To take my handbag to bed with me

[Ceebs85]

I don't like leaving my handbag with purse and car keys downstairs. I take it to my bedroom and keep it overnight by the side of my bed. This just seem common sense to me as if we were burgled they would be safer next to me.

Partner thinks this is ridiculous and takes the piss 'sure you don't want to take the TV to bed with you?' and other hilarious lines

Am I abnormal?

Handbag always by my side of the bed at night. Might want something out of it, you never know! lol At least I know where it is anyway.

When the bastards stole my car, the police said it was lucky that I’d left the keys downstairs, as they would very likely have ransacked the house looking for them. I was alone in the house, the thought of waking up and finding the little shits in my bedroom still terrifies me.

Me too

Scary thread. There are some advantages to living in a flat ! Although someone did try to break our door down once despite DH standing on the other side shouting that he was calling the police...

My bag is by the front door. No real security reason, just for ease.

Then again after years of being woken by DC I would wake at the slightest sound so would hear anyone coming in.

Coincidentally, I've just seen a copper on Twitter recommend that people leave keys etc downstairs, put them in a RF blocker. Strongly advising people to not take them to bed for the reasons people have given here... !

When we were burgled, in the middle of the night, they didn't come up the stairs, thankfully. I was glad I'd kept bag and other valuables with me.
They took a TV, stereo, CDs and even food (it was horrible and we moved house shortly afterwards), but didn't go beyond the ground floor. I don't think you can predict what they'll do. I left the downstairs window open so was at fault bloody idiot Nowadays we have alarm, locked gates, security lighting etc etc

My handbag (it's very small and compact) hangs on my wardrobe door. My car keys are on the key rack in the hall (far enough from the letterbox so nobody can stick a long pole/stick through the letterbox to hook them off, thanks Dom Littlewood for that tip many years ago).

The warm kettle burglary must have been a good few years ago if they police 1) Actually attended and 2) Actually got there in time to feel that the kettle was still warm. These days it'd a be a phone call at best, days after the event.

Car keys live downstairs on a hook in the kitchen, out of sight til the door is open then plainly visible. House keys stay in the door at night,

Tablets, laptops etc stay wherever they were last used.

Handbag comes up with me and goes next to the bed, out of habit. Why? Cos when the DC were teens teens money would mysteriously disappear out of bags left downstairs. Not all of it, and not often, just the odd £5 or £10 at a time usually. I actually came down quietly one morning and caught DSS with DH's wallet in his hand, taken from his coat pocket. The teens are long grown up now and no longer at home, DH leaves his wallet all over the place but keeping my bag with me became the norm for me. From speaking to friends and family it seems this is not an uncommon thing, for DC to sneak the odd bit of cash out of a purse sometimes. I never did but my DBro and Dsis both said they did and were astonished that I was so bothered about ours doing it

• the police not they

I have ALWAYS taken my handbag to bed with me and I hide my car keys downstairs.
There again, I have walked down in the middle if the night when I lived alone and come face-to-face with a burglar. Don't know who was more shocked, me or him.

What did you do itsonky? I always imagine a burglar screaming and running away if he came face to face with nighttime me!

Love the idea of a stunt bag!

This thread is such an eye opener. I don't know anyone in rl who would dream of taking their handbag to bed! I know that friends, in laws, family etc. don't as we've been in close enough quarters to know!

I've worked alongside the police for several years and they have always been absolutely clear that it's far safer to leave bags/money/keys downstairs. My view is firmly that squirrelling a handbag by the bed at night makes zero common sense.

What's the difference between that and sleeping in all your most expensive jewellery 'just in case'? Why just the handbag? Documents/cards etc. can be replaced. Insurance exists for virtually everything else.

All of the stuff was down in the hall - so no effort on thieves part!

I would consider that to be an absolute blessing. The thought of them having to 'make an effort' to get what they're there is fairly unpleasant to be honest.

We always leave £50 (in tenners) on the living room table, every time we go out. Not visible from the windows, obviously.
Used to be £20, but what with inflation and Brexit....

I know this is awful but I often leave my bag in my car! Car keys are on the ottoman in the lounge though.

BettyDavis I'm just imagining my DH rolling over in the night to give me a cuddle and finding me wearing ALL my jewelry and handbag.

I'm just imagining my DH rolling over in the night to give me a cuddle and finding me wearing ALL my jewelry and handbag

Whilst lying on the telly and handcuffed to the iPad?

Keys on hook. Purse in plain.sight. cell with me upstairs. Take my car, take my money. But if i need to use it, i want my cell.

However, i hope your dh is more reasonable and kind regarding the other parts of your life; it is your life afterall.

Bag comes to bed with me, keys stay down stairs. Not much of value in my bag but would be lost without the notebooks and shopping lists and to do stuff.

Someone broke into my house, and took my handbag from downstairs, they were probably looking for an old lock. I didn't notice until the next morning that my handbag was missing.
I always take my bag upstairs after that.
A twist to the story is that I had £200 in it in a zip-up inside compartment, and that I discovered my handbag a year later, squashed into a hedge in the garden, with my old phone and credit cards missing, and the £200 was untouched, as they hadn't noticed the compartment!

Always take my handbag to bed

I don't want to scare yo, but when we were burgled they went into my parent room and took my mothers bag from beside her bed. Her & my father were in bed at the time.