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We recently finished our mailbox with the stones used as an accent on our house. It looks beautiful and blends nicely with the home design.

Rather than use the tacky, plastic, glue on numbers you see everywhere, we added a more substantial set. The finishing touch—designed to help both mail carriers and visitors—was to add cement address numbers to the front of the mailbox. The numbers are identical to those we had embedded into the rocks on the front of the house.

As soon as I get a picture of the finished product, I'll post it. Unfortunately, I didn't take a “before” picture so that you could see the bare bones box. But trust me, it looks far better now.

In addition to making it easier for your friends to find your home, address plaques are an important safety feature. Should emergency personnel ever need to get to your home quickly, having the address prominently displayed and easy to spot can make a big difference. Some cities even have specific code detailing size and location of house plaques.

In addition, we hired a couple of guys to paint our number on the curb in front of our house. With three accessible house numbers, we're pretty easy to find.

Consider putting house numbers on your mailbox and your house, so that visitors, delivery people, and emergency workers can all find you when they need to.

Alison Moore Smith is a 61-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from BYU in 1987. She has been (very happily) married to Samuel M. Smith for 40 years. They are parents of six incredible children and grandparents to two astounding grandsons. She is the author of The 7 Success Habits of Homeschoolers.