We as humans have this primal urge where we want to want to gather and hold on to items, especially those that hold material or sentimental value to us. There is always the risk of losing things in life, not many things in life would be more terrible than losing an object of great sentimental value or maybe an amount of cash that you kept in your house for an emergency situation to theft. Theft doesn’t always happen from some criminal that you’ve never met before breaking into your home, it could happen from someone who you thought you could trust, like a family member or a close friend.
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.
I don’t have anything to hide? :\
ahhh reverse phcycology clever very clever haha
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I think a safe is a wonderful idea for all of the ninja robbers in my neighborhood.
Where can I get one of these lovely contraptions?
..dude mysterygoogle told me to do this too. wtf.
Interesting, came here from MG. Honestly, I usually prefer to keep my stuff in the open. I feel safe here in Fargo, although I’ve got one of my combat knives and my petty cash store carefully taped under my desk.
Yeah i hide a bunch of stuff every were MISSION COMPLETE
i keep my phone in my glasses case so i can see who texts calls or what time it is when theres no clock around especially during last period
and yeah mystergoogle brought me here
This is actually quite interesting. The idea of hiding things in common household items is intriguing. Though have you thought of putting the money into a pets bed or kennel. It would be interesting to see if anyone would look there. (mystery google)
What if a robber got thirsty and opened the can? You should probably choose something that the robber would be less likely to go for. And the weight of the thing you are storing should be more similar to what the package normally stores. If someone picked up that 7 up can they would know that there was not 7 up in there from the weight and they would be suspicious.
I agree with the person that said something about if the intruder was thirsty, whats to stop them from picking up the can expecting a nice refreshment and finding your valuables?
You’d of course put the diversion safe can in the back of the fridge so even if the intruder did get thirsty and take a drink he’d grab just a normal one. On average they only stay within the house for 6 minutes, it’s not likely he’s going to diddle around with getting drinks.