Where to hide your collection.

Type "drop ceiling" into Google Images...

 

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It's also very quick and convenient for burglars to check. They're on to you.

 

Chances are, if you can think about it, a burglar has already thought about it.

 

One of those ceilings one often finds in a finished basement or an office building where there are individual, lightweight fiber "tiles" that hang from metal rods.

 

i am from florida, i don't know anything about basements but did google and know what they are.

 

Tape it to the back of an electrical outlet plate.

 

Because you like them.

 

This is on my to-do list:
1. Find a small wall or corner in the house
2. Build a wall over it and use trim pieces to make it seem part of the house.
3. Use hinges and magnetic latches for the false wall "door"
- the magnetic latches disengage only when a magnet is place on the correct spot on the outside of the door.

Yes, it will take a long time and cost as much as a safe... but it'd be cool

 

Very nice Makes me think of my grandmothers old dresser. It had a side panel that opened with a hidden latch inside a drawer (and several other hidden compartments as well) for assorted jewelry. My sister has it now and I'd bet she doesn't even know about 1/2 of it's secrets lol

 

I like the idea!

 

Anywhere thieves or the authorities are not looking....

 

In my house, it doesn't really matter if they've thought about anything. My wife and my kids are all packrats. We have sooooo much crap in our basement that if I wanted to hide something amongst it, it would take them forever to find it, even if they were just turning the place upside down.

Just to put things in perspective, I think we have at least 1,000 books. Let's say one of them was fake or hollowed out, and let's say they went through half of the books before finding the fake one, at 3 seconds per book, that would be about 25 minutes. How long did someone say burglars try to be in and out of a house? Ten minutes? Hrmmm...

 

Sounds like the wifes' craft room. I could hide stuff in there that would never be found.......

 

Somewhere other than where you say on a forum.

Get a safety deposit box. They are not expensive.

 

I'd stick with the secret space behind a wall.

 

Your wife's "that time of the month" box. I crammed 50 oz of silver into one and put it under the bathroom sink. Who in their right mind would check there?

 

No comment.......don't wanna even go there........I rather imagine the bad guys wouldn't either.

 

That's fine if your wife is still young enough for that.

 

I think were're getting a tad bit off topic.......

Oh, blast it. Never mind.

 

Did anyone say mattress yet? If not that's my vote!!! Or I suppose you could put them in a plastic bag, then put that in a tupawear, then expoxy that into a cooler, then ductape that, then put that in a usps priority box or shipping box, then tape that, and finally hide it in a storm grate or sewer pipe....How many people are that eager to look through...never mind.