To ask if a burglar would bother with you?

[justhadenoughofitall]

Caveat this with I know burglaries are awful and this is a lighthearted take so don't read on if it could be upsetting.

Was on our way out and DH fussing about the double lock on the door and mumbling about not making it easy for burglars to get in, and it just struck me with 'WTAF would they take"?

We have an old TV, sofa is battered, no fancy kitchen devices, only good jewellery is my engagement ring that's permanently on me, everything is digitised and on iPhones which are with us, old laptop, no cash. I had this image of a burglar standing bewildered, shaking their heads feeling sorry for us.

Am I alone in this?

Just to say our house is worth a lot just not the actual contents.

Thing is they don't know the contents of your home until they are in and if you live in an expensive house in a nice area they will think your contents match. But in the spirit of your thread any burglars that got into my house would think someone else had already done us over.

The only way they would get ant money out of us would be by ripping out the kitchen and selling that.

I guess the violation of someone being in your home a going through your shit, however cheap, is worse than the theft itself.

They'd be disappointed here too. We don't have cash, jewellery, TVs, laptops or tablets. So unless they were interested in clothes or furniture they'd be out of luck.

I guess the bigger issue is they usually ransack the place whilst looking for cash and jewellery.

Well the burglar wouldn't know there was nothing worth having until they ransacked your home, which would be upsetting on its own.
A burglar wouldn't feel sorry for you. They'd probably be pissed off with what they managed to get, so would shit on your bed and piss on your sofa.

maybe you’d feel different after years and years of saving and collecting that filled your house with the things that you really liked ??

Good luck burglar...

Haha I've often thought this. My front garden is full of weeds and I often think burglars would hopefully take one look and walk past. I'm sure if they didn't they'd be very disappointed with the tatty old furniture and lack of valuables!

@Fionaville tbf it would be quite helpful if they did shit on the bed from a forensics perspective.

Hmmm not sure.

probably break in just to take my car. It’s quite new. But not particularly attractive or fast. But it’s new. A lot of extras on it. It’s a company car I didn’t pick it, to me it’s just ok.

Probably my jewellery is the next most expensive things. It they would really have to know where that was. My dad’s friend is a joiner and put fitted wardrobes in. With a concealed safe. The jewellery isn’t worth a fortune. But some of it’s been in my family for at least 5 generations.

Rest is all pretty normal. Not worth much now it’s used.

I actually live in a fairly bad area. But the advantage seems to be that no one on good estate (touch wood) get broken into or their cars stolen.

My house is currently such a shit tip I suspect a burglar would leave thinking someone had beat them to it...

It’s why burgling is going out of fashion- number if burglaries has plummeted since 1990s. There’s just not that much to Nick with any resale value.

Sadly, yes. Hundreds of millions of pounds here. We do have 24/7 security and there’s no way you can get in with a car because of the gates but it does cross my mind from time to time. We do have panic buttons everywhere.

That's true 😆 Although good luck getting the police out when they haven't taken anything of great value. They just give you a crime number for your insurance claim, round here.

Similar here. We drive almost 20 year old cars, nothing of any major value apart from my photography kit. They'd need to know what they were looking for as its not immediately obvious what it is (kept in a non descript camera rucksack type bag). It's insured on its own policy anyway but to be honest, if they get past the dogs, they deserve to keep it.

And honestly, if someone broke in I would pack up and move in with my Dad. Sell the house.

I am a single parent household. If it happened once I wouldn’t hang around.

Last time we were burgled, the only thing they took was an old jacket I used to wear out walking, presumably to wrap up some richer pickings from another house. We were students then, but I’m not sure they’d find anything more valuable now, despite us having much more money — a laptop, an X-box, a smallish, oldish tv? No jewellery, no watches, no expensive tech.

Most delivery drivers can't work out where our front door is so I'm hoping that would deter a lot of burglars. They'd also have to walk past lots of more affluent looking houses before they get to us. I think if someone is an opportunist thief they'd find something to make some quick, but small amount of cash, like maybe pi ching an air fryer or games console and selling it to a mate. Proper criminals wouldn't bother, nothing about house or 10 year old cars screams money. And if they did come in they wouldn't find anything expensive anyway.

I didn't have much to take, but the damage plus taken property came to £6k. The emotional toll took a long time to get over.

And the cat might bite them.

I absolutely get this! They could get keys to my car worth about £400, a 16yr old TV, a third hand tablet that doesn't charge up anymore, a 12yr old laptop, an aquatic turtle in his tank, a cricut machine (the mini one), my beloved ninja and a few cans of tomatoes, beans, lentils, some out of date yogurts which are still okay on the sniff test...yeah, so come on and raid my house!!

In my younger days I used to babysit for a couple of doctors. They got burgled, and the police apologised to them for the state of one of their rooms..."I'm sorry, they've made a real mess in there". Of course, the burglars hadn't actually been in that room at all. Messy pair!

I thought they weren't looking for jewellery and TVs any more? I thought these days it was car keys, passports, ID documents and lurpak

This was sort of what I was wondering. I'd imagine online theft or identity theft is more profitable. Hacking into our accounts rather than our house!

They’d show up at a&e within an hour or so - if they managed to escape from the dog.