You have been watching it since 2010 and never had any? If so, that's sad, however in the BTC world the most important thing is to read about security of your funds. If you underestimate that, you can get into big troubles.
I actually purchased my first coins in late 2012
I've seen many paper wallet projects and concepts here, but I trust the system engineers and network guys at Mt.Gox, bitpay, walletbit and coinbase