Asurion Helps You Rest Easy with Mobile Protection! #becausecrazyhappens

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Asurion.

In this day and age EVERYONE seems to have a mobile phone. Both Sam and I do, shoot we use it instead of a house phone…do they even exist anymore?! ha! In fact my children do not know of a world without iPhones; Ethan was able to maneuver his way around one easily before he even turned two. So like the technologically advanced parents we are, we let him watch movies and play games on it. Occasionally we’d end up with deleted pictured or rearranged icons, but nothing major. Then we quickly remembered why expensive things should never grace the hands of toddlers. He dropped it.
And it shattered. My stomach sank to my toes as I stared at a shattered, lifeless screen. How could this be? What was I going to do? How were we going to replace it? WHY did I let my two year old play with my phone. It seems we try to cheat reason while making the decision hoping we won’t later regret it. Well, I sure did. Actually, Im pretty sure I swore I would NEVER let my children touch my phone again when I got a new one. Nope, not ever. But the ability to have some peace and quiet in order to get things done while they played educational games became too much of a draw. Soon I had quickly forgotten my own rule, and those sticky little chubby fingers were all over my phone again.
It was just SO easy to prop up the phone and turn on a movie while we were out at a restaurant. The kids enjoyed it and our outings ran smoothly. That is until one time when we accidentally LEFT our phone AT the restaurant. Yeah, that will get your heart racing. Nothing quite like the feeling of a few hundred dollars down the drain and you imaging a stranger walking away with it. Thankfully we didn’t make it far before we remembered and were able to head straight back and it was still there. But imagine if we hadn’t and it was gone. Sweet Mary and Joseph that would have been stressful! We keep a TON of information on our phones. Don’t you? Not only that, but I don’t want someone else using my phone or having to go through the trouble of disabling it so nobody can, ugh!

In case you aren’t as lucky as we were, Asurion is there to help you with mobile protection! They offer unique iPhone protection that covers drops, spills, loss and theft. Did you know that iconic smartphones are 35% more likely to be stolen or lost (Asurion claims data, January – June 2013). And cellphone theft is on the rise. It makes up 30% of all robberies in major cities (Frost & Sullivan, The Rising Trend of Mobile Handset Incidents, 2013). So having protection from a company like Asurion can help you rest easy in case something DOES happen!

Here’s some interesting facts I had no idea about:

*According to a recent Asurion study, 50% of Americans have information on their phones they’d consider irreplaceable.(That would be me!) There are several steps consumers should take to help protect this data:
1. Password protect your phone, something only 50% of Americans do.

2. Back up the data on your phone frequently. 43% of Americans never do this.

• 32% of Americans change their password less than once/year

• 50% of Americans would rather be locked out of their car than have their phone lost, stolen or damaged.

• 40% would rather get in a fight with their best friend than have their phone lost, stolen or damaged.

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Clearly nobody likes having anything happen to their phones. But it’s a law of science (or something smart like that, ha!) that something WILL happen to it, so having mobile protection from Asurion should be a must! Check out this HILARIOUS video on what could possibly happen to your phone…seriously, stranger things have gone down around my neck of the woods, ha!

So because crazy happens (unless it JUST happens to me, ha!), you should be prepared.