Stash It - 2

Tools are another thing that many crooks look for. For these, they usually hit the garage first, then any other area where there might be a shop or work room. Tools are a very valuable item to some crooks, so you should make every effort to make them as inconspicuous as possible. You may want to consider splitting up your tools and secreting a portion of them. In this way, even if part of the tools were found, you would still have some left.

the next thing to know is that crooks like to stay on the first floor of any building they are robbing. This is due to the fact that most houses have only one stairway leading upstairs. Crooks do not like to be where there is only one way out if they are discovered. They will go to the second floor if there is nothing worthwhile on the first floor. Basements are even less liked by crooks. Unless a basement has exceptionally large windows, or an outside entrance, they have no place to go if discovered. The best basements for storage are the old style, with the small windows and having only one entrance from the inside of the house. The two places that crooks hate most are crawl spaces and attics. Here again, there is normally only one entrance and most of the time that consists of a small trap door of some type. They both also tend to have very low clearance, which means a lot of crawling around to find out what is there. The scum that would rob you find that too much like work. They would get a real job if they wanted to work that hard. 

Home Made Storage Units

One of the best things to use when making up your own safe type units are old refrigerators or freezers. There are several reasons for this. First: they are somewhat fire resistant. They are about the best insulated appliance in your home. While they will melt and get ruined if the fire gets hot enough, they are at least some protection. Second: so many people have multiple refrigerators and freezers nowadays that it does not look out of place to have more than one. Third: you can install locks in the doors without looking suspicious, as many can be purchased new with locks. This is especially true with freezers. Fourth: unless a crook is hungry or thinks you might have a lot of expensive steaks and lobster in your freezer, most of them will not even bother trying to look in a refrigerator or freezer. Here is one of these time that you might want to think kitchen. You need a large kitchen to accept a second refrigerator, but if you have room it is an excellent choice. Basements, rec rooms and utility rooms are also excellent choices. These are the places people are most likely to keep an extra refrigerator for their beverages. The garage is also an excellent place to keep an extra refrigerator or freezer. 

An upright freezer works best for guns. They are usually tall enough to take most rifles in an upright position. This is also true of the side by side double door refrigerator freezers. The double door refrigerator freezer with the freezer either on the top on on the bottom can also be utilized as a gun cabinet, it just takes a little more work. Some of the smaller sized apartment and dormitory type refrigerators and freezers can be used for handgun storage as well as ammo storage and the storage of other valuables. Large chest type freezers can be one of the safest storage units, it is just that to be done right, they are a lot of work. When done in the correct way, getting at the guns can be a little inconvenient. As you can see, just about any type of unit can be used for some type of storage, and in today's environment where you normally have to pay to have your old refrigerator or freezer hauled away, why not take advantage of its secondary uses? 

Until next week when we start building the gun safe: SURVIVE!!!

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