Let's say you wake up at night & fear that there are burglars in your house.

[hunter]

36. All the electronics in my house are recycled.

What's an old DVD player, VCR, or Pentium III laptop held together with hot glue and duct tape worth???

We have tons of family art but it's hard to sell. We know that because some of us have tried and learned that being a starving artist isn't all that romantic. My wife is a very talented artist, but that's not her day job. My dad's a talented artist too, but it wasn't his day job either.

If the 1984 scratch-and-dent cars parked in our driveway don't discourage burglars, the dogs will.

Our house is not quite so bad as the house I grew up in. If there were ever any burglars in that house, who could tell? Maybe they drank the milk you were planning to have on your corn flakes? Or they took the last clean towel? It was always just sort of assumed that the guy in the bathroom was there at someone's invitation. If they'd passed inspection by all five dogs they were probably okay.

Thankfully, I've never had any reason to shoot anyone even though I've been in some pretty rough situations, including some where the bad guys had guns and I didn't.