Long weapons (baseball bats, cricket bats, golf clubs) are no good in the home. Chances are you will swing it and get it stuck in a doorway or wedged on something else that will stop the swing or slow it down. You cant swing a club in a hallway.

Unless you KNOW how to fight...like actually know how to handle a weapon and fight someone and not just think you know how to be hard....short weapons are no good either as it means getting really close to someone who could be armed with a knife.

As above, if you dont know what you are doing and the other person does then you will find yourself on the receiving end of your weapon in a flash.....might be better just to let them take the TV!

For those that keep something heavy by the bed how confident are you that in the middle of the night you could take on someone of unknown strength and fighting skill that is possibly on drugs and disable them in one maybe 2 hits? Its harder than it looks.

What are you going to do if you hit an intruder and nothing happens? Keep hitting him and hope he goes down before you get exhausted or he manages to get to you? Then what...keep hitting him until he is dead? Call an ambulance? Could you even hit accurately in the dark or are you going to switch the light on and blind yourself?

Personally I would just sod the TV and the car, they can have them as long as they leave without coming near me.

Violence should be the very last resort because of the risk to your own safety but if it does come to that fight really dirty.....feel for the eyes and dig your nails in hard, bite hard, pull hair out and if its a bloke grab his balls and squeeze them as hard as you possibly can.