How do your store valuables at home?

[HomeSafety]

I'm thinking things like documents with account numbers and passwords as well as high value jewellery?

I want to improve security but get given diffrent opinions about getting a safe fitted.

I just wondered what do other people do?

Safe

Safe bolted to a solid wall in the bedroom inside the wardrobe

I've been told a safe can signal where the important things are and can still get removed even if bolted?

We have a safe (bolted to a wall). Break-ins round here are invariably quick in-and-out jobs. The burglars don't want to be in your house a minute longer than necessary, nor do they want to make a noise or draw attention to themselves with drilling and splintering sounds.

What they want is to lift valuables and/or car keys up from surfaces, out of drawers and off hooks, as fast as possible.

This often takes place in the early hours of the morning.

Having a safe also encourages me to keep all my valuable documents in one waterproof place, eg passports, birth certificates, house deeds and spare cash JIC. I think it might help with insurance, too.

We have a safe hidden in a cupboard attached to a wall for valuables and passports.
For passwords etc we use Last pass, none are written down anywhere

Passwords shouldn't be written down, if they are they should be nowhere near the account info. We have a safe built into the wall in our loft, unfortunately I don't own anything valuable enough to put in it 😂

A gun safe bolted to the roof joists.

No-one knows it's there because I brought it with me from a previous house, and I paid cash for it originally so there's no purchase records. Even my ds doesn't know it's there. The only person apart from me who has seen it is the local police firearms officer. Not a talkative man 😊

I’m not telling you! Nor am I saying where I would keep £1000! Don’t want to give anyone ideas!

Shove them all in with the guns in the gun safe, if it’s safe enough for guns it’s safe enough for my valuables.

Paperwork is in a folder in my loft under the boarded out floor, my sister knows where it is incase she needs to find it. My valuable jewellery I wear every all the time, even when sleeping. My semi valuable watches are so well hidden that even I can’t find one of them it’s somewhere in my wardrobe but I need a good clear out to find it.

A safe is the “safest bet” housebreaking are quick and usually they are looking for car keys unless they know of something specific in the house and they just trash the place to find it. A safe if it’s fitted correctly takes too long to try and open or remove so it’s a deterrent along with a good alarm/cctv system that monitored and linked to the police if there’s an activation.

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I don't have anything of high value so don't need to think about it tbh.

Mine are just in various drawers and cupboards around the house, unlocked and in sight. We don't particularly feel in fear of burglary as I've never heard reports of it happening in this area, though we are in a high crime city centre. We've never had any kind of burglary attempt in 25 years.

Safe. Filing cabinet

Same re burglaries. Nothing has happened for ages and in a fairly well to do area. We do have a WhatsApp group which is sort of neighbourhood watch and I’ve got a burglar alarm.

Hijacking this thread to ask which brand of safes (or even specific models) people would recommend? Will look at the Which? guide too, but always nice to get a recommendation.

A safe would be the best bet

When you're insuring really valuable things they often require a safe

If you have high value items ask your insurance company to recommend one. Mine did not have a high enough cash rating and my insurer wanted me to upgrade it. I stood my ground and they accepted my safe as secure enough. It’s important to know the cash rating, something I was not aware of initially. Mine is from Yale I think.

The loft, for starters they would need to find the bar to pull down the ladder then its hidden within stuff. So good luck with that. Thieves want to be in and out quick. A useful bit of info as my friends DS is a police officer. You have a UPVC door with panelling? Very easy to kick in. The last burglary in my road took place on a stormy night and in true Shawshank redemption style they smashed a patio door mixing it in with thunder cracks, was a few years ago.

After someone broke into a friend’s house in the next street a few years ago all jewellery I have (not like Brinks Matt gold!) is in the safe. Wasn’t that expensive and not huge either. Like the ones you get in hotel rooms. The burglars went upstairs in their house. Luckily the husband got out of bed and scared them into running down the stairs and out of the front door. He was lucky though not to be attacked.