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How To Hide Your Valuables - Keeping Your Stuff Safe!

There are many natural hiding places in and around your home to conceal your valuables. Some of these places are even good enough to fool a seasoned professional. While the best recommendation is to keep your valuables in a safety deposit box in your bank, that isn’t always an option for one reason or another.

The following are some of the prime hiding spaces for your valuables. Some of these ideas involve rather extensive and invasive work to implement, while others are quick fixes — it all depends on your needs, the level of threat to the security of your possessions, and the value you place on your property. Other factors to consider is how long do you need a hiding space for? Do you just need to hide something while you go on holidays? Or do you need a permanent solution?

In any case, keep the ultimate location of your hiding spots your personal secret!

Secret Stash: The Best Places To Hide Your Valuables
In The Yard

There are some bullet proof ways to hide things outside your home on your property so that your possessions are safe from others. One method is called cache tubes.

Using cache tubes involves getting some 6″ to 8″ PVC drain tubing several feet long, with two threaded end caps. Your stash can be placed in several plastic baggies, and then the end caps can be epoxied in place, or sealed with extreme pressure wheel bearing grease, both of which are also available at your local hardware store. This type of tubing, made out of PVC,is strong enough to withstand most natural elements, such as corrosives, salts and water. All one has to do, is to use a common pot hole digger to create a good hole to bury the tube.

Another way might be to hide things in hollowed out legs of patio furniture, or metal garden furniture legs, or even the hollow legs of a child’s swingset. Again, put your valuables in several layers of plastic baggies.

In The Kitchen

The kitchen has some of the most accessible, natural hiding spots. Take for instance a large flour bin; your goods could be hidden in baggies and buried deep within. Or take an old packaging from frozen food and place your goods in there, and then re-glue the box. Hide that deep in the bottom of your chest freezer. Most people wouldn’t expect a box of frozen breaded liver to contain anything of worth.

In The Hallways

Consider burying small items in the bottom of potted plants, again, concealed in waterproof plastic containers, such as small aspirin bottles. If you have those sectional plastic shelves, you are in luck, as they have hollow parts as well which are perfect for hiding small items. Consider creating a few fake light switch boxes or fake electrical receptacles, they are also good spots.

In The Rooms

Do you have furniture that will allow for secret panels to be created in them? It might be possible to build some secret compartments in your sofa, end tables, chairs, or bookshelves. Forget about hiding anything under your bed though, in most break and enters where the home is ransacked, the burglars will turn the mattresses upside down looking for hidden items.

What about building a hidden empty spot behind one of the mirrors in the home? A mirror could conceal a hollow hiding spot quite nicely!

Again, if you seal a tiny item in a small, plastic waterproof container, you might be able to hide it in the gravel in your fishtank, or toilet bowl.

What about air conditioning ducts? If you have some ducts, you could put things in them that are not sensitive to temperatures.

What about building a hollow behind a portion of baseboard in your home? There is another option, since baseboards are so universal in every room of the house, they are natural hiding places.

Cutting away a small part of the drywall and making a hiding space which is later covered with wallpaper could be a good idea, provided that it is on a part of the wall where nobody is likely to touch the wall. Say higher up, near the ceiling might do the trick.

Making a book safe is a another old trick. Simply take a big, hardbound book and glue the pages together. Then use a drill to create some starter holes and then use a coping saw to cut out a rectangular section where some important things could be hidden. Glue this rectangular section to the back cover of the book.

If making candles interests you, you could even hide some things inside a homemade candle!

Pretty much any container or package can be uses to hide something. There are a number of “decoy safes” or “diversion safes” on the market that look like common everyday household items, such as fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, light switches, peanut butter jars, flower pots, lamps, etc.

How NOT To Hide Valuables!

By far the worst places to hide anything in your home are: closets, dresser drawers, night table, under mattresses, inside old clothes, or jewelry boxes. These are the first points of interest for any burglar.

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