From a newspaper clipping a few days ago:“A 25-year-old Mount Vernon man was sentenced to nine years in prison Thursday for burglarizing a home and stealing firearms and $34,000 in cash…. Deputies and detectives from the Sheriff’s office discovered forced entry to the house, to the locked master bedroom and to the locked bedroom closet."
Although locking both the bedroom and the closet doors showed the owners were taking precautions to protect their home against burglars, I suspect that the doors were not the type used for exterior doors, made of steel or fiberglass, and that locks, strike plates and hinges were not heavy duty ones installed with 3” screws.
In any event,
the master bedroom is the absolutely worse place in the house to hide cash and jewelry. However, do keep a few hundred dollars in one of the drawers because if the burglar finds nothing at all, he (or she?) may trash your home. Also, in our own closet we keep a small safe, the kind you can pick up at any K-Mart or Office Max.
Nothing is in it except sand--heavy enough to make it seem as if silver or gold must be in there, yet light enough so that the burglar can lug it away.
As for hiding places elsewhere in the home, see the e-book
Invisible Money, which has detailed information about how to protect your home against burglars.
Labels: burglar protection, burglars search the master bedroom first, invisible money
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 2:53 PM
