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Burglars Never Check These Secret Hiding Places

Burglars Never Check These Secret Hiding Places

Fergus Mason by Fergus Mason
October 17, 2023
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It’s a sad fact that, anytime you leave your home, there’s a chance someone will pay an unwanted visit while you’re gone. Burglary is the third most common crime in the US. Every year there are about 2.5 million burglaries in this country – one every 26 seconds, on average.

Worse, if a thief gets into your home and takes your stuff there isn’t much chance of you ever getting it back. Just 13% of burglaries are ever solved, and even if police catch the thief there’s a good chance he’ll already have sold your belongings.

You can’t rely on the law to protect your property from thieves; you need to do it yourself.

The first line of defense against burglary is making your home a hard target, but that isn’t guaranteed to work.

Most thieves will be put off by a well-secured house, and go looking for an easier victim, but a determined few will be curious about why you have such good security, and try to find out. They might succeed, so your fallback option is to make it hard for them to find the things they want to steal.

Preppers tend to have a lot of stuff that can’t be easily hidden. Can you stop a burglar finding six months’ worth of canned food and a chicken coop? Not really – but then, those aren’t the sort of things a burglar wants to steal anyway.

No, what you need to protect are small valuables. Cash, jewelry, important documents like your passport and property deeds, small electronic devices and prescription drugs are among the most commonly stolen items, and they’re all small enough to be hidden.

The question is, where? After all it’s not like burglars don’t have some experience searching homes for concealed valuables. The good news is there are some places they’re unlikely to check. Here are some secret hiding places that maximize the chances of escaping a thief’s sticky fingers.

House Plants

Burglars Never Check These Secret Hiding PlacesIf you’re going away for awhile and want to hide small items, protect them inside a plastic bag then bury it in the soil of a plant pot. Just make sure to press the soil down again then water the plant; that will hide the fact you’ve been digging in there.

Related: Looter Deterrents You Never Thought Of

Don’t take the easy option and hide things inside vases. These are quick and simple to check, and when a burglar doesn’t find your jewelry lying on the dresser he’s going to look in your vases.

Fake Pipes

Three feet of ordinary one-inch PVC pipe can hold a surprising amount of stuff – and if you put it in the right place, a burglar is never going to check it.

If you can do basic plumbing work you could easily add dummy pipes under the kitchen sink, but even a length of pipe running across the top of a store cupboard, just below the ceiling, makes a good hiding place.

Chisel a couple of recesses into the walls on either side of the cupboard then just wedge the pipe into them. Painting the pipe and recesses to match the interior of the cupboard will perfect the disguise.

Old Appliances

Burglars Never Check These Secret Hiding PlacesDo you have an old vacuum cleaner that doesn’t work anymore? Convert it into a hiding place for your valuables.

The hardcore option is to wrap up small items and bury them in the old dust inside the bag, but simply removing the bag will give you a hidden storage space most thieves won’t bother checking.

Remember to put the vacuum cleaner in a natural location. Don’t put it in the cleaning closet beside your new one; a smart burglar might start wondering why you have two.

Related: Off-Grid Appliances Everyone Should Have In Their Home

On the other hand, if the new one is downstairs you could put the old one upstairs; that looks natural. Alternatively, how many burglars are going to pay attention to a sad old vacuum cleaner tucked away in a corner of a shed or garage?

If you don’t have an old vacuum cleaner, don’t worry. A range of small kitchen appliances can easily have their innards removed and be converted into secret storage.

Fake Power Outlets

fake power outletIf you look on Amazon you can easily find small wall safes disguised to look like power outlets. These can work for you, but their disguise isn’t always all that good.

The “screw heads” that are supposed to be holding it to the wall are just molded into the plastic, and an alert thief could spot that.

If you’re reasonably handy you can easily make a hidden compartment using a real power outlet as a cover. As an extra disguise plug a lamp into it. After all, it’s not like a burglar will be turning on lamps.

Hollow Books

You can buy boxes designed to look like books, but generally they don’t look much like books.

Instead get a phone book – they’re still available in most places – and spend half an hour turning it into a box with a sharp knife and some glue (cut out a cavity in the middle of the pages, then smear the inside with glue and let it dry).

Then hide your valuables inside it and leave it somewhere semi-obvious. A smart thief might just check the larger books in your den, but will he bother with the phone book on the bottom shelf of the coffee table?

Old Sneakers

Burglars Never Check These Secret Hiding PlacesThere’s something peculiarly unpleasant about a pair of old, worn, ratty-looking sneakers.

You don’t want to get too near them, because even if they’re not actually stinking they’ll have a tired, musty smell. Touching them makes you want to wipe your hand, and wash it as soon as possible.

Burglars won’t be in a hurry to rummage around inside the horrible, smelly things – so wrap up small valuables and stuff them inside the toes.

Just make sure they don’t visibly deform the shoes. For extra protection give the sole of one of the shoes a smear of something that might be mud, or might be something the dog left lying around…

Storage Boxes

A stack of storage boxes in a shed, garage or spare room isn’t a promising target for a burglar. They don’t want to spend hours opening boxes and rummaging through their contents; they’re keen to grab valuables and get out in a hurry.

Trick them by hiding your valuables inside a storage box. Neatly packed boxes, marked with the room their contents belong in, suggest the sort of tidy mind that isn’t going to hide a bundle of cash inside a teapot in a box marked “Kitchen”.

Alternatively, a pile of boxes crammed with a mixture of junk only a packrat could love isn’t a very appealing thing to search. Be creative.

Try walking through your home and looking at things through a burglar’s eyes. Where would you check first? What are the obvious places to hide valuables?

Well, those are terrible places to hide valuables. Now think of where you’d check to see if someone is being clever. How about inside the refrigerator and freezer? Burglars will check there.

They’ll have a look inside the microwave, too (but won’t take the back panel off to make sure all its internal components are still there).

They’ll look in places that stand out, so you should hide your valuables in places that don’t stand out – places that look dull, ordinary, uninteresting. Do that and there’s a much better chance of a thief walking away empty-handed.

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  1. Charley Bates says:
    2 years ago

    Burglars never check these, until now, you just gave them more clues!
    In a free press society we are at times self exposing our dirty laundry to the public. That is the price we pay for freedom, that criminals take advantage of.
    Current news for modifying our preps.
    Speaking off topic; we have the DC swamp wanting to hide Gaza refugees in our America, unvetted. While burglarizing our bank accounts to support those new illegals entering America. We must stop them.
    ‘Squad’ member calls for US to accept some of 1 million Palestinian refugees; Ron DeSantis strongly disagrees, offers solution.

    What could go wrong with these Gaza terrorist from the Gaza Strip? We now have Biden’s terrorist watch cells coming across our open borders. When will we see our next 911 or Pearl Harbor?

    Just one jerk ruins our country with liberal executive orders to stop oil drilling in America. Selling our strategic oil reserves to China and draining our military ammo supplies to Ukraine.
    Biden has the balls to say we can fight two wars at once. Can you believe that malarkey of the dementia dude from Delaware?
    A lot of preppers did vote in the last election, who did you vote for?
    What news media do preppers listen to for their news on current events?

    Do current events change how we prep or not?

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    • crazysquirrel says:
      2 years ago

      There are Jews in the USA. Admitting 1 million potential terrorists into this country is a very bad idea. Especially with the azzinine laws we have regarding guns and their use.

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      • Pukaman says:
        2 years ago

        Just curious….
        In the kibbutz that were invaded, how many of the Jews had guns ? Hundreds were killed by those “terrorists” because they couldn’t Arm themselves and fight back to protect their families that were “slaughtered”….
        Are you advocating that we Disarm American civilians, while warning of a million terrorists “invading” USA ?

        Which “azzinine” gun laws are you referring to exactly ?

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    • Pukaman says:
      2 years ago

      Not all women and children in Gaza are terrorists !
      There’s terrorists in Washington DC too. Is anyone advocating bombing DC ?
      There’s Criminals in Chicago too. Is bombing Chicago to rid it of criminals, a valid solution?
      No, that makes as much logical sense as bombing Gaza because a small % are “Hamas”…

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      • Usa says:
        2 years ago

        We do not train our kids to be killers like they do in Gaza or pick the place that is muslim.
        So please do your homework before you use c**p logic.

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      • Valerama says:
        2 years ago

        Unfortunately the men in charge choose to harbor and support terrorists because they have a common enemy.

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    • Roger Dale Buchanan says:
      2 years ago

      I meant to hit the like button, but hit the dislike one instead. I agree with all you said.

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  2. Mrs. Sanders says:
    2 years ago

    This article encourages the average criminal to look for our valuables of high demand such as ammunition that is made scarce by Biden and other activist.
    There are so many places to hide our stuff. Why not just put up a sign telling criminals, here it is take it!

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    • Mrs. Sanders says:
      2 years ago

      Why can’t we use our noggins to think where to place our preps then giving burglars a better road map to steal?
      So rethink your negative thumbs down reply, not on hurt feelings but on logical thinking.
      We are Americans strong in heart, no CRT Bootlicker here.

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    • Cat says:
      2 years ago

      Mrs. Sanders, you took the words out of my mouth. Happy to see there are others on here who get that it stops being “secret” when you give it away on the internet.

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  3. Big Mike says:
    2 years ago

    We have many levels of criminals, the novice, semiskilled to the professional burglars in politics.
    The paper dollar is our privacy, to do business how we want in private.
    Digital currency bank accounts will give politicians more advantaged than former dictators had in the past.
    Besides stealing in the form of taxes, these entities now have the power to control what we will be able to spend our money on.
    How do we kept the burglars of higher level from stealing our hard earned money and telling us what to spend it on?
    Yes burglars come in several forms, this article shows the lower average common criminal. We have to protect against all burglar levels, they only need one time opportunity to steal from us.

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    • BJP says:
      2 years ago

      There will be a new financial system but it will not be digital currency.

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      • Fosterman says:
        2 years ago

        So what is it?

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      • Topper Jones says:
        2 years ago

        Is it BRICKS+ plus?
        What kind troll bull are you pulling here, son?

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    • High Prairie Grandma says:
      2 years ago

      I agree. If you want to go online use a prepaid card. You have to pay for it but at least you’re anonymous. But otherwise paper money is great for privacy

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  4. Chilly Willie says:
    2 years ago

    Thanks to liberals who encourage burglar crimes of all sorts. The Soros DA’s whom people voted in don’t prosecute burglars, they let them out again and again.
    The anti-gun nuts won’t let home owners shoot the criminals stealing, unless there is jail time for the gun owner. Who then can’t own a gun after jail but a criminal just gets another gun to do the next burglary.
    How did we get into our current mess?

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    • eyes says:
      2 years ago

      This sounds increasingly familiar for our own nation…it shouldn’t surprise us what’s happening to us…
      Deuteronomy 28 NIV
      Blessings for Obedience
      28 If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2 All these blessings will come on you and accompany you if you obey the Lord your God:

      3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

      4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

      5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

      6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

      7 The Lord will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

      8 The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

      9 The Lord will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the Lord your God and walk in obedience to him. 10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will fear you. 11 The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

      12 The Lord will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none. 13 The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. 14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them.

      Curses for Disobedience
      15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you:

      16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

      17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

      18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

      19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

      20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him.[a] 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron. 24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

      25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind. 29 At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

      30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad. 35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

      36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your ancestors. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone. 37 You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

      38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity. 42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

      43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. 44 They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.

      45 All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, 48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

      49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away (my note–historical–Assyrian terrorists with eagle emblem), from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or olive oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined. 52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

      53 Because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter 57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For in her dire need she intends to eat them secretly because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of your cities.

      58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God. 63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

      64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see. 68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

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      • Sister Mary Engles says:
        2 years ago

        The road to hell is paved in bible thumper do nothings. When we need to also be physical in justice here on earth.
        I call the “eyes” above post terribly overinflated!
        New International Version, LUKE 6:29
        If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them.
        OR
        Matthew 5:39
        But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

        In America, fairy dust and Unicorns go so far in the physical world, may help in the spiritual world, maybe.

        America has been indoctrinated in a rich man’s ideology or in plain truth, Marxism. God gave us freewill to make our decisions not by the whims of organized religions folks.
        Wake up to these trolls and bible thumpers who live in a delusional world. We are Americans, some still Christians and believe in freedom, justice and the American way.

        We have seen these televangelist sway the hearts and minds to a corporate form of religion. They profit off of us by donations for their private jets. Some may have been to Jeffery Epstein’s private island. Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American sex offender and financier. Who is on his private list? Who killed Epstein?
        We must use our God given commonsense to see through these false prophets among us in these end times so to speak of.

        We have burglars of the religious nature preying upon the weak minded too! We must be on guard both spiritually and physically of these burglars on earth. Till then God bless us all.

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      • JD Walker says:
        2 years ago

        Did christopherchris become the new EYES, in a new name?
        Religious people hide their true intentions as burglars do.
        Why do we have trolls and bible thumpers on this prepper site?
        Is this prepper site a magnet for these type of people?

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      • Roger says:
        2 years ago

        The eyes don’t have it.
        Stay off the booze before going to church, you might learn something there.
        You just wasted valuable space for prepping comments, dude!
        There is a reason church is one day of the week in America. God help us we got to bow several times a day to the EAST. How in the heck would a normal American get any work done praying to Allah in a temple everyday? It is UN-American.
        Don’t let any Gaza refugees into America with the other terrorist here to stir up trouble.

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      • eyes? says:
        2 years ago

        Eyes seen the glory and it ain’t you, wise up!
        Boring, boring, are you some lost preacher looking for a few nutjobs?
        Take them with you, we are a prepper site not an evangelist site!
        God Almighty these jokers got to go with the trolls ASAP!

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    • Rob says:
      2 years ago

      We got into this mess by ignorant and complacent people who continue to elect the very liberals that are causing it all!

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  5. Mr. Obvious says:
    2 years ago

    How about a sign out by the road that says, “Nothing here worth dying for”?…

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    • Old Man says:
      2 years ago

      Signs, signs everywhere signs, do this, do that!
      Signs just advertise opportunity or disaster on both sides, better to be sanitized.

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      • Mr. Obvious says:
        2 years ago

        Yeah your right, that could be a problem.

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  6. Geno says:
    2 years ago

    DEUTERNOMOMY 28:

    Meant for the Hebrew nation. Although we know that the Lord watches over all his children who are called according to His purpose.

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    • Big Jake says:
      2 years ago

      Geno,
      Rough times brings out the nuts, weirdos, creeps, prohibition of alcohol for those who can not handle a little booze once in a blue moon.
      We have homeless drug addicts, mentally ill on the streets, go push your Do-gooder attitude there, help them out, then give lip service here!
      Religion and politics two greatest dividers to peaceful citizens anywhere.

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  7. CLIFFORD KRUGER says:
    2 years ago

    The info on this site is what I would consider ( good general info ) on Prepper issues, hands on things that like minded people like us can always do. ,I see a lot of Bible thumping ,and political comments on this site,my personal feeling is Preppers are on top of these issues already .Plenty of other political and Religious sites to go to.Can we just talk nuts and bolts about Prepping ?

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    • t.g. says:
      2 years ago

      +1

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      • BA says:
        2 years ago

        Who are you for fool?

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    • Rubin Crackers says:
      2 years ago

      Agree 100%, preppers don’t need the trolls and bible thumpers aggravating tensions of the world gone nuts.
      We are here to learn skills, ideas, but not let burglars know where our hiding places are. Think we are smart enough to figure that out for our selves.
      We do need to stay ahead of current events if we were prepping for one situation that won’t happen.

      “Too many cooks spoil the broth. Also, too many cooks spoil the soup. Meaning. to mean that something does not go well when there are too many ways to do it; to fail because of too many opinions on how to do something; to have multiple ways of doing something.”

      There are too many bible versions of hundreds of the same verse switched around to say the same thing. Example on (biblehub.com/luke/6-29.htm) the same meaning in different bible versions. No wonder the average Christian is confused and fighting each other. Stop the madness, chill!

      So let’s cut the comedy and get back to 5-7 years ago when this prepper site had less lip service and real information for the preppers!

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  8. Spicelady says:
    2 years ago

    I agree, all of the suggestions in the article are good ideas to thwart the ordinary or “casual” burglar; someone who is a professional burglar, or someone who is searching your house for something specific and won’t stop until they find it, may start with the easy places but will keep on going and search all the “hard” places next. Again, if they have reason to believe you HAVE something they want, and are determined to get it.

    So, a lot depends on what you have done (or not done) to attract attention. A home that looks like a rustic, low income, backwoods type place probably won’t attract too many seekers of cash and jewelry – but might attract someone looking for ammunition or tools. A house that looks like a yuppie, suburban home might not be the first place someone would search for guns or ammunition, but would likely be targeted for electronic devices. Etc; you get the picture.

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  9. Rebecca Ednie says:
    2 years ago

    Is it at all possible to leave a comment based on the article without preaching or spouting political rhetoric? I’m really getting tired of coming here. The comments used to be full of even better content than the articles! Sigh…

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    • Karl says:
      2 years ago

      Yup, why do these trolls and religious useful idiots have to spoil a once useful prepper website.
      We know there is great need to pray to God. But get a grip trolls and bible thumpers you are not wanted here. Go to those websites that speak of your Ill-gotten truth.
      We preppers been there, do it and got the shirt to prove it.
      Let’s get back to the old tried and true “Ask a Prepper” of the good old days!
      Amen!!!

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    • Debra Hodges says:
      2 years ago

      I am so glad people are finally standing up to all this crap. I was about to unsubscribe from this website because of it. I came to this site to learn about prepping, NOT politics or religion.

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      • Topher says:
        2 years ago

        The battle here is like Iran versus Israel, we need to kick these nutjobs, weirdos out of this website for preppers.
        They keep coming up with new troll names. I’m tired of the religious right stuff, just stuff you twerps of dodo dogma crap.
        They are not part of common American life.

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      • Audrey says:
        2 years ago

        Just what I was thinking of doing also.

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      • Topher says:
        2 years ago

        Misspelled, it should read, just stuff it you twerps of dodo dogma crap.

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  10. CPT V says:
    2 years ago

    Well now that you told them of all my hiding spaces I have to move things around

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  11. Camus says:
    2 years ago

    The best place to hide ammo is in the center mass of a burglar.

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  12. Frenchy says:
    2 years ago

    I just fix my laser sight on the chest of an intruder and let my cars do the rest.

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    • Frenchy says:
      2 years ago

      ?CATS

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      • Frenchy says:
        2 years ago

        Dogs too!

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    • French Fried says:
      2 years ago

      This Troll hates cats and dogs, shame on you.

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  13. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    I have a few that are not heard of, and I have had a lot stole from me over the years, , Because of who I am really. It was hide from my sister and I for 45 years,
    then things started to get out of hand as we started to find out, We seen that we looked nothing like our family members, after looking at a family picture , That was took in June of 1982. My sister called me one night in 2012 and said hay , Look at that family picture you have on your wall, We don’t look nothing like any of them. She was right, She was spot on.
    Folk this is a story you would only see in the movies, But we have lived threw all of it, . It has took My sister and I 18 years so far to find out what we have learned and countless hour digging up information. That no one thought we could never find, , It all started with one mans wealth in Norway, A grandfather we never knew a bout. , And peoples greed came out of the woodwork, , But for steeling from me , this has never stopped, No matter how hard I have tried to secure my home, , To this day we have never collected a dime of what he lift us, , But many of people have jumped on the band wagon to try and put there hands on it, , And even flew to Norway to try and claim it, . Even member of the family we were placed in, We have walk a way from every one we grew up with. But what has happened from the time we were born to this day as have never ended. . And its a story no one wants tolled, I started writing the book and all my information came up missing. This may be the biggest cover up in Richland County , Wisconsin, Five points ,Wisconsin and a small village called Tavera Wisconsin ,Witch was compleatly tore down after every thing begain to happen just after my sister and I were born. . It includes , Ideneity thift, Cover up , Murder, Kidnapping , Fake docucument, , Attempted murder, Million in money, Fake funnral Accidents set up kill my sister and I , Covering 3 states , , A law firm, in the cover up, Logging company,3 Farms, Stocks and bounds,, 10620 acers of property, A construction company,, A plant that made part for wood wagons . A cematarty And the Name ELLSWORTH, IGOR, They never married , We are the result of all this, , and they thought they had it all barried for good, ,The steeling has never stopped, Breaking in to our homes, ,Stocked, and most turn a blined eye . and tailed . and our grand father in Norway , Part of two big oil companies. .. We have no Idea what happen to our real mother Anna Igor, Our father married a womed form Hudland Ireland . We know a lot a bout him, But this story in much bigger then this, We went to see this law firm for help and found that we part of this after we were born and tolled us our live had been controlled , And it gets mush wersh from there, , , The only think I can think of is that we must have garden angel looking over my sister and I Were still here, , and I bet no one has ever heard of any thing like this. Will go back and try to restart to write this book. .

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    • Luke Pyle says:
      2 years ago

      Rough, odd times brings out the kooks in the world from under rocks.
      Could not read that crap above, sounds like someone did their first cousin or something and is a transgender lesbian male or some made up story of poo.
      Trolls and religious fools wrapped in a douche bag laying on the street, please go away!
      Really, really, really getting tired of the bible thumper blissful rhetoric.
      Rhetoric: If you refer to speech or writing as rhetoric, you disapprove of it because it is intended to convince and impress people but may not be sincere or honest.
      We are a prepper website, not a soapbox forum for bible thumping, trolls and weirdos, that today’s woke cancel culture thinks is their new religion.
      Tired of vegans spreading their food religion on us by forcing people to believe we will die of being meat eaters.
      Since Jimmy Carter, Clintons, Obamas and the Bidens have meddled into America to change it to Marxism, we have had nothing but trouble. Of RINO’s don’t help either.
      Most of us dislike both political parties, they are both garbage. They represent themselves to line their retirements, the hell with us.
      Stop the open border madness, we got enough foreign terrorist here to do our own trade center destruction with Biden at the helm.

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  14. Richard B says:
    2 years ago

    Why can’t posters on this site leave their personal problems to themselves? Look at the books they’ve written above. 90% of everything they share is personal crap no one is interested in. When paragraphs will do they write personal biographies and books. Crazy!

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    • Mich says:
      2 years ago

      They are the same mentality of liberals from California, New York and other liberal strongholds. The crap their own State, bring their liberal politics to the new State. How many times can they screw up everything before people wake up?

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  15. Central Coaster says:
    2 years ago

    Larry, Sir.
    I can appreciate the hardship of your dilemma. We all can have some brutal past that haunts us.
    But…….unless you’re using one of those phone apps that convert speech to text, I suggest you get yourself a good education on grammar and writing before working on that book. It was difficult to read and understand your verbiage.

    God bless

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    • Portland Coaster says:
      2 years ago

      Hey another wannabe troll in training.

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  16. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    I have to admit that crooks read this web site also, . Ideas are great as long as they do not fall in to the wrong hands, , But I also think that this site let people know what’s going on in the world, , I like reading every ones point of view, , , and some times they come to gather .
    And I find out answers that I am looking for. . I think its great to be a prepper, , and I thank you all for what you share on this site, Were helping each other . with what we know. you just have to see what works for you , Like vinger to take off rust , I used this on renche’s
    that were rusted , It cleaned them right up . just let them sock in it for a week and they looked like new, depending how deep the rust has penatrated The rust turned in to like a mud, , Ok did you know you can use listerine in a spray to get rid of most insects, , I figured this out my self. but a bit more harsh. Clorine ,, But you needed to air out the room after a bout 3 hours, Potato flaks to get rid of mice and rats, and even coke cola , . , Threw them a party. It blows up there inside and they looking for something to drink after eating the flakes. but them side by side but you can use ether one to get the job done . , there able to drink or flake out. It works well . but also the Tom cat posion works well also , I get at Walmart or farm and fleet.

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    • Truthbomber says:
      2 years ago

      Crooks read? I don’t think so Larry.

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  17. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    Thank you for your comment Coaster, . But you sound like most people, I have spoke to. They want the truth hid, and about all of this I put on here you can read, So maybe you should look a little closer , Because of who we are . They did a lot in school to make sure i did not get a good writing skills , and I knew by the time i was 15 what they were doing to me,
    Part of the cover up to make you look dumb, .
    After HS I went back to school should I say,
    And started studying a lot of what they did not want me to know,
    I am a licensed cheese maker for the last 45 years, Running a small plant by my self at the age of 21, handling up to 50,000 lb’s of milk a day. and I have my cream and milk testers license. Drove semi. . I build wood toys as a business. And have my own DJ business . and spent 45 year in the dairy business, and went to work for a company that was the biggest in the world at the time for cheese production, and whay powder, Foremost Farms. Have you ever heard of them . Is there any part of this you can not read or understand. , Your not talking to a some one that dose not know what’s going on. .Maybe your another one that would like to get your hands on the money also . ,GREED AS NO LIMITS

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    • Maxine says:
      2 years ago

      Larry is Christopherchris in disguise.
      Why do these troll have to ruin a great prepper site?

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  18. Ahmad says:
    2 years ago

    Too many trolls here not enough preppers anymore.

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  19. WMD says:
    2 years ago

    Oh. Wait a minute. How about if I just postal of my hiding places and my address…?

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    • Jacko says:
      2 years ago

      The author has given burglars more ideas of where to look. Not at all bright.

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  20. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    Every time I take my dog for a walk , I had better lock the door behind me, Or there looking for a way in. And this is a small village of 400..
    I have filed a police report , But it has not stopped them.
    And put in cameras , I have to really baracade the front door plus lock it.
    The law can not protect your home 24/7 You must do what you can for your self.
    You get to a point that you do not even trust the people that live a round you, , Yet you try to get a long with them , When people live all a round you and no one sees nothing, , If you read my post ,This is why there doing this breaking in, There looking for what they can not fined, but steeling other property wall there in this house, , This house once was owned by Tommy Thomson Brother ED, 20 years a go. , History, , But it needs a lot of work, , As for those that do not like to read the truth , they must fear it. , Yes they are trolls, , I have never seen the likes in my life what’s going on in this country since Sleepy joe got in office, And I had vote DEM all my life When Trump came in to the picture , I knew that I had been miss lead all my life, . And I wish we had a someone like Abbit in Texas running Wisconsin, I think thing would be better, state, And I am sure the People of ILL feel the same way, There is a war going on in this country. , and people know there is, Its just not being talked a bout in the open public. If you want our country back , We will have to fight for it, , I hope the vote will take care of this , But I am not betting on it. God bless the preppers , , They have a strong heart beat, , And they have great Ideas, There ways of doing things , I have read on this site has save me a lot of hard work and money. It would be great to get more small farmers back in business, , If it were not for my age I would do this, , I grew up on a farm where we raised most of our food that came off the farm put on our table , and burned wood to heat a 5 bed room house, And picked a lot of black caps Apples, Hickory nuts. plums, walnuts, , and much more. . . I miss my wood heat, You can not beat country living, A good cup of coffee in the morning watching the sun come up . , The 60s and the 70s were my best years, I really miss that. Thank you all Larry

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  21. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    I am not a full prepper, But do some here and there, , In my in my late 30s and 40s I read a lot of Mother Earth news and saved all these ,and still have most of them. I like the idea of this site letting you know how many plants that grow wild can heal you. and feed you. U-tub is also another good site to find out info in just a bout any thing,
    But I really love this prepper site. , I think there spot on, And yes I think politics dose play a part in what kind of prepping we do . , and how we protect our selves , What we store and how we do it, , and where, and where we live, , Where its safer to live and where it is not to, and how you would live in ether place. The world changes by the events that take place. and there for we may need to change location or how we do thing to remain safe and protect our selves and or family and friends. . since the 70s the world has really changed and not in a good way, Have you ever read the book , Who stole the American dream , It was a book how they were working on destroying the middle class, . , And how companies you worked for shared the profits with the workers, . And how they want to control the population now . And if you look at it to day what’s going on in to days world were not far from it. , If thing do not change in the positive , We will not have a country
    we call AMERICA lift to call home.

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  22. Truthbomber says:
    2 years ago

    You had me until “smart burglar.” There’s no such thing. Burglars are inherently stupid. It’s in their DNA.

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  23. Lonnie Hopson says:
    2 years ago

    All you nay sayers sound as bad as the “trolls” you are complaining about. I agree that folks like Larry Grenie could post their life stories someplace else. 4000 word essays that have NOTHING to do with “prepping,” don’t need to be posted here!

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