Kitchen Found To Be Place To Keep Valuables

Your car keys, wallet, and handbag – these are some of the most valuable items in your home but isn’t it always the way that they are often treated as less than that. Slung into corners and abandoned these items should really be treated with more respect. Apparently many of us even keep such things in the kitchen.

People in the UK regularly keep some of their most important items and information in the kitchen, it has been found. According to research by a well known high street investment company, the room is often the place where Britons put their keys, post and mobile phones.

It may be that a person's identity and finances are at risk if a thief were to target this specific area of a home, something which may cause people to consider upping their home insurance policies and their security. Young families may be particularly vulnerable to this, as the firm revealed that over 8 out of ten people used the kitchen to store some of their most valuable information.

"Leaving personal, often valuable, possessions on display could increase the risk of burglary and theft," commented head of communications at the company.

Top 10 items left in the British kitchen:

•    Keys 43%
•    Post 42%
•    Mobile phone / PDA 38%
•    Medicines 29%
•    Specs / sunglasses 26%
•    Loose change 26%
•    Wallet / purse 25%
•    Handbag 20%
•    Bank statements and other information with personal details or financial details 16%
•    Credit cards 11%

The recent period of prosperity enjoyed by British home owners in the last decade, and the rise of a consumer culture, has led individuals to accumulate more valuable personal possessions including home digital equipment (from flat screen televisions to iPods), jewellery, watches and fine art. Wealthy homeowners who invest in collectibles are likely to be targeted by thieves.

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