If you do not keep a gun in your house, do you have anything else that you keep around specifically for use as a weapon?

This is not a question about gun use. It is not about the right to bear arms. And it is certainly not a platform for pro-gun rhetoric. If you keep a gun as weapon, good for you. I am asking about implements that are not guns. Please refrain from addressing any such topics.

My wife has been away and I have been alone in the house for a few days now. I hate sleeping in a house by myself. I get very paranoid about break-ins and attacks, so I have been sleeping with my weapon of choice underneath my wife’s pillow; I usually keep it beneath my nightstand.

This got me thinking. The wife and I have two implements that we keep specifically as weapons. One is a huge, long, heavy flashlight (my weapon of choice) and my wife keeps a nightstick by her side of the bed. We have these items specifically for use as weapons; the flashlight does not work.

So…do you have anything lying around the house that you have specifically for use as a weapon (not a gun)? Where do you keep it/them? Do these items make you feel safer? I know mine do.