When you live alone, getting to know your neighbors is especially important.
If bulbs are encased in glass, children can grab these, crush them and cut themselves.
Here are hotel safety tips for women traveling alone.
A color reaction should occur if a drug is present.
Avoid parking near structures that someone could hide beneath or behind, like stairways or pillars.
This is a simple thing you can do to protect yourself the moment you get in the vehicle. Ask that the driver put the windows down. Say you’d like fresh air. If he will not, get out of the car. Remember that, once the windows are up, the driver can put on the child lock, making you unable to open the windows to scream for help, or crawl out at a red light. Asking that the windows are all the way down from the beginning robs a driver of a chance of trapping you inside of the vehicle. With the windows down, you can yell or climb out if you feel unsafe.
We may not all remember to keep mace or a taser on us at all times, but what do we typically have nearby? Our smartphones. Here are personal safety apps women should download.
Should you have more space than you need and less disposable cash than you want, renting out a room makes a lot of sense.
Should your mug be full of a hot beverage, throw it at the attacker. If it’s truly hot, you’ll burn your attacker, seriously slowing him down. Even if your beverage is lukewarm, your attacker won’t know that until it hits him, and may flinch and cower in anticipation of a hot liquid.
In the event of a disaster like an earthquake or blackout, you’ll be very grateful to have relationships with your neighbors. You can go to them for supplies or protection. It can be very scary to live alone when events like that occur.
If you’re ever driving at night or on an abandoned road, and someone pulls up next to you, trying to alert you that something is wrong with your vehicle, do not pull over there. This may be an attacker. Pull off at an off ramp, and pull into a well-lit area with other people to check your vehicle.
Sadly, a staggering number of women are killed by their romantic partners. After the murder, it’s often revealed that physical abuse had occurred for years in the relationship. Know the warning signs of physical abuse. If a man ever lays a hand on you even once, leave.