Ironraven: "Keep your door open". O.K. you keep your door open. In my town,even in the affluent neighborhoods, there are a significant number of "push-in" home invasions. Sorry guys. I say keep your door closed and locked.

Blast: I like your ideas. I live in small subdivision (around a dozen neighbors in a private cove). There were one or two who thought my preparedness ideas (conservative by this Forum's standards!!) and the fact that I have firearms (Oh My Goodness!!) indicated that I was over the top on this ETS concept. So when they were kidding me I took out a notebook and said:
"Let me make a note. You don't own/believe in firearms.. right?"
"O.K., what kind of stuff DO you have in your house right now?"

.... made a show of writing down what they keep around, and that they don't believe in guns. Then I tore off the page and gave it to my wife. "Honey, put this with the lists of where we'll go to "shop" if the SHTF for real"
...amazing how that converted the unbelievers. Now we have a real neighborhood association.