Hidden In Plain Sight: People Share Clever Home Storage Tricks You’d Never Suspect

You can dissolve your friends Nobel Prize medals in Aqua Regia.

edit: After a few "oddly specific" responses I'm guessing most people aren't getting the reference. The question was "what's a "Super Genius" way to hide something". George de Heversy, a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (so I would classify as a super genius) needed a way to hide two of his friend's nobel prizes while they fled the Nazis. He came up with the idea of dissolving them in an acid (aqua regia) and left the solution on a shelf in his lab. He came back years later to find them undisturbed. The gold was precipitated out of the solution and the Nobel society recast the original gold into medals.

I used to think I could hide my w**d from my mom in the towel in the bass drum of my drumset. One day I reached in and found a note instead. It said "not as smart as you think you are"

So not that way.

IDK about hiding stuff from adults, but as a father, if I needed to hide something from children, I'd just put a sock on top of it.

Kids will pass by a sock on the floor for months like it's invisible.

Nice try FBI.

False bottom to your cat's litter box. Nobody's gonna dig through cat s**t to look for your stuff.

The 2nd page of google.

If it's light and small... I split some of the seams on the side bottom of blackout drapes and stitched in a pocket and velcro. It's pretty much invisible, and I doubt people robbing the house want to disturb the drapes. I use it to stash cash.

For larger stuff... I have a wood fireplace, so we have "decorative" wood sitting next to it. I split a log, hollowed it out a bit with a drill use it to hide a bunch of spare keys, safe keys, etc.

I made these things while I was recovering from an injury and super bored.

On the positive side, I think nobody will look in my places. On a negative side if there's ever a fire the neighbors will think I'm insane when I save a blackout drape and a log.

**Edit**: You guys are nuts! My address is REDACTED REDACTED St., REDACTED, REDACTED REDACTED USA. I have had some fun thinking about all the would-be robbers rifling through decorative firelogs and stealing blackout drapes, honestly it would make some amateur/junior detectives scratch their heads and that's enough to make me happy. Love you all!

I had an ottoman that opened up from the top. I used to put my bongs, weed, and all my crossdressing paraphernalia in it then put a tube TV on top of it in my room. Pretty sure my mom couldn’t even lift the TV with her strength. It was a doozy to put back once I got high and was wearing heels though!

If you're trying to hide something from me, you just need to put it in the fridge or the cupboard, front and centre.

>Me: Hey, I can't find the applesauce.

>Them: It's in the cupboard with all the other sauces.

>Me: No it's not.

>Them: No, it's definitely in there, I put it there an hour ago.

>Me: I'm telling you, I just looked and it's not there.

>Them: Fine! I'll show you!

>*Gets up, goes to cupboard, opens it, points to applesauce in plain sight*

>Me: ... yeah that wasn't there before.

I once hid my tortoise’s terrarium from my landlord by wrapping like a really large present. He gave it a weird look but didn’t ask about it.

Fake electrical outlet. Looks like a regular outlet but has no wiring. You can keep a small wad of cash or anything in similar size.

My boyfriend is tall. Anything I don't want him to see goes at the back of the lowest shelf.

When I was a teenager I got my hands on a Playboy magazine. This was just before we had internet at home (which changed the game of course.) My mom knew I had it but I was just old enough where she decided to tolerate a few b***s. Still, in the conversation we had about it, she bet that if I *was* trying to hide a magazine from her, she would be able to find it. I accepted her challenge and told her to give me a little while to come up with hiding place.

I had a chair with a cushion made of foam with a fabric cover, like a typical couch cushion. I removed the fabric cover and cut a slit into the foam, inserting the magazine in the middle of the cushion. I then turned the cushion around so that the slit was on the inside and couldn't be seen if you unzipped it. I put the foam back in the cushion and put it back on the chair. Couldn't feel anything sitting on it. My mom searched for a good while and could not find it. I think even if someone tore your house up completely they likely wouldn't take the foam out of the couch cushions and carefully inspect it from all sides.

As a kid, I saw that whomever had put the floor trim in my room didn’t do a great job measuring. There was a section in one corner of the room, under my bed, that was about 18 inches long and held in with a single nail. I found that I could simply pull it out, and the whole thing would swing out like a door.

So I took a knife and cut out the drywall. Just enough that if the trim was replaced, you’d never see the hole.


I kept everything in there from p**n to cash to w**d.

As a paranoid child with fairly conservative parents, I thought of all sorts of creative places to hide things. I should be a law enforcement consultant. I can find any hiding place.

Under a camo hat. No one will ever see it.

I just hid something inside a jar, put a toilet paper tube in the middle, then fill the sides with dog food biscuits.

My house was robbed once.

They cut the silk liner out of a really nice fedora from Havana, kicked holes in the back of all the closets and certain walls, disassembled electronics, pulled all the books off the bookshelf, moved around all the appliances, cut holes in couch cushions and mattresses, etc. However, they found no valuables because it's my second home, and I don't leave any cash or jewelry laying around.



A lot of these ideas may be good for hiding things from people that live with you, but if you're looking to hide something from a would-be-thief get a safety deposit box.



Edit for clarification: The criminals were apprehended, they were local landscapers who knew I wouldn't be around for long periods. They were found with a lot of amphetamines which could explain their interesting tactics. No I am not a d**g dealer. I guess safe deposit boxes aren't as safe as I thought. I don't wear fedoras... I promise.

My mother and grandmother both have "cold cash" storage. It's a Tupperware in the freezers with cash in it.

Edit: Thank you very much for wanting to reply, but the "Frozen assets" and "cold hard cash" jokes has been made quite few times already. Please... stop. I'm starting to regret making this comment.

I have a suit of armor on a stand in my house, and he's wearing a sort of kilt. Anyway, behind the kilt, where his a*s would normally be, there is a little space at his left and right cheek. I hide everything from beer to chocolate to chips in there...nothing valuable or sinister. I remember my ex gf and I were standing in that room, and she asked if I had any chocolate. I said yeah, then she asked with a peculiar look on her face why I was fondling the knight's behind, until I pulled out a giant stack of Hersheys, She was confused as to why I had things stashed away in the knight's butt, but it didn't matter, as she was too busy eating the booty-chocolate.

I hide my chocolate stash from the kids (because they eat anything that isn't nailed down) by storing it in a bag inside an empty washing powder box. Then, I put another 'in use' box of washing powder on the top.

In the 10 years I've been doing this it has never been found.