It's been quite a week - my purse was stolen last Sunday while prop shopping at one of my fav stores, Joanne's Fabrics. I stupidly left it sitting in the cart at the end of the aisle while I looked at something for a minute, turned back and it was gone. Didn't hear or see a thing and neither did anyone else, although we're waiting to see what the store cameras might have captured. Of course all the usual important items were in there, but won't do the thief much good as we have closed the accounts and changed the locks. They tried to use two cards within the hour at an ATM but both were declined.
So I just wanted to pass on some advice to prevent this from happening to others. The obvious is don't leave your purse unguarded. I saw another woman doing the same thing in a store this week and she was very appreciative of my warning to be more careful. We all get so busy, with our minds on other things, not noticing others around who may be watching us to see if we might be an easy target. We need to just be "in the moment", taking heed of who and what is going on around us.
I found a website with lots of great tips on being prepared, like make copies of your credit card front and back and store at home, make a list of everything normally carried in your purse/wallet, don't carry your entire checkbook and register, clean those cc and atm receipts out of your wallet/purse, etc. Take a moment to read this and follow through: http://www.whathappensnow.com/sec_item.cfm?sec_uid=c323e6bb-72ce-4c9a-af65-214ea4f241b5&sec=BP&cat=PER&event_id=9
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