I only use my security system when...

So, you had a little money left over after the tax return last year and you broke down and bought an alarm system for the house.  The economy is poor, the poor are desparate and no neighborhood is safe anymore.  But maybe you are like many other folks who, after cutting your deal with an alarm company, and since the novelty wore off, no longer bother to set the alarm.  I will spare you the ridicule, but offer a suggestion that just might make that investment worthwhile afterall.  Do you realize that smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors and all sorts of other sensors are, or can be programmed, to be always 'on?'  What this means is that while the little sign in the front yard and the sticker on the door may be the only part of the alarm appliance working to protect your property from intruders, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide sensors and the like can be protecting your home from other sorts of devastating events.  It will make the monthly fees seem more justifiable.  Call your alarm company and ask them to install a flood sensor in the sump well.  Ask them to program a humidity gage into your walk-in humidor, to protect your cigar investment.  Do you only use the steam iron to make your pants flat, or do you go ahead and flatten shirts, too?  If you won't at least consider these various ideas, then consider yourself chastised appropriately for failing to arm your alarm system. 

Of course all opinions and suggestions manumitted here are subject to your own better idea. I'm not proud.