/diy/ - Do It Yourself

. . . the bank

>>54589
a can of soda is a pretty horrible place to hide something "Why does he have one lone can of soda up on a shelf and covered with dust?"

Invest it in pure, uncut cocaine and sculpt it into household objects.

Mattress
Any geocaching container, hundreds online that are stealthy as balls.
I use an old fake phone to store notes in. (Ask in your local phone shop for old fake display phones for a project, open it up and turn display uspide down so it looks like a black screen)

>>54602
phone sounds cool, do you just hollow it out?

Make a stash drawer in your PC, behind one of the empty drive bay covers.

Secret attic crawl space.

>>54600

Hiding money in an object that can be moved is pointless. You need to find a hole in the wall or a loose floor board.

>>54600
There are easier materials to work with.

>Acquire junction box
>Cut/smash hole in wall with sheet rock saw/hammer
>Install junction box
>Place x amount of cash in there, I wouldn't plan on taking it out anytime soon btw.
>Patch up your hole
>Repaint/retexture as needed
>Enjoy your hidden shit.

>>54723
Here's another
>Buy/acquire safe
>Properly install safe
>Place valuables in safe
>Withdraw/deposit valuables as needed
>???
>Profit

Go to an expensive clothes store, you can trust them. Tell them that you want to have them keep some money of yours in their till. Take some items of expensive clothing as insurance. Walk around in broad daylight with hidden money right there in front of everyone. Last place everyone would look. Money safe for ever.

Invest in gold. Buy a fishing tackle box. Melt the gold down into fishing lures, spray pain them grey.

>>54608
It's already hollow apart from a metal weight.
Remove weight and fill with money, then fill with coins until it feels legit.

http://makeprojects.com/Project/Doortop-Stash/638/1

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>>54767
Yeah lucky you are keeping that 2gb safe. Memory is so fuckin expensive and hard to come by these days...

>>54782
>not keeping secret documents in a 2gb flash driver
super queer here gentlemen

>>54782
not my picture you kook

sorry I cant find something for you to hide your harddrive of cp in mang

Okay, I was gonna start a new thread for my problem, but this is somewhat related.

I store all of my loose change in a giant water cooler jug. I've been putting coins in since I was like 10 or something (23 now)

It's actually gotten pretty full. I was wondering if anyone knew how I might fashion a sensor that would count the coins up. I have no problem letting all the coins out and refilling the jug. I know they sell those little kiddie banks that will count your money for you, but I thought someone at /diy/ might have another solution for me. If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.

leave it in your pants, put pants in closet/drawer as usual. Who the fuck would think of looking in a pair of pants that's isn't lying on your floor?

>>54810
Cant think of anything off the top of my head but most banks have free coin counting services nowadays so unless you are waiting for a specific dollar amount i'd go that route.

>>54817
When someone breaks into a house they toss EVERYTHING including the stuff in drawers. Never watched "To Catch a Thief" did ya?

>>54810
Cant think of anything off the top of my head but most banks have free coin counting services nowadays so unless you are waiting for a specific dollar amount i'd go that route.


>>54817
When someone breaks into a house they toss EVERYTHING including the stuff in drawers. Never watched "To Catch a Thief" did ya?

>>54820
Yeah because holywood is factual. Never watched "die hard 4.0" did ya?

>>54810
I don't know, buy a funnel and some wood?

put the two wood planks close together so you can fit the coins between them. The coins roll down between the two planks of wood and then they fall out through some differently sized holes.

the inside of your computer, mainly where the empty bays are for extra dvd/cd burners... i have about 200 dollars stored, you take off the panel on the side of your computer, usually 2 screws, and your valuables don't burn..

make some kind of water proof container and put it in the back of one of your toilets??? even get a blue tablet so the water isnt clear??
wouldnt have to worry about FIRE
finding a stash spot in the house is easy

>>54820
Thanks

But I'm hoping to craft like a lid for the jug. Right now the jug's top is covered in duct tape with a slit down the middle for coins to go though. I want to make a lid that would add to the total as I continue to add coins.

>>54823
Uhmm...wasn't exactly hollywood. It was a show surrounding two convicted ex-thieves teaching people how their houses would ACTUALLY be broken into and helping them increase their home security. Their methods were quite factual.

>>54826

if someone breaks into your house arent they pretty likely to steal your computer?

>>54826
Because when someone robs your house they're gonna leave the computer alone and just take all the valuable elec.... oh wait.

>>54745
Going a bit far, but I agree on the buy gold part. If your going to store that shit anyways, why use cash that the countries seem to devalue anyways? Just buy the gold, store that shit, and when you need the money sell it again for profit.
Plus use this idea at >>54767 to hide the gold coins.

>>54795
>32GB micro SD cards
>stack them in the container
>problem, officer?

Yeah, that route is expensive, but being v& is a lot more expensive.

Oh, and I would seriously hope that people on /diy/ would have enough sense to not use a hollow door.

>>54837
>>54839

mindhive

Empty cigar tube, glue a large washer on the top of it.
Drill a hole out at the top of a door frame (assuming you're poor and have hollow doors.)
Drill it big enough so the cigar tube fits, but the washer keeps it at the top of the door.

Use magnet to retrieve when required. Perhaps wrap the tube in felt to stop it from making a noise when the door is opened.

>>54849
Nevermind, someone beat me to it with more information and pictures.

Since this is /diy/ assuming we all have paint cans, stash the cash in an old empty paint can set amongst the other cans.

Or an envelope secured to the top inside of a dresser or under the countertop in the kitchen/bath.

If your furniture has those large chunky legs use a spade bit to drill a hidey-hole in the bottom.

False plug-in box added to wall behind couch or bed.

Put the cash in a pair of shoes that you really never wear and leave them on the shoe rack

Buy a box of envelopes and put the money in $100s or 50s into an envelope or two, leave in box with rest of envelopes.

If you have a crawlspace why not just put it under there somewhere in a fake junction box. You could even run fake conduit and so you could put it fairly close to the entrance and no one would notice.

Otherwise:

>keep valuables in a safety deposit box
>valuables insured
>police would need a separate warrant to search deposit box

inside of a peanut butter jar with something like fishing like attached right under the surface, so you know where to pull it out...

breaking into a house dont think one mwould have time to make a pb and j

>>54782
you cant think of a possible 2gb of data someone might consider valuable? Or are you a troll?

If it's just cash and just so it isn't stolen, why not a basic secret compartment in a wall that's held with a magnetic baby lock?

I Hide my cash in bank of America.

Enjoy your housefires everybody!

i take off my electric plug in covers on the wall, and slice away a bit of wall and put money in there in a ziploc bag

Stash money in your wall, near an outlet. This is where you stash any crash/"Shit, I have to leave town tonight" kit. The simple fact is, if it's easy for you to get at, it's easy for thieves to get at. If it's easy for thieves to get at, it's going to be stolen. Period. You are trading security for difficulty of access, it's up to you which is more important.

>>54810

Go to whatever bank you have an account at. They should count them for you. Probably at no charge since you bank with them. Enjoy your several hundred dollars.

$2000 cash in this picture find it...

In room in basement not near anything else worth the time to steal, no thief will bother to look here.

Kitchen, Bedrooms, Home Office/Den, Living Room/Tv Room are the places 99% of homebreakers look for anything.

OK, how about this:

Cut a chunk of drywall out of your wall. Glue a board in between the studs below your hole to make a floor for your hidey hole. Stash your stuff, use the cut out piece of drywall to patch the hole, do what you gotta do to smooth it out, and then repaint the whole room. No one ever has to know about your hidden stash. If you ever need it, you just punch through the damn wall, grab your shit, and make a break for it.

>>54951

You'd need to cut out a much bigger piece than a hole the size of your hand if you expect to mount something between the studs, since there should be a 15 inch gap between them.

Why not just find a stud, cut out a hole for an outlet, put the box and the faceplate on an viola.

If you need more storage, throw a junction box in there.

>>54810
>>54810
>>54810
Just buy one of these, take off the top of it and somehow fasten it to the top of the jug maybe?
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Uhm it's the beige spray can.

>>54998
I was thinking that too, because the bottom of the can looks chopped off. However he has a valid point. Who is going to check that shit in the off-change that somebody put something in there? Of course, watch a tagger break in and go for the paint cans as well as the electronics.

I have it sitting on my desk shoved along with my other bits of the Sea of Decay. Buncha papercrafts that look like shit. Wouldn't even be worth the effort to steal this garbage, yet it's all a clever ruse. Honestly any criminal that would come in here would just get distracted by the computer and take it. It's the only thing that is of any value in this room. Maybe the TV and the old PS2 in the corner, but not the pile of trash.

>>54857
Last time my house was robbed they took my oatmeal ;_;

Also, OP, inside curtain rods. Or make a dead-drop spike and stick it in your yard. Have shelves that hang on the wall? Tape it to the back.

How much inconvenience are you willing to put up with, how many bills, and to what level of scrutiny are you expecting?

Store it in your freezer. I think its the last place robbers would look.

Bury it. Outside.

Refer to it as booty.

This really is the only choice.

>>55104
Hell no, it's one of the first places.
You can, though, put 10 or more Silver Eagles inside a freezer without any casing. There will always be robbers stupid enough to take them barehanded....

>>55124
If you bury something, about a foot over it bury a dead animal. When somebody is digging for something, they tend to stop when they hit a dead animal in that spot.

I started on mine recently
Looking good. :)

i used to be the same way, my favorite place to hide things was/is behind a drawer.

if you have any kind of drawer that doesnt have an empty bottom (ie the actual compartment slides into a 5 sided box, where only the face is open so the compartment can slide in) just pull it out, put your cash (paper obviously is easier) in the back standing up and put the drawer back.

besides that, if you have any type of desk or anything with a lip / unseable area, install a little hiddne shelf under it. you can use anything with 4 sides (back, bottom, left, right) and hold it in place with anything from glue to ticky tak to chewing gum.

if you have an old NES system, flip it over and youll see a rectangle. that rectangle can pop out and its completely empty, you can store quite a few bills in there as well.

You guys realise that cash depreciates in value because of inflation rigjt? If It's only a couple of thousand dollars It's alright I guess.
My Dad used to hide cash In a box underneath the house.

I stash money in an airtight container inside the tank of my toilet. Can't be carried away and safest place in case there is a fire.

If I ever need to beef up security, I can always punch one out and not flush.

>>55668

>punch one out and not flush

LOL i like that

>>55668
I like it!

>>55451
dem floppies.


dammit. now I want to do this.

Gold's pretty stable.
Don't hide it in your freezer, any good burglar will check there.

>>55786
reminds me of when sticky pistons were added to minecraft...

I'm sure you can make one yourself with help from Michel Weston but...

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/855d/?srp=3

>>55799
>>55799
I know it would be easy to explain a faulty power outlet.
But any way to do that and still have a working outlet?

>>55785
The board for the step needs to be either thicker or have metal reinforcement. It's too thin to be unsupported for a step.

>>54782
Fucking pedophile.

>>55089
Say goodbye to your gains.

>>55820
wouldn't be that hard but you'd have to be really careful not to electrocute yourself or burn your house down

>>54826
>hiding money in expensive electronics

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. That's like hiding diamonds wrapped in $100 bills.

>>54942
Add workrooms and tool sheds to that list.

>>55668
This is where stupid people hide there stuff. 3 houses in my neighborhood were all broken into and the toilets were always raided. I don't know if t hey found anything. One they bashed open.

The best place is really under your floor. Not just anyplace under the floor either. I'm talking about opening your bathroom/kitchen cabinets, lifting up the bottom of it and installing something down into the floor. If someone looks into the cabinet they will find your cleaning supplies or whatever. If they clear it out and lift up the cabinet bottom they'll see the floor.

Drawer cabinets are even better. Take out the bottom drawer. Install the hiding spot under the floor, under the drawer cabinet's bottom. It makes it even more difficult to look for.

Also, keep a piggy bank on top your fridge that has $50-$100 in misc bills and change in it. The more change the better. This is a sacrifice offering to thieves. They'll think that's all your savings when the real mass of savings is actually in the floor.

>>55841

>>55843
Nice pic, but not at all what I was referring to.

just do this OP

>>55853
>MFW I have that knife in my utensil set.

>>55841
Actually, the safest place to hide something is ABOVE the line of sight, preferably in an area where someone would have to tilt their head up to look at.

Hence all the suggestions for using the tops of doors, or lintels.

>>55877
That stuff is easily seen though. Something hidden under a set of drawers under the floor is different.

>>55893
I think the idea is that it's easier to crouch down and look under something than it is to lift yourself over the top of a door.

>>55916
bullshit semantics

>>55916
The easier it can be got to, the easier it can be stolen.

>>55893
ANYTHING is easily seen when you do a half assed job on it.

I hide weed in the car by wadding it up in a piece of paper and throwing it on the floorboard with the rest of the trash

These ones might not be too useful for male anons, sorry.

Rip the seams out of the padded section of a padded bra you don't use, remove padding, put your cash in there, do a temporary stitch to close it back up. You just rip the seams out and sew it back up again to get/put things in.

Another way is to get an UNUSED plastic applicator tampon. UNUSED. You'd think that wouldn't need to be clarified. Push out the actual tampon. Roll your cash up and push it into the applicator opening. Soak the tampon in some red liquid and throw it at someone if you don't want to waste it. You can just keep the applicator in a makeup bag in your bathroom or something. I have mine in a small compartment on the top of the cabinet where my bathroom sink is.

You can pick up cheap bras at Kohl's sale sections, H&M, discount stores, Goodwill, etc.

You can just buy the cheap store brand super absorbent whale vagina size tampons, or go find a free tampon sample online and have it mailed to you (I believe U by Kotex does the sample thing).

>>55969
Cus womens underwear never gets stolen

I've heard of fake wall outlets, of cutting slits in door jams. I agree with geocaching sentiment. Nothing is bigger then outside.

I have a suspended ceiling in my apartement. Obviously one of the first places someone would look, so I only have a few unimportant pieces up there. What I did though is take a random ceiling board and cut a slot into it about half as thick as the board, 20cm wide and long. Given that there are more than 60 boards, I doubt someones gonna stumble across that cache...

Well stashboxes are mainly the best places i bought 5 of these http://www.amazon[DOT]com/dp/B0036QVSN8/?tag=047-20

and keep them in my garage roll your paper up in there

PS2 External Harddrive SLot

>>54942
The black-capped spraycan on the top. There's tape around the bottom of it, trying to hide that the bottom of the can was cut off.

Police searchers would find that in a second.

get a terrarium, a lizard and one of these stones http://www.everyonedoesit.com/online_headshop/Stash_Stone.cfm?iProductID=2012

I like the idea of storing money and small valuables behind the light switch lids. (in the wall)
For more ideas see the book How To Hide Anything by Bill Border

>>57072
I dont see any tape...

Hollow out a hardcover book and keep it on a bookshelf.

>>57114
I think that's overused and therefore obvious already.

I hide money and other 'stuff' inside my cats scratching post. Pop the top and it's hollow inside, good hiding place and what kind of burglar is going to make off with a large kitty toy?

Hiding things in plain sight really is the most effective way.

>>54826
Why the fucking fuck do people assume a thief wouldn't steal their computer?

Also: Unless you live completely alone you don't want to hide cash or anything in fake coke cans or stealthy containers. The reason being your mother/girlfriend/roomate/kid will get sick of seeing that "trash" and throw it away, which would suck.

In the walls or under a rock in the garden is the way to go.

I always carry my money on me, and I look like a filthy bum so there's not a big chance I'll ever get mugged for my cash.

>>54841
What's wrong with a door plug?

>>54767
What's the point of adding the washer to the top?

>>54782
>>54782

Dumbest person in this thread. I felt the need to point that out.

Also OP, I just open up the vent in my wall and hide stuff in a little metal box in there. I'm sure there are better ways to do what you're tryin to do, but mine works if you're lazy.

Bank?
But no, you're looking for something else, I know.

Put on a pair of gloves and hide it under the fiberglass insulation in your attic.

>buy gold
>put gold in condom
>shove condom in ass
>shit it out next week
>???
>safe storage with interest

>>57375
The door is probably hollow. The washer keeps it from falling into the door.

Yeah, dont hide it.

Know what happens when you hide it like that? you forget, and your grandkids get a treat when you die and they have to clean all of your shit out of the place.

>>57819
There was people in line to clean my grandma's place out when she died. Crazy old bitch hid money in just about everything. Had to of been like 200k in money, coins, jewels around the place.