When shopping these days, choose stores that accept credit card. Do not bring large sum of money with you. It is like blood to sharks. The criminal minds somehow know that you are carrying cash with you.

It stuck in my mind that news about a woman who carried 17,000 pesos with her for Christmas shopping. For some reason, the criminals knew about the cash and she was robbed in the middle of the shopping crowd! Imagine that!

Carry a credit card instead of cash. Remember that always when you are going out shopping. It will save you from the headache of thinking that your hard earned money was taken away from you just like that.