Where to Hide a Safe - Best & Worst Places to Hide a Safe in Your House

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Do you have a small home safe? Where is the best place to hide a safe in your home to protect it from being discovered during a burglary?

This video focuses on small, light weight home safes. We're not talking about burglary rated safes. The small safes we are hiding are lighter in weight and subject to being removed during a burglary. Larger safes with burglary ratings and TL ratings are usually (but not always) too heavy to remove during a quick smash and grab home robbery.

I'll show your my favorite and best place to hide a safe in your home as well as some other great options that will let you know how to hide a safe in plain site.

We also talk about where burglars look for money and valuables so you don't place your home safe anywhere near those areas.

00:00 Intro
00:42 What Are Small Safes Good For
01:17 Any Small Safes That Are Burglary Rated
01:45 What To Look For When Buying A Small Safe
02:25 Good Places To Hide A Small Safe
03:43 Worst Places to Hide a Safe
05:40 Best Place To Hide A Small Safe

[WillyPark]

Before I burglarize any house, I always check YouTube to see the latest hiding locations for

[theenglishprofessor]

If burglars went into my master bedroom closet, they would probably assume I'd already been robbed that day.

[neverletmego]

To make it extra safe, buy two safes and use one of them as a decoy safe. Put the decoy in an obvious spot and put heavy stones inside to make it hard for the thief so he's less likely to come looking for more

[nsu]

After being the victim of multiple burglaries Rodney Dangerfield left a note on his door that read " Dear burglar, I am home." When Dangerfield returned home he saw that he had been burglarized again. Inside, Dangerfield found a note from the burglar which said, "Where the hell were you? I looked all over your house!"

[avgjoeshow]

I would NEVER trust an ACME safe. I’m scared it might land on my pet coyote.

[legaleagle]

A burglar broke into my house looking for money one night. I got up and helped him look.

[texaswunderkind]

Mine is bolted to the floor in the garage, right by the door. Would be the easiest thing in the world to reach if they knew it was there. But it is hidden by lawn bags, yard tools, a mower, etc. Best part about it, the fire-rated safe would be easy to access if the house was damaged in a fire or destroyed in a tornado. I keep all of my precious valuables in there: Pokémon cards, discount coupons to Chuck-E-Cheese, everything.

[donaldworthington]

Been in intelligence, cybersecurity and real physical security for much of my career. Not much to do with residential, really, but one technique I've always looked at as legitimate is "security through obscurity." Security should be built up in layers, but this can be one of them. The three legs of a security breach are "means, motive and opportunity." For a residential burglary, the means and motive are moot points - the bad guy is already in the house, bent on evil deeds. The opportunity is the safe, if it can be located. Given enough time, even Ft. Knox could be breached. So it would seem that two viable options, given the time constraint as the video describes, are to either make the safe impenetrable for that long, or make it hard to find. Hard to find is cheaper and probably just as effective - hence the "security through obscurity" buzzwords. Hide it where they won't look for it, or where, if they do see it, they won't recognize it for what it is.

One other thought - a poorly designed safe and or location for it can be worse than no safe at all. If things were spread out around your house, the thief might find some of them, but probably not all. The safe, on the other hand, provides a nice little central location and a single place for the thief to find all your valuables - all that is required is to compromise a single point of failure...

[Desertmad]

The most secure is buy 100 safes and place them all over the house, then use one of them.

[stevenharris]

"No one looks for valuables in a Pantry...." of course.... unless you are in a pandemic with a food

[kellyname]

I had a house that was built by a huge builder. At that time, they built them in a month. The only way for them to do this quickly was to cut corners especially in finish work. One day I was standing on a tall step ladder trying to condense stuff in the kitchen cabinets. The orientation of the cabinets on the 2 walls, was that they joined on the corner leaving one cabinet with space that was difficult to reach on the one side. As I was stuffing plastic cups into the difficult space I noticed that they did not bother to seal the one side that joined the other cabinet. At first I was pissed how cheap the builder was, but then...my brain started to look at the area completely hidden as a hiding place for a pretty good amount of stuff. Not only would someone not see it unless they were on a ladder but it was open to drop down things about 12 inches.

[jiyushugi]

We spend the first half of our lives squirreling away as much loot as we can, and then spend the last half worrying about someone taking it away from us.

[fredbadgett]

The 3 most ingeniously hidden safes this old Plumber has seen- Basement wall safe with a sheet of plywood leaned in front of it. A false panel in a closet, that shortened the entire end wall of the closet- held in place by magnets, it used a small finger hole to pop it open to expose the safe. A 30 gallon galvanized trashcan, complete with a trash bag hanging out from under the lid- The can had a floor safe in it, and was poured full of concrete.

[CDReimer]

I frustrated my parents for years by finding all their hiding spaces for Christmas. I went so far to undo door hinges and pick door locks. One year they stumped me. They hid the presents on the top shelf of the pantry that I look into on a daily basis.

[kennethmc]

I like your box idea. I had a neighbor who had a detached garage with a large gun safe inside it. He put a refrigerator box over it. Even wrote "FOR RENTAL HOUSE" on it to sell it even more.

[Fanta....]

Another practical idea is to just leave 60 bucks out on the bedstand or the kitchen table, to give the thief a reason to be satisfied enough to leave. having multiple safes is also a good idea, but dont put rocks or dumb stuff in it, or the thief might come back to find the real stuff, or just do some damage as payback. don't make yourself memorable to a thief, you have way more to lose than them.

[TombstoneHeart]

Back in the 70's and 80's, I had a truck driving job in Brisbane, Queensland, delivering groceries to small, owner-operated supermarkets. Burglar alarms weren't all that common back then, so grocery stores were often broken into and the most popular item stolen wasn't money, but cigarettes.
One store owner I knew told me how he tried everything to secure his stocks of tobacco and cigarettes, but all to no avail. He tried hiding them in behind stacks of unopened stock and in a lock-up cage, but they always found a way to steal them.

Finally, he appealed to the stupidity of the average bone head burglar and hid the smokes in plain sight. Every night at closing time, he gathered all of the packets of cigarettes and put them in an empty Kellog's Corn Flakes carton. Then he would put that carton in a corner of his store room where he used to throw all of his empty cartons and cover it with said empty cartons. For a while, he was still broken into, but for the most part, very little was stolen. After a while, the super-stupid crims gave up and left him alone!

It's not as good as a safe, but if it works, who cares?

[karlbenedict]

How about a decoy safe? One that is not really hidden very well, and full of rocks? If they carry it away, they will get a nice surprise after opening it.

[michaelfoye]

I like the idea of leaving a safe in a common place to be rousted, but to fill it with lead, and heat it enough to get it to become one solid block that the thief cannot open even with a prybar. They can either abandon it, or take the pain and effort of carting it while dreaming it's full of gold.
I also like the concept of having a gps transmitter attached to it, and set off by a wire that breaks when the safe is moved. That way the thieves might even get caught with the stolen paperweight.

[Frip]

As a home thief I really appreciate this "Home Owner Secrets Exposed" type video. Thanks for spreading the word to the thief community good sir.