What about putting PMs in tupperware that you put in a 5 gallon bucket that holds your copper cents? No one wants to steal pennies, right? I mean, they get pretty heavy to lug around.
I like some of these ideas but other's are kinda dumb. Silverhawk's door idea, naberlong's outlet idea and Broseph's tupperware/copper bucket idea are the best. But don't take my word for it. Hide your precious metals in the bank!
Quote: I was always fond of the idea of painting silver and gold bullion bars brick red and building a wall out of them in the basement...
If you did that in a normal basement I bet your floor would crack and sink. But then again... if you had the the money to build a brick wall out of gold bars then you wouldn't have a normal house.. would you?
My sister worked at Lego for years... She got a massive discount so she bought all the huge sets (the biggest castles, buildings, ships etc) for each year she worked there.. She must have about 40 of them in her basement all unopened.. She bought them for her kids but ended up having another baby and didn't want the little pieces around the baby so they were never opened.. I should check to see which she has and how much there selling for now.. Lol.
I love the wall socket.. I have one that I've yet to install.
I also have two water bottles that come in half... It has water in them and all, around a hollow core. I just slipped off the label and put a aquafina label on them and replaced them with two from a real box of water bottles.. Pretty sweet... They make soda cans as well, but I likes how you could actually see water in the water bottles, they look just like full bottles.
We just bought our first home a few months ago and there's 3 hidden rooms (the realtor didn't even know about one... We didn't find it until after we moved in).. One behind a bookcase and I won't disclose where the other two are. But in the smallest room I have both of my safes as well as other things.. The rooms are pretty neat, none of my friends (or family) has been able to find them when I tell them to look...
And one of our walls in our closet has a door that opens up to access the bathtub... Can't even notice it's there... Pretty neat as well..
I also keep a lockbox behind one of the wall panels of our hottub...I It doesn't look like it opens. And the box is cable locked to the tub itself. But that's for a pistol in the backyard for bears.
My problem with hiding coins too well is 1) I like looking at the coins, so I'd always be pulling them out of hiding and 2) I worry that I'll forget where I put them.
I read this one in a whodunit book recently... the dead guy had hid stuff in fake plumbing behind a plumbing service panel. The cops all missed it, and only our hero started wondering where the pipe went to before discovering the hiding place.
Seems like there are lots of good ideas here and it is best to come up w/your own hiding places. From another thread like this one about a year ago, a very good suggestion. Get an old shoe box or the like, half fill it with coins that look valuble but are really just fakes, copies, and/or graded proofs that have a very low value. Place this shoe box in the most likely place, back of your closet, sock draw, etc..... This way the burglers find it fast and stop looking for anymore coins/money. Another good suggestion was don't put all your PM's in one spot. Find out what your insurance will cover and have differant stashes. Ask yourself how much can I afford to loss? If you are forced to open your safe/hiding place, or you leave it open, you kids tell someone about it, etc.... hopefully the burglers think they got it all and move on. Just some good ideas I remember from a past thread. Good night all, Paul.
Good place: a dado cut running along the back of your cabinet/closet shelves. I don't do this, but as a carpenter I easily could with a table saw. Bad place: anything with a lid ie. toilet tank, behind any architecture that can't be restored to original condition, and underfoot ie floorboards, corner of rug, buried in the dirt.
Wow, that cabinet is awesome! I'm in love! Lol. Do you have the link to buy them? But I bet there extremely expensive! I'd prefer the plans to build my own... Maybe I'll try to figue it out.. But with all those magnets and whatnot it's pretty nifty!
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