Do you have something in place in case you are burgled

After several burglary attempts I have settled on a plan.

I leave bedroom and wife locks door and then she phones the Gardai ( who have been brilliant in their response)

If the burglars are still outside I open upstairs windows and request them to leave

Adult son stands on landing, Older Adult son waits halfway down stairs while I go down to hall. We each have hurleys.

If the burglars are already in house hopefully they will leave with whatever they have.
I don't intend to engage with them unless attacked. If attacked, son on stairs has a nice clear swing at their heads. If they do fight their way past me and son on stairs , the lad on the landing will split them open - he isn't going to be too merciful after they've done in his Da and he remains as the last man standing between them and his Mother.
So far, it hasn't come to any of this

Biggest concern would then be Reprisals against family in the aftermath.

I put lots of Micro Machines in my hall at night. If that doesn't thwart them, there's a huge swinging pipe waiting for them at the top of the stairs. That's not a euphanism.

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Have smoke alarms in every room of the house all linked together with backup power in case electricity goes. One goes off they all go off.

Have a couple of hidden cameras around the property and linked to my bedroom and again with backup power.

Have an alarm wired to the phone line and if this fails or been cut I have a 3g dongle which activates. Again provided with backup power.

Have my bedroom locked with a push button system like a key fob . I have a string ladder at my window sill connected to the wall in case I ever need use it. (Don't want to have out of a second story in case of fire or could get away from burgalars).

I have a panic button in case anything happens around a key chain.

I also have rifle in my bedside locker.

Closest house to me is 8 miles away. Live in the sticks.

Only cost me around 1k to have all that security. Did 90% of it myself.

8 miles. Surely there is a one off house nearer than that!!

Throw my bobble hat over my head and pretend to be a burglar

OH works a lot of night shifts. I have a couple of plans. Hopefully Little Kiwi and I would be able to get out the window of the spare room and onto the roof of the pump house below. Worst case scenario, I have a knife in the bedside locker. I would go into Little Kiwi's room, lock the door, call the cops, put him under the bed covered in bedding and get into the bed myself with the knife hidden up my sleeve, play dead and wait for the cops. If the intruder came close enough to the bed, they'd have their throat slit. So long as they didn't approach us, they could take what they wanted.

Total over reaction by many.
People being broken into whilst at home,,hardly ever happens and confronting them is the wrong and most dangerous thing to do.

Install panic buttons and call the police. A triggered alarm should make them flee.

Even so the chance of this happening to you is very remote.
Keeping weapons in the house for unlikely event of being broken into whilst in the house.
It's a similar mentality to those in the US who keep guns in the house that so many are critical of.

Cajonlardo where do you live?

I have comprehensive home insurance and a dog.

Realistically anyone who breaks into my house is a better fighter than me. An altercation would, odds on, end In me way worse off.

That said I'd be kinda averagely armed, the usual stuff, a curved dagger beside my bed, a viking sword and an axe in the cupboard, a ring hilt hand and a half broadsword in the corner, a softball bat in the cloakroom downstairs. Throwing knives in the hall drawers... oh and a hand held crossbow with a quiver full of bolts in the laundry room beside my recurve bow. You know, the normal stuff you find in your average gaff.

I have a throwing axe under my bed. Not even joking.

Technically it belongs to my son, but he's only 2 so he's not having it for a few years yet.