First 15 Safest Places to Stash Your Survival Supplies During Martial Law

There are so many places to hide your survival supplies when doomsday approaches us, and they all offer their fair share of resources that can be crucial to our survival. 

Once you stock up enough survival supplies to last your family a few months, the question becomes: where do you put it all? While some simple shelving in the pantry or basement will do the trick, it’s also smart to stash some in secret locations. Hiding your hard-earned survival supplies stash can protect your rations from potential looters in emergency situations. Here are a dozen sneaky places you can hide your survival supplies.

Below you can discover first 15 safest places to hide your survival supplies:

1. In the Crawl Space

One of the most obvious and common places is under the floor. If there is a crawl space under the floorboards, this can be a good place to hide your survival supplies. Add a trap door, and you have a spacious hiding spot.

The crawl space’s obvious advantage is that it’s nearby and immediately accessible. The disadvantage is its obviousness. This could be one of the first places where the authorities would search. However, a well-built trap door can seamlessly blend in with the rest of the floor, thus avoiding any attention.

2. Near an Air Vent

Hiding your supplies inside the vents is not a good idea, since this is one of the most frequently searched spots. However, you can try hiding some unperishable food and other supplies behind a vent. No one will look behind an air vent.

To create even more space, you can remove some of the screws that attach the vent to the wall or to the ceiling. A word of caution – if this is a functioning air conditioning vent, the hot air may damage some of the stashed food. As a solution, you can try attaching a fake vent, which is not actually connected to an AC.

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A lot of the popularity of firearms is due to the fact that anyone can use them effectively, not only the strong and agile. The young, the old, men, women and child can take up firearms in defense of home and family and do so effectively.

But what do you do if you can’t use a gun – or if you don’t have a gun — to protect yourself?

3. Beneath the Cabinet

Everyone has cabinets. Cabinets usually don’t stand flat on the floor, but have some space beneath them, as they stand on short legs. If there is a front panel that covers this place, you can detach it, stash your supplies under the cabinet, and return the panel to its place.

Some cabinets do not have such a panel. This can be somewhat more challenging, since you will have to find wood of the same color and design as the cabinet. Then you need to measure the height of the floor space and cut the panels from the wood. Make sure you surround the cabinet’s legs with panels from all directions, otherwise this might look too suspicious.

4. Within Drawers

Other parts of the furniture can be used as hiding spot. Drawers are classic hiding spaces. Naturally, you don’t place your supplies in a drawer. Instead, you either create a false bottom, or a hidden drawer.

If you make a false, or a double-bottom drawer, don’t forget to fill it with ordinary items, to distract from the fact that there are more items beneath them.

If you use a hidden drawer, don’t give it a front panel or a handle that can be seen from the outside. Only you should know how to access the hidden drawer.

Amazon has a great selection of concealment furniture, which looks both classy and completely innocent. No one will even figure out that it has hidden spaces.

5. Inside Cushions

Cushions are another spot that can work, as long as they don’t look too suspicious. Gently make an opening in the fabric, remove a little bit of the stuffing, and then expertly sew the cushion back together.

Make sure it still looks like a regular cushion, with no angles sticking out under the fabric. Couch cushions and throw cushions are better suited for this purpose. Don’t use the cushions you actually sleep on. This can’t be good, neither for your sleep, nor for the hidden supplies.

6. Inside Couches

Besides cushions, the very base of the couch can serve as another useful hiding spot. You can even stash your valuables in it, this is probably the last place that burglars and looters will check.

The couches base is usually very spacious, and you won’t need to rearrange anything inside of it, or damage the couch. Just make a small opening, place your items there, and reattach the fabric. It’s like having a secret safe in your living room.

7. In a Mattress or a Box-Spring

If your bed has a box-spring and/or a mattress, these can also be used to hide your survival supplies inside. This way the supplies are near you during the night, yet they will be deep enough and won’t trouble your sleep. Remember to sew the fabric back without leaving too many attention-drawing seams.

8. Among Stored Items

You probably have an attic, garage, or utility closet, where a lot of regular items are stored in boxes without being well-organized. If you don’t have anything like this, just create this chaos of things. Get several cardboard boxes and fill them with items you barely use. Make it look as if these are boxes you planned to unpack after moving in, but never got to it.

Then, place whatever you need to hide between those items. No one will ever try going through this mess of yours, looking for ammo and survival food among heaps of toys, old yearbooks, clothes, and tools.

9. In the Walls

This is another classic and hard-to-find location. No one will attempt tearing through the walls of the entire house. Which is why a hidden safe or just a dug-out hole can be an ideal spot. You can cover the opening with false outlets or a painting.

If you’re storing paper money or important documents inside the wall, wrap them in any waterproof material. Water can seep within a wall and damage whatever you’re trying to hide inside.

10. In Old Bottles

You can reuse non-transparent plastic bottles, like those that had a fabric softener, detergent, shampoo or hair conditioner in them. No g-man will ever think of going through used bottles placed under the sink.

Completely rinse and dry the bottle before using it. You can insert foldable or small supplies, and then screw the cap back. If the items you wish to conceal are too large, cut off one side of the bottle, place the items, and then carefully glue it back.

11. Under Potted Plants

Wrap your valuables and your supplies in a water-resistant plastic bag. Remove the plant and the soil entirely from the pot, put your stash inside and then put the plant back. Now you have a naturally looking hiding spot, under everyone’s noses.

Remember not to water the plant too much. Instead, you should just spray it. Or better yet, hide your stuff under a cactus. A cactus does not require too much water, and no one will think to mess with this prickly plant while looking for hidden survival supplies.

12. Under Cat’s Sand

This might sound like a gross solution, but as long as your items are thoroughly wrapped, they will not be damaged or disturbed. Place the wrapped supplies at the very bottom of the cat’s litter box and cover them with sand. No person in their sound mind would want to dig there while looking for your belongings.

13. In Your Ground

Another classic spot is simply burying your stash in your own backyard. Make sure the earth looks undisturbed afterwards.

The main issue is that this is a commonly used location. In almost every documentary and fictional movie, you can see the authorities digging up the backyard. What would help is having a nice garden out there. You can use something like a PVC pipe or a metal box, and bury it between a tree’s roots. No one will start uprooting the trees while they search for the ammo.

14. Far Away From Your House

If the supplies are not in your house, they simply can’t be found. You can make a survival cache and place it where no one will expect it. This can be an abandoned building, forest, public park, or just a spot near the road.

If you plan to move to another location (as long as the martial law allows this), placing a cache along your escape route can actually be a very good idea. You can leave after your house was searched (and nothing was found), and then just pick the supplies up on your way to the shelter.

15. At Your Bug Out Location

If everything else fails, you simply need to stash the supplies at your bug out location. This should be a place that no one but you and your family know about. Simply place the self-defense weapons, ammo, food, water, first aid kit, etc. in your personal shelter and head there while avoiding any confrontation with the authorities.

Conclusion:

So there you have it, the complete list of how to hide yourself and your supplies whenever martial law is imposed on your country or state. Remember to always stay safe and avoid unnecessary conflicts. Whatever takes place at this very moment, think about the future, and strive to survive.