Hiding stuff is not hard at all! Remembering where you hid it can be a bit more difficult!

I want to make a note regarding the bathroom as a place to hide things. I have a family member who has gone to rehab multiple times. They have stolen money, guns, prescription medicine, and anything with any value over $50 from the family. If you have a person like that in your family, the bathroom is a BAD place to hide anything. Pills are often kept in the bathroom, and the bathroom has a level of privacy to it that allows somebody to turn the room upside down under the excuse of "I shouldn't have had taco bell last night". Avoid the bathroom as a storage location. Especially if you live in a family or neighborhood with addicts. It is often the first, if not only room searched by such people. I speak from experience.

I used to hide $ in zip bags under the cat box. My ex husband wouldn't change a cat box if his life depended on it! LOL At least money stopped disappearing from my purse and pockets.

When your hiding your stuff make sure your phone is not watching😎

Old saying... "Three may keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead.". Tell nobody anything about your prepping. Not even your own kids if they are young, they do not understand the concept of loose lips. You are asking for trouble if you do.

I'm a minimalist. The burglars might feel sorry for me and leave me with something.😁

I put a hatch in our floor. The people in the apartment below were pissed.

Landmines work great except it makes it harder to mow the lawn.

Two houses ago, my husband installed a false back in one of our deep closets, wish we had that now. Don't know if the new owners ever figured that out as we forgot to tell them. Closet was still deep so it was not noticeable at all!

I would think that potential burglars are watching this and learning.

Little off topic but wanted to make parallel point. For those of us who can legally carry a pistol, I highly encourage you to carry one around your house. It seems strange at first but as a former LEO who’s responded to many home invasion calls, I can attest that the 12 gauge in the upstairs closet does you little good when your napping on your downstairs couch when the front door is kicked in. I carry a little pocket pistol when I’m around the house. Smaller than my formal EDC but a lot more comfortable and it’s on me when I need it.

I live in the desert, so water would be the most critical resource in an emergency situation and storing enough is a space issue when you don't have a basement. I bought a bed for my guestroom that has a high under-bed clearance with a very thin box spring to make up the difference. I can store over a hundred gallons of water there. That also frees up space in my kitchen for food storage.

My house was robbed once, and I didn't even know it until three weeks later. The cops told me, most robberies are like that, they rummage through stuff looking for wads of cash, atm, ect, then they put everything back into place after they find what they want, so you don't even know you were robbed. But the cop gave me some great advice, he said to take a current, valid credit card, or atm, then call your card company, or bank and tell them you lost your wallet. Bank will deactivate card, yet that card will still have a valid date on it so thief thinks the card is good. Take that card, or cards and leave them out where a thief would find it immediately, they'll grab it, be happy and be on their way. The cops also said, a lot of times, when they can't find anything valuable, they get pissed and trash the house, start flipping things, so this is also a good way to give them motive to take your bogus cards and get out quickly without being pissed off.

Many preppers have been told to build a network. So, you talk to your "neighbors" and you get one of two responses. "Oh we don't have to do that, the government will take care of everyone. And it's illegal to "hoard". Or you get this response "Well, now we know where to go and get what we need from your place. And if you resist, we'll call the authorities about a hoarder." So, what good are your preps? How well can you hide them from the authorities? I gave up on "neighbors" a long time ago. But in a cul-de-sac of 10 homes, it will be a mess defending our property, regardless of how well we may have hidden it. I wish the "network" people had been shut up a LONG time ago. Prep in quiet privacy, and tell your neighbors "Oh, the government will take care of us." Then quietly and securely go about your hidden preps. I enjoy your channel.

I have at least a half dozen places on my property (10+ acres) that I have hidden caches of various items. A hand-dug underground bunker that I built myself, complete with storage, bunks, ventilation, etc... Solar panels and banks of batteries, voltage regulators, power inverters. All this aside from the six different locations I can bugout to, if need be.

While my grandmother was on her death bed she told my mom all her hiding spots. After she died, they sold everything & the house. The new owner told the neighbor that they found $300 in an old paint can under the basement steps.😳

If you have chain link fence, pop the metal cap off the post and you'll have that entire hollow post to hide money, ammo, knives etc. Pick one that's in the shade of course. NO one's going to run around your yard in plain sight popping off the post caps looking for stuff. Also, yard decorations like bird baths with a hollow pedestal, bird houses (great for security cameras too!), And fake flower boxes. If you have chickens, make a fake nest box with a box underneath the hay. Ain't nobody looking there!

I use old paint cans in the garage to store small electronics and various other items. I leave the label on the paint can and I only use cans that look old and look messy. As an added bonus they are nice little Faraday cages.

I like the false prize approach. For example, I’ll leave a hundred bucks in mostly small bills out on the kitchen counter (but out of site of a window of course) and leave inexpensive jewelry out on the dresser etc. When burglars break in, you want them to get the mental satisfaction of a quick easy win so they don’t keep looking and ransacking your home as much. They get the cash and jewelry you “left out” and their mind starts to move on to escaping before it’s too late. It’s just an idea, and certainly not always going to work. But if I were a burglar and didn’t find anything at all, I’d probably get frustrated and break lots of stuff looking.

I have my stuff hidden in a gun safe inside a refrigerator behind a false wall, in a crawlspace in the attic of an underground shack inside a cave under a Native American burial mound on a piece of land that is owned by multi-layer foreign corporation which I keep paperwork for inside my speedo.

I once lived in an apartment with two small closets. Someone had installed drop ceilings in both to create hiding spots that were about four inches in depth. I only discovered them when trying to store a surfcasting rod and triggered one to open. Nothing in them but always thought it was a great idea.

I made a business making stashes and reinforcing houses against criminals. Unfortunately criminals took over a place and the police couldn't get in. Then they passed a new law here in Quebec next time they come across my work, or similar security, they are allowed to use small explosives. I made chain link doors so people cannot kick them in so the police tried shooting the links. True story. I use old electric fuse box panels to hide stuff behind. Nobody is going to touch high voltage especially if there are bare wires sticking out

I live in an apartment so I'm limited in ways to hide my prepper supplies . The best idea I have is shoe bones I have several pairs of shoes for each season, and I simply keep the boxes. I found that most people just think they have shoes. Another option for me is to hide items inside the closet. I keep my out of season clothes in plastic storage boxes, and I hide some of my items in with the clothes. Thank you for sharing this important information.

Can you do a video about pets in SHTF? Like their benefits and also how to store long term food for them.

I would sway away from the couch thing. My buddy’s house got robbed and one of the things they did was pull all the cushions off the couch and chairs

I take it you never host Easter egg hunts at your place.

I'll take places NOT posted in the comments or video for $1000, Alex! Never broadcast. Never.

Oh one advice. Keep a record of all ur valuables with serial number and anything else that can help identify them if stolen

Here in Brazil, if you have a beach house, you will either pay someone to watch over it or see that burglars will take even things like food, toilets (not toilet seats, the whole toilet), kitchen sinks, external pipes, lamps, fuse boxes, beds and mattresses. It's not even uncommon for people to leave behind poisoned food for burglars.

Okay, not that I would ever use one, but, you made me think of creating a large space under one of many raised bed gardens. Would blend right in & be walked right past.

I had two bushes removed from my sidewalk up to my house and on a dark corner that also blocked the window. I don’t put things near my windows doors patios or my yard, that anyone can hide behind. Yes I am trying to mimic the Fort Knox “wide open spaces” idea. I also started doing this when I became a mom and reviewed my security again, when I became a single female mother with 2 kids. I had a crazy BF that would enter my apt (yrs ago) so I would lay brooms in weird spots that no one would think a broom should be (trip them up 😆). The officers had me put tape on the window seals where it couldn’t be easily noticed and baby powder on the floors. I set traps so I will know if someone has been here or is still here. I installed exterior door locks on the doors inside as another layer to buy precious seconds. I like to go outside, when it’s super dark, and look in and around my house, to see what others can see, from the road, the height of my curtains or open spots (like when the curtains are wrinkled and don’t cover fully). I like to see my weak spots so I can address them.

Usually homes have an access behind the shower or bathtub drain. There's always a good space behind and under the tub.

My brother-in-law knew a guy who when he upgraded his gun safe used the old one as a decoy. He had left only one old gun and a few metal bars to give it weight he added some dye they use at work to check welds or something at work. A few years after just when his wife was bugging him to get ride of it they had a burglary and they took the safe. He told the police about the dye and they checked out the local grubbies (surprise they already had a criminal record) and were able to make an arrest. (Good thing he had one firearm in the safe added time to their sentences)

Electronic home security systems can be used against you, especially if it depends on wifi. Things like brinks, ring video doorbell, etc. are dangerous. Unplug or destroy google home, alexa, or anything that can monitor your home.

I've hidden things in my fridge: ziplock bags taped to the bottom of the produce drawer. Also, frozen veggie bags or the old frozen spinach box work well too.

Check out those motion sensing outdoor lights. They turn on automatically when there's movement. A lot of intruders will think someone's at home and probably abandon their breakin plans. A lot of thse motion sensing lights are also available with solar power. So even if your main switches are off, they will still work at night.

9:18 Who in their right mind draws a floor to ceiling creepy leafless tree with a face on a kid's wall at the foot of their bed ?

round curtain rods with the screw on finials on the ends

It would be my luck to hide all my valuables in secret places in my house and then get Alzheimer's!

When times are good, thieves will first go for the bedroom. If times are bad, they will first go for the kitchen.

My parents place was robbed. He took all her homemade cookies, lol she was proud he liked her cookies, it lightened the situation.😅

Potted plants, large jars or small fish bowls filled with decorative marbles (just submerge your items in the middle where they can't be seen), low lying kitchen cupboards (preferably a larger corner cupboard) inside of an 18 or 19 inch oval roaster pushed all the way to the back. A lot of couches have dead space underneath or within them. You can actually build various storage implements inside of your couch, which can be packed tight with items until they are needed. I could go on an on, but I'll stop there.

Jewelry can be stored inside a freezer container then stored inside the freezer just like a container of beans. If it’s something that won’t be hurt by water, such as gold or gemstones, you can actually add water to the container and really freeze the container. Watches can be stored inside rice or dry beans. I used to do a class called Kitchen Table Economics, in which I advised people to freeze their credit cards this way, inside a container of ice. They would have to wait until the container thawed out before they could use the card. Back then you actually had to swipe the card when you charged things! Ah, those were the days!

And don't forget to pray for protection.

When you have a rambling house full of doodads, trinkets, plants & animals there's plenty of places to store/hide all kinds of things in plain site. The Adam's family home & the Winchester House are good examples.

Lol ... building codes you say. Yup, I check with my local building inspector when hiding preps. 😂🤣

I keep a shotgun and mosin nagant in a non- operational water heater in my basement. Its probably THE MOST improbable place anyone would look in. There is so much space for firearms, ammo, cash.... Its bolted down and has a dehumidifier. I really encourage people to use something like this.

Be very worried that burglars that see your food but dont steal it see it. They wont forget and will be back during SHTF.

Oh gosh you might have to update this video. The tide has turn, now they will come for your prepping stuff specifically.

In criminalistics I learned that some where around 60% of burglars will rummage through your food for a quick snack during the burglary.

You read my mind CP! I was just thinking about developing more creative hiding spots. Thank you for your high quality, well researched videos.

Important documents....under the ironing board cover.

Gold and silver could be duct tape under cabinets like in the toe kick . You keep seasonal stuff in the attic hide in Christmas boxes or in between flat boxes unseen

If you are building a cabin as a bug out location, and you have some privacy during construction, rent a small excavator (presumably for levelling the foundation) and dig a big enough hole for a 500 gallon septic/water tank under the foundation. It is big enough to stand up in and will store a lot of supplies in a dry environment. It could also double as an emergency hide. Put a hidden trap door in the cabin floor for access. A lot of homes have recessed pot lights that easily remove for maintenance. Simply put supplies above the ceiling gyprock/plasterboard, using the hole for the pot light as access.

If you have 'gross' and/or wet pets you could hide stuff in their tanks. I had rats as a kid, my friend had a snake, and we all had goldfish. You could buy a cool looking little plastic/wooden box to keep your most precious jewelry in, which would be safe to put in your pet snake/spider/cockroach/scorpion/frog tank, and it would just look like a tank ornament (I doubt someone would put their hand in a tarantula lair to take a look at the small toy trunk, or risk a piranha bite to nab the weirdly-real-looking gold doubloons on the bottom of the tank), or you could hide stuff under the wood shavings. I wouldn't recommend putting anything inside a rodent cage, but you could put the cage itself on top of a floor safe or lose floorboard.

I especially like the fake walls, and fake ducts. Especially in say the attic when the roof is sloped, you can build actual closets to store all your old jank, and because the roof is sloped, have a sealed off space behind those closets to hide all sorts of things. A fake duct running there would also be a great place to hide things even further.

If you have some land, or know a patch of public forest, i use 4" and 6" diameter ABS pipe, with glue on Cleanout caps. use a ice auger or a post hole shovel to bury these in places you mark on a map, and/or use your GPS to mark points where you stashed these. If you have something that can corrode, fill the ABS pipe with mineral oil - i did this to stash a knock-down 22. it will never corrode. Don't put thinks together that don't need to be, i stored the ammo in a separate area from the 22. If someone finds one tube, that doesn't actually help them likely. i have other ones filled with Salt, sugar, rice etc - i put these in vac sealed bags first, then put the bags into the tubes. With a good length of auger, and an extension, i have some tubes up to 6 feet long, which is half a length of ABS pipe. I hide a few of these along a fence line, using the real fence posts to "hide" the ABS pipe below, i use these ones for winter accessible - i will know exactly where to dig. and burning the post will assist in accessing the tube. Some piles of flat stones on top of other ABS capped tubes is an easy way to have winter access. Just my technique since i have a lot of land.

Actually happened. A classmate announced on Facebook that she and her husband were going on vacation at a resort beach. When she returned her whole house was burglarized.

I just watched the video that Eric Mitchell recommended below in his comment section, it is definitely worth your time to watch it.

Maybe distributing the preps in many different locations throughout the home such as in the closets, under furniture, in the spaces under your fitted kitchen. Having it sorted all over means even if someone finds some they're unlikely to find it all.

You can get one of those old school TVs. Like a 36 inch and take out the insides . Put it in the basement like its trash.

Just a thought. Why not create a device where a burgler gets his hand mangled up trying to retrieve bogus jewels . Have two containers . One says cash . Another says jewellery. Both having a small opening only for a hand .Inside glass shavings and Razer blades. The not so smart thief gets a bloody surprise. 😁

Yeah.......great info man. Well done video, always open to helpful ideas even ones I can't put to use right now. I wish I could get family members to watch this kind of stuff. THANKS

I once would hide money from myself to keep from spending it quickly. Put it in a hard to reach place, forget about it, and find it months later.

Put a aip ie through the emergency release latch of garage door openers. Too many thieves have been able to engage the openers using a hanger from the outside.

I'm considering putting some more round concrete piers under my house. I guess they could be square but the idea is you cut a hole in the floor for access somewhere has the piers appear to be solid under the house but actually are hollow with say 6 inch pc pipe burried as far as you wish. It can look underneath like a beam is being held up. Access could be anywhere in the house. Maybe even in a closet or in a wall. Just somewhere.

Hide stuff in canning jars in active honeybee hives.

LOVE IT! Thanks for the information.

Bought an old house that has 3k gal cistern, put a small shed on the corner dug a side entrance made a door for the cistern room and turned out to be a nice room for various items. 😉

Thank you for another fine topic and info. Enjoy your flashlight evaluations.

I don't fully agree with signage about having security cameras. Out in the rual areas, police are 15+ minutes away. My next-door neighbor son (a police officer) say this just tells the burglar I have something of value. If I'm home we use shoot shovel and shut up

For long term storage consider a hollowed out tree stump. Let plants or grass grow around it. It should open at bottom. Use waterproof containers. Seal the opening. 🤫.

They would be so disappointed with my place. They probably wouldn't even want the TV, which is the highest value out of everything 😅

When my nan died we found about 5k lying around in the house in cassette cases and rolled up socks. Pretty sure the charity shop probably got a few hundred quid in accidental donations but we were just gutted she never bought the boiler she said she said she couldn't afford. Anyway the moral of the story is if you are hiding valuable stuff leave a list somewhere

A safe buried in the basement encased in concrete. If you have a section of basement that’s unfinished you can dig a hole a little bit bigger than the safe, put the safe and face up and pour concrete around it. You can then bury it under maybe 6 inches of dirt level it out and throw some debris on top. Pretty secure.

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I would never hide things in the bathroom. You could be having a get together and people would have the privacy to rummage through your stuff

I got a rule about hiding anything of value in just anything. If you hide cash in say a tennis ball the person that breaks in might decide he or she really likes that ball and leaves with it. So I'd never put anything in anything that is mobile.

Absolutely great video thanks picked up a few ideas here

When i got robbed a few years ago. They even took my wedding dress and grandmother's rings in a safe :(, turned my bed over, took my toilet paper, tv, No Joke. They had all weekend to look in my place and they did.

Hide valuables in with Christmas decorations in garage or attic. Garden shed

For back-up supply's that you have multiples of such as food, ammo, firearms and so on I have three rules. #1 Never hide them on property belonging to you, your friends or relatives. #2 Never hide them within one mile of your home, this makes it makes the search area so large that it's imposable for anyone to find. #3 Never tell anyone the location besides the people you are hiding it for and never involve children, it's your ace in the hole.

I wouldn’t hide valuables in a soup can - shtf soup is more likely to be stolen than anything else.

In my garage I have a shelf full of paint cans. There might be paint in them. There might be something else.

A thief may check the fridge for beer.

Thank you for another reasonable thought provoking video

Thanks for the tips Canadian Prepper 👍

Nice video, learned atleast 3 cool New ideas that just never crossed my mind

Always very good information here on the "Canadian Prepper" channel!

If you had enough time, energy, money, and resources you could make a false floor covering a whole room! All the non-perishable items and things you can leave without worrying about moisture or having to ever get access to until a real tragedy arises can be stored there. A false wall can obviously work too and most people won’t look for that but some may. A real solid floor over the top of stable boxes or another way to effectively support in a way that is not going to make weird hollow sounds, shift, or crack would be excellent.

Half walls (4-6" deep). Face it nice and pretty, keep the backside open, put a shelf on top. Shove it against the wall, and shove you couch or other furniture in front of it. Just remember which walls are bombarded by the sun all day. Build your own dressers. Put a 6" deep compartment in the back, maybe make it a side drawer. For that matter. Your interior walls aren't insulated. Next time you consider renovating, think about how you could make use of that space. Granted, drywall is a fire retardant, so keep that in mind too (my trailer is all paneling, so I lose no fire containment if I fuck around with the walls). Properly installer flooring is a luxury. I am a flooring installer, and I am going to tell you right now, your flooring is destined for the landfill once it is installed; there is ZERO resale value to it. Having said that, there are plenty of floor coverings that can hide your plywood without being properly secured; kanga hide carpet, carpet tiles, cushion lino, etc, be clear with the retailer you don't want it secured to the floor. If you're lucky enough, your basement ceiling is tiled, not drywalled; mark out where your plumbing and electrical is, and then determine where your traffic zones are (very important, do not forget this); any part of the floor left over can be used for hidden compartments.

My great-grandmother used to hide 5's, 10's, and 20's in opened junk mail letters scattered around her house. She was a hoarder, and she new it, and she used it to her advantage.

The people who previously lived in our apartment installed a drywall triangle so they can mount their tv facing the room corner with the couch in it. Behind that is just dead space! I even asked the owner of the house if there were pipes or cables or anything running through but he said its just wasted space and I could take the wall out or not, he wouldn´t mind. For a place to hide stuff, this is about a square meter of dreams coming true! I have yet to figure out how I would do it (and get permission from my roommate XD) but this is definitely a prime feature of my home! (Also the low rent the best landlord EVER!)

I used to do this for a living. Old 'Fake' fuse panel box with 'high voltage' wires, put your stuff behind it. Lower door hinge, pop it open, mortise a hole, put in jewelry. Old lady had a two carat diamond ring in an old shoe while having an old steel safe in the room. When she passed they finally open the safe and found it empty. They look in the obvious place but she fooled them. I found the ring 10pm at night two years after she died in a room filled with 40 large boxes one shot. A bit of a scary story, but I now believe in ghosts because of how I found it. 100% impossible to find without something guiding me in a dark 10 room deserted apartment. Hide in plain site. I reinforced a home once, later on drug dealers took it over, drug raid couldn't break in, Police made new law to use small explosives next time.

You can put a lot of stuff in a garbage can.. Not even looters will look there. It's easily accessible. If you seal it well in a garbage bag, you don't have to worry about moisture. Just don't ask your neighbor to bring your cans out when you go on vacation!

One place I've often used was the dressers I have. If you take out the bottom drawers theirs usually a space below the drawers that you can hide all kinds of stuff, like firearms, ammo food money etc.. Sometimes theirs a thin piece of wood under the bottom drawers that are loosely attached that you have to take out to access the area. But it was always one of my best places I found to store alot of different stuff.

Great ideas - thank you Nate.

I keep my belongs, under the stairs at my town home. I've been living here for 8 years and never knew about it until 2 years ago when I was getting my walls repainted

One very interesting video that I have found that relates to this is advice from a former thief titled: Inside the Mind of a Thief | Burglar Confessions As most of us have (hopefully) never stolen anything or broken into any houses, it is very difficult to truly understand the mindset of an individual who does that, and we often underestimate their intellect, ingenuity, and planning. Listening to a man who single-handedly broke into hundreds of houses in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas for over 20 years before finally being caught, is a truly sobering experience. He provides some amazing stories and advice that anyone who is at all interested in hardening their house should absolutely watch.

Colorado springs Co has a make my day law. If they someone comes into my home I can defend my home and family.