Where to Hide a Safe - Best & Worst Places to Hide a Safe in Your House
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Do you have a small home safe? Where is the best place to hide a safe in your home to protect it from being discovered during a burglary?
This video focuses on small, light weight home safes. We're not talking about burglary rated safes. The small safes we are hiding are lighter in weight and subject to being removed during a burglary. Larger safes with burglary ratings and TL ratings are usually (but not always) too heavy to remove during a quick smash and grab home robbery.
I'll show your my favorite and best place to hide a safe in your home as well as some other great options that will let you know how to hide a safe in plain site.
We also talk about where burglars look for money and valuables so you don't place your home safe anywhere near those areas.
00:00 Intro
00:42 What Are Small Safes Good For
01:17 Any Small Safes That Are Burglary Rated
01:45 What To Look For When Buying A Small Safe
02:25 Good Places To Hide A Small Safe
03:43 Worst Places to Hide a Safe
05:40 Best Place To Hide A Small Safe
Before I burglarize any house, I always check UA-cam to see the latest hiding locations for safes..........
That's Funny!!!!😂😂😂😂
Hahaha. I came down here to say just that.
Ha ha. Just say away from my house man. In the dark a burgler would feel a hard punch on his chest. Then a burning sensation on his back. Then he would feel liquid running down his chest and back.
Then, the demons would appear and scare him half to death. He would feel strong claws on his soul as he was dragged to hell.
It's unlikely even 1,000 people did what this video says. Your odds of robbing that house: 1,000 in 350,000,000 (assuming USA) are 1 in 350,000
@@randomgrinn"Your odds of robbing that house......" The odds of *me* robbing that house are precisely zero.
If burglars went into my master bedroom closet, they would probably assume I'd already been robbed that day.
Too funny!
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@Patrick Henry thank you, Patrick; I’m heartened that it took an entire 8-weeks before someone called that to my attention. 😏
they would find my wife's rare collection of shoes.....and clothes she's "going to wear someday"....
Exactly!
To make it extra safe, buy two safes and use one of them as a decoy safe. Put the decoy in an obvious spot and put heavy stones inside to make it hard for the thief so he's less likely to come looking for more
I've hidden 10 decoy safes around my house
Nay: place the key to the second safe into the first!
I was thinking the same.
nice try, safe seller council!
I hide my safe inside a safe inside a cage inside a safe which is hidden!
After being the victim of multiple burglaries Rodney Dangerfield left a note on his door that read " Dear burglar, I am home." When Dangerfield returned home he saw that he had been burglarized again. Inside, Dangerfield found a note from the burglar which said, "Where the hell were you? I looked all over your house!"
Get it for fingerprints.
😂😂😂
He never got any respect.
That never happened. I'm sure you know this, but what you typed out seems like you think that what comedians say "happened to them" actually did happen.
@@GraemeGunn you must be a blast a parties.
A burglar broke into my house looking for money one night. I got up and helped him look.
🤣
Did you at least argue for a 60-40 split?
so did you find some?
Sounds like someone had a blast
I'll show myself out
50-50 split man, I could use a buck or two myself. That should send them running and not have them come back.
I would NEVER trust an ACME safe. I’m scared it might land on my pet coyote.
We have a acme company that maintains our fire suppression and extinguishers … i have the came concern with those
Lmfao
😂
Most of them can be opened faster with al sock then you can open with the coded or 🔐
Oh yeah I've seen that cartoon
I had a house that was built by a huge builder. At that time, they built them in a month. The only way for them to do this quickly was to cut corners especially in finish work. One day I was standing on a tall step ladder trying to condense stuff in the kitchen cabinets. The orientation of the cabinets on the 2 walls, was that they joined on the corner leaving one cabinet with space that was difficult to reach on the one side. As I was stuffing plastic cups into the difficult space I noticed that they did not bother to seal the one side that joined the other cabinet. At first I was pissed how cheap the builder was, but then...my brain started to look at the area completely hidden as a hiding place for a pretty good amount of stuff. Not only would someone not see it unless they were on a ladder but it was open to drop down things about 12 inches.
Sees good opportunities in shity situation!
Great thinking
Been in intelligence, cybersecurity and real physical security for much of my career. Not much to do with residential, really, but one technique I've always looked at as legitimate is "security through obscurity." Security should be built up in layers, but this can be one of them. The three legs of a security breach are "means, motive and opportunity." For a residential burglary, the means and motive are moot points - the bad guy is already in the house, bent on evil deeds. The opportunity is the safe, if it can be located. Given enough time, even Ft. Knox could be breached. So it would seem that two viable options, given the time constraint as the video describes, are to either make the safe impenetrable for that long, or make it hard to find. Hard to find is cheaper and probably just as effective - hence the "security through obscurity" buzzwords. Hide it where they won't look for it, or where, if they do see it, they won't recognize it for what it is.
One other thought - a poorly designed safe and or location for it can be worse than no safe at all. If things were spread out around your house, the thief might find some of them, but probably not all. The safe, on the other hand, provides a nice little central location and a single place for the thief to find all your valuables - all that is required is to compromise a single point of failure...
Excellent comment. Thank you!
I agree with "security through obscurity". Hiding safes/valuables in everyday objects is a time-tested strategy. The crook isn't going to take the time to unscrew a set of old speakers in hopes of finding a jewelry box or look under the carpets to find a disguised safe or move the sofa to find the disguised opening to a safe box. Heck, you can hide valuables in power tools. Give em hell.
It would obviously be a pain to get into these things to get your stuff out, but at least you won't have to go to the bank every time you need access to your jewelry etc.
@@ultraali453 My mother was an expert at this. valuables were "safely" hidden all through her house. Of course when she passed away it made it incredibly time consuming to inventory assets and empty the house for sale.
Get an old, used, large microwave. Disable it (cut the cord, what have you) and put it in your kitchen in plain sight. Put one of the smaller safes inside of it.
Who is going to check a microwave for valuables?
@@ultraali453 power tools are a thing some burglars might actually want to swipe from the house - depends on the burglar and the tools, but IMHO it's a non-zero risk
“There’s not a lot of valuables in a pantry…”
Says you. The pantry has Oreos and Cheeze-It’s.
You have BOTH Oreos AND Cheeze-Its?! Wow.
The pantry has lots of good stuff! Chips Ahoy! cookies, donuts, Cheerios honey nut cereal, Doritos chips, etc..
First place I would go. What they got to eat. Lol
Toilet paper and paper towels were really valuable during the panicdemic.
Dont forget the Ritz crackers!
The most secure is buy 100 safes and place them all over the house, then use one of them.
🤣 Thanks for watching.
None*
I thought of buying a few safes and leaving them empty... not 100 though 🤣
What if someone steals your house?
@@burtingtune might have to buy a few 100 houses and leave them empty 😄
Mine is bolted to the floor in the garage, right by the door. Would be the easiest thing in the world to reach if they knew it was there. But it is hidden by lawn bags, yard tools, a mower, etc. Best part about it, the fire-rated safe would be easy to access if the house was damaged in a fire or destroyed in a tornado. I keep all of my precious valuables in there: Pokémon cards, discount coupons to Chuck-E-Cheese, everything.
What is the code?
The problem I have with a safe (not a gun safe) in the house, is that most burglars want to just get in and get out quick...Steal your stuff, and get away.
But I fear should they find a safe, they now they have a reason to wait for you to come home so you can open it for them.
Valid.
"No one looks for valuables in a Pantry...." of course.... unless you are in a pandemic with a food shortage........
Yeah, like people are burglarizing homes for food. As if.
Cama, it's coming. It's coming.
Steven Harris ....but then they would steal the food, not the safe!......So, no problem!.....
Well they will now
Never put your safe behind your stash of toilet paper!
The judge told me I have to keep all my valuables at my ex-wife's house.
Been there.
LOL Love it.
Lol!
@@LocksmithRecommended: Really? You've been to Robert's ex-wife's house? Hmm...
@@justincase5272 🤦
I like your box idea. I had a neighbor who had a detached garage with a large gun safe inside it. He put a refrigerator box over it. Even wrote "FOR RENTAL HOUSE" on it to sell it even more.
Another practical idea is to just leave 60 bucks out on the bedstand or the kitchen table, to give the thief a reason to be satisfied enough to leave. having multiple safes is also a good idea, but dont put rocks or dumb stuff in it, or the thief might come back to find the real stuff, or just do some damage as payback. don't make yourself memorable to a thief, you have way more to lose than them.
This is similar to carrying an extra wallet with expired ID, old credit cards and some cash so that if you are held up, you can hand it to the robber. A quick check will show them enough cash to make them run away with it and your apparent cooperation will make it less likely you will get hurt.
I frustrated my parents for years by finding all their hiding spaces for Christmas. I went so far to undo door hinges and pick door locks. One year they stumped me. They hid the presents on the top shelf of the pantry that I look into on a daily basis.
My brother always looked and found presents too. So my mom hid them in his closet one year. He never found them.
@@mrdonigan Thats hilarious
I did that too. I always asked for and received a “Verti-Bird” helicopter set every Christmas which I usually knew early on was on its way if not there already due to the fat pack of “D” size batteries already wrapped and under the tree 🌲…well one year I went looking and sure enough there it was- that beautiful toy I loved so much sitting right there in the closet, but instead of being stoked…..I felt like a jackass and never did it again 😔
I've never understood this, even as a kid. Why would you look for presents? Isn't this just a means of torturing yourself? If it's a good present, now you have to wait. If it's a bad present, your Christmas is ruined before it has even begun. And surely there's guilt on top of this.
why would you look for presents? Your mom should give it to you anytime she wanted and you should wait.
If your house resembles something out of the A&E TV show _Hoarders_ you could easily hide a safe from detection.
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It does and you're right
Unfortunately my messy house also hides valuables from me and I lose things.
You don't even need a safe in such a house.
We spend the first half of our lives squirreling away as much loot as we can, and then spend the last half worrying about someone taking it away from us.
There's ground squirrels and tree squirrels. Choose accordingly.
As a home thief I really appreciate this "Home Owner Secrets Exposed" type video. Thanks for spreading the word to the thief community good sir.
The 3 most ingeniously hidden safes this old Plumber has seen- Basement wall safe with a sheet of plywood leaned in front of it. A false panel in a closet, that shortened the entire end wall of the closet- held in place by magnets, it used a small finger hole to pop it open to expose the safe. A 30 gallon galvanized trashcan, complete with a trash bag hanging out from under the lid- The can had a floor safe in it, and was poured full of concrete.
Great comment!
There probably aren't any available test data, but I wonder how a floor safe embedded in concrete in a trash can would fare in a house fire, especially in protecting heat-sensitive contents like paper records, photo film and computer media. I expect it would do a better job of keeping the contents dry, as it would be situated above grade and the door of the safe would stay above water in case of minor flooding if a water pipe should leak or burst. Intriguing idea.
@@LocksmithRecommended
The best way is misdirected. Buy cheap safe put it in the master bedroom with garage sale jewelry.
The real safe is a sewage pipe stub in the basement. Who going to open a sewage cap looking for money.
@@assassinlexx1993 My grandfather put a safe in the basement. Stuff was never stolen but the cash he put in there, quite literally, decomposed and it had to be sent to the federal reserve bank to be identified. He estimated that he lost about 10K of bills that could not be identified, but the rest was recovered. It took close to 3 years from beginning to end to get the money back.
Underneath a false toilet in basement. Make toilet look dirty. Put toilet paper nearby.
Back in the 70's and 80's, I had a truck driving job in Brisbane, Queensland, delivering groceries to small, owner-operated supermarkets. Burglar alarms weren't all that common back then, so grocery stores were often broken into and the most popular item stolen wasn't money, but cigarettes.
One store owner I knew told me how he tried everything to secure his stocks of tobacco and cigarettes, but all to no avail. He tried hiding them in behind stacks of unopened stock and in a lock-up cage, but they always found a way to steal them.
Finally, he appealed to the stupidity of the average bone head burglar and hid the smokes in plain sight. Every night at closing time, he gathered all of the packets of cigarettes and put them in an empty Kellog's Corn Flakes carton. Then he would put that carton in a corner of his store room where he used to throw all of his empty cartons and cover it with said empty cartons. For a while, he was still broken into, but for the most part, very little was stolen. After a while, the super-stupid crims gave up and left him alone!
It's not as good as a safe, but if it works, who cares?
A variation on "The Purloined Letter."
HA! We used to sell cigarettes by the pack from behind the counter. There were 10 packs per carton. I'd hide cash in the half empty cartons. If you robbed the cash register, you would only get about 10% of the cash on hand.
Nowadays I wouldn't try that.
Not just where you live, same thing in the US.
I worked in a drugstore and we had a big safe but all we really kept in it were the rolls of coins to make change at the cash registers. Each night at closing we’d take cash from the registers, leaving the drawer open, put it in a brown paper bag, and drop it in the trash. In the morning, the manager who opened would retrieve the bag, replenish the registers, and unlock the door.
We were broken into at least twice that I remember (once through the ceiling) but no money was ever stolen and only a little drugs. Watches and other obvious stuff were taken.
So true!
I don't own a safe but keep my valuables in concealment furniture... not anything a thief would recognize unless they are know a thing or two about antiques. As a DIYer, I can see myself crafting a secret spot in a well thought-out cat tree. If I were able to do a floor safe, I'd probably put it under a litter box or the dog crate.
I like the box of junk idea.
I have a ceiling safe over a false ceiling :)
I read a suggestion to empty out a paint can and put valuables in there, then hide it amongst other paint cans. Like thieves would have the time to open a bunch of paint cans.
@melb2734. Paint cans will burn up in case of fire though.
I love to have that walk-in pantry. He has it well stocked.
I lived in Rio de Janeiro for some years, where muggings are common. The rule always was to carry two wallet's. One to give the mugger and a second which you aimed to keep.
Michigan is the same. Thanks for watching!
Wouldnt muggers who live there know about the 2 wallets thing?
@@TheRustylungs ….probably some but that’s why you hide the real one in your balls
@@TheRustylungs It works most of the time.
how are gun laws in brasil?
How about a decoy safe? One that is not really hidden very well, and full of rocks? If they carry it away, they will get a nice surprise after opening it.
Totally support the idea.
Wouldn't the first thing a crook do would be to go back to this same house a month or two later and find the more valuable safe that this home owner went thru grate efforts to "decoy" in the first place? Must have a super valuable safe if such lengths were gone to in the first place.
@@mv-db4463 they possibly would but its only when people have been broken into that they gets alarms cctv etc
Funny you should mention this. I used to work at an office where we had an old safe about the size of a small chest freezer. No one had the key and no one knew the combinations, and it was too heavy to throw out, so we used it as a printer stand for a long time. One day a burglar came in and went straight to the safe, and pretty soon he realized that it was too heavy to remove from the office, but he managed to move it to the middle of the room and must have spent hours trying to pry it open without success. In the process he left a lot of dents and scratches on the safe and broke a few floor tiles, but we didn't lose anything valuable, not even the computers.
I have a decoy safe. Same plan.
I like the idea of leaving a safe in a common place to be rousted, but to fill it with lead, and heat it enough to get it to become one solid block that the thief cannot open even with a prybar. They can either abandon it, or take the pain and effort of carting it while dreaming it's full of gold.
I also like the concept of having a gps transmitter attached to it, and set off by a wire that breaks when the safe is moved. That way the thieves might even get caught with the stolen paperweight.
Good
Don't they have cheap tracking devices now, I-tracker or air tracker? Of course getting law enforcement to help may be a problem. A decade ago, a coworker had her home burgled and they stole an iPad. They used the find my device feature and notified the police who promptly told them they couldn't check the house out because GPS isn't accurate enough.
@@woodstream6137 coworker should've gone right outside the location and called the police about weird sounds coming from the house.
@@woodstream6137 I'd agree with the cops on that one. GPS aint accurate enough at all.
Michael Foye
I like the way you think! 🥇
I use a small safe that's fire and water-proof (because having it survive a fire does no good if doesn't survive the fire department's efforts) but any burglar would be disappointed on opening it to find the only valuables are my divorce and custody papers. They're valuable to me!
Me too. My safe is for items I wouldn't want to lose in a fire. A burglar would be so disappointed.
I have a small fire/water resistant box which I have a copy of insurance paperwork in case of a fire. If a thief wishes to take anything else, that is fine because it is all replaceable. The annoying part would be taking the time replacing it.
This is from someone who was broken into many times growing up. They can't take it if you don't have it.
Since I take an average of three burglary reports every day, I just shook my head through the whole video...until you got to the pantry. THAT was a good idea. Because they'll take food out of your fridge, but they won't steal your rice and cereal. Also, bolt those safes down, because they will just walk off with them and worry about opening them later. The most important tip, though, is DO NOT TELL ANYONE where your safe is. NO ONE, because you don't know anyone as well as you think you do.
Ain't that the truth. When I got some hidden cameras and was testing them out at home, I had some people over and dropped a little false information, thinking that one of the people who I didn't know so well might tip his hand by taking a peek when I was in the bathroom. Someone did take the bait, but not who I expected!
...lol... your last statement was true as fuck. Humans can turn on a dime.
Thanks for the comments, and thank you for your service!
pbsjones is the only person so far who has made an INTELLIGENT comment. Keep it up PBS...hearing EXPERTISE and EXPERIENCE like yours is valuable.
not yet, anyway...
Just be aware - if you have a housekeeper they will be well aware of the location of your safe if you hide them in either of his favorite locations. Especially problematic if you use a cleaning service which may send different people to your home.
Strangers in the home is never a good idea.
Solution, clean your own house.
Get a robot maid (when they’re finally available).
@@princessmarlena1359 the robot can be hacked!
@@bibabiba9946 “Domestibot! You’ve ruined me!” 😉
Some very good tips here. I really like the empty box over the safe trick. Hiding a safe under a sink is clever and I agree that most criminals won't look there. My only concern is leaking gray water or broken pipes. Clean up would be impossible and water damage to safe contents is a real possibility.
I thought the same thing about damage from water leaks. I guess if you hide your safe there, just double-bag the contents in plastic or something.
How many people actually use their oven these days. And how many burglars would look inside an oven for a safe that has valuables in it. No one would put a safe with valuables inside something that gets that hot. And since it is a small safe, if you do want to use the oven it would be easy enough to remove while being used and then returned when it cools off.
@@oldtimefarmboy617 That's why I store my ammunition and guns in my oven. Every time my wife bakes something at higher temperatures, it sounds like popcorn is being cooked as the bullets start flying
@@swift_goose 🤣🤣🤣
Its a good spot, when you live alone.
I've been an electrician for 28 years and 85% of little safes are always in the kitchen walk in pantry of all houses that I've wired. Very last place I'd put a safe.
I keep my safe in the display case with my pet rattlesnake and tarantulas.
Does your rattlesnake eat the tarantulas? Or does he or she leave them alone? :) (PS I know it's a joke)
The laundry room never gets tossed - until thieves discover UA-cam.
Perfect - I always have piles of laundry - I could probably just throw my dirty clothes on top
thank you for making this video and letting all the thieves know where to look next after they didnt find any safe in the bedroom
Thank you so much for sharing this insightful video! Hiding safe places is crucial, and your tips are invaluable. One additional approach I've found useful is utilizing unexpected spots like false bottoms in drawers or hollowed-out books on shelves. Keep up the great work, and let's all stay one step ahead of potential risks!
Good video...I want to add that burglars will TOSS an ENTIRE apartment or house..it will look like a tornado hit, looking for everything. They will find the safe even in the box marked misc...make the safe hard for them to take it and with an alarm system notifying you (I have a ring alarm motion detector in mine, it will notify my phone immediately upon someone moving or entering it, my small safe is also bolted down so it should give me enough time to get home or in time for the police to respond) This advice coming from an Officer.
Thank you for the feedback;
Police respond to burglary? So 1970s
Plot twist: the police come back and steal it.
I like your choices. But if I were putting a safe in the pantry one thing I'd add is that I'd make sure that the food I put in front of the safe were something like bulk beans or flour, not yummy looking snacks. I've heard tales of burglars stopping on their way out for snacks!
Burglar who tossed my place grabbed old ham (not fresh ham, old janky ham) and almond milk. Poured out the almond milk into a cup and left it there. Put the ham in the microwave. Left it there. On a plate. Seriously, though, that ham was nasty.
@@Qriator was the old ham there to scare them off or something.
Thank u. You r CORRECT. I WILL COPY. WILL FIND BULK STUFF AT SAM CLUB. NOW I GOT TO BUY FAKE FOODS ! TO HIDE THE SAFE . LOL 😂 😆 LOL
Yes, dont put your chips and snack cakes in front of your safe. Lol..
@@dianamorris5327 a mixed bag of vegetables? 😁
My uncle had a safe behind a portrait of himself in his penthouse suite home office. Inside that safe is a fireproof strong box, containing a Gray’s Sports Almanac from 1950-2000, kept in a plastic bag.
Say ...was his name Biff?
@@stephenszabo2361 yeah, and he’s such a butt he ad
Ha. Underrated comment.
If some kid comes by ever asking about that almanac, you know what to do.
Don't be so gullible McFly!
My grandparents did canning every summer in mason jars. Canned tomatoes, peaches, pears. He stored gold coins in plastic inside three of the jars with pears. He marked the dates on each one with 3, 2 and 1 day before canning. Four of the 15 jars were marked with a date 4 days before. These had the coins
These days, don't put a safe near your toilet paper storage area.
But it's most convenient there! A safe today is gonna be filled with paper towels and toilet paper. What's more valuable than that? ~Cindy! :)
😂 😂 😂
@assassinlexx On a serious note, that's BRILLIANT! You are 100% right! ~Cindy! :)
@assassinlexx l
assassinlexx great idea throws them off the scent
I know two BRILLIANT places to hide a safe. I would be a damn fool if i told you 🤣🤣
Under the cat box ?
Always remember, no safe is hard to open if it can be found and there's someone at home to point a gun at. The only safe that is safe is the one that can't be found. It doesn't even need to have thick walls and a lock, if no one can find it.
In the 90s my best friend father was beaten to a pulp and spent 2 weeks in a coma because he could not open a safe hidden in an apartment he rented in Rio. His wife lost an eye to the burglars. Later they learned the safe had nothing inside. Since then I always leave hotel safes open and when I rent an Airbnb I make sure to request any existing safe be left open. Everything can be replaced.
Wow. I'm sorry to hear that.
I hide my valuable items by converting them into cash and then buying land and farm equipment. Works like a charm. Nobody wants dirt and chicken manure and shovels. But the eggs and veggies are priceless return on investment.
It's the hard work that will keep them away 😁
In the old days of the early 1900's, valuables were stored inside the old Victrola phonographs. I know a guy that used to deal with the old phonographs and he always checked behind the speaker grill after he purchased a floor phonograph and found lots of money hidden there over the years.
I wonder how much the color of a safe matters in whether it its recognized. Apparently, some theme parks paint utility items or other items they don't want people to pay attention to in their parks in a color called Go Away Green or something like that. Have safe makers studied what colors of safes are more likely to be found, if there is any difference?
One bit of advice that works: Buy a small cash box/container and seal it in a large two-gallon freezer bag and bury it somewhere in your backyard--even a small dirt area that a condo might have. No burglar is going to start digging up the backyard or patio area dirt. Then, buy an inexpensive lockable safe and place it in a dresser drawer or on a shelf in your primary bedroom's closet--some place where it can be easily found--that only contains non-valuables like old eyeglasses or medallions taped in an old Bandaid can to give it some heft and sound. A burglar might leave rather quickly to lessen the chances of getting caught--he/she would be eager to get home to get at those supposed "treasures" in that decoy safe lol!
This only works if you have total privacy and are certain of it. In a condo or apartment complex, or at a house in a neighborhood, you can never be certain someone didn't see you digging and burying whatever it is. Even in the middle of the night.
Set up one of those pop up canopy put a tarp wall on three sides do your digging inside that. There where night vision googles come into play.😉
If you are planting flowers or gardening pretty sure you could slip it in without detection.
And fit it with a glitter loaded spring...
@@angelbear_og😂🎉
Watch your cleaning crew if u use them. They are known to look into every nook and cranny in your house. I no longer use them after missing jewelry, cash and other valuables disappear over time.
If I had a safe in my pantry I would put the chocolate chips in it.
You're mean. lol
Another handy place to hide jewelry items is in a closet which is not a walk in. Open the door and look up inside where the door closes and above the door is usually a space of 2 feet or more. I put small nails inside above the door and hang chains, rings and other jewelry items which are out of sight when you open the door. You would have to turn with you back to the closet shelves and then look up and above where the door closes to see the items. Most people would open the door and see linens or other things and then close the door. You have to turn with your back facing the closet and then look up to see the hidden items. Other ways are to use food boxes in your pantry to hide valuable items ( just don't forget where you hid them ) LOL Always try to outsmart the bad guys !
Anyone coming into my house would think it was already robbed and wonder if anyone ever cleaned. 😆
BTW, thieves don’t read labels on boxes when they rob your house. They just toss all the boxes out into the room and see what falls out.
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Depends what is kept in the safe. If you have expensive watches and jewelry and the safe is too far away, you are less likely to use it EVERY SINGLE TIME. Convenience has some role to play in this.
"Nobody looks under a sink." They do now.
Anyone looking to find a safe will now look in these places. Bravo!!
At my house it’s called Defensive Clutter. Anything that makes more time and effort increases security. The longer they’re in the “nervouser” they get.
At my house it's called "lack of valuables." If you find any gold to dig, lemme know.
At my house it's called Misdirection or deception. If I announce to everyone that I don't have valuables or gold to dig and back it up with messy clutter, they'll be least likely to even think about ransacking my anything.
As a chronic procrastinator, defensive clutter is relatable.
In My house, it's called Offensive Clutter. I get nervous just coming home each day. I feel sorry for any burglars.
Yes, I would dare an intruder to find valuables in my home. I can't even find them:)
Perfect way to thwart burglars? Own nothing valuable. It totally confuses them.
When I went through my divorce, I quickly found out that lawyers just line up, waiting to take anything you have of value. After a few years, I decided that my best defense was to not have anything that someone else would want, and it worked. Lawyers will leave you alone, and if someone wants to sue you, their lawyer will tell them it isn't worth their time because they already know they won't make a windfall suing me. It sucks being poor, but it's good protection from most human predators.
Exactly - I don't keep "valuables" in my home.
Good 💡 idea. The Walk in PANTRY. I have 1 but NEVER thought of Hiding a SAFE in THERE. THANKS AGAIN 👍🤓👍👍👍
We never had a safe when I was a child (I don't have one now either) but when I was a child the attic was converted into an extra bedroom. A carpenter built floor to ceiling shelves at one end to fit the sloping sides and at the top at either end he fitted a secret compartment. You wouldn't realise unless you knew how to open them. There weren't ever any valuables in it, it was just something fun we could hide small toys in.
Slightly off topic, the ROTC at a school I used to go to had a house on Fraternity Row. The social frats didn't like them being there and harassed them. About the only thing of value they had was a stereo. The speakers were bolted down, so the recievers kept disappearing. One of them got the bright idea to cut a hole in the table and stick a flash-bang under there. It destroyed the table and the cheap reciever, put a dent in the ceiling and broke the windows in the front room. There was a litteral trail of fecal matter leading out the door. Nobody messed with them again.
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I really love the cardboard box trick! I labelled mine "x-mas decorations" after I moved into my place.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Mine is labeled "canning jars"😂😂😂😂😂
Mine is labeled "kid's pictures."
@@winniecash1654 mine is "recycled maxipads"
@@stupidas9466 lol 🤣 that should keep them away!
Great. Thanks for all the information on hiding small safes. Given me some great ideas what to do. Take care.
Another home security video I’ve seen suggests (for properties left empty for a long time) using a small length of drain pipe buried vertically in the garden. Small valuables are stored inside in a sealed weatherproof bag. Gutter end covers on the top and bottom keep it dry inside. Just don’t forget where you’ve buried it!
Actually the best place to hide things is outside your home....
Great video for criminals to learn where to look for safes. Best place I ever knew? A wood paneled room, with a hidden door among the panels held by a magnetic lock latch release. You couldn't even tell that there was a closet in the room, every wall looked the same.
In my last house , I personally built a closet into a secret wall .
When my house was burgularized , they never found it .
I also always put a large lock , with tape wrapped around the shakle , thru the ejection port of my pump shotgun , when I leave the house .
That way , its unlikely that I ll get shot with my own gun if I walk in on a robbery .
That was the only valuable that the thief actually stole .
They found the shotgun , still locked , in an abandoned house about a year later .
The shotgun is valuable... you should carry it with you ‼️ you never know when you're going to need it 😂🤣
dont say where you hide it, someone might use the information
@@iamanovercomer3253 Ah yes, let me just walk into the bank with my shotgun. Surely the security guard and staff will see by my skin tone that I'm a Good Guy With A Gun. /s
How about keeping your firearms locked up and hidden away when you leave the house?
@@TheStupidcomment Re-read
my original post .
thanks for sharing,i just bought a safe.These are definitely places burglars would not even think about looking for valuables.
Great video and ideas! Thanks for the tips.
The best security advice: Hide your safe and make a UA-cam video on how and where you hid it.....Masterful indeed.
There are over 120 MILLION households in the USA. How many of these households do you think are going to follow the (very good) advice in this video? [probably several thousand] How many are going to also make a good effort to conceal/camouflage their small safe's hiding place? [probably a few thousand] Did you listen to the first comments?--most Americans CONTINUE to hide valuables--and their small safes--in the Master Bedroom somewhere. [probably in the millions] Most burglars know this, and almost always toss/search the Master Bedroom. There's a lot of inertia and tradition in American culture, and one UA-cam video won't change that.
I was a silver stacker for some time. One of the best ideas I ever heard of was you take your bullion and put it in sealed sleeves (they have that) and drop them in old half used paint cans in the garage. NOBODY is going to grab old paint cans in the garage - no need for a safe at all and IMO actually more foolproof to thieves.
Very cool
Unless your wife decides to clean the garage and brings the cans to some recycling event.
@@rosspatience4217 My advice is for men. Not boys that have a wife that think they can do what they want with my oroperty
@@jamesbarrick3403 Yep, my wife knows better than to throw anything of mine away, let alone even go into my shed without me there. Sheesh, whatever are these youngins thinking, not training.
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The problem with that theory is "what if you die". Will your spouse ask your permission then? You are not there to make the decision anymore. If you trust your spouse, then probably your spouse needs to know of your good hiding places.
thanks, im a burglar and this was very helpful advice!
Spoke with burglar and she showed me how they operate. Things I thought about doing, she said to NEVER do. THE #1 and first place checked are master bedrooms. Drawers and closets. YES-they DO CHECK SINKS!!!! Unfortunately, I'm not sharing where my jewelry is kept. Definitely a no-check.
I use an old plastic coffee thermos. Leave it outside until sun faded and dirty, a few webs on it and then put your stuff in. Lay it on a dirty shelf in the garage next to old paint cans.
That's a neat idea!
Then your wife throws it away.
@Me Smith Story number 2 would have ended up with the gun blowing up in his face, doesn't take much to cause that problem.
Just use the old paint can. A REALLY old paint can, among a half dozen others. Weight it down with some fishing lead sinkers glued to the bottom.
@@ryanvernatter3537 wife?, he has valuables, pretty sure he's single.
I was told by a police officer that thieves hate to go in the loft due to the fear of the occupant coming home whilst they are up there. No one wants to get stuck in a loft !
Interesting.
Loft as in Upstairs?
All such good information use. Thank you!
Hide your good safe like that. But buy a cheap safe and just put something a little weighty in it. The thief sees the cheap decoy, does not look further for a safe and carries off the safe. Plus with that safe in their hands they may not to also be able to carry off other heavy or bulky items.
Read an article decades ago by a retired burglar. He had some silver tableware in the customary wood chest. He dropped a $50 on top of the case because that was what the thief would have gotten for the fenced silver. Plus the cash could not be traced back to the property he burglarized making leaving the silver the smart move.
Best place? In the basement. Crooks don't like one entrance rooms. I find you down there you will be staying down there.
I think they don't like one-exit rooms.
Careful....basements FLOOD.....mind does occasionally......
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 Are are you pressing on the "period" key because your mind is flooded?
@@jamesmcinnis208 Yeah, excuse me, I meant to say "my" basement floods occasionally. I would say, if you're going to store a safe in the basement - then store it HIGH up somewhere.
@@dancalmpeaceful3903 For a while there, I liked the Turn of phrase "a flooded mind." In fact, I believe I've experienced the feeling.
I work for a generator company and have several requests per year for the outside case from an old transfer switch. Some of these are large enough to hide a half dozen riffles. They mount these things on the wall in the basement, near their electrical panel then install a couple of dummy conduit pipes. Nobody in their right mind will open an electrical box looking for valuables. Same goes for an old style fridge with the door removed and turned against the wall. Leave the door there too as a decoy.
Cool.
A burglar might open an electrical panel to turn the house power off to disable an alarm system, or the wifi that a security system depends on.
@@scvcebc ... that only works in areas where the power panel is outside. The vast majority of homes have that panel INSIDE.
@@scvcebc That's a breaker panel. Nothing but live wires in an electrical panel.
Great content! Thanks for sharing.
A buddy of mine keeps a safe in his kitchen cabinet behind a facade of old cereal boxes glued together. Just passport and stuff, not like he's got gold bars in there or anything, but it's pretty effective if you don't know it's there.
In-wall safes for the win. I have installed hundreds of them in customers homes. Behind clothes in closets, behind pictures, etc... I've even put them in the floors underneath a rug.
Now I just need a safe and a house with a pantry I will be all set.
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And something worth storing in a safe?
@@marktisdale8058 LOL so true so sad :(
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The under the stair thing is interesting. All my stairs are short, like 8 steps. Going into the basement, the void for the stairs is finished and has a shelf and power outlet. Looks like the previous owner used it for a printer area for home office. I could pull that shelf and put a stand inside for a safe or use it to store long guns, just not sure how to make it into a removable cover without making it look like work was done.
Yeah, nobody looks under the sink, in a cabinet in the laundry or a pantry. That is until they see or hear about this video. Thanks for giving these ideas away to potential thieves in my area.
Instead of a heavy safe, why not cut a heating floor vent into any room on the second floor, and install a fake heating register. In a carpeted room, cut the narrow carpet out, then cut the narrow hole into the plywood floor. Shove your valuables into that fake vent hole, then conceal it with a fake heating register (type with louvers where heat would otherwise come through. I never did this, but I might someday.
My neighbor growing up was a jeweler. His house was robbed several times. He would bait them with fake jewelry scattered about. From what I can remember it worked every time.
I have a collection of 85 antique sewing machines in original wood boxes, cases and cabinets. They are spread all over the house in various closets, cupboards, used as lamp tables and in the garage. Only one out of 85 has the valuables stored in it. Good luck to my son finding which one when I kick the bucket! 🤣
I like the bathroom idea as the bathroom has a door lock. In case of a home invasion you can use this as a safe room and lock yourself in. Then if you have a hand gun in the safe, the gun is easily accessible.
My dad pulled the tip and ink reservoir out of one of those jumbo permanent markers. Great place to put some cash rolled tight and stored in a drawer with the cap replaced with other random markers. As long as a thief doesn’t need to label anything, you’re golden.
Then you forget and throw it out when you go to write and it doesn't work?
That is awesome!
0:09 seconds into this video and all I can hear in my head is LPL:" here are 3 safes with egregious design flaws..."
The Burg Wachter safes carry a burglary rating. It's the toughest small safe we've ever found. We have a great photo of one of the safes we installed that a robber tried to break into. It held.
www.acmelocksmith.com/buy-safes-online/burg-wachter-cl10e.html
But you're absolutely right. In most cases, small safes are not meant to protect high-dollar items. Hence the reason to try to conceal them, somehow.
Thanks for commenting.✌
@@LocksmithRecommended Considering how quickly LPL gets through this "burg watcher" lock, I'd hesitate to trust their safes ua-cam.com/video/_ThNLMr5NXQ/v-deo.html
@@justinmileman7863 that's a padlock. This is a RSC-rated safe. What you don't see are the hours and hours LPL spends figuring out how to bypass many of the locks he bypasses. In a lot of cases he's crafted special tools for the task. You can watch his videos, pick up the picks, and still not he able to pick many of the locks he's bypassed. It's a skill that takes time to learn.
Unlike locks, UL-rated safes have a minimum entry criteria. If the LPL gets into a UL-rated safe in under that criteria, he would be negating the safe's UL-rating, and if notified the safe should loose the UL rating. Locks have no equivalent rating.
That doesn't mean you can't get past a safe lock. We've drilled thousands of safes. And we've spent 1000s of hours learning that skill.
Even though I can bypass every residential lock, I still lock my house. Even though LPL has shown me he can bypass every padlock, I still have a padlock on my gate. And even though we've drilled even the highest rated residential safes, I still put my valuables in one.
Because the typical smash and grabber doesn't know how to bypass any of it. And a typical professional isn't coming to my neighborhood.
I love it how the random poster like to troll the content maker. If you are such a freaking expert get your own youtube channel... or maybe you just don't know how to contribute?
James Barrick ever watch LPL??
& Not trolling dude, why you think that?
Thanks this is the most useful video on YT
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Holmes Robber.
Great tips. Have a good day to all.
As a burglar I appreciate your helpful information. Times are hard for us grab and go thieves and any help at all is greatly appreciate! 😉
Will keep that in mind Mr.Applehof
@@terminalogicalinexactitude5622 I was just being funny. Most thieves are not very bright! 😉
Of course, you'd miss all the good stuff in the master bedroom while wasting your time with the corn flakes and flour! lol
Now all you have to do is figure out which houses are listening to this advise and Bobs' your uncle. But our saving grace is that you're not any brighter than the next loser......
Came here to say exactly this.
in the middle of a pandemic and an unreliable just in time delivery system, the pantry might be the first thing they burglarize lol. Thanks for the tips, its something to really think about.
...and the TP. 🤦♂️
Definitely don't hide it behind your toilet paper!!!!!! Lol
That's an end of the world scenario you're describing where money and gold has no more value. The food and supplies take the place of currency.
These ideal spaces are courtesy of every grandparent that grew up through the Great Depression in the 1900’s
Grampa, kept his stash in a box in the basement, grandma kept hers either in a jar under the sink, wrapped in newspaper, or in the pantry in an old coffee can!
Nothing new under the sun! 😂
Thanks for letting me know where to look for safes.
You just gave away the "secrets". Now all the burglars know them too. Thanks a lot....
I keep my small safe inside my big safe. Perfectly safe!
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Get a high quality semi large standing safe.Load it full of lead plus valuables.Good luck moving it!
LOL funny
I laughed out loud. Very funny!!
And you keep the combo for the big safe inside the little safe inside your big safe.
What about hiding it in the basement under junk (in case a tornado blows your house away)? Thanks.
I used to have a self-modified roll-top desk, I gutted the back side on the left and just pinned and glued the former drawer faces on so they looked like simple locked drawers but behind them was my safe which you'd have to move the desk and then know to pop the back panel off which was only held in place by being cut to a tight fit.