Keeping Your Valuables Safe and Secure

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Keeping Your Valuables Safe and Secure
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• Whether your valuable items were gifted to you,
  or whether you paid for them from your own hard
  earned money, keeping them safe and protected
  from harm, is your number one priority, even if
  their value is only sentimental.
• To protect your valuable items and prevent them
  from being damaged or stolen, here are some
  simple steps you can take
• Keep an inventory and make sure its always
  updated
• By creating a detailed catalogue of your valuable
  items, you can be clear on exactly what you own
  in the event that anything should go missing, and
  if you need to make an insurance claim or prove
  ownership to the authorities, youll easily be
  able to do so with an inventory.

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• You can keep electronic records of scanned
  receipts and purchase notes, and even use a video
  recording to itemize your valuables.
• Update your catalogue as often as needed, and
  keep it in a secure place.
• Store your valuables in a safe location
• Even if you have a space in your home to store
  valuable items that you believe only you know
  about, or you dont think youll ever fall victim
  to a burglary, it pays not to be complacent when
  it comes to protecting the things that are
  precious to you. Dont rely on secret hiding
  spaces instead, invest in a high security safe
  that you can store such items in, and hide it in
  a much better way. As soon as you take ownership
  of a new item that is of a high monetary or
  sentimental value, pop it into your safe and add
  it to your inventory.

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• For high value items of jewelry, you might
  benefit from a specialized jewelry safe, and your
  local safe supplier will be able to talk you
  through your options.
• Be sure to choose your safe from a reputable
  manufacturer, and always have it professionally
  installed to ensure that not only can a burglar
  not find it, but should they locate it during a
  thorough and determined search of your home, that
  theyre not able to break into, or make off with
  it.

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• Make sure your valuables are adequately insured
• Always talk to an insurance agent when it
  concerns items in your possession that youre
  particularly keen to protect, as a regular
  homeowners policy may not cover certain items,
  even if their value falls within your limit for
  damages. Youll most likely need to catalogue and
  separately insure high value items, and dont
  just plump for the first policy you come across
  or thats recommended to you by your insurer do
  a little research to make sure you find the right
  kind of protection.

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• It doesnt take a lot to protect your items of
  value, but remember, if theyre not stored
  securely in a safe, it might not take a burglar
  much to find and steal them. For more security
  tips and advice, talk to a local security
  specialist.
• BigBearSafe designs, manufactures and distributes
  a large variety of home safes, jewelry safes,
  office safes, vault doors and other physical
  security equipment since 1999. With a team of
  highly skilled workers and engineers our primary
  goal is not only to meet our customers
  expectations but to exceed them through superior
  quality and security. If you are looking for TL
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  visit BigBearSafe.com.