Best home hiding places?

steve-in-kville

steve-in-kville

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Long story made short, my sister is going through a seperation. She moved out for the time being and is renting a small apartment. No kids involved, thankfully. She was smart and filed tax returns seperately this year and she is due a small refund of a few grand. They are really working hard at counseling and she hopes to patch it all back together.

Anyways, she needs to stash her tax refund somewhere close by at the house, somewhere that is out of sight. She doesn't want to open an account of here own cause then it looks like she has no intentions of making the marriage work... but she doesn't exactly trust depositing it in their checking account. She's in a sticky spot.

She requested just getting a check instead of direct deposit and she intends to cash the check and keep the funds available as a bug-out fund in case it all goes south. A conventional safe is out of the question as then her husband will know she's got something stashed.

I know of a few little hiding places like hollowed out books or burrying stuff in flower beds. But I was hoping the folks here would have some tricks of her own. Keep in mind she is renting and cannot have secret panels or anything fancy.

I welcome any replies. And I did google this and got some new ones.... just want to hear what works in real life.
 
We talked that over but I think she wants it accessable in the apartment.

I've heard of stashing cash in the freezer disguised as frozen food. Its worth a try I suppose....
 
Put it in a waterproof container up a frozer roaster chicken's butt. No one looks up chicken butts in a freezer for jewelry or money. Well... not until I posted this here.
 
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If she is renting an apt by herself, how would the husband know if she had a safe in the apt. Does he have access to the apt? If he does, that is part of the problem right there. The apt should be her sanctuary. Any reconciling or meeting can be had at the house or other public loc if he has a temper, etc.

He should have no access to the apt or her mailbox at the apt. I'd say get a bank accnt (her name only) and choose online banking, no paper trail to house or apt. All she needs to do is get a credit/debit card from that accnt. Again, that can be kept in her purse or hidden somewhere if need be. I'm not a big fan of hiding large sums of cash around the house.
 
Unscrew the middle hinge in an interior door (side facing away from the door) and hollow out a little spot big enough for the bills. Screw the hinge back on and no one will find it.
 
In a basket of dirty clothes. Toss another mans size 48" waist tighty whiteys on top with some second gear marks in them and no one will go near it.:barf:

:p
 
At one time, one could get realistic fake cans, like shaving cream and such, which would even dispense some product, but had a screw-off bottom. When I was with a state investigative agency, I remember finding some of these full of cash and stoled pills in the subject's bathroom. If I had not been to a recent training session, never would have known. Just don't do like I did: Stash a rare knife (Swamp Rat Bog Dog in D2) somewhere in the house when leaving for a long weekend, not think about it for a month, and then be unable to find it. Gonna go up in the ceiling tiles when my wife goes out of town in 2 weeks!cwd
 
I think stashing it in the fem hygiene product package would be perfect...that or a nice long, boring book!
 
Unscrew a wall AC vent and set it in there. I hid things in an AC vent when I was younger. You could put it in a hallowed out book (Youtube) or bury it in the garden.
 
gazz98 said:
If she is renting an apt by herself, how would the husband know if she had a safe in the apt. Does he have access to the apt? If he does, that is part of the problem right there. The apt should be her sanctuary. Any reconciling or meeting can be had at the house or other public loc if he has a temper, etc.
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I agree completely. As for hiding places, I have several ideas.

  • In between the cardboard backing to a picture and the other internal pieces used to hold the picture in the frame
  • Underneath a piece of heavy furniture (piano etc.). Pretty easy to lift a side and slide an envelope under if you have a hand truck.
  • Inside a fake plumbing pipe. copper or the bigger kind used for drains. Doesn't really matter either way.
  • Fake electrical outlet or light switch. Most people will simply figure that it's broken or went with a light that's no longer there.
  • Water tight container (otterbox) in the toilet tank
 
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She should get her own bank account. Not sure why her having seperate account of her own would put the relationship in peril when she has an apartment of her own. How does she pay rent? It is her money and she is entitled to do whatever she wants with it, including keeping it safe.
 
In a plactic bag under dirty clothes in a hamper.

In a plasctic bag under the bag of trash in a kitchen garbage can.

NEVER hide things in the freezer or refrigorator. I've spent time behind bars and I've listened to the stories of many burglars and other various criminals and I can tell you that the freezer/refrigorator is a well-known hiding place for valuables, not just for ordinary citizens, but also for drug dealers and other criminals. The freezer/refrigorator is a prime target for search.

I've never heard of a criminal taking the time to search in the hamper or under the trash, not even when they spent all weekend in the home and tore the place apart.
 
Any hiding place posted on the net (or published in a book or magazine or newspaper) can't be the best home hiding place.

If you have thousands of books in bookcases lining all your walls, a hollowed out book is a good hiding place. If there's only one book in the place, it's not. The same principle can be applied to other hiding places.

You can do banking entirely over the net, with a bank that doesn't even have a local branch office....
 
Take a razor knife and cut a small slit in the carpet under a couch or chair. Lift the carpet and slip it in there. Put the cash in a ziploc baggie. Color one tuft of yarn with a sharpie so you can find it again. When moving out just take duct tape and put it across the backside of the cut and the carpet is good as new. Unless someone steps on it after moving the furniture, you won't ever be able to spot it.


-Xander
 
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