Other disguises
Been thinking about this for awhile.
And yeah only as good as they're secret so i'm keeping one or two in the family.
-An old rusty busted up cobwebbed fridge probably wont get broken into,
-Or a fake furnace front (again old and cr@ppy so it dosn't look functional,
-Or (for a small safe) lay the safe down and build an old wooden chest over it with enough gap on the top to put a few blankets... (Add a throw pillow to the top of the box and it goes nicely at the foot of the bed!) (P.S. there actually is a commercial safe that comes this was, nice too but can't remember the name.)
-In a storage closet, then build shelves next to it and wall in the safe with some recessed hinge drywall and a "accidental" finger hole so it looks like one of those weird crannies always built into houses.
-Here's an easy one. Get some old moving boxes and stack them up in roughly the same size as the safe. Take a picture. Cut out the side and front panels of the boxes leaving a half inch of tops and bottoms and tape them together and affix to the safe so it looks... like a stack of boxes labeled "Baby clothes," "family photos," "old yearbooks" etc. Easy, cheap and really, how many thieves dig through boxes of old yearbooks?
The other thing that surprises me is how often people put all of their guns in one safe or bunker room. One target, one paper trail to the purchase of the safe (i'm sure where some thieves get their start...)
I'd rather have a smaller safe/ settee in the bedroom, a stack of boxes hiding a safe in the garage, and the bookcase on casters hiding the recessed wall safe in the basement. (course that's not where mine actually are...)
That way it's hard to get all of my anything (guns, ID, cash, jewelry) and in the area of defense, I'm not in the wrong area of the house when and if. Also key to keep First aid, food/ water, fire extinguishers, bug out bags and the like spread out. Course, i've lived in earthquake, tornado, hurricane and blizzard country and worked in disaster relief. First principle is to spread out your supplies so they don't all get wiped out.
