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Post by Cwi555 on Jun 20, 2012 20:17:51 GMT -7
This thread is about hidding preps under the nose of nosey neighbors and anyone else with prying eyes. Things like the base of a yard bird fountain, a hollowed out garden gnome, foundation cinder brick, large single pillar kitchen table base, and other things like that. Whats some of your more imaginative hidey holes?
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Post by thywar on Jun 20, 2012 21:09:36 GMT -7
There are lots of things that can be stored in a drapery pole. It fits across a window and some of them are hollow with finials on the ends. Smaller things that can be rolled or punched into the end. Or you can wrap some things around a solid pole and then slide it inside the slot of the drape or valance. You can remove the mirror from an armoire and store documents or cash behind it. Find the right spot in an attic and bury items under the insulation.
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Post by offtrail on Jun 20, 2012 22:55:11 GMT -7
How about a hollow in a tree or inside the wooden steps that lead to the back door. A trash can with lid, the eves of a house. Inside a hose rack, fake downspout, old cistern with concrete block on top, spare tire on rim with goody's inside laying on the junk pile, BBQ pit. That's all I got for now, thanks that was fun ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 2:49:18 GMT -7
Raised flower beds, potted plants and such can be great places for burying water tight containiers with cache items in them outdoors. They can be made different sizes adn with different items. ALso those beds adn pots can have herbs adn veggies growing that most folks would not know about...kind of a guirrilla gardening right in the front yard kind of thing. I have a few others...but I would rather not share them.  There simply is no telling where a weapon might be located at my place...inside or out...and I want to keep it that way.  |
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Post by lonewufcry on Jun 21, 2012 7:44:50 GMT -7
using the 15 gal water containers at a side table with a nice wood top and sides. all my tables have been replaced with buckets or water barrels and the neighbors think it some style thing. the mailbox base is wide open for the caches.
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Post by fenster on Jun 21, 2012 7:51:38 GMT -7
Not super imaginative, but I have stuffed the space under the mattress of our 'captains' bed. Drawers all around the base make it seem like there is no room, but I've got a lot of food under there and about to add some other supplies as well.
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jun 21, 2012 8:18:02 GMT -7
I am sorry, but that just seems a little too....paranoid to me? NOT to offend any one on purpose. I just can't live with having to worry about hiding tiny things under thimbles and nut shells. The neighbors all know I shoot in the back yard, bring in dead animals and hang them in the open. They see me daily shooting my bows and know my life style. Some are on the same page, some not. Most know how I feel about uninvited guests. I would rather educate the rest if necessary than have to live cloak and dagger, day to day. That is just the way I am, like I have said before I have been doing this for thirty some odd years, and the dang world just keeps turning I suspect it will continue long after we are gone.....but, just in case I prep.  |
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Post by geron on Jun 21, 2012 8:31:21 GMT -7
Well, I hid the key to my fireproof doc box. . . . forgot where i hid it and Now I can't find it. At my age you have to be careful about hidin' stuff.  I do have stuff hid in plain sight with curtains/cloth and such draped over them . Wife requires that!! Shelves with doors on them also works. Not very clandestine but defeats nosy people . . . not that we have that many nosy people around very often. Got a couple captain's beds also. |
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Post by cowgirlup on Jun 21, 2012 9:00:43 GMT -7
I am sorry, but that just seems a little too....paranoid to me? NOT to offend any one on purpose. I just can't live with having to worry about hiding tiny things under thimbles and nut shells. The neighbors all know I shoot in the back yard, bring in dead animals and hang them in the open. They see me daily shooting my bows and know my life style. Some are on the same page, some not. Most know how I feel about uninvited guests. I would rather educate the rest if necessary than have to live cloak and dagger, day to day. That is just the way I am, like I have said before I have been doing this for thirty some odd years, and the dang world just keeps turning I suspect it will continue long after we are gone.....but, just in case I prep. But do they all know what you have in your house? In the next week I need to hide a bunch of stuff that usually sits on open shelves because our house is being apparaised for a refi. I don't usually worry too much about repairmen etc. But, the appraiser lives on the road behind our house. So he'll remember the stockpile of TP in the basement and the extremely full pantry and any other supplies that are on open shelving in the basement. Plus whatver is in the barn. It's a really small town and I doubt in tough times that he'd forget what he saw. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 9:03:13 GMT -7
CGU....its reasons like that are why I hide a few things! I have a BBQ with family and a few friends, adn that is great, fine and good...but some of them have no clue I prep and I'll be danged if I want them to see what I have!! Better safe than sorry!
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Post by lonewufcry on Jun 21, 2012 14:32:45 GMT -7
I am sorry, but that just seems a little too....paranoid to me? NOT to offend any one on purpose. I just can't live with having to worry about hiding tiny things under thimbles and nut shells. The neighbors all know I shoot in the back yard, bring in dead animals and hang them in the open. They see me daily shooting my bows and know my life style. Some are on the same page, some not. Most know how I feel about uninvited guests. I would rather educate the rest if necessary than have to live cloak and dagger, day to day. That is just the way I am, like I have said before I have been doing this for thirty some odd years, and the dang world just keeps turning I suspect it will continue long after we are gone.....but, just in case I prep. No offense taken. you see i live in a apartment and have to be resourceful. I don't have the space or yard to do much of anything. So when it comes down to it I do it for the room. I just think its funny that my nosy neighbors think I'm "with the trend" |
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Post by missj on Jun 23, 2012 20:14:37 GMT -7
Making the best use of small spaces is a good idea. I live in the country and don't have too many storage space issues. if I start shoving preps inside curtain rods and garden gnomes I'm just going to lose track of a bunch of stuff.
I do typical types of storage...out of sight enough for people who just casually visit....but anybody TRYING to snoop would quickly find out we're storing some weird stuff.
Plastic containers underneath ALL The beds with lighters, duct tape, matches, plastic sheeting, trash bags etc.. Boxes of canned goods behind the couch. Closets are full of clothes, but BEHIND the clothes are, well, other things. Linen closet has 1 layer of linens, back layer is all ammo (who needs that many linens anyways?)
Bookshelves, behind first layer of books are....other things....
When you give a quick 5 minute tour of our house, or when friends drop by for dinner nothing looks too out of place. A little cluttered for sure, but otherwise nobody would suspect....
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Post by Redneckidokie on Jun 23, 2012 21:52:11 GMT -7
Miss J, I suspect when the neighbors see a little woman packing a huge M1 garand, it blows your cover.  I guess you can put the bayonet on it and tell them it is a gardening tool, or a side walk edger. |
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Post by jimmyq on Jun 23, 2012 22:50:25 GMT -7
I have a few things hidden in the garden in my #@#%#$ and then a few more in the @#$%#$, its soooo obvious! In my vehicle I have a few #$^%# in the &*&&*#$ and I even have some FGSGS# under the #@%@ in the front garden... LOL, ok, just kidding, I do however follow Dink's thinking, I might have stuff hidden in plain sight but I sure as shooting arent going to brag about it  |
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Post by missj on Jun 23, 2012 23:09:47 GMT -7
Miss J, I suspect when the neighbors see a little woman packing a huge M1 garand, it blows your cover. I guess you can put the bayonet on it and tell them it is a gardening tool, or a side walk edger. ha ha ha good point...except I really am pretty discreet. I don't pack guns around my property. They go from the house into the car inside their cases, to the gun range etc. I was so mortified when a 13 year old neighbor stopped by on his bike just as I was putting a few empty 25 lb bags of rice and beans in the garbage. I just played it off like regular garbage, and he never seemed interested in what I was doing, but for days I thought my cover was blown....now that I've known the kid for a few years I don't think he would notice if his pants were on fire... |
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