Safety tips for your luggages

How safe are your stuffs when you fly? In the past years, there have been stories of passengers losing their baggage on flights and airline employees pilfering. You don’t have to be paranoid and suspicious every moment of your trip; start out by trusting everyone, but don’t make it easy for anyone.

Perhaps the most important thing to know is this: the best thieves don’t steal stuffs that will be missed any time soon. They want you to figure it out when you get to your hotel room a few time zones away. We have come up with a few simple tips which might not protect everything you take with you but will protect the things that matter most.

All in One Place
Before you leave the house, put your most important stuffs in one place, and never lose track of it. The benefit of having a single, dedicated location for valuables becomes obvious when you don’t have to rifle your bags to figure out if your wallet is missing, or your boarding pass, or your driver’s license, or your medication, etc.

Say it Loud
When you tell the guy checking you at the airport “This has my wallet, my ID and my watch,” and ‘potential thieves’ hear you say it and see you put it down, they may be less likely to try to take something.

Bury Your Wallet and Cash in Your Carry-On
Once you board the plane, you will have no need for your wallet and cash, as few airlines still accept cash payment for things like food, drinks or (unbelievably) pillows and blankets. Bury these so deeply in your carry-on bag where no one would ever find them.

Bag inside bag
Pack a small bag inside your larger bag in case you are forced to check your carry- on. This way you can take your most valuable (and most easily stolen) items, and put them in a small bag you can keep at your feet if necessary.

Don’t lose sight of your valuables
Anything you really care about, wear it! You’ve heard the saying “You’ll get it when you pry it from my dead hands” — we all hope and pray it doesn’t come to that, but for your most valuable things, this should be a phrase to, well, live by. If you don’t want to lose it, wear it.