Identity Theft, Scams and Fraud
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