How To Keep Your Cash And Other Valuable Safe At Festivals.

How To Keep Your Cash And Other Valuable Safe At Festivals.

In UK, festival season strikes very commonly, which now upon us and it’s time to have that last minute packing panic. It’s very ordinary to worry about losing your valuables in the mud, to thieves and through drunken antics.

Luckily, theft is very rare at festivals, only handful will fall victim to theft out of around 10,000 people. Opportunities are everywhere, as a festival-goer you should make it difficult for thieves to get these opportunities to get to you. Here are our tips & tricks on how to keep your valuables safe at music festivals.

How To Deter Tent Thieves

Most of the people who attend festivals, their primary motive of it is to have fun and enjoy with family and friends, due to which tent theft is really rare at festivals. However opportunities are everywhere. Leaving cash or valuable in your tents is not a good idea, it’s much safer to keep them on your person. Padlocking your tent might seem like an effective security measure, but it is actually the opposite. It notify thieves that there must be something worth stealing thus padlocking your tent is not advisable.

Spread Everything Out

Don’t make it easy for the thieves to come in your tent and just swipe a bag and run by keeping stuff in organized way. Rather leave your tent in a complete mess and spread your valuables in different places. For example keep some cash in your wash, some in your socks, some in your pillowcase, some in a bag of dirty clothes, etc, which will lessen the chances of losing all the valuables.

Make Friends With Your Neighbors

Once you are done with placing your tent at your desired location, make sure to get yourself introduce with your neighbors and become friends with them as soon as possible, which will make your trip more excited and will be helpful for security. If there is any suspicious person standing near your tent or your neighbor’s tent so you can ask them some friendly questions and tell him that you are doubtful. Your tent can do same for you in your absence.

Don’t be smug

People usually go back to their tents late night in a drunken state, taking out their clothes and throwing it anywhere in a tent. When they wake up in morning they are not able to find their clothes and as well as their ID cards, electronic gadgets and other valuables. In order to avoid this, ensure that you keep all your valuable safely before sleeping. Same goes for handbags or backpacks, empty them before you go to sleep and also when you go in huge crowd make sure to keep your belongings in front pocket of your bags or in some hidden pockets of your bags to keep them safe from thieves.

“Sorry! Wrong Tent!”

This actually happens a lot, maybe it’s a genuine mistake, but who knows. Imagine yourself waking up in morning and seeing a stranger sleeping in your tent or some stranger disturbs your sleep by trying to climb inside. If a tent owner wakes up, stranger will just say “SORRY” and will move to other potential victim. It is because usually people buys tents from local stores where there is sale on tents, which increase the provision of having same tents and then facing such kind of issues.

To avoid such problem you should put a unique flag outside your tent or keep a torch close to you while sleeping, so if someone tries to step in you can shine this on his/her face and signal them to move out.

Other ways to protect valuables

·         Get insurance for your valuable if it is so much important for you.

·         Report all incidents to the police about the stolen item so they might help you finding your asset.

·         Check the festival’s lost property policy as festival will likely have lost property policy, many items are recovered and returned to their owner.

Get Creative

You can attach something noisy with your zips inside the tent, such as empty beer cans, which can be attach through strings using ring pulls, working like a makeshift intruder alarm, so if someone tries to enter it make loud enough noise to wake you or deter an intruder.

You can also keep bottles outside your tent door under the mats provided by white duck outdoors along with tents, so if in case someone try to enter in the tent these bottle will make sound that will alert you before he/she steals your valuable.