For being terrified after visit from Nottingham Knockers?

I live on my own in a house. I bought it 6 years ago and don't have a security system, so there's no need to feel stupid about it.

Burglars go for all sorts of houses for different reasons and many burglaries are opportunist crimes driven by substance misuse. There's really no reason to surmise that this experience has put you at particular risk. If anything if you wfh many burglars would target somewhere else.

"Beating yourself up' and 'feeling stupid' - FFS, OP, you must see you're massively overreacting here?

People are so judgmental.

It’s because you posted on AIBU! It’s what this board is for 😘

I think people are being a bit harsh considering the reputation this group have. But it will ruin your Christmas if you keep worrying. Ring doorbells are a great idea, we just got one and they are really handy. I'd also look into getting a proper security system going in your home in general. And try not to worry. Have you neighbours you trust who could ask to keep an eye out while you are gone. The other side of it as well is you never know who or when this will happen, don't live your life in fear either. Your safety is far more important than items and as others have said, it's unlikely you'll be targeted.

Sorry, I misread. I still stand by my point and I didn't mean it as an insult or negative judgement (though I can see how it comes across like that).

Well, same here and the four or five times they’ve knocked here they have been polite and friendly, I’ve said a polite and friendly no and then no one has ram raided the house at 3am trying to steal my lone female belongings.

Get a couple of timer sockets/Alexa thingies and put you lights on a timer for when you're away. If they are (unlikely) planning to break in, they aren't likely to target you if they think you are at home.

Are you far from Sherwood Forest?

@thesecondmrsdewinter20

I’m in California, so a long ways from you, but I have a “security screen door” on my front and back doors.
It’s a metal security door that has ‘screen door’ features, like you can leave your main door open in the spring and summer for the breeze — but it’s heavy and has a deadbolt that securely locks.
I’m probably not describing it properly but I can talk to strangers through it while feeling properly safe and secure.
I didn’t know they existed until we moved here and the previous owners had installed them on both doors.
You can find them at any hardware or building supply store. They range in price from £150 to £1500, I think.
I know the uneasy feeling of talking to strangers who make you feel uncomfortable. I never open the security doors unless I know who I’m talking to.

MN is a truly wondrous insight into the anxiety ridden minds of the curtain twitchers.

I really wish you’d enabled voting on this. 🤣

I have read all of the posts on this thread OP, and I stand by my point that the paranoia on MN is out of kilter with the average person on the street. It’s not judgemental in the slightest to say this.

So, according to the police you're not a target anyway as you didn't buy anything?

So much drama for nothing

Yea I was going to suggest this. I live alone and was travelling for all of October so I used Alexa to play music at certain times.

Phew, thank goodness you said you weren’t interested and didn’t hand over any cask. Narrow squeak!

Your username is perfect.

Chef’s kiss.

You lurk, just like a guy in a raincoat with nothing on beneath it.

OP, leave a 7 year old behind when you go away and I’m sure it will all work out just fine :)

(Saw Home Alone for the first time the other day)

You haven’t had an ‘experience’. Absolutely nothing even remotely out of the ordinary has happened to you. Literally nothing.

Similarly, none of the responses on here have been ‘nasty’. People have made fun of you a bit because you’re being silly. You are ‘shocked’ by this?

Goodness, OP. Go to bed. 🤣

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Op, get a ring door bell and when you get back from Christmas, get your security system up and running. I actually don't think you are being silly. The keyboard warriors are just out in their droves tonight. Regardless of whether there's reason to worry or not, it's horrible to be anxious like that in your own home. So I hope you can relax and not worry too much. I'd also come off the thread, you aren't getting great responses so I wouldn't bother.

Sometimes they are genuinely people that are just trying to get back on the right path and make some cash. Yes, some people may be scammers but anyone could be! Unless they are threatening or aggressive or step into your home they have done nothing wrong. I really wouldn't worry. Police would log it at best, not much else they can do the following day when these people have long left the area x

Nottingham Knockers? That sounds like the most dangerous gang since the Bognor Regis Boppers were terrorizing the south coast.