Suddenly all my friends are trying to find an empty outlet at my house to charge their phone..hmmm. Great idea and video. Very practical and well documented steps shown.
My husband did this 40 years ago. He put it in the closet behind the clothes. He also made a fake wall behind the clothes to but his rifles. It looked like a built in shelf for shoes. Wonder if the new owners ever found it.
Here's a good one: ( my own invention ) Find the cold air return in your room. It's about 7-8 feet off the floor. Remove the vent cover. Reach down in the wall about 6 inches and screw a cup hook into the wooden stud. There should be no insulation in the cold air return. Put your valuables in a plastic bag, the kind with handles. Hang the bag by the handles on the hook. Replace the vent cover. A thief would have to have a screwdriver and something to stand on. It's not going to happen unless he knows there is something there. Sleep tight.
Use a coaxial or phone jack. Alot of homes have these laying around that people don't use due to cord cutting. As long as it's placed somewhere that makes sense, no one would ever thing twice.
Your rusty vice, the Mother Of All Rusty Vices was totally amazing. Then the paradox of the blue tape, and the little "dust catcher paper" was so cool. Doctor George Whitehead
That is great until someone plugs a vacuum cleaner in and when it doesn't turn on, pulls the plug out and the whole unit comes out and voila, stash gone.
Vanessa Lumbra could also put outlet plugs in it or tape and just tell the kids or people who come over it doesn’t work so they don’t try to charge anything or use it.
I can do this in all the outlets in each room where I removed the old phone lines. Brilliant idea. Should I just put the phone plate back or a blank plate? My girl will discover them if I put a fake plug in them when she cleans.
I was thinking to Bury the money deep down under the ground vacuumed sealed bag. No matter how u hide your cash in the house if house gets burned down there goes your cash..
It seems like every time the box is pulled out, it will wear down the sheet rock. Making it a little less tight fitting, thus not holding close to the wall. 😐
Jacqueline D. That’s not sheet rock. That’s just dry wall. So will ware down wayyyyy faster than sheet rock lbs. you’d have to use a saw to cut through sheet rock. Hence “rock” but your point is valid. I wonder if it’s best used for emergencies rather than a regularly used spot.
Use a coaxial or phone jack. Alot of homes have these laying around that people don't use due to cord cutting. As long as it's placed somewhere that makes sense, no one would ever thing twice.
Kid: "Hey Grandpa, where can I plug in my phone charge..er... oh, here we go. What the heck?... WOW!! I'm rich!!! hehehe!" (kid scampers off with grandpa's money). Pretty sure carving out the inside of an old book and sticking your money inside is still one of the best tried-and-true methods (which I don't do myself cause money is almost all electronic now). Also, when is the last time you heard of a burglar sitting down for a warm cup of tea and a good book while robbing your house? They don't bother with books, or fake cans of soup that hold money, or little bags under dirt in a plant, etc
That is the dumbest thing to ever do for 2 reasons: 1. That "cup" is plastic. 2. When the house catches on fire, that is not fire proof to save your money. You'll lose all that money instantly from fire. Horrible idea. Yes that is a dummy outlet. But fire quickly spreads. I'm never doing that with my money.
Smart idea. Or install it in the wall just under the bed/head board and when/if someone walks in and asks what your doing under the bed you could reply oh I’m looking for my shoe or something 🤷🏼♀️😂
My Grandma always kept her checkbook and wallet in the freezer, nobody is ever going to look in there if they rob your house and it will be safe in a fire.
That’s always been a conundrum. Somewhere where fire can’t destroy it, I won’t forget, or if I die family still can access it. If I put it in a metal container with a water bottle over it I’m ok. I used to keep it in my toolbox at work since the box was locked, a limited number of people could even get near it and since we had a navy contract it was locked up in a room on top of that. In an aircraft hangar. But I retired. And I don’t want the wife to know cuz it’ll burn a hole in her brain knowing there’s money. But it’s only for emergencies. So I’m thinking in the attic in a corner in a metal container in a larger metal container with water bottle. But obviously if I die it’ll be there. I’m actually tempted to quietly get a safe deposit box. Or better yet hide it in the safe in the closet. Cuz the floor of safe is thick removable felt. Or tape it to the top of safe. It’s only 1500 dollars in hundreds and fifties. Not the end of the world. But it’s really hard to save money anymore with the cost of things. Government people really screwed the pooch
Or maybe you can take out all the inside parts of a speaker, old TV (whatever) and put things there; sorrounded by other decrepit old objects of no value.
I would like to have a a place to put valuable thing that would even be safe if someone else would buy the house and changed stuff in the house. Say for example if I be brain dead for some reason and my family sell the house and I somehow wake up from the coma. So I can go to my old house and ask if I can get something that was left there in a hidden place. I would not make a electronic socket hidden thing because it is changeable. Maybe the new home owner would want to change the electronic socket to some kind of smartplug for example. It has to be a part of something in the house that never will be changed or moved and in the same time easy to access. I have been thinking about this for long time. Hard to come up with something that fits in to this situation.
Hey! You have been thinking of this for a while, hope something comes to mind for you. I would maybe suggest a wall safe in your closet? Good luck with your project! 😀
Is the box waterproof, fireproof, rat-proof, insect proof, mold/moisture/mildew proof? I like the idea, but money is too pricy to have destroyed because it’s not protected.
It's a lot simpler to have an attic or basement with some old junk and garbage and put your valuable things in a cardboard box under old newspapers and magazines; inside an old jacket or parka you don't wear anymore...
