Protecting your coins

[V4Vendettas]

After 4 months I forgot my bitcoin password.....  Let me tell you that day sucked hard.
Finally cracked it but it took tons of beer.
True story

[cypherdoc]

problem is, there's never just one pw.  there's always multiple pw's in your head and then you may be constantly changing them.  you're bound to forget.

[RoloTonyBrownTown]

Im getting to the point where i have so many coins im starting to worry about them. Im wondering what you guys do to protect yours. I have mine spread around. Some in deepbit, some in MTgox, a few different wallets, on several hard drives, and USB sticks. But despite all that im still concerned with their safety. Is there anything else i can do to play it safe?

This is exactly why I made Armory Offline Wallets. 

And this is exactly why I've started to use Armory    

[bbit]

OP: any chance you've obtained your sudden windfall of bitcoins buy stealing them from Bitcoinica & Slush & the faucet?  

Be NICE if all our education back in June about protecting wallets would have applied to all the ^^ above.  

[bitplane]

I'm using a wallet stored in multiple encrypted containers with enormous but memorable passwords. My main concern is losing access to the wallet, so I have a copy on my phone, laptop, desktop, flash drives, dropbox and email.

I'll eventually move to some other system where I have a single private key stored in stashes rather than wallet files, but I've not done this yet because never unencrypting my stash is the best way to keep it safe.