/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.371128]

Hello /diy/, this is my first time on this board

I'm leaving on vacations in a few days, and I'll be staying in a camping with some friends. The thing is campings are not that safe, at least here in Argentina, so I need a good place to hide my phone/money/valuable stuff when I'm not in the tent.
I thought about making a hole inside a book like in the picture, but I'm open to better ideas

[Anonymous No.371134]

Fanny pack

[Anonymous No.371136]

[Anonymous No.371138]

anus brah, unless you like it up the bum

[Anonymous No.371139]

Dig a hole. Put valuables (in a ziplock) into the hole. Cover with a layer of saran wrap and a thin layer of dirt. Now shit in the hole. When you want to retrieve your valuables, just grab the edges of the saran wrap (hidden by leaves or w/e) bag up the turd, and take your stuff out.

[Anonymous No.371146]

>>371139
man, next time I really need to hide some shit..

[Anonymous No.371151]

>>371146
Badum-tish

[Anonymous No.371191]

I did this to my festival tent until it burnt down.

[Anonymous No.371232]

Here's one I made over the summer. It's pretty useful, but be prepared to spend a decent amount of time on it. Like a full day of work or a good amount of hours spread out over a few days.

Tips:
>Find a book with thin pages, easier to cut through. I made the mistake of using a thick paged book and I got halfway through it and quit
>pick a book no one would want to read
>pick a larger book for maximum hiding space

Here's a pretty good tutorial I found
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQae01qL2-E

[Anonymous No.371336]

op if ur gonna use a book.. use a bible.. thin pages, cheap, easy to get and u get to stick it to god

but as a camper if i ever need to hide valuables i generally put them under the tent in a plastic bag.. worked sofar for me but idk if anybody has tried stealing from me

also u can padlock your tent shut.. keep the key with you, as a swag user iv always done that

[Anonymous No.371341]

Just take a box of some kind and a plastic bag put your stuff in it and dig a hole just under a corner of your tent and bury the box and put your tent back over it. Who's going to look under a tent?

[Anonymous No.371360]

[Anonymous No.371368]

>>371336
Having been a festival steward for the last 5 years, I can safely say that if you a padlock on your tent people are gonna know you have shit worth stealing in there.
It's not as if attaching a padlock to the zipper suddenly makes the flimsy tent immune to knives and shit.

[Anonymous No.371371]

>>371368
a lock on anything with a zipper is all but useless as you can just pop open the zipper with anything small and pointy.

bibles work super well plus most people won't even look at it.

[Anonymous No.371390]

You know those bags of baby supplies parents are always carrying around? With the bottles, powder and diapers and whatnot? They sometimes have a second smaller bag inside where they put the shit diapers. Get that kind of thing but instead of shit diapers in the second bag just have a few used looking diapers (spill a little soy sauce around the edges). Put you valuable shit in there. Have a few empty bottles and whatnot in the rest of the larger bag.

[Anonymous No.371397]

>taking anything of value while camping

[Anonymous No.371444]

First, when traveling, don't take stuff with you that you're aren't willing to lose. Everyone targets tourists because tourists like to bring expensive crap with them, like laptops, cameras, iCrap, etc... I would concede that a cellphone is understandably useful for communication and emergencies and such, so you could purchase a cheap travel phone.

Otherwise, in your position, I would always keep anything of value on my person, or it you must leave them behind, bury them. I wouldn't really trust a book. If I'm rummaging through your crap inside a tent, I'd probably throw your stuff around while searching, and the book might pop open, revealing its secrets.

[Anonymous No.371700]

Buy a large shitty sun lotion bottle, empty it, and put your stuff inside it. I have one, that I use at the beach to store my phone, money and keys. If someone rummages through your crap, he won't note the sun lotion. And if you buy a large one (to fit your phone in), it won't be strangely heavy if you store more things inside

[Anonymous No.371732]

dig a hole underneath the front of your tent, stick your stuff in it, cover it with sheet of plywood that will be hidden by your tent. done.

[Anonymous No.371745]

Op, las Malvinas son Argentina o no?

[Anonymous No.371779]

>>371700
Not op but this is really smart, I'll be using this. thanks!

[Anonymous No.371787]

>>371700
another tip to go with that is to maybe fill up the extra spaces with some sort of padding (bubble-wrap, foam, etc) so it doesn't rattle when someone picks it up

[Anonymous No.371790]

>>371700

better yet, add a section inside the bottle that is actually filled with lotion, with the valuables in a section underneath

[Anonymous No.371810]

>>371700
>>371787
Yeah, if you do go the lotion route, you really would need to pad it. Picking up a lotion bottle and hearing/feeling it go KA-THUNK in your hands if completely suspicious. The false bottom/real lotion idea is bonus, but you'd absolutely need to fix the KA-THUNK issue first.

[Anonymous No.371812]

>>371390
Tourist here in Hawaii think they're genius for using baby bags to store cameras and laptops and other valuables. It's a common thing that ends up lifted.

[Anonymous No.372218]

OP here, thanks everybody
I finally used the book and I'm going to use this >>371700 to save stuff when I go to the beach

>>371745
I don't really care

[Anonymous No.372443]

>>371700
I will remember this tip.