Well, vacation is over. So sad. If you’re wondering how we kept the house safe while we were gone, it isn’t my redneck brother-in-law or my heavily armed father. We just hang old baby dolls around the house and in the trees. Works every time.

Is it worth a 25″ television to find out what is INSIDE this house? (HINT: The inside is full of clowns.)

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How to Make Your Home Less Attractive to Thieves

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Raymond

Posted January 28, 2012 at 8:27 AM

I find that if you hang only the doll heads around the house, it deters Jehovah’s Witnesses too.
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Amy Vansant

Posted January 28, 2012 at 8:40 AM

Excellent tip. Although it also brings out religion in others. The mail lady repeatedly crosses herself as she approaches the mailbox…
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Lance

Posted January 28, 2012 at 9:20 AM

We’ve left the door unlocked many times. Either..

A) thieves read my blog and feel sorry for me

B) My women don’t have as nice of stuff as they think they do

C) my 8 yr old daughter’s badass rep has made it’s way around an entire county

Hilarious post
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  Amy Vansant
  
  Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:03 AM
  
  Thanks! Hilarious response – I’m thinking “C”
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Carrie - Cannibalistic Nerd

Posted January 28, 2012 at 11:46 AM

I haven’t tried it, but I bet if you leave a recording of a woman crying on a loop at all entrances, male thieves will stay away.
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  Amy Vansant
  
  Posted February 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM
  
  Also an EXCELLENT idea. Next time I run out of vodka I’ll tape myself.
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Sharon S

Posted January 28, 2012 at 1:36 PM

Not a problem if you have mafia relatives in the family!
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bschooled

Posted January 28, 2012 at 10:46 PM

At first, I couldn’t stop laughing at this. But then I looked up, and I swear the doll in the top left hand corner said (in what can only be described as a Bobcat Goldthwaite-meets-Fran Drescher voice), “LaughagainandImgonnafindyouandcutyouupsomethingfierce…”
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  Posted February 1, 2012 at 9:10 PM
  
  I’ve spent the last week unable to get work done trying to figure out what a Bobcat Goldthwaite-meets-Fran Drescher voice sounds like. Thanks.
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Tricia @SassyPantsMomma

Posted January 30, 2012 at 11:07 AM

Yes I would definitely choose a different house to rob and I might also never sleep with the lights off again!
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  Amy Vansant
  
  Posted February 3, 2012 at 5:34 AM
  
  You’re welcome.
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Jen

Posted January 31, 2012 at 12:55 PM

I like the whole idea of keeping the Jehova’s Witnesses away too. I will need to use this trick next time we go out of town. You have such great housekeeping tips.
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  Amy Vansant
  
  Posted February 3, 2012 at 5:34 AM
  
  I do my best. And what with the extinction of fire breathing guard dragons, what can you do?
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Jen Has A Pen

Posted February 2, 2012 at 9:06 PM

The hell??? This is so funny. I’m stressed about it.

Where does one even get such gnarly doll heads?
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  Amy Vansant
  
  Posted February 3, 2012 at 5:33 AM
  
  Though a disturbing number of people on Facebook actually believed this is my home, it is actually a picture from the “island of dolls” – a creepy place often covered in paranormal investigations.
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    Jen Has A Pen
    
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM
    
    I would TOTALLY agree that this place is totally haunted. Totally.
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Joshua

Posted February 14, 2012 at 7:29 AM

There was a downloadable expansion to Fallout 3 where you’re walking through the swampy land of Point Lookout, Maryland in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. There are these dolls hanging everywhere. Superstition and what not. Really creepy at night. And by “at night” I’m not talking game nighttime, but if you’re playing when it’s dark outside, it’s especially creeptastic.
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  Posted February 14, 2012 at 8:52 AM
  
  I miss video games like that. I had to go on the wagon because when I have them, I can’t do anything BUT.
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