7 Tips to Protect Your Valuables

• Having photos, videos, and serial numbers of your valuables can be extremely helpful in identifying stolen goods.
• Permanently mark your valuables with your driver's license.
• Keep important papers, valuable jewelry and large amounts of cash in a safety deposit box.
• When you purchase new electronic equipment, do not advertise it. Break down cartons before discarding in your trash.
• To keep your tools from being stolen, paint the handles. Thieves avoid items that are easy to identify.
• Photocopy receipts of expensive items and store them in a safe place so you have proof of purchase for insurance reasons.
• For pricey heirlooms get series about securing them. Invest in an appraiser to have firm dollar figure for your valuables. Then catalog and investigate a product like "DataDots" which records identification information on an adhesive the size of a grain of sand.