Be ready for a vacation can be a hassle. You must decide what you will bring, pack these items, and protect your home while you're gone. Your goal is to make it look like you are living at home and living as usual. This handy checklist is just that. Put the list on the refrigerator door and check the articles one by one.
1. Give your program and contact information to family members or a trusted friend.
2. Tell a trusted neighbor about your trip and ask them to observe the place.
3. Obtain a permit to hold the post card, complete it, and give a post office employee. If you have a rural mailbox does not include the card with outgoing ships.
4. Separate financial information. Sort your checkbook in one place again other signs, and controls information or canceled in yet another.
5. Destroy receipts of purchase.
6. Check your calendar and ensure that no delivery is scheduled.
7. Stop the newspaper.
8. Provide lawn mowing and watering.
9. Ensure snow plowing and shoveling.
10. Ask a relative, neighbor or friend to water your plants and deliver to that person.
11. Project for the care of pet. If you need space for kennels, call two weeks before your departure and make a reservation.
12. Ask a neighbor to put trash in your can the day of collection and bring the container when empty.
13. Have garbage. Arrange for special pick-up if needed.
14. Clean the refrigerator.
15. Stop the ice cube maker if your refrigerator has one.
16. Unplug the coffee pot.
17. Check the furnace and make sure nothing is on.
18. The old delete messages from your phone so there is room for new ones.
19. Stop if you have a softener.
20. Make sure all water taps are closed and completely toilet does not work.
21. Adjust blinds, shades and curtains. Do not close completely, though, because this makes it look like you're gone.
22. Close all doors, storm-key / screen doors, windows and doors of service.
23. Put a burglar bar on the patio and / or sliding doors.
24. Attach timers to light lamps.
25. Attach a timer on TV and place for the hours you usually watch TV.
26. Place the thermostat.
27. If you leave a car in the garage, shut that car.
28. Run the garbage disposal so you do not have a "welcome" stinky when you return.
29. Turn on the alarm system if you have one.
30. Make sure garage door is closed.
You should also protect your finances. The credit card companies track your spending patterns. If you use a card in an unusual location the company may refuse credit. Call the airline well ahead of time. Tell them where you go when you leave, and when you come home. Bon Voyage!
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