This is your chance to get creative. A number of great potential hideouts for your gold coins are probably ready and available in your home. You just have to “think outside the box” to get to them. Naturally, you would never want to hide your treasure in the normal places, such as 1) under the mattress; 2) in the cookie jar; or 3) in your jewelry chest or clothing drawer. These are the first places criminals will search. Don’t hide your metal assets in the freezer, either, or behind a brick in the fireplace. You need to get more creative than that.
Because technology has gotten so advanced, criminals now have the aid of metal detectors to assist in finding your metal valuables. To combat this trickery, you have to plan for its eventual entrance into your home. Hide your precious metal assets among other metals, such as silverware or loose pocket change. You can wrap a small number of your metal treasures in a towel and tape them inside, under, or on top of a silverware drawer in the kitchen because the metal detector will be drawn to the silverware and the thief will usually pass up the silverware drawer.
One creative inventor has developed a hiding spot that looks just like a real soda can. And, for all those thieves with metal detectors, a soda can is aluminum and will set off the mechanisms in the detector but the thief won’t take a second look at a soda can.
Another unusual location to place a small amount of your round bullion assets is inside a flower pot, with real flowers and real dirt. You could hide it under an artificial selection as well, but the real one will probably get less notice from a prospective thief. The element of which your metal treasure is composed is very resistant to outside environmental sources, such as water and dirt. Therefore, your treasure should be safe. You can always wrap a small number of items inside plastic wrap before burying them in the plant’s dirt, if your plant is big enough.
It is a good idea to allocate your gold coins to more than one safe hiding place; utilize several. You might want to keep a few on your person, in your purse, in your briefcase, or even located somewhere in your vehicle, just to always have a few with you. If you take your vehicle in for service or maintenance, always remember to remove your treasure first.
Another unusual hiding place is an empty book. These storage places are made just for this reason. Locating some articles of your treasure inside an empty book and placing it on your bookshelves among numerous other books would take an incredibly long time for a burglar to find. Burglars don’t usually have that kind of time to expend on an extensive search that could very well prove fruitless.
You might want to change the hiding locations of some of your gold coins from time to time. Ah, but find a way for you to remember where they all are. Sometimes it is easy to forget yourself where you have hidden them.







Tue, Jun 16, 2009
Safety