find your best hiding spot, consider giving yourself extra protection by placing a fake, smaller stash somewhere slightly more obvious. If you're hiding money from burglars, keep $100 in your sock drawer. If you're hiding secret photos or documents, stash some fake ones that will lead your enemy spy off the trail. Personal Finance Advice also notes that if you write "Bank Safe Deposit Box" on your valuables, they will assume you're the type of person that keeps their money stash elsewhere and move along. Photo by Valerie Everett . Remember, if you're storing something long-term, you can't go wrong getting a safe. Security through obscurity can only be so good, but combined with a quality, bolted-down safe, you can rest assured that your average burglar isn't going to try to get into it unless they have a personal vendetta. Their main goal is to get in and out as fast as possible. This post is part of Spy Week, a series at Lifehacker where we look at ways to improvise solutions to every day problems Bond-style. Want more? Check out our spy week tag page . .