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How to hide valuables, Picasso originals and other useful things that for some reason you can’t eat or put in your hair right now.

Andrey Nevtonov

Vlad Lesnikov

There is very little money, gold or original Picasso in the world. But there are a lot of people. This tragic dissonance leads to the need to hide valuables. Not only from intruders - after all, they may not be able to get into your apartment. It’s much easier for them to wait for you on the street, because as a reward for your patience they get not only your money, but also the chance to hit you on the head with a piece of pipe!

Alas, in addition to thieves, who do not visit you very often, there are other dark personalities who love to rummage through your things. These are, firstly, wives looking for evidence that you have a mistress.

And secondly, mistresses looking for evidence of your wife. And mind you, we have not yet said a word about the police officers, who also have the right to come to you, especially if you put a secret sign of a safe house on the windowsill - a pot of seedlings...

In general, if you have something to hide, we won’t ask where you got it from or whether you can buy another one for cheap - we’ll just tell you how to hide a valuable item in the walls of an apartment, office or even a hotel room. Experts will help us with this: Colonel of the GPU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Ivan Bulych-Bulakhovsky and Michael Connor, author of the book “How to Hide Anything,” which was once banned for distribution in the United States. To equip a hiding place, you will need nothing at all: a lighter, a screwdriver, a drill, a jigsaw and superglue. Oh yes, more hands!

1. Do robots dream of electric money?

57%

MEN DO NOT THINK ABOUT WHERE TO HIDE THE MONEY, LEAVING THE CARE OF THEM TO THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS

Although it may seem that thieves are not friends with common sense (after all, they simply take money instead of earning it through hard labor!), in fact, this is not the case. No attacker, for example, would risk his life in vain. Therefore, it is most logical to hide valuable things in places where you yourself are afraid to put your hands under fear of death or injury.

A trap or a neighbor's wife satisfies these conditions, but there is also a simpler hiding place - a socket! Turn off the electricity in the apartment and remove the plastic cover from the outlet. There will probably be a hole in the wall underneath, full of menacing wires. Among them it is quite possible to hide money or psychotropic drugs that compromise you. If the hole is big enough, there will even be room for a chained hamster to guard the hiding place!

Just keep in mind that the objects you hide in the outlet should not conduct current. It would be a good idea to wrap any treasure with a rubber glove just in case.

Pros Girls experience an almost sacred horror of electrical outlets. So there's no better place for a secret late-night sandwich, dirty socks, or sentimental mementos left over from your ex.

Cons If you have absolutely no knowledge of electrical engineering, the risk of causing a short circuit is still very high.

2. You seem to be hooked

If you have already joined the ranks of those rare lucky people whose apartment has a toilet, consider that you have received an almost ready-made cache. And we don’t mean a banal cistern, because this “safe” is one of the checked ones - in the sense that thieves check it first. No, look deeper.

If you remove the lid of the tank (check at the same time to see if there is any money left there from the previous owners of the apartment), then in most cases there will be water under it. A float will dangle on its surface - a plastic bulb on a stick that controls the ebb and flow of water in the tank.

Turn off the water and with a decisive movement unscrew the float. You will have a good fist-sized container in your hands, capable of holding a rolled up wad of money or, for example, a spare fist. Pushing bills one at a time through a narrow hole is a troublesome task. So we suggest cutting the float, stuffing it with treasure, and sealing the seam with superglue. Better yet, brew it with a lighter or a not too hot soldering iron.

Pros The beauty of a hiding place is that thieves will probably look in the cistern, and when they are sure that the money is not taped on the inside, they will return the lid to its place and will not lift it again (usually they do not have much time to check every potential hiding place twice ).

Cons It will be difficult to get to the treasures when you urgently need them yourself (for example, if thieves find you at home and start torturing you with a soldering iron, begging you to give them money). In addition, there is a risk of damaging the float or reducing its displacement, stopping the operation of the toilet.

3. Pipe to nowhere

The detective writer F. Dürrenmatt liked to repeat: they say, if you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest. If you extrapolate this advice, it turns out that the money should be hidden among other money (which you will have to borrow from friends). However, Dürrenmatt should not be taken literally. He just wanted to say that what is least striking is what does not disturb the natural setting.

What are you used to seeing in the bathroom? A stack of MAXIM, summer tires, but most importantly, pipes. They fit so naturally into the interior of a toilet or bathroom that no one would think of counting the pipes or wondering why they are there and where they go. And this is your trump card.

Find somewhere (at a landfill or in a store) a pipe similar to those installed in your apartment. Take a suitable scrap and hide the valuables inside it. Then mount it parallel to a real pipe - for example, the one that goes from the sink to the main line, or to those on which the taps are located that shut off the water supply. There is no better place for a hiding place.

Pros When changing housing, valuables can be easily transported along with the pipe and hidden in a new place.

Cons If you contract amnesia somewhere, even professional detectives are unlikely to help you find the hiding place.

4. In the wilds of foam rubber

28%

PEOPLE DO NOT HIDE VALUABLE ITEMS AT HOME, BUT KEEP IT IN OBVIOUS PLACES SO THAT THIEVES AT LEAST DON’T STEAL ANYTHING WHEN BREAKING INTO THE APARTMENT

People figured out how to make hiding places in the foam rubber of sofas and armchairs a long time ago. The thieves, in turn, guessed that people guessed about it. Therefore, they often remove the upholstery from the furniture and see if there is a hole in the foam with treasure. If it is not discovered, the upholstery is carefully nailed into place (a joke, of course; thieves have nothing else to do - nail the upholstery).

Fool everyone! Not only remove the cover from the sofa, but also take out some of the foam rubber. Then cut a hole in the part that is not visible upon quick inspection. Or use a blade to make a slit, stick your hand in there and cut out a hiding place deep in the foam.

When you pull your hand out (one day you will have to do this, otherwise the thieves will guess that there is something in the foam rubber since you are sitting there), the edges of the crack will close and the hiding place will become inaccessible. You can nail the upholstery using a regular stapler. Or using something unusual.

Pros If you hide valuables close to the surface, you can always make sure that they are in place by simply sitting on the sofa.

Cons Sometimes sofas are stuffed not with foam rubber, but with small rubbish that scatters throughout the apartment as soon as the upholstery is removed. And in cardboard boxes, which replace chairs for most bachelors, it is generally inconvenient to hide valuables.

5. Magnetic front

One of the few hiding places (one of two, to be honest) that can be equipped even in an unfamiliar place. For example, in a hotel room or a bank vault. One condition: you must have a refrigerator at your disposal. It doesn’t have to be working; a model not connected to an outlet will do. All you need is a door.

The magnets that hold it closed are usually enclosed in a rubber braid. Bend it back and cut it with a razor blade in an inconspicuous place. Some of the magnets will be easy to remove (they are usually separated into segments, and if not, the soft material can easily be crushed or broken with bare hands).

The door will continue to close; half the magnets will be enough to secure it. The resulting rubber groove can easily hide rolled up bills, columns of activated carbon tablets and other small items.

Pros The refrigerator is perhaps the only electrical appliance that burglars rarely remove due to its size.

Cons If they do take it away, they are unlikely to be able to use the stolen valuables, they are so well hidden. It's doubly offensive. Not for yourself, not for people.

6. Rattling curtains

Another hiding place that can often be found even in a hotel is a curtain rod in the bathroom. Usually this tube with rings turns out to be hollow. Removing it is as easy as shelling pears if you have at least one hand. It is also easy to remove the rubber knob.

Make sure that the valuable item is smaller in diameter than the cornice tube. The fact that it won't fit is not so bad. In the end, money can be cut into circles that can easily fit into a cornice. It's worse if the item slips to the middle of the tube and gets stuck there. Then the thieves will have to cut down the cornice - but you don’t want to once again bother people who already have little time to spare?

Pros You can hang a curtain on the cornice. Close it when you take a shower, and those terrible puddles will no longer accumulate on the floor!

Cons If the tube turns out to be solid rather than hollow, it will have to be drilled out with a drill. Okay, if this happens at a hotel, you can always ask for a drill at the reception. But where can a normal person get a drill at home?

7. Green and fluffy

77%

MEN ARE NOT SURE THAT KEEPING MONEY AT HOME IS A GOOD IDEA, BUT 43% STORE IT SO

Since you still have a corpse in your refrigerator, a small, inconspicuous saucepan of aspic is unlikely to attract attention. So hide your valuables in it! If the dish is opaque and unsightly, the item lying on the bottom and wrapped in plastic will be difficult to notice.

The ideal option is to forget the pan for so long that its contents have time to become moldy on top. Disgust is a powerful deterrent.

Pros: In pots with opaque food (borscht, mashed potatoes, Coca-Cola) you can hide anything in a couple of seconds. So, if you always have something like that in your refrigerator or on the stove, a search will never take you by surprise.

Cons If thieves break into your apartment when you're hungry, they might take away your food as well.

8. Extreme anxiety

The metal edging at the end of the tabletop, or, as normal people call it, “that crap that’s on the side of the table,” is good not only because it leaves puffs on clothes. With proper skill, you can hide various necessary things behind it.

Unscrew the frame using a regular screwdriver. Use a drill to make several holes in the exposed end. Using a narrow jigsaw or even a file, remove the bridges between the holes - they are usually made of an easy-to-grow material.

When you're done, you'll have an excellent narrow pencil case at your disposal, the depth of which is limited only by your needs (and partly by the size of the original table). Once you return the edging to its place, the contents of the pencil case will be hidden from prying eyes. Voila!

Pros The end is unscrewed, as a rule, at kitchen tables. This means that the cache will last you five, or even ten years: kitchen sets are updated less often than other furniture.

Cons It's not difficult to get to the hiding place, but to do this you will always have to have a screwdriver on hand. So you will have to take it from your neighbor for good or even buy it.

9. False rod

6,1%

MEN HAVE HID A STAGE AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR LIFE, AND THEN FORGOT WHERE IT LIEED

A variation on the theme of the hiding place, already described above, is a decoy socket. Instead of digging through the wires, risking your life, just make a box out of plywood (or steal a finished birdhouse from your nephew and saw off the roof), put valuable items in it and wall it up in the wall.

Screw the socket cover to the outside of the wall. That's it, the fake is ready!

To distract your eyes, you can even stick a device into it that you hardly use, for example, a vacuum cleaner, iron or electric chair.

Pros A decoy socket repels no worse than a real one, but has even greater capacity.

Cons It would be good to fill the hole for the box at the renovation stage. Picking out wires from a ready-made socket is a troublesome task. In addition, you may one day realize why one of your sockets is not working. If you start repairing it, you will feel stupid.

10. Every needle makes you happy

If you are one of those people who keep cacti near their computer in the hope that they will save them from harmful radiation, then, firstly, you are a victim of a myth. And secondly, you have another almost finished cache.

Remove the cactus from the pot by eroding the soil around its roots. Don't be afraid to hurt him! Cacti can survive for some time without any roots at all, so if you tear off a couple, nothing bad will happen.

Now cut out the core of the cactus at the bottom. If you are not a latent Greenpeace supporter, this will not be difficult to do. Hide the money inside and dig the cactus back into the pot. It may occur to thieves to poke the ground with a probe. But they are unlikely to get involved with the cactus itself. Thieves generally don't like pets.

Pros Cacti come in different shapes and sizes, and their abundance in an apartment is unlikely to confuse anyone. So, if you want, you can hide anything in cacti, including smaller cacti!

Pull everything out and carefully remove the back walls. Then shorten them using a hacksaw or jigsaw (if the boxes have external tin runners, shorten them too by cutting a piece from the middle). Then screw the back walls into place. Place the drawers back into the chest of drawers, hiding the skeleton behind them.

Now, if someone pokes around in the chest of drawers, he will have the full feeling that short drawers are a strange whim of the woodworker. Just make sure you don't accidentally saw off the latches that prevent the drawer from sliding out entirely. Otherwise, thieves will quickly reveal the secret and laugh at you.

Pros If you have a large chest of drawers, behind the supposedly short drawers you can hide even a Rubens painting, or even his model, not to mention a stack of porn magazines.

Cons Taking things out of a cache is much more difficult than putting them there, so you are unlikely to be able to use its contents often. And one more thing: even if you are hiding a small item, you will have to shorten all the drawers - their different lengths can catch the thief’s eye.

One secret: the drywall will not be pressed if you put a sheet of plywood on it in advance, and then put a box or a wad of money on the plywood. The weight will be distributed over a larger area and the ceiling will not collapse.

The easiest way to access the cache is through the chandelier hole. If it is too small for you (for example, you want to stick your head into the cache and make sure its contents are safe), you can widen the hole. But, you understand, it will be easier to notice her this way.

By the way, the lamp, which you will then use to plug the hole again, can be coated around the edges with white toothpaste - this will create the illusion that the ceiling was whitened after the installation of the chandelier and it is tightly embedded. The effect will be even better than from a note pinned nearby: “There is no hiding place here, the chandelier is built in tightly.”

Pros Most halogen lamps are easily removed from their sockets, giving you constant access to the hiding place.

Cons Ideally, the hiding place should be planned at the renovation stage, otherwise the gap will probably be too narrow, and it will only be possible to place plywood under a heavy object from the neighbor’s apartment above. And even then only after dismantling the floor there in advance.

Privacy and security are natural human needs. Especially when you share an apartment with neighbors, over-caring relatives and other curious individuals. Here, a drawer for storing all sorts of secrets is clearly not enough. Yes, and you have to hide your stash somewhere. Of course, as the character in everyone’s favorite movie advised, “keep your money in a savings bank.” And it wouldn’t hurt to have a house a hiding place that is very easy to make yourself. After all, secrets must remain secrets.

Wealthy people often equip their homes with a real safe for valuables. We propose to implement an idea that is much more modest, but nevertheless reliable. If you have a rich library, it’s easy to “lose” a homemade book cache in it. Moreover, such a secret storage will be an unusual gift for a friend or loved one.

You will need:
1. Thick old book
2. Stationery knife
3. Scissors
4. Glue and brush
5. Ruler and pencil

To begin, remove the cover to avoid damaging it during your crafting session.

Turn the book over and do the same with the back cover. Like this. Now the book is separate, the binding is separate.

On the first page, use a pencil to outline the outline of the future hiding place. We advise you to retreat at least 5 cm from each edge, except for the one closer to the spine. We will cut it completely.

Arm yourself with a utility knife or even a jigsaw if you find one on the farm. We assume that you will still use the first option. In this case, do not cut a layer thicker than 20 pages “in one sitting.” Better slower and more careful.

Place the finished design resembling the letter “P” back into the cover. More precisely, glue it to one of the halves of the binding (but only to one: you want to open the cache, right?). Also treat the entire inside of the “P” with a thick layer of glue so that the pages do not separate from each other.

It’s better to glue the spine back too, so that the book doesn’t arouse any suspicion at all.

No matter how many valuables - money, jewelry, securities and documents - you have at home, you never want to lose them. And since intrusion by thieves is not uncommon today, you need to take care of their safety. Of course, you can hope that no trouble will happen to you, but it still wouldn’t hurt to play it safe and hide your most valuable things in a secret storage room.

Where to hide money is not worth it

Often, thieves already know all the “cunning” places where owners usually hide their treasures, so you should think a hundred times whether your hiding place will be the place where the scammer will go first.

You should not hide valuables in vases and flower pots.

Under no circumstances should you hide money and valuables in kitchen drawers and cabinets, in the refrigerator, in the oven and tray, in the microwave, or in the underground of kitchen furniture. Thieves will certainly look for money behind wall clocks, carpets and paintings, behind mirrors, under rugs and rugs, in bedside tables and chests of drawers. As a rule, all cabinets and their contents are carefully inspected: boxes of shoes, household appliances and CDs, boxes and drawers, bags, suitcases and even sets. The pockets of hanging clothes are carefully checked, and laundry from the shelves is dumped onto the floor and shaken up.

Burglars never ignore sofas, inspect pillows, the contents of the pallet and bedding, and rip up the interior upholstery. They usually also thoroughly inspect bookcases, especially those where there is no dust on the books. No matter how big the library may seem, a thief can look through it in a few minutes. You should not hide valuables in vases and flower pots. In the bathroom, burglars must check the drain barrel, the space under the bathtub and sink, various cabinets, and ventilation passages.

Where should you keep your money?

How then can you hide your hard-earned money if all the secluded places are already known to the attackers? The answer is simple: come up with new, original and non-obvious ones, disguise them as best as possible and make access to them as difficult as possible.

The most important precaution is not to store all your savings in one place, but to divide them into three or four stashes and hide them in different places in the apartment. It is best to select bills of different denominations and currencies in each of them, so that a thief, having found one of the caches, might think that these are all the savings available. For the same purpose, you can leave a small wad of money in a more accessible place so that the criminal is satisfied with it and stops looking further.

The most important precaution is not to store all your savings in one place, but to divide them into three or four stashes and hide them in different places in the apartment.

Try to store your valuables in places that require time and special tools to access. Burglars, as a rule, do not have much time and do everything hastily. But be prepared for the fact that you will also need some effort and additional preparation to create a reliable hiding place. The degree of complexity of the hiding place depends on its purpose: for money intended for daily expenses, you need to choose a design that can be easily opened every day, and for valuables “for a rainy day,” you should find a more inaccessible place.

Whatever type of hiding place you choose for your valuables, try to make it as unusual as possible and at the same time look natural and not arouse suspicion.

Quick access caches

A simple and inconspicuous hiding place can be made in jars of cucumbers or jam. To do this, take a large bolt, wrap it around the bills, wrap them in several plastic bags, secure with tape and put them in a jar. Similar storage can be made in a plastic bottle or tin can.

Bottle safe

Hiding places can be built into walls and pieces of furniture. For example, create a fake electrical outlet in which your valuables will lie instead of wires, or in the bathroom, attaching one of the tiles with magnets.

The hiding place can be installed in fake plastic heating pipes, in a door leaf, in a table drawer with a double bottom, in the legs of a wooden table, in the pipes of a curtain rod, in a thick candle. The video shows other ways to create a hiding place in your home.

If you will be storing your valuables for several years, you may want to take care of the more difficult to reach areas. The most optimal place will be where it is impossible to reach without a tool.

The most optimal place will be where it is impossible to reach without a tool.

Hide your valuables inside household appliances by unscrewing the lid and screwing it back: a burglar will not have so much time and patience to methodically open all the appliances. But do not use small and expensive equipment for this, which can be carried away along with the contents.

A more complex option is to arrange storage under the parquet. To do this, you need to remove several boards, use a chisel with a hammer or a hammer drill to make a recess in the floor, place your valuables packed in polyethylene in it, fill the remaining space with shavings or sand so that it is not revealed when tapped, and place the removed boards back on the glue. A similar hiding place can be arranged under the outermost board of the laminate, which is protected from opening by a plinth screwed to the wall. Such storage will be almost impossible to detect if medium-sized furniture stands in its place.

1 Do robots dream of electric money?

Although it may seem that thieves are not friends with common sense (after all, they simply take money instead of earning it through hard labor!), in fact, this is not the case. No attacker, for example, would risk his life in vain. Therefore, it is most logical to hide valuable things in places where you yourself are afraid to put your hands under fear of death or injury. A trap or a neighbor's wife satisfies these conditions, but there is also a simpler hiding place - a socket! Turn off the electricity in the apartment and remove the plastic cover from the socket. There will probably be a hole in the wall underneath, full of menacing wires. Among them it is quite possible to hide money or psychotropic drugs that compromise you. If the hole is big enough, there will even be room for a chained hamster to guard the hiding place! Just keep in mind that the objects you hide in the outlet should not conduct current. It would be a good idea to wrap any treasure with a rubber glove just in case.
+ Girls experience an almost sacred horror of electrical outlets. So there's no better place for a secret late-night sandwich, dirty socks, or sentimental mementos left over from your ex.
- If you have absolutely no knowledge of electrical engineering, the risk of causing a short circuit is still very high.

Looks like you're hooked

If you have already joined the ranks of those rare lucky people whose apartment has a toilet, consider that you have got an almost ready-made cache. And we don’t mean a banal cistern, because this “safe” is one of the tested ones - in the sense that thieves check it first. No, look deeper. If you remove the lid of the tank (check at the same time to see if there is any money left there from the previous owners of the apartment), then in most cases there will be water under it. A float will dangle on its surface - a plastic bulb on a stick that controls the ebb and flow of water in the tank. Turn off the water and with a decisive movement unscrew the float. You will have a good fist-sized container in your hands, capable of holding a rolled up wad of money or, for example, a spare fist. Pushing bills one at a time through a narrow hole is a troublesome task. So we suggest cutting the float, stuffing it with treasure, and sealing the seam with superglue. Better yet, brew it with a lighter or a not too hot soldering iron.
+ The beauty of a hiding place is that thieves will probably look into the cistern, and when they are sure that the money is not taped inside, they will return the lid to its place and will not lift it again (usually they do not have much time to check each potential hiding place twice ).
- It will be difficult to get to the treasures when you urgently need them yourself (for example, if thieves find you at home and start torturing you with a soldering iron, begging you to give them money). In addition, there is a risk of damaging the float or reducing its displacement, stopping the operation of the toilet.

Pipe to nowhere

Detective writer F. Dürrenmatt liked to repeat: if you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest. If you extrapolate this advice, it turns out that the money should be hidden among other money (which you will have to borrow from friends). However, Dürrenmatt should not be taken literally. He just wanted to say that what is least striking is what does not disturb the natural setting. What are you used to seeing in the bathroom? A stack of porn magazines, summer tires, but most importantly, pipes. They fit so naturally into the interior of a toilet or bathroom that no one would think of counting the pipes or wondering why they are there and where they go. And this is your trump card. Find somewhere (at a landfill or in a store) a pipe similar to those installed in your apartment. Take a suitable scrap and hide the valuables inside it. Then mount it parallel to a real pipe - for example, the one that goes from the sink to the main line, or to those on which the taps are located that shut off the water supply. There is no better place for a hiding place.
+ When changing housing, valuables can be easily transported along with the pipe and hidden in a new place.
- If you contract amnesia somewhere, even professional detectives are unlikely to help you find the hiding place.

In the wilds of foam rubber

People figured out how to make hiding places in the foam rubber of sofas and armchairs a long time ago. The thieves, in turn, guessed that people guessed about it. Therefore, they often remove the upholstery from furniture and see if there is a hole in the foam with treasure. If it is not discovered, the upholstery is carefully nailed into place (a joke, of course; thieves have nothing else to do - nail the upholstery). Fool everyone! Not only remove the cover from the sofa, but also take out some of the foam. Then cut a hole in the part that is not visible upon quick inspection. Or use a blade to make a slit, stick your hand in there and cut out a hiding place deep in the foam. When you pull your hand out (you'll have to do this one day, otherwise the thieves will figure out that there's something in the foam rubber since you're sitting there), the edges of the crack will close and the hiding place will become inaccessible. You can nail the upholstery using a regular stapler. Or using something unusual.
+ If you hide valuables close to the surface, you can always make sure that they are in place by simply sitting on the sofa.
- Sometimes sofas are stuffed not with foam rubber, but with such small rubbish that scatters throughout the apartment as soon as the upholstery is removed. And in cardboard boxes, which replace chairs for most bachelors, it is generally inconvenient to hide valuables.

Magnetic front

One of the few hiding places (one of two, to be honest) that can be equipped even in an unfamiliar place. For example, in a hotel room or a bank vault. One condition: you must have a refrigerator at your disposal. It doesn’t have to be working – a model not connected to an outlet will do. All you need is a door. The magnets that hold it closed are usually enclosed in a rubber braid. Bend it back and cut it with a razor blade in an inconspicuous place. Some of the magnets will be easy to remove (they are usually divided into segments, and if not, the soft material can easily be crushed or broken with bare hands). The door will still close - half the magnets will be enough to fix it. And in the resulting rubber groove you can easily hide rolled up bills, columns of activated carbon tablets and other small objects.
+ The refrigerator is perhaps the only electrical appliance that burglars rarely remove due to its size.
- If they do take it away, they are unlikely to be able to use the stolen valuables, they are so well hidden. It's doubly offensive. Not for yourself, not for people.

The rattling of curtains

Another hiding place that can often be found even in a hotel is a curtain rod in the bathroom. Usually this tube with rings turns out to be hollow. Removing it is as easy as shelling pears if you have at least one hand. It is also easy to remove the rubber knob. Make sure that the valuable item is smaller in diameter than the cornice tube. The fact that it won't fit is not so bad. In the end, money can be cut into circles that can easily fit into a cornice. It's worse if the item slips to the middle of the tube and gets stuck there. Then the thieves will have to cut down the cornice - but you don’t want to once again bother people who are already short on time?
+ You can hang a curtain on the cornice. Close it when you take a shower, and those terrible puddles will no longer accumulate on the floor!
- If the tube turns out to be solid rather than hollow, it will have to be drilled out with a drill. Okay, if this happens at a hotel, you can always ask for a drill at the reception. But where can a normal person get a drill at home?

Green and fluffy

Since you still have a corpse in your refrigerator, a small, inconspicuous saucepan of aspic is unlikely to attract attention. So hide your valuables in it! If the dish is opaque and unsightly, the item lying on the bottom and wrapped in plastic will be difficult to notice. The ideal option is to forget the pan for so long that its contents have time to become moldy on top. Disgust is a powerful deterrent.
+ In pots with opaque food (borscht, mashed potatoes, Coca-Cola) you can hide anything in a couple of seconds. So, if you always have something like that in your refrigerator or on the stove, a search will never take you by surprise.
- If thieves break into your apartment hungry, they can take away food at the same time.

Extreme nervousness

The metal edging at the end of the tabletop, or, as normal people call it, “that crap that’s on the side of the table,” is good not only because it leaves puffs on clothes. With proper skill, you can hide various necessary things behind it. For example, this magazine (just hide it after you finish reading this paragraph, otherwise you won’t know where to look later). Unscrew the frame using a regular screwdriver. Use a drill to make several holes in the exposed end. Using a narrow jigsaw or even a file, remove the bridges between the holes - they are usually made of easy-to-grip material. When you're done, you'll have an excellent narrow pencil case at your disposal, the depth of which is limited only by your needs (and partly by the size of the original table). Once you return the edging to its place, the contents of the pencil case will be hidden from prying eyes. Voila!
+ The end is unscrewed, as a rule, at kitchen tables. This means that the cache will last you five, or even ten years: kitchen sets are updated less often than other furniture.
- Getting to the hiding place is not difficult, but to do this you will always have to have a screwdriver on hand. So you will have to take it from your neighbor for good or even buy it.

false stock

A variation on the theme of the hiding place, already described above, is a decoy socket. Instead of digging through the wires, risking your life, just make a box out of plywood (or steal a finished birdhouse from your nephew and saw off the roof), put valuable items in it and wall it up in the wall. Screw the outlet cover to the wall from the outside. That's it, the fake is ready! To avert your eyes, you can even stick an appliance into it that you hardly use, for example, a vacuum cleaner, iron or electric chair.
+ A decoy socket repels no worse than a real one, but has even greater capacity.
- It would be good to fill the hole for the box at the repair stage. Picking out wires from a ready-made socket is a troublesome task. In addition, you may one day realize why one of your sockets is not working. If you start repairing it, you will feel stupid.

Every needle makes me happy

If you are one of those people who keep cacti near their computer in the hope that they will save them from harmful radiation, then, firstly, you are a victim of a myth. And secondly, you have another almost finished cache. Remove the cactus from the pot by eroding the soil around its roots. Don't be afraid to hurt him! Cacti can survive for some time without any roots at all, so if you tear off a couple, nothing bad will happen. Now cut out the core of the cactus at the bottom. If you are not a latent Greenpeace supporter, this will not be difficult to do. Hide the money inside and dig the cactus back into the pot. Thieves might think of poking the ground with a probe. But they are unlikely to get involved with the cactus itself. Thieves generally don't like pets.
+ Cacti come in different shapes and sizes, and their abundance in an apartment is unlikely to confuse anyone. So, if you want, you can hide anything in cacti, including smaller cacti!
- Due to frequent fiddling with thorny plants, your fingers will be pricked, so your friends will suspect that you are either an exhibitionist drug addict or a paranoid person who often donates blood from his finger.

Man in a case

As we have written more than once, getting rid of an unnecessary corpse will not be difficult if you have a pair of tame vultures. But what to do if they are not there, but, on the contrary, there is a corpse? Or, say, if you want to equip a secret shelter for yourself or simply hide a large item? In this case, a chest of drawers or any floor cabinet with drawers will help you. Pull everything out and carefully remove the back walls. Then shorten them using a hacksaw or jigsaw (if the boxes have external tin runners, shorten them too by cutting a piece from the middle). Then screw the back walls into place. Place the drawers back into the chest of drawers, hiding the skeleton behind them. Now, if someone pokes around in the chest of drawers, he will have the full feeling that short drawers are a strange whim of the woodworker. Just make sure you don't accidentally saw off the latches that prevent the drawer from sliding out entirely. Otherwise, thieves will quickly reveal the secret and laugh at you.
+ If you have a large chest of drawers, behind the supposedly short drawers you can hide even a Rubens painting, or even his model, not to mention a stack of porn magazines.
- Pulling things out of a hiding place is much more difficult than putting them there, so you are unlikely to be able to use its contents often. And one more thing: even if you are hiding a small item, you will have to shorten all the drawers - their different lengths can catch the thief’s eye.

Ceiling of possibilities

Why didn’t you install a suspended ceiling in your apartment in advance? Now you will have to skip this point and forever remain in the dark that things can be hidden there too. After all, there is always a more or less narrow gap between the sheet of drywall and the real ceiling. A pony, for example, won’t go in there, but jewelry taken from murdered gays can easily be stored on the ceiling. One secret: the drywall will not be pressed through if you first put a sheet of plywood on it, and then put a box or a wad of money on the plywood. The weight will be distributed over a larger area and the ceiling will not collapse. The easiest way to access the cache is through the chandelier hole. If it is too small for you (for example, you want to stick your head into the cache and make sure its contents are safe), you can widen the hole. But, you understand, it will be easier to notice her this way. By the way, the lamp, which you will then use to plug the hole again, can be coated around the edges with white toothpaste - this will create the illusion that the ceiling was whitewashed after the installation of the chandelier and it is tightly embedded. The effect will be even better than from a note pinned nearby: “There is no hiding place here, the chandelier is built in tightly.”
+ Most halogen lamps are easily removed from their sockets, which provides you with constant access to the hiding place.
- Ideally, the hiding place should be planned at the renovation stage, otherwise the gap will probably be too narrow, and it will be possible to place plywood under a heavy object only from the neighbor’s apartment above. And even then only after dismantling the floor there in advance.

A big and warm hello to everyone! Although it is believed that a house should be a fortress, cases of burglary are not uncommon. Concerned owners are thinking about where to hide valuables, but attackers anticipate all the obvious options. To protect your savings, you need to know how to make a hiding place at home with your own hands.

Main rules

When getting down to business, consider the following subtleties:

• Don’t put everything in one place;
• make a hiding place in a hiding place, because thieves, delighted with the loot, will not notice the double bottom of the opened safe;
• do not hide your savings in the TV or speakers - robbers will take them away;
• Avoid standard solutions.

By adhering to these principles, you will increase your chances of protecting your property. After all, even a reliable door can be hacked, so further developments depend on your ingenuity!

Where not to make a hiding place in the house

It’s easier to look at an option if you immediately reject platitudes. Do not hide money in the following places:

• behind mirrors and paintings;
• in desk or dresser drawers;
• among dirty linen or other objects that cause disgust (lawbreakers are not known for their disgust);
• in the pages of a book or in a box disguised as one;
• on mezzanines;
• behind the wallpaper;
• in mattresses;
• under the parquet.

When you come up with an idea, think about how obvious it is. If you have heard from others at least three times about an option for storage, then an attacker will probably find it. It is better to leave a valuable item in plain sight and be mistaken for a trinket than to put it in!

Where to start making a hiding place in the house with your own hands

To set up a secluded place, decide from whom you are hiding finances or jewelry. If you want to protect yourself from thieves, keep in mind that the main factor for them is time: if they fail to find a homemade “safe” in a matter of minutes, they will disappear with the loot that is in plain sight. The factor will be to your advantage, because you can wrap the gold in food foil, put it in a plastic lunch container and place it on the refrigerator shelf - it is unlikely that robbers will want to check how healthy you are eating. But they will not have the need to leave their housing in a presentable form, so false sockets or ventilation grilles will be mercilessly torn out.

You should approach the issue differently when you are arranging a shelter for a “stash” from your family. They have time and know your habits, so don't hide your finances in a cut-up tennis ball if you don't go near the court. Better take advantage of the fact that a curious relative who decides to dig into things is trying not to leave traces! For example, a container buried in a flower pot will fall prey to intruders who throw the flowerpots onto the floor. But this method will serve as a solution to protect the item from annoying household members. Having decided on the goal, it will be easier to cope with the task!

Appliances

Don't miss the opportunity to turn your household appliances into a safe:

• If a computer or TV becomes a prey for thieves, then they are unlikely to be interested in the refrigerator. With the right approach, you will hide several packs of banknotes, and this will not affect the operation.
• The air conditioner is less suitable for your purposes, because there is almost no free space in the unit, but you can still fit a small amount.
• Money can be easily hidden in the washing machine by first wrapping it in a plastic bag.
• You can cope with the task with the help of an old vacuum cleaner, whose container will please you with its spaciousness. Place the device at the far wall of the closet or take it to the attic, where it will not arouse suspicion.

Important: most electrical equipment is only suitable for storing banknotes, because gold chains or pendants will become current conductors. As a result, you will ruin things and cause equipment breakdowns!

Furniture

If burglars break into your home, they will certainly look at the back of the countertops, so do not stick a bag of valuables there. But the nests in the legs will become successful shelters, and they will be equipped in the upper part: the loads on the lower point are already high, and if the support area is reduced, the table will break over time.

The option with a hidden bottom of the drawers is too banal, but it will be replaced by the double top of the bookcase. Thieves will not have time to take measurements, and you will easily hide important papers. Banknotes can be hidden in books, but not between the pages, but under the spine.

The result can be achieved with the help of shortened desk drawers: although the difference should not be noticeable, you can easily gain a couple of centimeters. It is good to cover large items in a pear chair, which will require opening the zipper, slightly cutting the cover and carefully sewing it up. Such a trick will deceive even an introscope, which is used during a legal search, because the filler absorbs radiation.

With a non-standard approach, you will turn a sofa into a shelter. Although the space under the seat and armrests is usually used for storing things, a removable backrest has not yet become an obvious solution. The DIYer will remove the pillows, attach the frame to them, and use hinges to attach it to the backrest.

You will also find cabinets with a double back wall, which can deceive even an experienced thief, useful. The drawers are not shortened because the movable section is attached to the back of the furniture. Thanks to the grooves, it lowers, freeing up a small space.

It is impossible to equip such “safes” secretly from household members, since preparation will require carpentry work. But you will mislead the villains, and the valuables will be preserved!

Doors

Interior doors will serve as a place where you can hide expensive things:

• To hide small objects from prying eyes, place them in an oblong metal container and drill a suitable hole in the end of the canvas. Place it in the upper part, and it will be impossible to find the cache without knowing about it in advance.
• To store securities, they resort to a similar method, choosing an inexpensive door model. Such structures consist of a plywood frame covered with cardboard, and cutting out a cavity on top is not difficult. You need to make sure that the level of the cover coincides with the surface of the door, for which it is fixed on magnetic strips.

It is better to hide banknotes in a niche intended for a lock. When choosing a mechanism, give preference to narrow models, slightly deepen the hole made in the canvas, and you will be able to hide valuables even during a professional search. To prevent translucent instruments from “seeing” voids, before installing the lock, place a steel bracket of a suitable size on the body.

Windows and walls

Windows will become a potential storage area, as there are many voids in plastic window sills. They are revealed by tapping, but it is impossible to determine that treasure is hidden under the outer covering. It is also worth using a mosquito net by disassembling the plastic frame and putting everything important there: the increase in weight will be unnoticeable, and with a large number of windows you will have a lot of space at your disposal.

Owners of metal curtain rods use their hollow tubes. Remove the cap on the end and stash rolled up bills or small items.

Niches in the walls have become a banal option, but a private house will provide the opportunity for variations. The owners erect partitions, leaving a space of up to 1 m behind them - in a country residence the reception will go unnoticed. It is only important to make sure that the disguised door opens inward, otherwise the resulting scratches on the floor will give away the secret.

How to make a hiding place at home with your own hands in the rooms

Outwitting experienced thieves can be difficult, but you can cope with the task if you take into account the specifics of each room.

Children's

The option of hiding in a children's room has helped more than one homeowner: thieves are not eager to inspect numerous toys. They might feel out a teddy bear in plain sight, but they won't look in every construction box. Hide rolled up money inside a plastic toy, and to prying eyes it will get lost in the general clutter of the nursery.

Bedroom

Practice shows that lawbreakers inspect the bedroom immediately after the hall. After all, owners often hide valuables in the linen closet, hoping for a simple trick! You should not resort to this method, because you have original options at your disposal:

• A hidden shelf at the high head of the bed is suitable for storing weapons. This method was chosen by Americans who wanted to protect themselves in case of robbery. But if there are children in the house, it is necessary to store weapons only in a reliable safe with a combination lock.
• You can keep sex toys in your bedroom that will actually serve as a container for your valuables. There is a chance that robbers will not want to pick them up, and the ruse will go unnoticed.

Important: despite the tricks, there is a chance that thieves will carefully inspect the room. Follow the principle “it is better to sacrifice a little than to lose everything” and hide a small amount of valuables in the bedroom. Having discovered the desired prey, the uninvited guests will disappear without finding the main part!

Bathroom

The room will delight you with a variety of possible hiding places:

• Place bills in a shampoo or lotion container.
• A box of washing powder will become a safe shelter. To achieve complete safety, pour out the contents, carefully cut the cardboard along the fold lines, glue in a separator under which you will hide the valuables. Collect the box and add the powder back.
• It is convenient to install a wall safe in the bathroom. Its surface will be masked by tiles, and the secret niche can be large or hidden under just one component of the wall covering. To implement the idea, you will need to carefully remove the tiles and make a smaller hole in the wall. Use a plastic box as a drawer. Glue a tile to it, and there will be no reason to complain about the result.
• A medicine cabinet in the bathroom will provide a variety of potential hiding places. It will not be a refuge for a large sum, but you can put a few bills into an empty medicine bottle.

If you keep pads in your medicine cabinet, take advantage of the fact that men are uncomfortable with feminine hygiene products. There is a possibility that uninvited guests will not conduct a thorough inspection! Carefully cut one gasket, place the bills and seal along the edge with an iron, ironing through thick paper. A similar option is also used in cases where a lady, going on a trip, is afraid of being robbed on the road.

• You can store gold rings and chains in empty cream jars.
• It's easy to turn a hollow mop handle into a jewelry hiding place.

When looking for a method, try to be original. By giving up the idea of ​​storing money in a vent, you'll save at least some of your savings.

Stash in the apartment from household members

The examples discussed are good when you are trying to protect yourself from the consequences of a visit from uninvited guests. But if you want to hide a couple of bills from your household, you are unlikely to start drilling walls and doors! Simple methods will help you:

• If there is a wall clock in the room, then a folded bill will fit in the battery slot. The main thing is that no one in the household decides to replace the power source!
• Refurbishment of an old keyboard by removing the internals is easy and turns the case into secure storage. When you spend your “stash”, you can use the little thing as an organizer.
• Vintage candlesticks and cast iron lamps inherited from grandmothers will bring a surprise - it turns out that in order to save money they were made hollow inside and the base was sealed with felt. Carefully peel back the soft cover and then secure it with Velcro so you can get into the piggy bank at any time.
• Women hide the money they save for “pins” by hiding it in a box of cereal. When the method became too familiar, inventive ladies began making decorative jars of salt with their own hands. Just pour the contents into the bottom, then place a cardboard container in the center, the height of which reaches the edge, and fill the gap between it and the glass with multi-colored material. By removing the cover, you will be able to get your finances out as needed.
• An ordinary cactus will serve as a hiding place, since the plant is hardy. Most of the core is spongy tissue, in which you can make a groove: carefully dig up the plant, shake off the soil and cut off part of the rhizome with a sharp knife. Once you return the cactus to the pot, do not worry about wilting, as it will quickly recover and even bloom. But do not forget that the banknotes will need to be placed in an airtight container, otherwise the caustic juice will spoil them.
• Old shoes will turn into a safe, just put your savings under the insole. The main thing is that when your family starts cleaning, they don’t send it to the trash heap! For this reason, you should not choose outright junk for storage.

Try simple tricks and you will be pleased with the results.

How to protect your office from household members

If you have allocated a separate room for your studies, then you use it not only for work. Your own office becomes an area where you create your personal space. Alas, family members do not always respect privacy, so you have to resort to tricks:

• Do not throw away a marker that has become unusable! By removing the core, you will have a convenient container. You can even carry it with you, because no one will think that the plastic walls are hiding banknotes.
• Carefully cut out a section in the hollow globe so that the lines coincide with the latitude and meridian symbols - this will make them more invisible.
• Naughty offspring like to peek into the office? It is unlikely that they will be interested in folders with boring documents. You will need several binders from which you will cut the fronts. Glue the pieces together to fit the shelf, and place a bottle of your favorite whiskey behind them or hide a stash of cigars.
• Vintage fans keep a collection of records in their office, not wanting to part with it in favor of newfangled trends. Children are not interested in this kind of retro, so use shelves to equip a secret place: make a drawer of a suitable size, and glue 2 record envelopes on the sides. It will be possible to disguise the front part by sacrificing a large number of packages. To avoid damaging your pride, go to a flea market and buy cheap records. Once you place this box on a shelf with your music collection, you won't notice a difference, so the contents will be safe.

Whatever idea you use, keep in mind that the best way to avoid losses is to increase the security of your home. Install an alarm, take care of a strong door with reliable locks, and use hiding places as auxiliary means!

Now you know how to make a hiding place at home with your own hands. Where do you store your valuables?