Caches and money: where to hide valuables?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

"Do not hide your money in banks and corners" - advised the notorious fabulous swindlers. Alas, most quite adults still hide bills in the corners. And this despite the fact that security experts regularly warn: first of all, robbers check containers for storing bulk products, baseboards, vents and other "secret" places. So maybe you should change your habits? Let's find out what tricks can be used to hide from encroachments "everything that is acquired by back-breaking labor."

Small hiding places

The basic principle recommended by professionals is “put eggs in different baskets”. Firstly, thieves, as a rule, are very limited in time, so long searches are not their strong point. No one is going to unscrew every outlet in a house, gut false ceiling lights, or inspect every floorboard. Take advantage of this! Distribute valuables in miniature "safes": turn off the electricity, remove the plastic covers from several outlets and hide the money among the wires, or remove a few lamps by organizing caches under the ceiling. And in one of the traditional places (behind a mirror, a painting, in a closet or under a mattress), leave a "bait" - a small bundle of bills of various denominations. Such a sacrifice will allow you to save your main funds, misleading the robbers, who believe that this is all your savings.

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Another storage method belongs to the same category - "door" containers. Master classes for making them are easy to find on the Internet. Usually, cigarette cases are used for these purposes, to which a metal washer is attached, which subsequently helps to extract the "cache" with a magnet. A hole of a suitable diameter is cut out in the upper part of the door, and the finished container is discreetly hidden in the canvas.

Thieves, as a rule, are very limited in time, so long searches are not their strong point.

The fantasy of the DIY masters is not limited to this. Also used as mini-storage: tennis balls with neat cuts, combs with secret compartments, large candles with holes in the bottom, watches with a twist-off back panel and much more.

Medium options

Some of us, after watching movies about spies, where wads of money are glued to the walls of the toilet bowl, or remembering the winged one: “… Nikanor Ivanovich Barefoot speculates in currency, and at the moment in his apartment number 35 there is ventilation, in the toilet, four hundred dollars in newsprint …”- they believe that there is no more suitable place for storing valuables than a bathroom.

Well, your opinion is shared by most of the thieves - they find something there all the time and also think that this is a wonderful place!

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However, this does not mean that this room should be deleted from the list. It's just that its resources need to be used differently. Remember the chemistry: "Like dissolves into like" or a quote from a modern Sherlock: "If you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest." What is there in the bathroom? Trumpets! And if there suddenly appears something superfluous, then who will be able to notice it? But this is a ready-made container for valuables.

By the way, about hollow objects … Cornices are also used to store personal savings. True, this method is also well known to crackers. But it is time consuming - after all, you need to unscrew, disassemble, enlighten everything - and this is a deterrent, which we have already mentioned above.

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Also, in the bathroom, you can organize a cache behind one of the tiles, however, this will require the help of professionals … Well, or your own building and facing skills. In the wall, even at the stage of repair, it is necessary to equip a drawer, which is masked by ceramic tiles.

Incidentally, the same principle is used to create "safes" in other areas of the apartment. For example, you can hide the pull-out structure behind a fake "socket" panel.

If you are one of the people whom nature has endowed with hands growing from the right places, then converting ordinary pieces of furniture into interior items with a secret will not be difficult for you. From an ordinary bedside table, by shortening the length of the drawers, you can make an inconspicuous place to store money. The main thing here is not to overdo it - the difference in size should not be conspicuous.

Large safes

Are you a paranoid perfectionist? Do you want maximum reliability with minimum visibility? The market has a lot to offer you! If desired, the apartment can be equipped with giant safes or even entire storage rooms. True, there is no way to do without the help of professionals. And it will cost a lot, but the costs are justified - only an extra-class specialist can notice and open such "hiding places". Well, who, for example, would think that a massive mirror in a beautiful frame is not a mirror at all? And behind it is almost Fort Knox! Or is an ordinary bedside table not a bedside table at all, but an entrance to a secret room? And the closet is not a closet, but a door to a storage room. And you are not you … because it all begins to resemble Papa Carlo's closet with a hearth painted on the wall. Where we started, so we finished!

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Summing up, we can say that there are a lot of ways to hide your family values. And in the eternal confrontation between protection and hacking - luck may well be on your side. The main thing is to be non-standard, to think carefully about the options and implement them so that no one ever!