Safely celebrate the holiday season with these valuable safety tips for holiday shoppers. Have a safe shopping experience this year with tips from the insurance blog.
This month, Insure.com contributed an article on parking lot fender benders, providing holiday shopping safety tips you can use to protect your car- and yourself-at the mall.
Some more safety tips holiday shoppers can use while out and about this month:
- Don’t wear flashy, expensive jewelry when you’re out shopping- it draws unwanted attention to you.
- Keep your cash and your credit cards in your pocket, not your handbag. A good rule of thumb is to consider what you wouldn’t mind losing, and leave those items in your handbag. If you have to carry a handbag, hold it front of you.
- Move purchased items out to the trunk of your car as you buy them. You’ll draw less attention with fewer bags, have more mobility if something happens, and, you can look at the extra trips to the car as some unexpected exercise, an added benefit.
- If you think you’re being followed, or an unmarked car signals you to pull over, drive to a police station, fire station or other well-lit area with pedestrian traffic.
- Copy down the information from the front and back of your credit cards paper in a safe location. If something happens, you can quickly call and cancel your cards.
You have some off-premises coverage for personal property in your homeowner’s insurance policy. If the worst should happen, check out our tips for filing a claim, and try not to let the stress get to you- once you’ve filed the claim, let your insurance carrier handle it, so you can get on with enjoying your holiday season.
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