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I leave my carry pistol on the nightstand next to me at night. Otherwise it is on my person.
If I have to leave it in the truck to go into a "posted" location, I take the slide stop out and with me. Pistol is disabled - can't be fired, so it really is not a pistol any more, it is a slide that will fall off the frame if picked up.

Long story - nobody is making you read this, so if it is a waste of time, you wasted it, I didn't.

Years ago when my wife and I lived near San Jose, CA, there was a very nasty criminal known as the "night stalker" loose - in Southern CA but there are nice roads there, he could show up anywhere.
I kept a loaded .357 mag Ruger Security Six in my dresser drawer in the bedroom. Did not take it to work - no carry there, too much hassle, it was safe in the drawer, nobody was supposed to be in the bedroom but my wife and me.

"Supposed" is slippery. One day I came home from work and my wife and the neighbor lady were in the kitchen having coffee. Neighbor kid - neighbor lady's daughter, about 8 years old, was loose in the house, playing with the cats.
She could easily have gone in the bedroom, started snooping (just a kid, kids are inquisitive) and found that loaded revolver.

She didn't.

No harm - but in my mind it was a lucky break.

Since then I make it a point to never assume "nobody will get to it" - innocent things can spiral out of control, and before you know it, you're saying things like, "Oh no! If I'd only done thus and such, none of this would have happened!"

Edited to add: All my other guns are locked up. My wife tends to her little Smith, she knows were it is and how to use it, not my business - buy all my guns are secured.