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Message:: [QUOTE="Morgan, post: 67204, member: 3630"]I always liked my grandpa's solution. He kept his lesser valuables, the commons and such in a small safe which was easy to find on the floor of his bedroom closet. He kept his real valuables in a sealable plastic box which was placed inside a large box of junk, also in his closet but on the top shelf. (He showed a few close family members where the box was located just in case.) Loe and behold, on day someone broke in and five finger the safe. Darn, gramps was out about $200 worth of stuff. Nothing inportant or really valuable except the $5 safe he got in the 60's. He was a little upset when he went to buy a new one and found that even the small ones were in the $100 range. After seeing this he filed an insurance claim on the safe and bought a new one. All in all it was a small price to pay to keep his other valuable safe, about $10,000 worth. The reality is criminals are usually stupid or short on time. If you use the advertising approach to distract them from the true value, your better off than if you buy a really big heavy safe. Criminals can always use something else to break more stuff but not always smart enough to realize they are steeling the wrong thing.[/QUOTE]