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Before you leave on that jet plane, make sure that your home does not look like the empty house that it is.
Arrange for a neighbor to collect mail, newspapers, and put out the trashcans each week. You want activity to continue at your home.
2. Turn down—or unplug—the telephone.
Don't let passers-by hear a constantly ringing phone. It's a dead giveaway that no one's home - and the contents inside are ripe pickings.
3. Engage timer trickery.
Put the lights (and maybe the TV or a radio) on a timer to echo the sounds of daily family life in your absence.
4. Driveway drive-by.
Either leave your car—or ask a neighbor to park his—in your driveway or out front of your home in your absence.
5. Prevent window-shopping.
Remove valuables from plain view from a window.
6. Curtains to burglary.
Leave curtains and blinds as they usually are when you are at home.
7. Secure valuables.
Put valuables in a safe deposit box.
8. Airport car-care.
If you leave your car at the airport, be sure to remove papers from the dash that show your name and/or address.
9. Secure the surroundings.
Lock all windows and doors (including the garage door.)
10. Invite a friend.
To help out with the "we're home" ruse have him/her stop by regularly to open or close curtains, turn off or on non-timer lights, and to generally just move things around enough to show that someone's home.
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