<p>Hide the medication in a big bottle of vitamins.
Works for me.</p>
<p>Just be sure your meds won’t react with the vitamens–your pharmacist might be able to make some suggestins about which supplements/vitamens won’t react. It is sad that some will steal meds of others but it is reality. :(</p>
<p>i believe this one of the reasons the one at the bank exists.</p>
<p>my daughter has been away at school 6 days and yesterday her new roommate stole her debit card and clothing items from their room while my daughter was next door. For all u people who think this doesn’t happen well I can tell u it does. Talk to the campus police, this is an everyday occurrence on every campus. We will now invest in a safe with the safety cord attached to hopefully prevent this in the future. Just glad her laptop was safe. U cant trust anyone.</p>
<p>yea definitely get something to lock up your valuables in. </p>
<p>It may not be your roommate, but other people he/she invites in. Or when the door gets left open and random people come in. A friend got TWO laptops (you think he’d learn) stolen last year from his room.</p>
<p>However, I don’t see a need for a safe.<br>
I recommend a nice file cabinet with a lock. (HON makes some nice ones)</p>
<p>Why did lgbotkin sign up with CC to revive an old thread as her first post?</p>
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<p>Yeah, we especially don’t trust people that type “U” and have 1 post.</p>
<p>^And who type “U” but are old enough to have a daughter who went to college. :\ C’mon. It’s two more keystrokes. </p>
<p>Also, I know it’s an old thread, but for anyone who reads it (not likely) I just have small metal lockbox, with a cord, and I attach the cord to my bed. Fits things like jewelery, social security card, all the little valuable things I have. I also have a lockable drawer, but unfortunately my dresser space is very limited this year, and I need to use it for clothing.</p>
<p>So far, our kids are keeping with KEEP IT OUT OF SIGHT plan and feel embarrassed about locking things up (D had a locking desk drawer last year but I don’t think she used it). S & his room mate are pretty good about knowing the people who go to their apartment (hopefully he won’t leave things unattended at the gym any more). Don’t quite know the situation for D but she and her room mates are pretty aware that theft is a crime of opportunity & don’t want to be victims. We shall see.</p>
<p>It’s not so much high$$ items right now as it is for food.</p>
<p>These kids keep taking my tv dinners. the lean cuisine ones too.<br>
and at $3 a pop, it’s getting annoying and expensive.</p>
<p>any suggestions when it comes to food and suite-style living?</p>
<p>My bf’s fridge has a lock. :P</p>
<p>Bringing back this thread,
Having a laptop is a large reason why I am considering a safe, (obviously can’t take it everywhere). What do most students do to secure their laptops in their dorm?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry what your roommate thinks of you.</p>
<p>Before I got to college, I also worried about every trivial thing. Now that we’re actually here, I couldn’t imagine why something like “my roommate thinking I’m paranoid” would be a serious issue. Don’t take yourself too seriously. </p>
<p>Anyway, if you really are “paranoid” about having your stuff stolen, bring the safe. It will offer you much more peace of mind. Your roommate won’t care and if she does, then she just might be a little insecure as well. Remember that people are usually pretty reasonable.</p>
<p>I don’t lock up or hide my things and neither does my roommate. I brought a lock for my laptop and never found myself using it except for at the beginning of the year. I do know, however, that one of the dorms here comes with a locked drawer in every room, so obviously people over there use them and it’s not weird.</p>
<p>[edit]: Didn’t realize this thread was so old. Anyway, for the previous poster, just get a laptop lock if you’re really worried. Personally, I rarely use mine and a lot of people I know will even lay them around the dorms in public (not recommended). I’ve never heard of a case of a stolen laptop. But, for the sake of peace of mind, you might want to lock it up.</p>
<p>Aaron: Uh, lock their door? Unless you live on the first floor or have major roommate concerns, I don’t see why you would need to do much else.</p>
<p>You can buy a laptop lock, and I’ve seen people use those (I would probably get one if I lived on the first floor), but a safe for a laptop? Seems overkill. Especially because if they wanted the safe they could probably just pick it up and go. I doubt you’re spending the money for *that *big of a safe, and you can’t bolt it down in your room. If they got in to your room through your open door, it won’t be that hard to get out. Even if you’re talking specifically about a laptop safe. </p>
<p>If you want to prevent theft, keep in mind you’re generally looking to prevent casual theft in a dorm. Things that are easy to pick up and go, and fast. Typically if you lock your door you can prevent that. At my university the only people that campus reported getting robbed in the dorms were the students that went to sleep with their doors unlocked. There was one case where a room was broken in to on the first floor and laptops were stolen (with the sleeping occupants inside), but that’s pretty rare. If you would rather be safe than sorry, I don’t see why a simple laptop lock properly used wouldn’t do the trick. Just use it when you’re sleeping or out of the room or whatever.</p>
<p>We also have lockable drawers at my university. That’s also an option, since it’s somewhat hard to quickly and quietly get in to a locked drawer. I thought I would use it, however, and I never did.</p>
<p>i have a mini-fridge with a lock. Not a place for important documents of course. Which is why i put my really confidential papers/things in my trunk. They (usually) won’t mess with my car. And if they do it has BMW assist ;]</p>
<p>Wow, you’re the opposite of me & everyone I know. Most of us don’t want to have anything of value in our trunk, since folks are known to pop them to steal things out of them.
Have not heard of a locking mini-fridge. Mostly, my kids try not to keep things of value with them & leave them with us at home (we can mail it to them if/when they need things).</p>
<p>I was planning on bringing a safe to college, but I wasn’t sure if that was too much either. I’m glad I came across this topic. I was also planning on putting a lock on my closet (depending on the rooming situation and if that’d be possible). I don’t know though. I have trust issues, and since I won’t know the person I will be rooming with in the future, I will probably end up doing something similar to this.</p>
<p>Just reading this thread reinforces the fact that I should live alone when I transfer.</p>
<p>Yes I will certainly lock my door, however the dorms I will most likely be in have a shared bathroom, therefore if my neighbors don’t lock their door, our room is exposed as well. I have seen small safes that attach to a bed. A lock for a laptop is probably most practical. Thanks for the responses.</p>
<p>A locking file cabinet is also useful. For our kids, we always advised them to keep their laptops out of sight. That has really worked well for them, since many crimes are those of opportunity. The one theft which S experienced was when he left his wallet & cell phone unattended on a bench at the U gym when when he went to the bathroom. My D also had the cable stolen off her bike–not the lock or bike, just the cable. I guess they correctly figured it was the most valuable item (she has a really clunker bike).</p>