When burglars do their thing and get into your house statistics show that they spend 6 minutes or less on average looking for things that they can easily sell or convert into cash in a pawn shop. They look for things that are easy to carry and are very marketable. Items such as jewelry come to mind.

So where do you hide your valuables to prevent them from being taken in a home burglary?

The best place to hide them is, as they say, in “plain sight.”

That’s why diversion safes have become so popular. They are ordinary looking products that have hollowed out interiors. The containers are relatively small, but big enough to hide cash, jewelry, keys and some other valuables.

This Chips Diversion Safe is a good example.

Check out all of our other Diversion Safes to see if one isn’t good for you. We have nearly 20 to choose from.

Here are 4 self-defense products you can give:

Stun guns
A stun gun is an excellent self-defense product and a very useful holiday gift idea.  It’s handy, lightweight and easy to use.  It can be carried easily in a purse or pocket or in the case of mini stun-guns, made to look like a harmless cell phone.

Stun guns are very effective for direct contact attacks. Once it touches the body of an attacker, it sends out enough electricity to shock and temporarily incapacitate, giving the user enough opportunity to fight back, or if he so chooses, run away.

Pepper sprays
Pepper spray can be very effective in stopping or preventing an attack.  A short 3-second burst could send out enough sting to temporarily incapacitate an attacker for at least 10 seconds.  It’s easy to carry and use and is traditionally sold in small canisters.  It can also be made to look like an ordinary object such as a lipstick case.  This self-defense product is excellent as a holiday gift especially for women, teens, seniors and those with physical disabilities.

Diversion safes
Burglars are after one thing – your valuables.  These include cash, jewelry, family heirlooms and other valuables.  A very functional but out-of-the way self-defense product is the diversion safe.

It’s actually a safe that is built to look like an ordinary, everyday object.  Designs include a functioning wall clock, a book, a flower pot or even a bottle of cleanser.  Valuables can be kept safely inside to prevent any criminal from taking an interest.  If they see nothing worth stealing, they’re less likely to try to attack.

Home security system
For high-end holiday gifts, why not the latest in home security systems?  A whole system usually includes security cameras, a CCTV monitor and sensors.  Most packages come with recording devices for documentation purposes.  A home security system is the perfect holiday gift idea for newly weds, a son or daughter renting their first apartment or a couple who’s recently bought their own home.  It may be expensive but the cost is really nothing if you think about the lives it can protect and help save.

No, not only old English houses can have book safes, you can have one in your modern pad, too. So how do book safes work? Really smart homeowners who would to protect their precious belongings would be raving about the ingenuity of these diversion safes. There are book safes that are made from real books -mostly these are hardback books with centers that are hollowed out where you can store your valuables. Lined with velvet material, the interior is deep enough so that jewelry and some cash will fit in these book safes. So how do you use such safety product? You simply have to flip a few pages and open the lid and then you can put your valuables inside it. Just close it and display it in your shelf. Now if you have a big library, please remember which book is this so you don’t get tired checking all of your books.

A book safe is also one great gift idea, don’t you think?

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