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[cookiejar]

We've discussed this before but it bears bringing back up...

Bins under the bed or those shoe rollaways, cans made into a table with a table cloth over it. I remember a fabulous repadding of a couch with...toliet paper!!

(BTW if you remember who posted it and where, please add the link here? )

I've taken to *relabelling some of my bins. I have bins of Christmas ornaments and Autumn decorations with a special mark to let me know they are really Preps. I'm debating putting up a box or two of *Photo Album Memories*

I've debated printed labels for my buckets that say,"Mauve paint". I wonder what else would turn a looter or thieve's eyes away? A label stating,"Primer."

Anyone else??

[Deb2of9]

Since I am planning for a move, Mine are labeled with moving labels such as kitchen, bedroom, text books, etc along with of course Christmas, Spring clothing, etc. I don't know what I will do later, but since we don't have enough space where I live as it is, I have packed up stuff I am not using right now, and have preps (what little I have) packed with them. Oh, and of course there are camping supplies.

[dogmom4]

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[Abigail]

Maybe some things can be "hidden in plain sight" like "antique collectibles." I've thought of a high shelf in the laundry room with things like a galvanized tub, an old-fashioned wringer, washboards artfully arranged on the walls... In the kitchen, if you have room above the cabinets rather than a soffit, things like a manual grain grinder, small butter churn, vintage crocks (filled, of course) "hurricane" lamps, etc. You're an antique collector, not a prepper. Of course, if the lights go out, your collection is useful...

For your high shelves and the tops of bookcases, attractive decorative baskets (filled with preps) and then topped with silk/artificial greenry or flowers...just look like home decorative items. Ditto for large vases, "vintage" trunks/suitcases/hatboxes...the list goes on. This especially works if you have high ceilings/shelves.

Collect "antique" trunks to use as coffeetables/end tables...fill 'em up.

Make a top shelf of your den built in bookcases look like custom stereo speakers...only it's a false front...preps behind it.

I know ppl have already mentioned filling the box springs of the mattresses, but I'll mention it again...I loved the idea.

Limited uses due to the heat, but what about under the rolls of insulation in your attic?? It isn't optimal, but it's a possibility if you're desparate for ideas...

For the bulk foodstuffs that are undeniably preps, maybe a false wall in a deep closet?? This would have to be for very long term things like grain, as it won't be easily accessible.

Last but not least, an inventory of where you put all this stuff!!!

[Grace&Violets]

What about a crawl space? We have a crawl space under our basement, I think in case something happens to pipes or something (not sure). But, the opening is hidden under the carpeting, in a closet. With boxes piled on top. I've thought about using that, if I had to. Of course, if something DID happen to the pipes, it might mess up with preps.

[HSmom]

Store carefully in crawl spaces, they tend to be damp and buggy.

[JMmom]

I *love* the idea of collecting antiques things that could be used for real life, and using old trunks and things to store preps.

Here's my idea - If you have a lot of paperback books, it seems like they always get lost way back in the bookshelf. You could pull the books forward and put small boxes of stuff behind them.

Nancy

[cookiejar]

So, I got to thinking....

We put so many preps in 5 gallon buckets we buy or get from cake baking places, and they already *Look* plain.

Why not a little inhanced Camoflage? Borrowing ideas from common unedible products for example:


I wonder how hard a label similar to that would be to make and glue on? Let me go all the way off the paranoid looney cliff (come with me!) and say-you could even add *drips* of paint on the side preset.

who would look for grain/flour/sugar etc. in a paint can?

What do you think?

[Abigail]

Great idea! you know, 5 gal paint cans are heavy!! The weight would even be similar...

[CrabGrassAcres]

It would be my luck that someone would want some paint. LOL I think I would go a little further and slap a piece of duck tape on the buckets and put "Woman's Home Journal" on the outside.

[dogmom4]

[PureCajunSunshine]

Originally Posted By: cookiejar

I've debated printed labels for my buckets that say,"Mauve paint". I wonder what else would turn a looter or thieve's eyes away? A label stating,"Primer."

Anyone else??

Tree fertilizer

Roof tar

Varnish

Shellac

Floor tile grout

Grout sealer

...and anything else heavy and practically useless to a thief

[mommato3boys]

Originally Posted By: cookiejar

So, I got to thinking....

We put so many preps in 5 gallon buckets we buy or get from cake baking places, and they already *Look* plain.

Why not a little inhanced Camoflage? Borrowing ideas from common unedible products for example:


I wonder how hard a label similar to that would be to make and glue on? Let me go all the way off the paranoid looney cliff (come with me!) and say-you could even add *drips* of paint on the side preset.

who would look for grain/flour/sugar etc. in a paint can?

What do you think?

Cookie you can buy Avery labels that are a full 81/2 by 11 that you can run through your computer, just peel and stick. I just bought some for work yesterday.

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[cookiejar]

Color coded drips! I love it!

Roofing tar and such...LOL!

and the labels, yup, that's a do-able. I made fake beer labels for a friends birthday (Cheryl Beer...don't ask )I'm sure I could make fake paint/primer/tar labels.

Women's Home Journal?? How about Parenting Today?Family Circle Magazine?

Oh this is fun!

Paint names yes, but nothing that says remover/turpine tine etc. Unfortunately *Huffers* love those and will take the can to get high.

These are great though! Keep em coming

[cookiejar]

[GeneralMom]

I love to collect old stuff as discussed above - have baskets,old canning jars, etc. on tops of my kitchen cabinets and other places as part of the "homey" decor. But,my tins (new ones that I have found that are the re-issue of old tins) are filled with preps and placed on bookcases, top of shelves over windows etc. For example,one large tin is full of boxes of Jello and pudding mixes. Its frees up my pantry space and hides some stuff in plain sight. I am not so worried about theft as just someplace new to put all this prep stuff! One skinny but tall tin is stuffed full of about 100 taper candles that I found at a yard sale for $1. Tapers are not something I would normally buy - but that many fo $1 I could not pass up.

[cookiejar]

G-Mom that's excellent!

I love hiding things in plain sight. I really love your use of the tins.

I know people who *decorate* with working *antiques*

Very cool

[JCK88]

I couldn't move them from Florida because I had traveled by plane and shipping costs were prohibitive--but my folks had some wonderful end tables in thier living room that Dad made. They were Hexagon shaped, the bases had two of the Hexagon sides made into an ingenious folding door so that when you opened them up, there was storage space in there. I'm thinking that double-duty furniture may help some add storage. You know, footstools, coffee tables, end tables. They don't have to be a flat surface with four legs....they can be solid with a door in them and used for storage!

[cookiejar]

Wow! they sound so cool!
Do you have an old picture of them to give us an idea?

I know a woman who on her bannister to the stairwell, the bottom piece that usually has a decorative ball? Well, that last piece was half hollow. She hid all kinds of things in it. I was young and totally intrigued.

My friend took the shell of a scanner, put it in his office with a note that said broken, call for repair. He used it to hide things in too. (The his real scanner was attached to his printer).


just some more ideas

[JCK88]

Sorry Coookie, I don't have pics of those tables...but they are at my nephew's place down in FL now...so at least someone in the family got them!