Claremont: Your Holiday Trash Says A Lot About You

Press release from the City of Claremont:

December 17, 2020

After the joy of opening up gifts, you are left with the remnants of holiday trash – did you know that your holiday trash says a lot about you?

Burglars know that many households have new, and oftentimes expensive, items in their homes following the holiday season. In too many cases, residents make it easy for burglars to figure out which homes to target by putting boxes that identify their new gifts in plain view with their other garbage. Avoid becoming an easy target for post-holiday burglars by NOT leaving boxes for new electronics and other items in front of your residence or other garbage pick-up locations for several days at a time.

Instead, break down any boxes you are throwing out, put them in garbage bags and place them inside the trash can. Also think about keeping broken-down boxes inside—in the garage, for example—until the evening before or morning of your regular garbage pick-up. Some burglars actually look inside garbage cans for evidence of holiday gifts. Don’t give holiday burglars the chance to steal you and your family’s holiday cheer.

This press release was produced by the City of Claremont. The views expressed here are the author’s own.