As soon as I started out working I would get ten bucks out of my wallet every single day and save it as petty cash. Exactly what served as my piggy bank was an empty container of goodies being that I was very close-fisted to snap up a much better moneybox.
The apartment in which I lived with three other folks was burgled eventually. My chocolate box was saved though as who would bother to look in it for spoils? That mere package got me an excellent concept on how to build a hidden safe on the cheap.
So for the next few years I would change from one used container to another whether it was an empty coffee can or even ice cream cup and put those to use as storage safes. They certainly never got stolen from because no one gave them the time of day.
I am no more as destitute today as I once was. I lease a condo unit alone and have moved some notches higher in the area of stowing my dollar bills away in recycled packaging. That is I now save money in diversion safes.
These are disguised safes which take the form of mundane consumer items so that home invaders would fail to ID them as canisters of important items. Theyre not unlike my empty cartons except that they keep better and have far longer shelf lives.
For instance I have transferred my petty cash to 3 different places. These are the Trader Joes Sea Salt can safe in the cupboard a fabric & upholstery cleaner diversion safe in the laundry area as well as a carpet cleaner can safe in the utility cabinet.
Back when I initially happened on diversion safes over the internet I read that thieves try to clear out of the house they are robbing as fast as they can for fear of getting busted. They dont have time to check within cleaners as well as food cans for loot.
Using stash cans for storage takes the guesswork out of how to build a hidden safe securely without breaking the bank.