Tag: trash

After months or years of planning and preparation, you are finally getting ready to say, "I do" to your beloved and a little time off. While you are understandably excited about your upcoming getaway, it is important to take some home precautions while you are away.

In order to be sure that your home is not broken into while you are gone, heed the following advice:

Stay quiet on social media. Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have become virtual travel itineraries for many people; log on at any time and you can see where many of your friends are currently on vacation, and how long they plan to be gone.

You’re having lunch with the girls or drinks with the guys—your once-a-week, let-it-all-hang-out and dish some dirt time. The conversation is lively, everybody is chiming in with their latest on the men and women we love to trash and bash.

"So," says one of them, "what’s your spouse been up to lately?"

You think for a moment, "Nothing, really," you say.

"Oh, come on," another retorts, "he hasn’t magically transformed into a romantic Prince, or she hasn’t turned into Mrs. Wonderful overnight?"