Also keep in mind that you’ll want your diversion safes to blend in to not seem out of place with the other objects around it or else it will draw interest to anyone who may see it.

Anyways everyone, Happy Easter.

I’d personally use a diversion safe such as this one that looks like a normal water bottle. Not only does it fit in with the things you’d have on vacation but most all people wouldn’t think that anything was hidden in a water bottle that they can see water in. As always keep your drugs away from children.

The other main way that safes are designed is to be resistant to attacks with tools, which is basically how hard they are for someone to open without the key or combination. Than of course diversion safes come along and offer another type of way to hide valueables, but I have yet to come across a fireproof diversion safe. I’d be interested in seeing what the first kinds might end up being.

Easily the most interesting thing about the desk to most people is the fact that there are hidden compartments in it. In the movie National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets the Resolute desk has a very important role in the plot when the desk contains in typical National Treasure fashion much needed information. It will likely be many more years until any other secret desks before more well known than the Resolute.

A can safe is not the best choice of diversion safe in my opinion just because they are too common compaired to most of the other types of hidden compartment devices. The only good place I can think of keeping a can safe is with other kinds of the same can, for example just putting your diversion safe as the last can in the back of the fridge.

Protecting valueable always comes down to other people not being able to get to the items you’re trying to protect. Although when it comes down to it a cheap diversion can safe is going to appear as a nice soft drink to anyone who sees it, and they just very well might try to open it, and than your secret stash is discovered.

* Ask yourself what you plan on storing in your diversion safe to know what general size diversion safe you’ll need.
* Decide what room you want to keep your diversion safe, so you can buy one that wouldn’t be out of place.
* Pick your budget, if it’s a low budget you can probably make your own diversion safe. I’d suggest making a can safe if you were tight on money.

Once you have those three rather basic things decided you can start to look around for a diversion safe that would fit your needs. Most people start off with some kind of can safe since you can get them for under $20. Personally I prefer furniture diversion safes but those tend to always be on the expensive side.

I also see a few downsides to these kind of devices. For one, if for example you have a fake rock somewhere in your yard that has a hidden key inside it, then that means someone else can get that key just as easy as you can. So make sure that no one sees you when you go hide your key for the first time. I would also suggest moving the keys hidden location every time you return to it to use it.

Some tips I’d give anyone who uses a hide a key type of diversion safe to hide an extra key is to make sure the location is not obvious. Make sure the device blends in and that it won’t be found by some random person just wandering through your yard for whatever reason. Whatever you do, do not leave an extra house key under your welcome mat.

Book Safes -

Book safes are one of the oldest types of secret safes, they have been around just about as long as books have. They are make by removing inner parts of the pages to leave a space for the objects to fit inside. This type of secret safe is good if you’re on a tight budget and have several books to be along side this one. The down sides of book safes for secret safes is that they can look a bit out of place if you do not have other books to go along side of them.

Soda Can Safes -

Soda can safes are one of my favorite types of secret safes. They are made now to such high quality that they even feel the same weight as the original products. The can safes look exactly like the normal products too. If you’re going to go for a can safe as your secret safe make sure that it is not too out of place. If you just put the can safe in a drawer someone would know something was up when they seen it.

Shaving Cream Safe -

Shaving cream safes are just a tweak from the normal soda can safes that I mentioned. The positives of the soda can safe are the same as the soda can safe except they are a bit larger in most cases, which space of course is a major bonus in secret safes. Another perk is shaving cream isn’t going too look too out of place in a random drawer in your bathroom or back cupboard.

Outlet Safes -

An outlet safe is far less common than the other types of secret safes listed above, this is a positive though in many cases as less robbers will look for them. They are basically a fake electrical outlet that you install into your wall and than the front of the outlet folds out to reveal the secret compartment for you to put your items. The downside of outlet safes is you need to install them physically in your wall, so if you no longer wanted ever use it as a secret safe again you’d have a hole in your wall if you removed it.

Clock Safes -

Clock safes are another fairly uncommon solution in the world of secret safes. They are rather effective in my opinion, how often is it someone gets curious and picks up a clock off the wall, not very often. Most have a place in the back of the clock to store whatever you’d like. The main thing I don’t like about them is you’re rather limited to how heavy of stuff you can put in there unless your clock in hanging on your wall with more than just a finishing nail or tack.

Personally I’d go with the shaving cream safe or soda can safe as my first pick for secret safes if I was in the market to purchase one right now. I’ve been asked where to buy secret safes several times now and you can get them from Amazon for rather cheap. Check out the links to the right.

Now most people know that a lot of people tend to hide things under their mattress. Since we all know that many people hide things under their mattress using that spot to hide something of your own doesn’t offer much protection for your items at all. Not all of us can afford to have an expensive safe bolted down somewhere in our house either. What about when you wanted to travel and couldn’t take the safe with you? If any of those things makes sense to you, you’d likely want to look into a diversion safe.

Picture this, someone is going through your things to try to find things of value to steal. They’re going to check the most common places first, just like with the mattress example. You don’t want to leave yourself exposed to falling victim of having your valuables stolen by leaving them somewhere they would be found easily. A way around this that is rather inexpensive, is with something called a diversion safe. A diversion safe is something that even when looked at wouldn’t appear to be anything could hold anything of value, maybe an aluminum beverage can or an aerosol can that looks just like the normal thing except contains a secret compartment. Essentially you can hide things in plain sight. Many of these type of devices have a bottom that will screw off that reveals a place to store anything you’d like, jewelry, money, a family relic passed down generation to generation, whatever it might be that you don’t want to be left out in the open for anyone to steal.

A diversion safe can come in many shapes and sizes, it is really limitless as they can be made out of virtually any household object and many varities are sold online.