I want to make a note regarding the bathroom as a place to hide things. I have a family member who has gone to rehab multiple times. They have stolen money, guns, prescription medicine, and anything with any value over $50 from the family. If you have a person like that in your family, the bathroom is a BAD place to hide anything. Pills are often kept in the bathroom, and the bathroom has a level of privacy to it that allows somebody to turn the room upside down under the excuse of "I shouldn't have had taco bell last night". Avoid the bathroom as a storage location. Especially if you live in a family or neighborhood with addicts. It is often the first, if not only room searched by such people. I speak from experience.
Develop your own alphabet or code, then have some hidden instructions near hiding spots. Only you know what it means, and it could go unnoticed by intruders as just some weird decorations.
I used to hide $ in zip bags under the cat box. My ex husband wouldn't change a cat box if his life depended on it! LOL At least money stopped disappearing from my purse and pockets.
I have rolled up Manny $100 bills and put inside large tubes of toothpaste $1,000 in each. Then put them on the floor of a junk room to collect dust. I don't think many people will pick up dirty tubes of toothpaste
Old saying... "Three may keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead.". Tell nobody anything about your prepping. Not even your own kids if they are young, they do not understand the concept of loose lips. You are asking for trouble if you do.
I tell people on the net, but when it goes down you'll never find me. Store preps in several locations. The people might think they've hit jackpot and leave not knowing you have some sort of time capsule buried in the back yard. Precious metals are even easier than people think to hide, and no, I won't tell you the huge vase in the living room to keep them in. Just for a good example. You can also get something like a dummy book and put it in with a pile of books. Amazing how things in plain view are overlooked.
No violence needed...I'll help them carry my meaningless stuff out of my house...do me a favor...and with the price of gas right now(2021) ...they can take the truck to!! LoL
I live in the desert, so water would be the most critical resource in an emergency situation and storing enough is a space issue when you don't have a basement. I bought a bed for my guestroom that has a high under-bed clearance with a very thin box spring to make up the difference. I can store over a hundred gallons of water there. That also frees up space in my kitchen for food storage.
Little off topic but wanted to make parallel point. For those of us who can legally carry a pistol, I highly encourage you to carry one around your house. It seems strange at first but as a former LEO who’s responded to many home invasion calls, I can attest that the 12 gauge in the upstairs closet does you little good when your napping on your downstairs couch when the front door is kicked in. I carry a little pocket pistol when I’m around the house. Smaller than my formal EDC but a lot more comfortable and it’s on me when I need it.
001 002 totally agree just a solid door is a must but I’m not always inside. I could be doing yard work or taking out the trash. Hiding guns around the house isn’t an option for me with a meddling toddler.
My house was robbed once, and I didn't even know it until three weeks later. The cops told me, most robberies are like that, they rummage through stuff looking for wads of cash, atm, ect, then they put everything back into place after they find what they want, so you don't even know you were robbed. But the cop gave me some great advice, he said to take a current, valid credit card, or atm, then call your card company, or bank and tell them you lost your wallet. Bank will deactivate card, yet that card will still have a valid date on it so thief thinks the card is good. Take that card, or cards and leave them out where a thief would find it immediately, they'll grab it, be happy and be on their way. The cops also said, a lot of times, when they can't find anything valuable, they get pissed and trash the house, start flipping things, so this is also a good way to give them motive to take your bogus cards and get out quickly without being pissed off.
Two houses ago, my husband installed a false back in one of our deep closets, wish we had that now. Don't know if the new owners ever figured that out as we forgot to tell them. Closet was still deep so it was not noticeable at all!
Many preppers have been told to build a network. So, you talk to your "neighbors" and you get one of two responses. "Oh we don't have to do that, the government will take care of everyone. And it's illegal to "hoard". Or you get this response "Well, now we know where to go and get what we need from your place. And if you resist, we'll call the authorities about a hoarder." So, what good are your preps? How well can you hide them from the authorities? I gave up on "neighbors" a long time ago. But in a cul-de-sac of 10 homes, it will be a mess defending our property, regardless of how well we may have hidden it. I wish the "network" people had been shut up a LONG time ago. Prep in quiet privacy, and tell your neighbors "Oh, the government will take care of us." Then quietly and securely go about your hidden preps. I enjoy your channel.
Yes, I live in the desert and I really don’t have all that much prepped, but I have about 20 gallons of tap water in recycled bottles for toilet flushing... my daughter in laws grandmother came over and when I told her what they were for , she thought I was crazy. I told her that only a few weeks prior my area actually lost water for two solid days... I told her I would like to at least flush toilet during times like that, but she just doesn’t even get that. I hope she has to deal with that someday... although she has a pool and could fill up containers for flushing for a long time
@ you make a good point... great way to identify the potential leanings of a person... but, a lot of times people who are left in one way are right in another actually, so be careful about judging others so narrowly
@@OfftoShambala It is part of both Agenda 21, or known today as Agenda 20/30. People are NOT permitted to grow their own food and I have seen several cases on different channels where this has happened. Also, under FEMA rules and in times of Martial Law, ANY and ALL food, petrol, water, medicines etc, BELONG to FEMA and any government agency can collect on their behalf. This is why shows like Doomsday Preppers were stupid for the participants to disclose their preps. They have preppers addresses and WILL return to take it. We really need to be careful who to disclose this to.
I have at least a half dozen places on my property (10+ acres) that I have hidden caches of various items. A hand-dug underground bunker that I built myself, complete with storage, bunks, ventilation, etc... Solar panels and banks of batteries, voltage regulators, power inverters. All this aside from the six different locations I can bugout to, if need be.
While my grandmother was on her death bed she told my mom all her hiding spots. After she died, they sold everything & the house. The new owner told the neighbor that they found $300 in an old paint can under the basement steps.😳
I like the false prize approach. For example, I’ll leave a hundred bucks in mostly small bills out on the kitchen counter (but out of site of a window of course) and leave inexpensive jewelry out on the dresser etc. When burglars break in, you want them to get the mental satisfaction of a quick easy win so they don’t keep looking and ransacking your home as much. They get the cash and jewelry you “left out” and their mind starts to move on to escaping before it’s too late. It’s just an idea, and certainly not always going to work. But if I were a burglar and didn’t find anything at all, I’d probably get frustrated and break lots of stuff looking.
I made a business making stashes and reinforcing houses against criminals. Unfortunately criminals took over a place and the police couldn't get in. Then they passed a new law here in Quebec next time they come across my work, or similar security, they are allowed to use small explosives. I made chain link doors so people cannot kick them in so the police tried shooting the links. True story. I use old electric fuse box panels to hide stuff behind. Nobody is going to touch high voltage especially if there are bare wires sticking out
If you have chain link fence, pop the metal cap off the post and you'll have that entire hollow post to hide money, ammo, knives etc. Pick one that's in the shade of course. NO one's going to run around your yard in plain sight popping off the post caps looking for stuff. Also, yard decorations like bird baths with a hollow pedestal, bird houses (great for security cameras too!), And fake flower boxes. If you have chickens, make a fake nest box with a box underneath the hay. Ain't nobody looking there!
@@freedomspromise8519 Try PVC pipe capped on both ends.Helps keep things dry add a couple little dry pack's out of vitamin bottles.Don't throw those little dry bags you get out of just about everything these days.They come in handy for ammo boxes in your safe even food containers.They help keep things dry no mold on food from moisture or rust on your ammo or guns.They are free why not put them to good use.
Love the chicken idea I have a 12"× 10 ft space behind my coop where my children can go to hide.if need be.while grandma takes care of business!@ Montana
I once lived in an apartment with two small closets. Someone had installed drop ceilings in both to create hiding spots that were about four inches in depth. I only discovered them when trying to store a surfcasting rod and triggered one to open. Nothing in them but always thought it was a great idea.
I live in an apartment so I'm limited in ways to hide my prepper supplies . The best idea I have is shoe bones I have several pairs of shoes for each season, and I simply keep the boxes. I found that most people just think they have shoes. Another option for me is to hide items inside the closet. I keep my out of season clothes in plastic storage boxes, and I hide some of my items in with the clothes. Thank you for sharing this important information.
I use old paint cans in the garage to store small electronics and various other items. I leave the label on the paint can and I only use cans that look old and look messy. As an added bonus they are nice little Faraday cages.
@@AlishaM349 thats basically it. You can add padding inside so they dont get damaged but other than that no. Make sure they are well enclosed and your done.
Truckload of likes on the faraday effect. People tend to ignore the fact that an EMP is one of the more likely scenarios because it can come from two directions. Either a high-altitude nuclear blast or a coronal mass ejection from the Sun. The sun put off an EMP in the 1800's that destroyed the entire Telegraph system here and in Europe so I just double the odds of that being what happens to screw up our society
Here in Brazil, if you have a beach house, you will either pay someone to watch over it or see that burglars will take even things like food, toilets (not toilet seats, the whole toilet), kitchen sinks, external pipes, lamps, fuse boxes, beds and mattresses. It's not even uncommon for people to leave behind poisoned food for burglars.
I had two bushes removed from my sidewalk up to my house and on a dark corner that also blocked the window. I don’t put things near my windows doors patios or my yard, that anyone can hide behind. Yes I am trying to mimic the Fort Knox “wide open spaces” idea. I also started doing this when I became a mom and reviewed my security again, when I became a single female mother with 2 kids. I had a crazy BF that would enter my apt (yrs ago) so I would lay brooms in weird spots that no one would think a broom should be (trip them up 😆). The officers had me put tape on the window seals where it couldn’t be easily noticed and baby powder on the floors. I set traps so I will know if someone has been here or is still here. I installed exterior door locks on the doors inside as another layer to buy precious seconds. I like to go outside, when it’s super dark, and look in and around my house, to see what others can see, from the road, the height of my curtains or open spots (like when the curtains are wrinkled and don’t cover fully). I like to see my weak spots so I can address them.
Drop the ceiling in your bedroom (or any room) with 2x6s lumber on their edge, then use screws to fasten 1" tongue and groove material across the the 2x6s. Depending on how you attach the lumber, (I recommend a rim joist screwed to wall studs, and joists attached with joist hangers) you can store hundreds of canned or freeze dried items in this space and access it when the time comes simple by removing a few screws. Not only is it good storage but it helps insulate your home and if the grid goes in winter time, this dead ceiling space will be the last area in your home to drop below freezing, preventing frozen canned goods. I had a friend who did this and had she never shared her secret I would have never noticed the alteration. Good, dry ammo/ gun storage as well. Btw, if you have a second story home or a basement you can simple screw the tongue and groove material across existing joists.
Check out those motion sensing outdoor lights. They turn on automatically when there's movement. A lot of intruders will think someone's at home and probably abandon their breakin plans. A lot of thse motion sensing lights are also available with solar power. So even if your main switches are off, they will still work at night.
I have my stuff hidden in a gun safe inside a refrigerator behind a false wall, in a crawlspace in the attic of an underground shack inside a cave under a Native American burial mound on a piece of land that is owned by multi-layer foreign corporation which I keep paperwork for inside my speedo.
Potted plants, large jars or small fish bowls filled with decorative marbles (just submerge your items in the middle where they can't be seen), low lying kitchen cupboards (preferably a larger corner cupboard) inside of an 18 or 19 inch oval roaster pushed all the way to the back. A lot of couches have dead space underneath or within them. You can actually build various storage implements inside of your couch, which can be packed tight with items until they are needed. I could go on an on, but I'll stop there.
Jewelry can be stored inside a freezer container then stored inside the freezer just like a container of beans. If it’s something that won’t be hurt by water, such as gold or gemstones, you can actually add water to the container and really freeze the container. Watches can be stored inside rice or dry beans. I used to do a class called Kitchen Table Economics, in which I advised people to freeze their credit cards this way, inside a container of ice. They would have to wait until the container thawed out before they could use the card. Back then you actually had to swipe the card when you charged things! Ah, those were the days!
I keep a shotgun and mosin nagant in a non- operational water heater in my basement. Its probably THE MOST improbable place anyone would look in. There is so much space for firearms, ammo, cash.... Its bolted down and has a dehumidifier. I really encourage people to use something like this.
Chris Hall .. Brilliant advice.. my Dad's shed was broken into, many years ago, and the thieves stole tonnes of his gear. The police tracked down the stolen gear because Dad supplied the cops with the serial numbers. So @John Taylor it does work!!!
Electronic home security systems can be used against you, especially if it depends on wifi. Things like brinks, ring video doorbell, etc. are dangerous. Unplug or destroy google home, alexa, or anything that can monitor your home.
I learned the hard way all things can be hacked. I would never have wifi system. I would never use a smart tv. It can be hacked. And those brinks type people can be compromised. My worldly opinion shaped by my real world circumstances that nearly killed me. I have an old tv and wired security.
Here is a true little experience we had with our "Alexa": my nephew was visiting and we had thrown a whole bunch of trivia questions at Alexa just to see what answers we'd be getting. After a while, we were just having conversations among us when my nephew mentioned that Alexa's light ring was still circulating. Jokingly I asked her, "Alexa, are you spying on us?" Lo and behold she answered, "That is not a very nice question! Of course, I would not do that!" I believe the looks on our faces were priceless and needless to say that Alexa was immediately unplugged, boxed up, and removed from our home!
@@ninetails6218 they had a theif on, she was really good. She said 10mins. In & out. She didn't know of anyone who trashed a place , other than just looking for stuff. She did say there was a difference in drug theives & theives that are professional. Drug theives are crazy & don't follow the instructions & usually get caught for being stupid. Best wishes
I've hidden things in my fridge: ziplock bags taped to the bottom of the produce drawer. Also, frozen veggie bags or the old frozen spinach box work well too.
Okay, not that I would ever use one, but, you made me think of creating a large space under one of many raised bed gardens. Would blend right in & be walked right past.
My brother-in-law knew a guy who when he upgraded his gun safe used the old one as a decoy. He had left only one old gun and a few metal bars to give it weight he added some dye they use at work to check welds or something at work. A few years after just when his wife was bugging him to get ride of it they had a burglary and they took the safe. He told the police about the dye and they checked out the local grubbies (surprise they already had a criminal record) and were able to make an arrest. (Good thing he had one firearm in the safe added time to their sentences)
When my house was robbed, years ago, they pulled off couch cushions, shoved the mattress half off the base, swiped everything on the closet top shelf to the floor, emptied the dresser drawers, generally made a huge mess looking for valuables. They even left the dishwasher door open. I had recently bought a beautiful new jewelry box. It looked kinda like a cigar humidor. It sat on my dresser, it held my "real" pieces. Next to it was my old jewelry box, pretty glass front panels, full of costume jewelry. The stupid robbers took most of the costume stuff from the old box, but never touched the new one. I was so grateful. Some of the valuable pieces were irreplaceable. It gets better. On one side of our bed we had a traditional nightstand. The drawers were pulled out, lying on the floor. On my side was a round table with a floor length cloth draped over it. They didn't touch the table - or the gun underneath. So we had jewelry and a handgun in the most obvious places. They tore up the house, and missed it all. Best to you and yours.
When you have a rambling house full of doodads, trinkets, plants & animals there's plenty of places to store/hide all kinds of things in plain site. The Adam's family home & the Winchester House are good examples.
Actually happened. A classmate announced on Facebook that she and her husband were going on vacation at a resort beach. When she returned her whole house was burglarized.
If you have some land, or know a patch of public forest, i use 4" and 6" diameter ABS pipe, with glue on Cleanout caps. use a ice auger or a post hole shovel to bury these in places you mark on a map, and/or use your GPS to mark points where you stashed these. If you have something that can corrode, fill the ABS pipe with mineral oil - i did this to stash a knock-down 22. it will never corrode. Don't put thinks together that don't need to be, i stored the ammo in a separate area from the 22. If someone finds one tube, that doesn't actually help them likely. i have other ones filled with Salt, sugar, rice etc - i put these in vac sealed bags first, then put the bags into the tubes. With a good length of auger, and an extension, i have some tubes up to 6 feet long, which is half a length of ABS pipe. I hide a few of these along a fence line, using the real fence posts to "hide" the ABS pipe below, i use these ones for winter accessible - i will know exactly where to dig. and burning the post will assist in accessing the tube. Some piles of flat stones on top of other ABS capped tubes is an easy way to have winter access. Just my technique since i have a lot of land.
Jan Hollon It happens! I was helping my cousin pack for moving. She took down a large painting and found two twenties she had stashed in the frame for emergency money. It paid for our pizza.
Alzheimers isn't funny mate ,get what you're saying but my mum has it and it's a living he'll for the ppl who look after her (me) and her of course) my memory's shite too ,I lose my keys at least once a day😞
If you are building a cabin as a bug out location, and you have some privacy during construction, rent a small excavator (presumably for levelling the foundation) and dig a big enough hole for a 500 gallon septic/water tank under the foundation. It is big enough to stand up in and will store a lot of supplies in a dry environment. It could also double as an emergency hide. Put a hidden trap door in the cabin floor for access. A lot of homes have recessed pot lights that easily remove for maintenance. Simply put supplies above the ceiling gyprock/plasterboard, using the hole for the pot light as access.
If you have 'gross' and/or wet pets you could hide stuff in their tanks. I had rats as a kid, my friend had a snake, and we all had goldfish. You could buy a cool looking little plastic/wooden box to keep your most precious jewelry in, which would be safe to put in your pet snake/spider/cockroach/scorpion/frog tank, and it would just look like a tank ornament (I doubt someone would put their hand in a tarantula lair to take a look at the small toy trunk, or risk a piranha bite to nab the weirdly-real-looking gold doubloons on the bottom of the tank), or you could hide stuff under the wood shavings. I wouldn't recommend putting anything inside a rodent cage, but you could put the cage itself on top of a floor safe or lose floorboard.
Please consider the biblical truth of the seventh day sabbath created in the garden of Eden blessed and honored by Jesus Himself. God never changes. He reminds us in the fourth commandment. Exodus 20:8-11. Research where sun day observance comes from. This whole thing is about worship. When we rest is who we worship. God is using this judgement time to sort the sheep from the goats. It boils down to God’s Ten Commandments or the manmade pagan tradition of rome
Gold and silver could be duct tape under cabinets like in the toe kick . You keep seasonal stuff in the attic hide in Christmas boxes or in between flat boxes unseen
I especially like the fake walls, and fake ducts. Especially in say the attic when the roof is sloped, you can build actual closets to store all your old jank, and because the roof is sloped, have a sealed off space behind those closets to hide all sorts of things. A fake duct running there would also be a great place to hide things even further.
As a construction worker, I see more and more people getting accent walls covered in vertical strips of wood. They usually always go for a "rustic" look, so the level of finish isn't great, so you can easily conceal an entire section that could open, and just put a couch or large chair in front of the skirting seam. Only issue you get is people better not be spatially aware and realize the room is smaller than it should be. So only viable in intricate indoor sections of the house where it's naturally hard to have an idea of how large the room you're in should really be ... then be sure to use that accent wall thing on more than just the 1 wall in your house ... make it a repeated theme as to not arise suspicion.
True. I am currently picking out house plans that naturally work for something like that. It's the only way, outside of burying something. I've put a lot of thought into concealing a small room. No one will know. Not even my builder :)
Yeah, and a room like that doesn't even need to actually be very large, you only need a little space to conceal stuff (like guns, gold, silver or whatever you're trying to hide). Not to mention, you can caulk the seams to make it look like it was never open to begin with, caulk seals are easy to break, and if you're accurate enough, you can even run a scalpel blade or cutter blade along the side that touches the wood and have it already "ready to open" without having to take a blade to it when you wish to open it. ^^
LOL, saw a vid once about 6 years ago. Ex-wife stuffed raw meat in the decorative curtain rods when her husband divorced her for a young blond half his age
For back-up supply's that you have multiples of such as food, ammo, firearms and so on I have three rules. #1 Never hide them on property belonging to you, your friends or relatives. #2 Never hide them within one mile of your home, this makes it makes the search area so large that it's imposable for anyone to find. #3 Never tell anyone the location besides the people you are hiding it for and never involve children, it's your ace in the hole.
A safe buried in the basement encased in concrete. If you have a section of basement that’s unfinished you can dig a hole a little bit bigger than the safe, put the safe and face up and pour concrete around it. You can then bury it under maybe 6 inches of dirt level it out and throw some debris on top. Pretty secure.
I got a rule about hiding anything of value in just anything. If you hide cash in say a tennis ball the person that breaks in might decide he or she really likes that ball and leaves with it. So I'd never put anything in anything that is mobile.
Maybe distributing the preps in many different locations throughout the home such as in the closets, under furniture, in the spaces under your fitted kitchen. Having it sorted all over means even if someone finds some they're unlikely to find it all.
I'm considering putting some more round concrete piers under my house. I guess they could be square but the idea is you cut a hole in the floor for access somewhere has the piers appear to be solid under the house but actually are hollow with say 6 inch pc pipe burried as far as you wish. It can look underneath like a beam is being held up. Access could be anywhere in the house. Maybe even in a closet or in a wall. Just somewhere.
I used to do this for a living. Old 'Fake' fuse panel box with 'high voltage' wires, put your stuff behind it. Lower door hinge, pop it open, mortise a hole, put in jewelry. Old lady had a two carat diamond ring in an old shoe while having an old steel safe in the room. When she passed they finally open the safe and found it empty. They look in the obvious place but she fooled them. I found the ring 10pm at night two years after she died in a room filled with 40 large boxes one shot. A bit of a scary story, but I now believe in ghosts because of how I found it. 100% impossible to find without something guiding me in a dark 10 room deserted apartment. Hide in plain site. I reinforced a home once, later on drug dealers took it over, drug raid couldn't break in, Police made new law to use small explosives next time.
Underneath kitchen cabinets is hollow, hidden behind decorative wood called "kick plate" this is easily removed and there is actually quite a bit of space in there for anything that's not taller than 5" or so... You can get low profile storage containers that are designed to go under your bed but will fit under there.
There is a type of thief that, regardless if times are good or bad, they always go for TVs and other expensive items that have no value when times are bad. You know who they are.
I don't fully agree with signage about having security cameras. Out in the rual areas, police are 15+ minutes away. My next-door neighbor son (a police officer) say this just tells the burglar I have something of value. If I'm home we use shoot shovel and shut up
Just a thought. Why not create a device where a burgler gets his hand mangled up trying to retrieve bogus jewels . Have two containers . One says cash . Another says jewellery. Both having a small opening only for a hand .Inside glass shavings and Razer blades. The not so smart thief gets a bloody surprise. 😁
When my house was robbed while I was visiting my newborn daughter they broke the back door window and reached in to unlatch the door. Since I had to go back to the hospital and didn't have time to repair it I made a quick trap (the detective investigating the robbery laughed and said it was ok when he saw it). I took an extension cord and removed one end and put the bare wires on either side of the latch and plugged it in. It wouldn't kill the theif but the shock would cause him to quickly pull his hand back. The jagged glass would shred his arm and he'd leave a blood trail. I was actually disappointed when he didn't return. (I knew it was the kids across the street but didn't pursue it.) The reason the detective said it was ok was because the house was locked and it would be considered illegal entry it he stuck his hand in there.
If you have a bugout property simply bury the stuff off site of the main building. Even then, scatter old nuts and bolts around that area to throw off metal detectors. Once you know a method works, consider planting a tree or bush directly on top of it. It will take some effort getting to, but it wont be stolen. In rural areas, consider burying one of those half sized shipping containers. You could do a full sized, but for just storage, that seems a but much. I would also just highly recommend getting a large Liberty safe and bolting it to the foundation. Unless they have a few hours AND industrial power tools, they aren't getting into that safe. To further protect yourself, encase the sides and top of the safe with cinder blocks reinforced with rebar and filled with concrete. This way, if they DO manage to have some power tools, they have to go through the thickest part of the safe, the front.
lol my mom used to do that..she had no memory issues, she was just devious when it came to shit like that..I used to tell her yep mom here we go again you outsmarted yourself....
For long term storage consider a hollowed out tree stump. Let plants or grass grow around it. It should open at bottom. Use waterproof containers. Seal the opening. 🤫.
@@theoriginalkeepercreek Cash will be a good thing to store but will be worthless if the entire grid remains down for an extended length of time....such as when the food runs out. By then, food will be worth more than cash. It would be better to store seeds under the ironing board cover. And if you can find a good hiding spot, store a solar-powered grow light, replacement bulbs, toilet paper, powdered lime, fertilizer, cigarette lighters or fire starter kit, knives with sharpening stone, fishing line, life-preserver, slingshot, a bow and arrows, water, bleach, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, salt, honey and wool blankets, jackets, socks, hats, gloves, scarves, emergency blankets.....just to name a few.
If you have a workshop area, you can empty out and clean some old paint cans/buckets, fill them with your valuables, and store them in plain sight. This thought also just dawned on me: Do you think metal paint cans would be EMP proof if you clean off any finish between the lid and can and seal them up?
I would imagine so, but be sure to put some kind of insulator on the inside of the can (Not sure if the paint would be enough) so your objects aren't in contact with the metal.
If you had enough time, energy, money, and resources you could make a false floor covering a whole room! All the non-perishable items and things you can leave without worrying about moisture or having to ever get access to until a real tragedy arises can be stored there. A false wall can obviously work too and most people won’t look for that but some may. A real solid floor over the top of stable boxes or another way to effectively support in a way that is not going to make weird hollow sounds, shift, or crack would be excellent.
One very interesting video that I have found that relates to this is advice from a former thief titled: Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions As most of us have (hopefully) never stolen anything or broken into any houses, it is very difficult to truly understand the mindset of an individual who does that, and we often underestimate their intellect, ingenuity, and planning. Listening to a man who single-handedly broke into hundreds of houses in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas for over 20 years before finally being caught, is a truly sobering experience. He provides some amazing stories and advice that anyone who is at all interested in hardening their house should absolutely watch.
When my nan died we found about 5k lying around in the house in cassette cases and rolled up socks. Pretty sure the charity shop probably got a few hundred quid in accidental donations but we were just gutted she never bought the boiler she said she said she couldn't afford. Anyway the moral of the story is if you are hiding valuable stuff leave a list somewhere
We had a neighbor whose wife died and a few years later his children convinced him to sell his house and move closer to them. As they were going through all the stuff in the house, they found several hundred dollars that his wife had hidden and hadn't told him about. I think they found around a $1000. So it is a good idea to let someone you trust know you have hidden money somewhere in the house.
Put a aip ie through the emergency release latch of garage door openers. Too many thieves have been able to engage the openers using a hanger from the outside.
by a canning machine put your valuables in with a lot of sand and sow dust so it mimics the weight of some canned food. Buy a can of said food and remove its label. Carefully put the label on the can with the valuables. Store it with other cans with the same label.
Half walls (4-6" deep). Face it nice and pretty, keep the backside open, put a shelf on top. Shove it against the wall, and shove you couch or other furniture in front of it. Just remember which walls are bombarded by the sun all day. Build your own dressers. Put a 6" deep compartment in the back, maybe make it a side drawer. For that matter. Your interior walls aren't insulated. Next time you consider renovating, think about how you could make use of that space. Granted, drywall is a fire retardant, so keep that in mind too (my trailer is all paneling, so I lose no fire containment if I fuck around with the walls). Properly installer flooring is a luxury. I am a flooring installer, and I am going to tell you right now, your flooring is destined for the landfill once it is installed; there is ZERO resale value to it. Having said that, there are plenty of floor coverings that can hide your plywood without being properly secured; kanga hide carpet, carpet tiles, cushion lino, etc, be clear with the retailer you don't want it secured to the floor. If you're lucky enough, your basement ceiling is tiled, not drywalled; mark out where your plumbing and electrical is, and then determine where your traffic zones are (very important, do not forget this); any part of the floor left over can be used for hidden compartments.
Bought an old house that has 3k gal cistern, put a small shed on the corner dug a side entrance made a door for the cistern room and turned out to be a nice room for various items. 😉
Good vid. But a little semantics here. Cover is protection from being struck by projectiles, concealment is protection from being seen. Dark areas, bushes etc provide an intruder with concealment, not cover. Just saying. 😬
My great-grandmother used to hide 5's, 10's, and 20's in opened junk mail letters scattered around her house. She was a hoarder, and she new it, and she used it to her advantage.
I used to hide money in books. Now I can't remember if I still have any there, not that it matters, they're probably not worth anything as we printed new money 5 years ago or so.
@@RannonSi Most places don't even look at the dates on dollar bills or coins. Some do, but most don't. All they care about is that you're paying to buy stuff. Heck, most places don't check to see if dollars are fake anymore unless a manager-zilla works there.
I used to be a dealer, so I have a million hiding spots. There are companies that will come and install hiding places of all sizes. Even cops/DEA that are trained to search will miss them. I have a couple of large, quality gun safes (I have a lot of guns) that bolt to the floor and they're huge and heavy. I carry and keep guns close at hand in my house so, if they go for the cases of ammo in my walk in closet, they'll be shot (if they're still alive when they eventually gain entry (if a door can be opened, it an be breached, and I can shim a padlock in seconds). My powerful (legally RXd) opioids, benzos (the good prescriptions) are hidden so well I'd have to actually tell you where they are. My house is hard to find (in rural, wooded, mountainous area), and marauders would be seen coming up the dirt road well before they got to the house and made a bunch of noise getting in (I know how to barricade) and negotiating the path and the anti personnel and vehicle traps they'd have to get past.
I have seen too many movies to think that under the sink or behind the toilet are great hiding places. When we were a young married couple (~35 years ago), we use to hide condoms behind all the paintings in the house. Then one day someone wanted to see one of them up close and took it off the hook... and then a condom fell on the floor! She was more embarrassed than me. I like the idea of the false pipes and such, but not the outlet as some people mentioned - they are sold everywhere. TFS, Nicole
Don't leave tools laying about outside. Don't depend on powered systems for alerts, such as cameras and alarms, unless you have a truly independent power and data management setup...most of the rest of us will have to make do with crunchy gravel, rattling fences, nightingale floors. Maintained gardens and grounds scare off robbers as they suggest a greater likelyhood of being observed by a caretaker. Please don't use dogs solely for guarding, also pet treats get around most dogs easily, especially if they are poisoned; so be careful to train a guard dog to not accept treats from strangers. Epiphany...If thieves broke into your house, and only got the decoys, well...they know how to get into your house, and can readily presume there is better stuff remaining.
If I hid something in trash, I would probably mess up & throw it away. Lol A flock of geese in your yard are a good deterrent. They are very territorial and will viciously attack any intruder, not to mention the very loud alarm they make!
For "up and under" hiding of cash, neodymium magnets and double-sided, self-adhesive pads are the way to go. I have a steel tobacco tin in the kitchen that is stuck on magnets that are attached under wall cupboards using the pads. I can grab in a second but it's almost impossible to spot if you don't know where it is. Great for grabbing cash if you need to leave quickly or even to just have instant cash to pay for a pizza or taxi.
We had a burglar in our neighborhood. Nailed people really bad. Our neighbor put on wrought iron window covers. He hit everyone but us, because we had a dog, a big loving golden retriever we gotten at the Humane Society. He probably would have licked the burglar to death, but he was a very good deterrent and we didn't even know it! He was a good friend, and he gave us benefits we didn't know about.
I was hoping to find out where I could hide my PREPPING supplies, but more than half the video was about jewelery and money. I'm sorry but in a SHTF scenario, money & jewelry are not items marauding bands of people will be looking for. FOOD WATER... most of the video should have been about that. I had to fast forward to the end of the video. I'm just sayin
The absolute best place to hide stuff from criminals is a place that is not easily gotten into. Likewise it is not easily accessible to you either. Going along the lines of false walls, but not false walls. Use your real existing walls. Cut a piece of the drywall out and hide whatever it is in the wall cavity. Then replace the the drywall. Tape and mud it over. Then repaint. There is no way any thief is going to find that hiding spot. Ever.
When i got robbed a few years ago. They even took my wedding dress and grandmother's rings in a safe :(, turned my bed over, took my toilet paper, tv, No Joke. They had all weekend to look in my place and they did.
They stole a friend of mines condoms. Other things also but he kept saying "They even stole my condoms!". Then he replaced everything and they came back a month later and stole all his new stuff. He moved!
The people who previously lived in our apartment installed a drywall triangle so they can mount their tv facing the room corner with the couch in it. Behind that is just dead space! I even asked the owner of the house if there were pipes or cables or anything running through but he said its just wasted space and I could take the wall out or not, he wouldn´t mind. For a place to hide stuff, this is about a square meter of dreams coming true! I have yet to figure out how I would do it (and get permission from my roommate XD) but this is definitely a prime feature of my home! (Also the low rent the best landlord EVER!)
Without expanding I rely on traps. I have them at key points around the perimeter of my house and inside. I also keep bats, knives, blackjacks, etc. dispersely hidden so at any opportunity I can grab a weapon and mount a surprise attack. Remember, anything used craftly is a weapon. Last but not the least: gadgets; hidden & visible cameras, fake mix with reality, alarm systems, etc. And common sense; do not talk about your PREP details to anyone. Remember, your friend also has a vest friend who has a friend!!! Get the point!
You can buy fishing treble hooks, spool of clear fishing string, tie them all around your house, anyone that gets caught in these will have to go to the hospital to have them removed...Also you could dip the hooks in mayonaise and make someone really sick.
My diggenest dog gave me a wonderful idea when someone started stalking me and listening/murmuring outside my north window in the wee hours of the night after I blew the whistle on a higher-up at work who was raping young foreign Christian Ethiopians who had to work for 3 years with the company in order to get citizenship. I dug a deep hole in the ground under the window - just like that old dog had all over my backyard. Then I collected dog shit (owned 4 large dogs) over about 4 days and filled the hole which was almost 2 feet deep but only about a foot across. I lightly covered it with dirt and grass. A few days later, very tired and stressed out by the targeting of the sick, mean creeps, I called an electrician to put a sensor light outside of the window. He came with his apprentice and I took them around the side of the house where the window was, all the while questioning him on how sensitive the light was, etc., completely forgetting about.....Well, when the electrician, not his apprentice, suddenly sank, mid sentence, knee deep in the shit, then started sputtering in wonder, then horror and finally disgust, the incongruity of it hit and I started laughing so hard I cried. I couldn't stop, all the while trying to explain what had happened, between the uncontrollable peals of laughter which had infected his apprentice who succumbed to the pure hilarity and doubled over. Finally even my unintended victim belly laughed, despite the rank smell and gross muck he found himself in. Ive come to understand God has a helluva sense of humor! I kept refreshing the hole after the sensor light was installed as I'd learned those guys were more than capable of dismantling lights when I'd go for groceries or whatever. Eventually I had to sell and move. Life in the Canadian West in 2003.
Try using light switches. Inside a ceiling fan.bekind a door frame.crown molding if you have some...Stairways lift up a stair put things in there nail it back down...Just think and use your common Sense there are so many palaces to hid things. Don't use Philip or Flat head screws use ones that you have to have a special tool to use to open
I want to make a note regarding the bathroom as a place to hide things.
I have a family member who has gone to rehab multiple times. They have stolen money, guns, prescription medicine, and anything with any value over $50 from the family.
If you have a person like that in your family, the bathroom is a BAD place to hide anything. Pills are often kept in the bathroom, and the bathroom has a level of privacy to it that allows somebody to turn the room upside down under the excuse of "I shouldn't have had taco bell last night".
Avoid the bathroom as a storage location. Especially if you live in a family or neighborhood with addicts. It is often the first, if not only room searched by such people.
I speak from experience.
Hiding stuff is not hard at all! Remembering where you hid it can be a bit more difficult!
Write it in your will.
I just found my second gun safe key after having forgot where I hid it 6 months ago! This is true, just found it a second ago :)
Develop your own alphabet or code, then have some hidden instructions near hiding spots. Only you know what it means, and it could go unnoticed by intruders as just some weird decorations.
Yep. Out of sight out of mind. For me anyway :/
Rip out the drywall chuck your stuff in the cavity, re drywall and paint.
I used to hide $ in zip bags under the cat box. My ex husband wouldn't change a cat box if his life depended on it! LOL At least money stopped disappearing from my purse and pockets.
Another good place to hide $ or small jewelry is in cook books. Aint nobody gonna take the time to go through a bunch of old cookbooks.
I hid money in my deodorant container, the kind you roll up. You can pop out the deodorant part, hide money in it and then pop the deodorant back on.
Robin Murray.....love the cat box suggestion.....very good one. lol :)
Lol
I have rolled up Manny $100 bills and put inside large tubes of toothpaste $1,000 in each. Then put them on the floor of a junk room to collect dust. I don't think many people will pick up dirty tubes of toothpaste
Old saying... "Three may keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead.". Tell nobody anything about your prepping. Not even your own kids if they are young, they do not understand the concept of loose lips. You are asking for trouble if you do.
Well said! I concur!
I tell people on the net, but when it goes down you'll never find me. Store preps in several locations. The people might think they've hit jackpot and leave not knowing you have some sort of time capsule buried in the back yard. Precious metals are even easier than people think to hide, and no, I won't tell you the huge vase in the living room to keep them in. Just for a good example. You can also get something like a dummy book and put it in with a pile of books. Amazing how things in plain view are overlooked.
i just bought a generator for SHTF, for 250$ instead buying a PS4
@@hanspeterx Smart! So many people just buy the PS4 and then say they can't afford to prep.
AverageJo
When your hiding your stuff make sure your phone is not watching😎
Smart!!
Yesss
No phone, no talking, no phone cameras
Smart bastard, its so obvious in hindsight
Alexa was talking to Siri about that.
I'm a minimalist. The burglars might feel sorry for me and leave me with something.😁
No violence needed...I'll help them carry my meaningless stuff out of my house...do me a favor...and with the price of gas right now(2021) ...they can take the truck to!! LoL
Lol both of your comments
Lmfao 😆 Facts!
This... that's the truth for real.
I used to have a 4 yr.old neighbor. Great help at clearing out all sorts of interesting things.
I put a hatch in our floor. The people in the apartment below were pissed.
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They probably didn't appreciate that you would drop in! lol :)
I live in the desert, so water would be the most critical resource in an emergency situation and storing enough is a space issue when you don't have a basement. I bought a bed for my guestroom that has a high under-bed clearance with a very thin box spring to make up the difference. I can store over a hundred gallons of water there. That also frees up space in my kitchen for food storage.
Little off topic but wanted to make parallel point. For those of us who can legally carry a pistol, I highly encourage you to carry one around your house. It seems strange at first but as a former LEO who’s responded to many home invasion calls, I can attest that the 12 gauge in the upstairs closet does you little good when your napping on your downstairs couch when the front door is kicked in. I carry a little pocket pistol when I’m around the house. Smaller than my formal EDC but a lot more comfortable and it’s on me when I need it.
So true ...I always do...💣💥
I was told that I'm parnoid for doing this, I replied their are no time outs in a home invasion.
R Priest Why not strengthen your Door.
001 002 totally agree just a solid door is a must but I’m not always inside. I could be doing yard work or taking out the trash. Hiding guns around the house isn’t an option for me with a meddling toddler.
R Priest a Good advice.waist band or shoulder holster.
My house was robbed once, and I didn't even know it until three weeks later. The cops told me, most robberies are like that, they rummage through stuff looking for wads of cash, atm, ect, then they put everything back into place after they find what they want, so you don't even know you were robbed. But the cop gave me some great advice, he said to take a current, valid credit card, or atm, then call your card company, or bank and tell them you lost your wallet. Bank will deactivate card, yet that card will still have a valid date on it so thief thinks the card is good. Take that card, or cards and leave them out where a thief would find it immediately, they'll grab it, be happy and be on their way. The cops also said, a lot of times, when they can't find anything valuable, they get pissed and trash the house, start flipping things, so this is also a good way to give them motive to take your bogus cards and get out quickly without being pissed off.
Lucretciela my house is filled with junk! Totally useless crap...
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Same here ... my house is so cluttered with crap that I think the burglar wouldn't even know where to begin, haha!
ExtraordinaryLiving 😂 I actually feel sorry for any burglar coming to my house 🤣🙈
@Flying lead
So is Taxation.
Theft.
Landmines work great except it makes it harder to mow the lawn.
Derek Bootle 😂😂😂👍🏻
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Where was this info BEFORE I mined my yard......and then forgot. DAMN YOU!
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Two houses ago, my husband installed a false back in one of our deep closets, wish we had that now. Don't know if the new owners ever figured that out as we forgot to tell them. Closet was still deep so it was not noticeable at all!
Many preppers have been told to build a network. So, you talk to your "neighbors" and you get one of two responses. "Oh we don't have to do that, the government will take care of everyone. And it's illegal to "hoard". Or you get this response "Well, now we know where to go and get what we need from your place. And if you resist, we'll call the authorities about a hoarder." So, what good are your preps? How well can you hide them from the authorities? I gave up on "neighbors" a long time ago. But in a cul-de-sac of 10 homes, it will be a mess defending our property, regardless of how well we may have hidden it. I wish the "network" people had been shut up a LONG time ago. Prep in quiet privacy, and tell your neighbors "Oh, the government will take care of us." Then quietly and securely go about your hidden preps. I enjoy your channel.
so true James
Yes, I live in the desert and I really don’t have all that much prepped, but I have about 20 gallons of tap water in recycled bottles for toilet flushing... my daughter in laws grandmother came over and when I told her what they were for , she thought I was crazy. I told her that only a few weeks prior my area actually lost water for two solid days... I told her I would like to at least flush toilet during times like that, but she just doesn’t even get that. I hope she has to deal with that someday... although she has a pool and could fill up containers for flushing for a long time
it has never been illegal to "hoard" in the USA... this is highly encouraged... I have never heard anyone say that? strange ... where are you from?
@ you make a good point... great way to identify the potential leanings of a person... but, a lot of times people who are left in one way are right in another actually, so be careful about judging others so narrowly
@@OfftoShambala It is part of both Agenda 21, or known today as Agenda 20/30. People are NOT permitted to grow their own food and I have seen several cases on different channels where this has happened. Also, under FEMA rules and in times of Martial Law, ANY and ALL food, petrol, water, medicines etc, BELONG to FEMA and any government agency can collect on their behalf. This is why shows like Doomsday Preppers were stupid for the participants to disclose their preps. They have preppers addresses and WILL return to take it. We really need to be careful who to disclose this to.
I have at least a half dozen places on my property (10+ acres) that I have hidden caches of various items. A hand-dug underground bunker that I built myself, complete with storage, bunks, ventilation, etc... Solar panels and banks of batteries, voltage regulators, power inverters. All this aside from the six different locations I can bugout to, if need be.
While my grandmother was on her death bed she told my mom all her hiding spots. After she died, they sold everything & the house. The new owner told the neighbor that they found $300 in an old paint can under the basement steps.😳
I like the false prize approach. For example, I’ll leave a hundred bucks in mostly small bills out on the kitchen counter (but out of site of a window of course) and leave inexpensive jewelry out on the dresser etc. When burglars break in, you want them to get the mental satisfaction of a quick easy win so they don’t keep looking and ransacking your home as much. They get the cash and jewelry you “left out” and their mind starts to move on to escaping before it’s too late.
It’s just an idea, and certainly not always going to work. But if I were a burglar and didn’t find anything at all, I’d probably get frustrated and break lots of stuff looking.
I made a business making stashes and reinforcing houses against criminals. Unfortunately criminals took over a place and the police couldn't get in. Then they passed a new law here in Quebec next time they come across my work, or similar security, they are allowed to use small explosives. I made chain link doors so people cannot kick them in so the police tried shooting the links. True story. I use old electric fuse box panels to hide stuff behind. Nobody is going to touch high voltage especially if there are bare wires sticking out
If you have chain link fence, pop the metal cap off the post and you'll have that entire hollow post to hide money, ammo, knives etc. Pick one that's in the shade of course. NO one's going to run around your yard in plain sight popping off the post caps looking for stuff. Also, yard decorations like bird baths with a hollow pedestal, bird houses (great for security cameras too!), And fake flower boxes. If you have chickens, make a fake nest box with a box underneath the hay. Ain't nobody looking there!
An Gar how do you get stuff out?
@@Rebeccacell Tie strings to the items.
@@freedomspromise8519 Try PVC pipe capped on both ends.Helps keep things dry add a couple little dry pack's out of vitamin bottles.Don't throw those little dry bags you get out of just about everything these days.They come in handy for ammo boxes in your safe even food containers.They help keep things dry no mold on food from moisture or rust on your ammo or guns.They are free why not put them to good use.
Love the chicken idea I have a 12"× 10 ft space behind my coop where my children can go to hide.if need be.while grandma takes care of business!@ Montana
But they might find it when they are stealing your chickens for food...just sayin
I would think that potential burglars are watching this and learning.
I once lived in an apartment with two small closets. Someone had installed drop ceilings in both to create hiding spots that were about four inches in depth. I only discovered them when trying to store a surfcasting rod and triggered one to open. Nothing in them but always thought it was a great idea.
I live in an apartment so I'm limited in ways to hide my prepper supplies . The best idea I have is shoe bones I have several pairs of shoes for each season, and I simply keep the boxes. I found that most people just think they have shoes.
Another option for me is to hide items inside the closet. I keep my out of season clothes in plastic storage boxes, and I hide some of my items in with the clothes.
Thank you for sharing this important information.
I use old paint cans in the garage to store small electronics and various other items. I leave the label on the paint can and I only use cans that look old and look messy. As an added bonus they are nice little Faraday cages.
Fucken cool!! I did the same thing to protect my walkie talkies. Im glad other people like you have done this.
I never thought of this! Do you need to do anything else to the paint can or is it a ready made faraday cage??
@@AlishaM349 thats basically it. You can add padding inside so they dont get damaged but other than that no. Make sure they are well enclosed and your done.
@@AlishaM349 you need to line it with cardboard so electronics aren't touching the inside metal of the can
Truckload of likes on the faraday effect. People tend to ignore the fact that an EMP is one of the more likely scenarios because it can come from two directions. Either a high-altitude nuclear blast or a coronal mass ejection from the Sun. The sun put off an EMP in the 1800's that destroyed the entire Telegraph system here and in Europe so I just double the odds of that being what happens to screw up our society
Here in Brazil, if you have a beach house, you will either pay someone to watch over it or see that burglars will take even things like food, toilets (not toilet seats, the whole toilet), kitchen sinks, external pipes, lamps, fuse boxes, beds and mattresses.
It's not even uncommon for people to leave behind poisoned food for burglars.
I had two bushes removed from my sidewalk up to my house and on a dark corner that also blocked the window. I don’t put things near my windows doors patios or my yard, that anyone can hide behind. Yes I am trying to mimic the Fort Knox “wide open spaces” idea. I also started doing this when I became a mom and reviewed my security again, when I became a single female mother with 2 kids. I had a crazy BF that would enter my apt (yrs ago) so I would lay brooms in weird spots that no one would think a broom should be (trip them up 😆). The officers had me put tape on the window seals where it couldn’t be easily noticed and baby powder on the floors. I set traps so I will know if someone has been here or is still here.
I installed exterior door locks on the doors inside as another layer to buy precious seconds.
I like to go outside, when it’s super dark, and look in and around my house, to see what others can see, from the road, the height of my curtains or open spots (like when the curtains are wrinkled and don’t cover fully). I like to see my weak spots so I can address them.
Drop the ceiling in your bedroom (or any room) with 2x6s lumber on their edge, then use screws to fasten 1" tongue and groove material across the the 2x6s. Depending on how you attach the lumber, (I recommend a rim joist screwed to wall studs, and joists attached with joist hangers) you can store hundreds of canned or freeze dried items in this space and access it when the time comes simple by removing a few screws. Not only is it good storage but it helps insulate your home and if the grid goes in winter time, this dead ceiling space will be the last area in your home to drop below freezing, preventing frozen canned goods.
I had a friend who did this and had she never shared her secret I would have never noticed the alteration.
Good, dry ammo/ gun storage as well.
Btw, if you have a second story home or a basement you can simple screw the tongue and groove material across existing joists.
Very good.
Check out those motion sensing outdoor lights. They turn on automatically when there's movement. A lot of intruders will think someone's at home and probably abandon their breakin plans. A lot of thse motion sensing lights are also available with solar power. So even if your main switches are off, they will still work at night.
I have my stuff hidden in a gun safe inside a refrigerator behind a false wall, in a crawlspace in the attic of an underground shack inside a cave under a Native American burial mound on a piece of land that is owned by multi-layer foreign corporation which I keep paperwork for inside my speedo.
Clever! Lol 😉
Really? Me too!☺
William Dukane 😂😂😂😜😂😜😂😜😂
i nearly died laughing... Hysterical.
I needed that laugh !
Can you do a video about pets in SHTF? Like their benefits and also how to store long term food for them.
I seal dry food for my dog and cats with a seal a meal in heavy mil. bags . works great to keep it from becoming stale.
They sell freeze dried food for dogs and cats.
If you keep animals as part of your prep then most dogs would happily accept that but if you don’t keep animals then I’m not sure what you do
@@savemebiatch109 and some of us have the unusual pets, which require food that won't be available in that situation.
Your pets are long term food.
Potted plants, large jars or small fish bowls filled with decorative marbles (just submerge your items in the middle where they can't be seen), low lying kitchen cupboards (preferably a larger corner cupboard) inside of an 18 or 19 inch oval roaster pushed all the way to the back. A lot of couches have dead space underneath or within them. You can actually build various storage implements inside of your couch, which can be packed tight with items until they are needed. I could go on an on, but I'll stop there.
Jewelry can be stored inside a freezer container then stored inside the freezer just like a container of beans. If it’s something that won’t be hurt by water, such as gold or gemstones, you can actually add water to the container and really freeze the container. Watches can be stored inside rice or dry beans. I used to do a class called Kitchen Table Economics, in which I advised people to freeze their credit cards this way, inside a container of ice. They would have to wait until the container thawed out before they could use the card. Back then you actually had to swipe the card when you charged things! Ah, those were the days!
I keep a shotgun and mosin nagant in a non- operational water heater in my basement. Its probably THE MOST improbable place anyone would look in. There is so much space for firearms, ammo, cash.... Its bolted down and has a dehumidifier. I really encourage people to use something like this.
Wow great idea!!
Oh one advice. Keep a record of all ur valuables with serial number and anything else that can help identify them if stolen
Chris Hall .. Brilliant advice.. my Dad's shed was broken into, many years ago, and the thieves stole tonnes of his gear. The police tracked down the stolen gear because Dad supplied the cops with the serial numbers. So @John Taylor it does work!!!
Electronic home security systems can be used against you, especially if it depends on wifi. Things like brinks, ring video doorbell, etc. are dangerous. Unplug or destroy google home, alexa, or anything that can monitor your home.
I learned the hard way all things can be hacked. I would never have wifi system. I would never use a smart tv. It can be hacked.
And those brinks type people can be compromised. My worldly opinion shaped by my real world circumstances that nearly killed me.
I have an old tv and wired security.
Here is a true little experience we had with our "Alexa": my nephew was visiting and we had thrown a whole bunch of trivia questions at Alexa just to see what answers we'd be getting. After a while, we were just having conversations among us when my nephew mentioned that Alexa's light ring was still circulating. Jokingly I asked her, "Alexa, are you spying on us?" Lo and behold she answered, "That is not a very nice question! Of course, I would not do that!" I believe the looks on our faces were priceless and needless to say that Alexa was immediately unplugged, boxed up, and removed from our home!
I'll take places NOT posted in the comments or video for $1000, Alex!
Never broadcast. Never.
Brian what you mean
So dumb.....💣💣💥💥💥💥
Agreed. Thieves watch these as well. The important thing is time. Thieves won't waste time looking for things. Best wishes
T. C? Most thieves are opportunistic, so you’re normally good, especially when sub 200k have seen the video.
@@ninetails6218 they had a theif on, she was really good. She said 10mins. In & out. She didn't know of anyone who trashed a place , other than just looking for stuff. She did say there was a difference in drug theives & theives that are professional. Drug theives are crazy & don't follow the instructions & usually get caught for being stupid. Best wishes
Usually homes have an access behind the shower or bathtub drain. There's always a good space behind and under the tub.
Oh gosh you might have to update this video. The tide has turn, now they will come for your prepping stuff specifically.
I've hidden things in my fridge: ziplock bags taped to the bottom of the produce drawer. Also, frozen veggie bags or the old frozen spinach box work well too.
Okay, not that I would ever use one, but, you made me think of creating a large space under one of many raised bed gardens. Would blend right in & be walked right past.
John Taylor That could be her decoy place. How do we know?
My brother-in-law knew a guy who when he upgraded his gun safe used the old one as a decoy. He had left only one old gun and a few metal bars to give it weight he added some dye they use at work to check welds or something at work. A few years after just when his wife was bugging him to get ride of it they had a burglary and they took the safe. He told the police about the dye and they checked out the local grubbies (surprise they already had a criminal record) and were able to make an arrest. (Good thing he had one firearm in the safe added time to their sentences)
glen1arthur I want to create a decoy safe.
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I love this story.
@@OfftoShambala =r
Mental bars? What is that? Is it a Canadian thing or just a spell checker glitch?
I would sway away from the couch thing. My buddy’s house got robbed and one of the things they did was pull all the cushions off the couch and chairs
When my house was robbed, years ago, they pulled off couch cushions, shoved the mattress half off the base, swiped everything on the closet top shelf to the floor, emptied the dresser drawers, generally made a huge mess looking for valuables. They even left the dishwasher door open.
I had recently bought a beautiful new jewelry box. It looked kinda like a cigar humidor. It sat on my dresser, it held my "real" pieces. Next to it was my old jewelry box, pretty glass front panels, full of costume jewelry. The stupid robbers took most of the costume stuff from the old box, but never touched the new one. I was so grateful. Some of the valuable pieces were irreplaceable.
It gets better. On one side of our bed we had a traditional nightstand. The drawers were pulled out, lying on the floor. On my side was a round table with a floor length cloth draped over it. They didn't touch the table - or the gun underneath.
So we had jewelry and a handgun in the most obvious places. They tore up the house, and missed it all.
Best to you and yours.
SusanBailey AmazingEstate i hate to hear that. I have no sympathy for a thief. They’re nothing but cowards
Dustin Agreed
same for under the bed. lol.
When you have a rambling house full of doodads, trinkets, plants & animals there's plenty of places to store/hide all kinds of things in plain site. The Adam's family home & the Winchester House are good examples.
Actually happened. A classmate announced on Facebook that she and her husband were going on vacation at a resort beach. When she returned her whole house was burglarized.
If you have some land, or know a patch of public forest, i use 4" and 6" diameter ABS pipe, with glue on Cleanout caps.
use a ice auger or a post hole shovel to bury these in places you mark on a map, and/or use your GPS to mark points where you stashed these. If you have something that can corrode, fill the ABS pipe with mineral oil - i did this to stash a knock-down 22. it will never corrode.
Don't put thinks together that don't need to be, i stored the ammo in a separate area from the 22. If someone finds one tube, that doesn't actually help them likely.
i have other ones filled with Salt, sugar, rice etc - i put these in vac sealed bags first, then put the bags into the tubes.
With a good length of auger, and an extension, i have some tubes up to 6 feet long, which is half a length of ABS pipe.
I hide a few of these along a fence line, using the real fence posts to "hide" the ABS pipe below, i use these ones for winter accessible - i will know exactly where to dig. and burning the post will assist in accessing the tube. Some piles of flat stones on top of other ABS capped tubes is an easy way to have winter access.
Just my technique since i have a lot of land.
Beware. Snakes and spiders love hiding under flat rocks.
It would be my luck to hide all my valuables in secret places in my house and then get Alzheimer's!
Ditto lol keep a log ina safe place
Are you my brother from another mother? That sounds like something I would do.
@@cf8959 I'll never tell
Jan Hollon
It happens! I was helping my cousin pack for moving. She took down a large painting and found two twenties she had stashed in the frame for emergency money. It paid for our pizza.
Alzheimers isn't funny mate ,get what you're saying but my mum has it and it's a living he'll for the ppl who look after her (me) and her of course) my memory's shite too ,I lose my keys at least once a day😞
If you are building a cabin as a bug out location, and you have some privacy during construction, rent a small excavator (presumably for levelling the foundation) and dig a big enough hole for a 500 gallon septic/water tank under the foundation. It is big enough to stand up in and will store a lot of supplies in a dry environment. It could also double as an emergency hide. Put a hidden trap door in the cabin floor for access.
A lot of homes have recessed pot lights that easily remove for maintenance. Simply put supplies above the ceiling gyprock/plasterboard, using the hole for the pot light as access.
9:18 Who in their right mind draws a floor to ceiling creepy leafless tree with a face on a kid's wall at the foot of their bed ?
If you have 'gross' and/or wet pets you could hide stuff in their tanks. I had rats as a kid, my friend had a snake, and we all had goldfish. You could buy a cool looking little plastic/wooden box to keep your most precious jewelry in, which would be safe to put in your pet snake/spider/cockroach/scorpion/frog tank, and it would just look like a tank ornament (I doubt someone would put their hand in a tarantula lair to take a look at the small toy trunk, or risk a piranha bite to nab the weirdly-real-looking gold doubloons on the bottom of the tank), or you could hide stuff under the wood shavings.
I wouldn't recommend putting anything inside a rodent cage, but you could put the cage itself on top of a floor safe or lose floorboard.
h6hfelie I could see a thief taking a snake lol
My parents place was robbed.
He took all her homemade cookies, lol she was proud he liked her cookies, it lightened the situation.😅
And don't forget to pray for protection.
Please consider the biblical truth of the seventh day sabbath created in the garden of Eden blessed and honored by Jesus Himself. God never changes. He reminds us in the fourth commandment. Exodus 20:8-11. Research where sun day observance comes from. This whole thing is about worship. When we rest is who we worship. God is using this judgement time to sort the sheep from the goats. It boils down to God’s Ten Commandments or the manmade pagan tradition of rome
Be very worried that burglars that see your food but dont steal it see it. They wont forget and will be back during SHTF.
@John Taylor
Nothing a lil bit of Mossy 930 can't take care of.
Gold and silver could be duct tape under cabinets like in the toe kick . You keep seasonal stuff in the attic hide in Christmas boxes or in between flat boxes unseen
I especially like the fake walls, and fake ducts. Especially in say the attic when the roof is sloped, you can build actual closets to store all your old jank, and because the roof is sloped, have a sealed off space behind those closets to hide all sorts of things. A fake duct running there would also be a great place to hide things even further.
As a construction worker, I see more and more people getting accent walls covered in vertical strips of wood.
They usually always go for a "rustic" look, so the level of finish isn't great, so you can easily conceal an entire section that could open, and just put a couch or large chair in front of the skirting seam. Only issue you get is people better not be spatially aware and realize the room is smaller than it should be. So only viable in intricate indoor sections of the house where it's naturally hard to have an idea of how large the room you're in should really be ... then be sure to use that accent wall thing on more than just the 1 wall in your house ... make it a repeated theme as to not arise suspicion.
True. I am currently picking out house plans that naturally work for something like that. It's the only way, outside of burying something. I've put a lot of thought into concealing a small room. No one will know. Not even my builder :)
Yeah, and a room like that doesn't even need to actually be very large, you only need a little space to conceal stuff (like guns, gold, silver or whatever you're trying to hide).
Not to mention, you can caulk the seams to make it look like it was never open to begin with, caulk seals are easy to break, and if you're accurate enough, you can even run a scalpel blade or cutter blade along the side that touches the wood and have it already "ready to open" without having to take a blade to it when you wish to open it. ^^
In criminalistics I learned that some where around 60% of burglars will rummage through your food for a quick snack during the burglary.
round curtain rods with the screw on finials on the ends
LOL, saw a vid once about 6 years ago. Ex-wife stuffed raw meat in the decorative curtain rods when her husband divorced her for a young blond half his age
I love that idea
@@happygardener28 I saw that too, thought to myself dang I wish I had known this when my ex-husband did that.
For back-up supply's that you have multiples of such as food, ammo, firearms and so on I have three rules. #1 Never hide them on property belonging to you, your friends or relatives. #2 Never hide them within one mile of your home, this makes it makes the search area so large that it's imposable for anyone to find. #3 Never tell anyone the location besides the people you are hiding it for and never involve children, it's your ace in the hole.
A safe buried in the basement encased in concrete. If you have a section of basement that’s unfinished you can dig a hole a little bit bigger than the safe, put the safe and face up and pour concrete around it. You can then bury it under maybe 6 inches of dirt level it out and throw some debris on top. Pretty secure.
I got a rule about hiding anything of value in just anything. If you hide cash in say a tennis ball the person that breaks in might decide he or she really likes that ball and leaves with it. So I'd never put anything in anything that is mobile.
Maybe distributing the preps in many different locations throughout the home such as in the closets, under furniture, in the spaces under your fitted kitchen. Having it sorted all over means even if someone finds some they're unlikely to find it all.
I’m going to do this in tubs. I’m trying to figure out the appropriate Amy of what for each tub. Then I’ll put an emergency supply in different spaces
I'm considering putting some more round concrete piers under my house. I guess they could be square but the idea is you cut a hole in the floor for access somewhere has the piers appear to be solid under the house but actually are hollow with say 6 inch pc pipe burried as far as you wish. It can look underneath like a beam is being held up. Access could be anywhere in the house. Maybe even in a closet or in a wall. Just somewhere.
I take it you never host Easter egg hunts at your place.
LOL
Hell no lol!
Easter egg shooters, never lost one yet.lol
I recently found an egg that I hid 5 years ago.
K Foster did you eat it?
I used to do this for a living.
Old 'Fake' fuse panel box with 'high voltage' wires, put your stuff behind it.
Lower door hinge, pop it open, mortise a hole, put in jewelry.
Old lady had a two carat diamond ring in an old shoe while having an old steel safe in the room. When she passed they finally open the safe and found it empty. They look in the obvious place but she fooled them.
I found the ring 10pm at night two years after she died in a room filled with 40 large boxes one shot. A bit of a scary story, but I now believe in ghosts because of how I found it. 100% impossible to find without something guiding me in a dark 10 room deserted apartment. Hide in plain site.
I reinforced a home once, later on drug dealers took it over, drug raid couldn't break in, Police made new law to use small explosives next time.
You can get one of those old school TVs. Like a 36 inch and take out the insides . Put it in the basement like its trash.
Underneath kitchen cabinets is hollow, hidden behind decorative wood called "kick plate" this is easily removed and there is actually quite a bit of space in there for anything that's not taller than 5" or so... You can get low profile storage containers that are designed to go under your bed but will fit under there.
When times are good, thieves will first go for the bedroom. If times are bad, they will first go for the kitchen.
There is a type of thief that, regardless if times are good or bad, they always go for TVs and other expensive items that have no value when times are bad. You know who they are.
@@dawnpanell8399 That is sad.....
I don't fully agree with signage about having security cameras. Out in the rual areas, police are 15+ minutes away. My next-door neighbor son (a police officer) say this just tells the burglar I have something of value. If I'm home we use shoot shovel and shut up
Just a thought. Why not create a device where a burgler gets his hand mangled up trying to retrieve bogus jewels . Have two containers . One says cash . Another says jewellery. Both having a small opening only for a hand .Inside glass shavings and Razer blades. The not so smart thief gets a bloody surprise. 😁
When my house was robbed while I was visiting my newborn daughter they broke the back door window and reached in to unlatch the door. Since I had to go back to the hospital and didn't have time to repair it I made a quick trap (the detective investigating the robbery laughed and said it was ok when he saw it). I took an extension cord and removed one end and put the bare wires on either side of the latch and plugged it in. It wouldn't kill the theif but the shock would cause him to quickly pull his hand back. The jagged glass would shred his arm and he'd leave a blood trail. I was actually disappointed when he didn't return. (I knew it was the kids across the street but didn't pursue it.) The reason the detective said it was ok was because the house was locked and it would be considered illegal entry it he stuck his hand in there.
@@edpietila2026 😁That's awesome. You're a smart man . I like that.
If you have a bugout property simply bury the stuff off site of the main building. Even then, scatter old nuts and bolts around that area to throw off metal detectors. Once you know a method works, consider planting a tree or bush directly on top of it. It will take some effort getting to, but it wont be stolen. In rural areas, consider burying one of those half sized shipping containers. You could do a full sized, but for just storage, that seems a but much. I would also just highly recommend getting a large Liberty safe and bolting it to the foundation. Unless they have a few hours AND industrial power tools, they aren't getting into that safe. To further protect yourself, encase the sides and top of the safe with cinder blocks reinforced with rebar and filled with concrete. This way, if they DO manage to have some power tools, they have to go through the thickest part of the safe, the front.
I once would hide money from myself to keep from spending it quickly. Put it in a hard to reach place, forget about it, and find it months later.
I hid $340.00 when I was drunk in a Vaseline jar. Found it last month. Yaaaaaay!
lol my mom used to do that..she had no memory issues, she was just devious when it came to shit like that..I used to tell her yep mom here we go again you outsmarted yourself....
I wouldn’t hide valuables in a soup can - shtf soup is more likely to be stolen than anything else.
For long term storage consider a hollowed out tree stump. Let plants or grass grow around it. It should open at bottom. Use waterproof containers. Seal the opening. 🤫.
Important documents....under the ironing board cover.
Or cash!
@@theoriginalkeepercreek Cash will be a good thing to store but will be worthless if the entire grid remains down for an extended length of time....such as when the food runs out. By then, food will be worth more than cash. It would be better to store seeds under the ironing board cover. And if you can find a good hiding spot, store a solar-powered grow light, replacement bulbs, toilet paper, powdered lime, fertilizer, cigarette lighters or fire starter kit, knives with sharpening stone, fishing line, life-preserver, slingshot, a bow and arrows, water, bleach, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, salt, honey and wool blankets, jackets, socks, hats, gloves, scarves, emergency blankets.....just to name a few.
Waterproof it. Steam iron tipping hazard.
If you have a workshop area, you can empty out and clean some old paint cans/buckets, fill them with your valuables, and store them in plain sight. This thought also just dawned on me: Do you think metal paint cans would be EMP proof if you clean off any finish between the lid and can and seal them up?
I would imagine so, but be sure to put some kind of insulator on the inside of the can (Not sure if the paint would be enough) so your objects aren't in contact with the metal.
If you had enough time, energy, money, and resources you could make a false floor covering a whole room! All the non-perishable items and things you can leave without worrying about moisture or having to ever get access to until a real tragedy arises can be stored there. A false wall can obviously work too and most people won’t look for that but some may. A real solid floor over the top of stable boxes or another way to effectively support in a way that is not going to make weird hollow sounds, shift, or crack would be excellent.
One very interesting video that I have found that relates to this is advice from a former thief titled:
Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions
As most of us have (hopefully) never stolen anything or broken into any houses, it is very difficult to truly understand the mindset of an individual who does that, and we often underestimate their intellect, ingenuity, and planning. Listening to a man who single-handedly broke into hundreds of houses in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas for over 20 years before finally being caught, is a truly sobering experience. He provides some amazing stories and advice that anyone who is at all interested in hardening their house should absolutely watch.
Here is the link:
ua-cam.com/video/DtwD-c9hn58/v-deo.html
Everybody should really watch it, it is so informative.
Thanks for the title of the video. I just watched it and it was really great!
Thanks I will def check that out like right now!
Fantastic video
awesome video, I shared that UA-cam vid on my FB, everyone needs to see it...thankYOU!
When my nan died we found about 5k lying around in the house in cassette cases and rolled up socks. Pretty sure the charity shop probably got a few hundred quid in accidental donations but we were just gutted she never bought the boiler she said she said she couldn't afford. Anyway the moral of the story is if you are hiding valuable stuff leave a list somewhere
We had a neighbor whose wife died and a few years later his children convinced him to sell his house and move closer to them. As they were going through all the stuff in the house, they found several hundred dollars that his wife had hidden and hadn't told him about. I think they found around a $1000. So it is a good idea to let someone you trust know you have hidden money somewhere in the house.
Put a aip ie through the emergency release latch of garage door openers. Too many thieves have been able to engage the openers using a hanger from the outside.
by a canning machine put your valuables in with a lot of sand and sow dust so it mimics the weight of some canned food. Buy a can of said food and remove its label. Carefully put the label on the can with the valuables. Store it with other cans with the same label.
Half walls (4-6" deep). Face it nice and pretty, keep the backside open, put a shelf on top. Shove it against the wall, and shove you couch or other furniture in front of it. Just remember which walls are bombarded by the sun all day.
Build your own dressers. Put a 6" deep compartment in the back, maybe make it a side drawer.
For that matter. Your interior walls aren't insulated. Next time you consider renovating, think about how you could make use of that space. Granted, drywall is a fire retardant, so keep that in mind too (my trailer is all paneling, so I lose no fire containment if I fuck around with the walls).
Properly installer flooring is a luxury. I am a flooring installer, and I am going to tell you right now, your flooring is destined for the landfill once it is installed; there is ZERO resale value to it. Having said that, there are plenty of floor coverings that can hide your plywood without being properly secured; kanga hide carpet, carpet tiles, cushion lino, etc, be clear with the retailer you don't want it secured to the floor. If you're lucky enough, your basement ceiling is tiled, not drywalled; mark out where your plumbing and electrical is, and then determine where your traffic zones are (very important, do not forget this); any part of the floor left over can be used for hidden compartments.
Bought an old house that has 3k gal cistern, put a small shed on the corner dug a side entrance made a door for the cistern room and turned out to be a nice room for various items. 😉
Lol ... building codes you say. Yup, I check with my local building inspector when hiding preps. 😂🤣
Good vid. But a little semantics here. Cover is protection from being struck by projectiles, concealment is protection from being seen. Dark areas, bushes etc provide an intruder with concealment, not cover. Just saying. 😬
Hide stuff in canning jars in active honeybee hives.
Great idea.
My great-grandmother used to hide 5's, 10's, and 20's in opened junk mail letters scattered around her house. She was a hoarder, and she new it, and she used it to her advantage.
I used to hide money in books. Now I can't remember if I still have any there, not that it matters, they're probably not worth anything as we printed new money 5 years ago or so.
@@RannonSi Most places don't even look at the dates on dollar bills or coins. Some do, but most don't. All they care about is that you're paying to buy stuff. Heck, most places don't check to see if dollars are fake anymore unless a manager-zilla works there.
@@RannonSi in Canada we still accept and use older generation and style bills.
@@WorldWalker128 we changed the bills entirely, so they have different colours, sizes and people on them nowadays.
@@AKA_GRIM_JONES_MUSIC One of the reasons they changed them was to make it harder to counter fit them. And they gave them a make over, as well.
I used to be a dealer, so I have a million hiding spots. There are companies that will come and install hiding places of all sizes. Even cops/DEA that are trained to search will miss them. I have a couple of large, quality gun safes (I have a lot of guns) that bolt to the floor and they're huge and heavy. I carry and keep guns close at hand in my house so, if they go for the cases of ammo in my walk in closet, they'll be shot (if they're still alive when they eventually gain entry (if a door can be opened, it an be breached, and I can shim a padlock in seconds). My powerful (legally RXd) opioids, benzos (the good prescriptions) are hidden so well I'd have to actually tell you where they are. My house is hard to find (in rural, wooded, mountainous area), and marauders would be seen coming up the dirt road well before they got to the house and made a bunch of noise getting in (I know how to barricade) and negotiating the path and the anti personnel and vehicle traps they'd have to get past.
My uncle has 12 handguns hidden different places in the house. My aunt thinks he's nuts. I think its just being prepared.
I think 12 is a little excessive. Your aunt may be on to something.
Has he ever considered just carrying one on him.?
No surprise your aunt thinks he's nuts, she's a woman. She will never understand.
RetroJoe Yes he is obsessed and compulsive? Especially in a small home? Shoulder holster?
your uncle IS nuts.... sorry to break it up for you
Hide valuables in with Christmas decorations in garage or attic. Garden shed
You read my mind CP! I was just thinking about developing more creative hiding spots. Thank you for your high quality, well researched videos.
They would be so disappointed with my place. They probably wouldn't even want the TV, which is the highest value out of everything 😅
Mine the same!
I have seen too many movies to think that under the sink or behind the toilet are great hiding places.
When we were a young married couple (~35 years ago), we use to hide condoms behind all the paintings in the house. Then one day someone wanted to see one of them up close and took it off the hook... and then a condom fell on the floor! She was more embarrassed than me.
I like the idea of the false pipes and such, but not the outlet as some people mentioned - they are sold everywhere. TFS, Nicole
Don't leave tools laying about outside. Don't depend on powered systems for alerts, such as cameras and alarms, unless you have a truly independent power and data management setup...most of the rest of us will have to make do with crunchy gravel, rattling fences, nightingale floors. Maintained gardens and grounds scare off robbers as they suggest a greater likelyhood of being observed by a caretaker. Please don't use dogs solely for guarding, also pet treats get around most dogs easily, especially if they are poisoned; so be careful to train a guard dog to not accept treats from strangers.
Epiphany...If thieves broke into your house, and only got the decoys, well...they know how to get into your house, and can readily presume there is better stuff remaining.
If I hid something in trash, I would probably mess up & throw it away. Lol A flock of geese in your yard are a good deterrent. They are very territorial and will viciously attack any intruder, not to mention the very loud alarm they make!
For "up and under" hiding of cash, neodymium magnets and double-sided, self-adhesive pads are the way to go.
I have a steel tobacco tin in the kitchen that is stuck on magnets that are attached under wall cupboards using the pads. I can grab in a second but it's almost impossible to spot if you don't know where it is.
Great for grabbing cash if you need to leave quickly or even to just have instant cash to pay for a pizza or taxi.
We had a burglar in our neighborhood. Nailed people really bad. Our neighbor put on wrought iron window covers. He hit everyone but us, because we had a dog, a big loving golden retriever we gotten at the Humane Society. He probably would have licked the burglar to death, but he was a very good deterrent and we didn't even know it! He was a good friend, and he gave us benefits we didn't know about.
I was hoping to find out where I could hide my PREPPING supplies, but more than half the video was about jewelery and money. I'm sorry but in a SHTF scenario, money & jewelry are not items marauding bands of people will be looking for. FOOD WATER... most of the video should have been about that. I had to fast forward to the end of the video. I'm just sayin
I'm only making this comment because the video's title was about PREPPING SUPPLIES.
The absolute best place to hide stuff from criminals is a place that is not easily gotten into. Likewise it is not easily accessible to you either. Going along the lines of false walls, but not false walls. Use your real existing walls. Cut a piece of the drywall out and hide whatever it is in the wall cavity. Then replace the the drywall. Tape and mud it over. Then repaint.
There is no way any thief is going to find that hiding spot. Ever.
When i got robbed a few years ago. They even took my wedding dress and grandmother's rings in a safe :(, turned my bed over, took my toilet paper, tv, No Joke. They had all weekend to look in my place and they did.
Wow. That's just wrong.
They stole a friend of mines condoms. Other things also but he kept saying "They even stole my condoms!". Then he replaced everything and they came back a month later and stole all his new stuff. He moved!
The people who previously lived in our apartment installed a drywall triangle so they can mount their tv facing the room corner with the couch in it.
Behind that is just dead space! I even asked the owner of the house if there were pipes or cables or anything running through but he said its just wasted space and I could take the wall out or not, he wouldn´t mind. For a place to hide stuff, this is about a square meter of dreams coming true! I have yet to figure out how I would do it (and get permission from my roommate XD)
but this is definitely a prime feature of my home! (Also the low rent the best landlord EVER!)
Without expanding I rely on traps. I have them at key points around the perimeter of my house and inside.
I also keep bats, knives, blackjacks, etc. dispersely hidden so at any opportunity I can grab a weapon and mount a surprise attack.
Remember, anything used craftly is a weapon.
Last but not the least: gadgets; hidden & visible cameras, fake mix with reality, alarm systems, etc. And common sense; do not talk about your PREP details to anyone.
Remember, your friend also has a vest friend who has a friend!!!
Get the point!
You can buy fishing treble hooks, spool of clear fishing string, tie them all around your house, anyone that gets caught in these will have to go to the hospital to have them removed...Also you could dip the hooks in mayonaise and make someone really sick.
@@raymondwagoner4896 Like it!
@@raymondwagoner4896 please give me some instruction or website link to show how to do this. TY
My diggenest dog gave me a wonderful idea when someone started stalking me and listening/murmuring outside my north window in the wee hours of the night after I blew the whistle on a higher-up at work who was raping young foreign Christian Ethiopians who had to work for 3 years with the company in order to get citizenship. I dug a deep hole in the ground under the window - just like that old dog had all over my backyard. Then I collected dog shit (owned 4 large dogs) over about 4 days and filled the hole which was almost 2 feet deep but only about a foot across. I lightly covered it with dirt and grass. A few days later, very tired and stressed out by the targeting of the sick, mean creeps, I called an electrician to put a sensor light outside of the window. He came with his apprentice and I took them around the side of the house where the window was, all the while questioning him on how sensitive the light was, etc., completely forgetting about.....Well, when the electrician, not his apprentice, suddenly sank, mid sentence, knee deep in the shit, then started sputtering in wonder, then horror and finally disgust, the incongruity of it hit and I started laughing so hard I cried. I couldn't stop, all the while trying to explain what had happened, between the uncontrollable peals of laughter which had infected his apprentice who succumbed to the pure hilarity and doubled over. Finally even my unintended victim belly laughed, despite the rank smell and gross muck he found himself in. Ive come to understand God has a helluva sense of humor! I kept refreshing the hole after the sensor light was installed as I'd learned those guys were more than capable of dismantling lights when I'd go for groceries or whatever. Eventually I had to sell and move. Life in the Canadian West in 2003.
Try using light switches. Inside a ceiling fan.bekind a door frame.crown molding if you have some...Stairways lift up a stair put things in there nail it back down...Just think and use your common Sense there are so many palaces to hid things. Don't use Philip or Flat head screws use ones that you have to have a special tool to use to open