• Under the mattress, especially in the master bedroom
  • In the closet, in your pockets.  You can purposely mislabel a box with a boring name such as “baby clothes” or “college notes from 1975”
  • If you hide valuables in your dresser drawer, wrap them up and put them inside a sock.
  • Buy a portable safe, keep it locked, but don’t put valuables inside.  It can serve as a decoy they can simply take and open later. If you do have a safe, it should be bolted to the floor and not easily visible.
  • Burglars sometimes look for medications they can sell, so don’t put your valuable rings in a prescription bottle or even in your medicine cabinet.
  • Thieves will often look in the freezer, so if you want to put something there, wrap it a bag that used to have frozen fruit, such as berries.  Don’t put a sock in the freezer, as it will be obviously out of place. Be sure to notify anyone who has access to your freezer not to throw it out.
  • Burglars may want to steal your identity.  Keep passports and other sensitive documents in an unusual place, such as a locked drawer, instead of a file cabinet.
  • If you are thinking of storing valuables in a flower vase, put flowers in it, and burglars will be less likely to look there.
  • If you have a suitcase in your closet, I wouldn’t use it to store valuables. Criminals will open it if they find it in your closet.
  • Handbags are an obvious place thieves will look.