OwnGuard Solutions’ Blog
At OwnGuard Solutions, we’re committed to equipping you with expert-backed resources for both personal and family safety. Our blog posts provide actionable tips, detailed advice, and straightforward strategies to enhance personal safety essentials, emergency preparedness, and family safety solutions. Whether you’re looking to protect yourself, secure your home, or build a family safety plan for the unexpected, you’ll find valuable ideas here.
Don’t see what you need? Check back often. We’re constantly adding fresh content for personal and family safety and preparedness. Have a topic in mind? We’d love your feedback. Reach out and let us know!
For more insights on personal and family safety, our podcast explores key topics with real-world perspectives and practical safety and preparedness tips to keep you and your household ready with some great guests in the mix.
Prefer watching? Our YouTube channel offers engaging videos, from quick personal safety hacks to in-depth safety tutorials, designed to provide you with must-know skills. Whatever your learning style, OwnGuard Solutions delivers resources to boost your confidence and security.
We believe everyone deserves to feel safe and prepared. Through our blog posts, podcast episodes, and video content, you’ll find everything you need to face life’s challenges head-on, protecting both yourself and your loved ones. Start exploring today to strengthen your personal safety and create a more secure future for your family. With our growing collection of tips and insights found here in our blog, focused on personal safety and preparedness, you’ll be ready for whatever comes your way.
Stay safe. Stay prepared. Be OwnGuard.
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Tools and Best Practices to Help Avoid Being Scammed
This time we are going to cover some best practices and tools to help avoid being scammed and stay better protected. And while some of the best practices may not all be scam related, they will generally help keep you better protected and safer overall should you…
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Protecting Your Packages from Porch Pirates
With the rise of online shopping, having packages delivered directly to our doorsteps has become a way of life. Unfortunately, this convenience comes with a downside—porch piracy. It has become necessary to take precautions in protecting your packages from porch piracy. A porch pirate is a thief…
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How to Better Avoid Scams
It seems like every time we turn around some company’s site or network has been hacked or some new scam is targeting us directly. The hackers, scammers, and bad guys never seem to take a break. And maybe it is just me; but it feels like it…
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Preparing Your Pets for Emergencies
Recent events with Hurricanes Helena and Milton, that devastated areas in the Southern United States, have proven the need not only to prepare ourselves and families for natural disasters, but also our pets, who are often considered family. If you’ve paid attention to the news coverage of…
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How to Support Your Bullied Child
If you have a child being bullied, our hope is that you find some help here. It can be challenging to know how much or how little to get involved when our kids get bullied. I cannot say whether bullying is any better or worse than what…
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Trick or Treat, Safe and Sweet
To be honest, I am excited to blog about Halloween. This used to be one of my favorite so-called holidays, as I’m sure it is with a lot of children. As much as I wanted to eat my way through the candy before we made it home,…
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A Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Help Resource
We do not talk about statistics here or describe what constitutes domestic violence or intimate partner violence (IPV). There are already plenty of resources, including many of those listed here, that can provide that data if you are interested or do not already know first-hand. Our goal,…
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Deciding On a Home Defense Tool
A few weeks ago, I was visiting our local firearms shop and overheard a customer discussing with one of the staff choices for a home defense weapon. The customer was looking at a Banshee 300 Blackout. They asked to see a couple of other AR options and…
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How To Actually Reduce Active Shooter Events in Schools
I got all fired up after the recent active shooter event, perpetrated by a 14 year old, at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Not that I have not gotten upset before; but why so much this time? This particular active shooter event hit close to home,…
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Winter is Coming: Preparing Your Home for the Cold
This past Sunday was the first day of fall. Department stores are putting away their summer items as the summer season has ended. Soon the crisp autumn air will give way to the biting chill of winter, and it will be time to prepare our homes for…