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Awesome Places Where You Can Hide Your Food When SHTF

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Stockpiling food and other supplies is the centerpiece of what’s known as the modern prepper movement. Anyone who has been building a food stockpile for a while runs into space problems. Unless you’ve got a room in the basement, which you can dedicate to storing food and other prepping supplies, the average American home just isn’t designed for the prepper.

But there’s a much worse problem than that. That’s keeping your food stockpile. Should a crisis occur, where food is in shortage, every prepper is going to be at risk of losing their stash. Whether it’s desperate neighbors formed together as gangs or government agents bent on redistributing your wealth, you will be at a constant risk of losing your food.

Of course, you can always defend your home, trying to fight off any attacking gangs or government agents. But there’s a limit to how far that can go. Eventually, they will bring enough people and enough firepower to take you out and take over your home.

The other option is to hide your food. Then, if that gang of government agents makes it inside your home, there’s a chance that you won’t lose it all. Better than that, there’s a very real chance that you’ll be able to keep most of it. The question then becomes, where can you hid it? Here are 10 Common Home Security Mistakes.

This list should give you some ideas.

Build a Hidden Room

If your home is designed in such a way that you have a room at the end of a hallway or off another room, you can turn it into a hidden room. All you need to do is to build a bookcase, that is hinged like a door and opened by a hidden latch. Then, use that as your store-room, hiding your food there.

Another, even easier way of creating a hidden room is to use the space under your staircase. This often has a closet built into part of it, but the rest of the space is wasted. Make a false back for your closet or a movable bookshelf alongside the stairs, and use the space inside as a stash.

Hide It In Walls & Ceiling

The interior walls of your home have 3-1/2″ of empty space in them. If you take the drywall off of one side, you’ll see the wall studs that make the structure of the wall, along with a few wires and some pipes. The rest is empty space. Simply build shelves between the studs and fill it up with non-perishable food. Then install new drywall, texture it and paint it to match your home.

If your basement has a suspended ceiling in it you can turn the space above it into storage too. Removing the tiles will reveal the bottom side of the floor above, as well as the floor joists. Attach wood to the sides of the joists and store food on those shelves.

Closets provide excellent places to hide things, other than the obvious idea of placing things in mismarked boxes. The space above the door is a great place to install a shelf. Even trained searchers forget to look up and see if there is a shelf there, and if there isn’t a light in the closet, there won’t be a shadow to give them a hint.

You can also use the walls in a closet quite effectively; not the walls you see, but the wall that the door is in. Just like above the closet, nobody thinks to look at the back side of that wall. So, cut out the wallboard and finish the edges off nicely. Then install shelves between the studs, like we were talking about earlier. You don’t even need to cover these storage places back up with drywall, as nobody will likely look for them.

If your kitchen has soffits above the wall cabinets, that’s dead space too. As with the walls, you can remove the drywall covering, exposing the structure and space within. Fill the space up and recover it with new drywall, texturing and painting it to match your kitchen. Or, you can make the job easier by covering it with wallpaper, eliminating the need for texturing and painting the drywall.

Homes which use the attic as living space, possibly with the addition of dormers, will have unused space under the eaves of the home. All you need to do is build an access to get to this area and then floor it over to make a large, useful storage space. If you put the access in a closet or behind furniture, it will be much harder for them to find.

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Hide It in Furniture

A lot of furniture has empty space in it. Sofas and chairs often have a dust cover over the bottom, with several inches of empty space between it and the springs. This dust cover can be removed, food placed inside and a cover made of plywood used to hold it in, replacing the dust cover.

Wood tables also have some dead space, directly below the tops, where the strips of wood run between the legs. These strips of wood are there to stiffen and support the table top, but also provide you with a few inches of dead space. As with the sofa, fill the space with food and attach a plywood cover, making sure that the cover won’t be visible from the sides.

Another similar space is the box springs of your bed. Once upon a time, these were actually filled with springs, but with today’s mattresses most are just empty boxes. Like before, you can cover the bottom with plywood, making a storage space. However, you’ll probably need to reinforce the plywood quite a bit, due to the quantity of food that you can hide in there.

Don’t forget your washer and dryer either. If you take the backs off of them, you’ll see that there’s a fair amount of space available inside, especially at the bottom. Just make sure that whatever you put inside doesn’t get in the way of the working mechanism.

Bookshelves offer a fair amount of hidden space, if you do a little modification. The average bookshelf is 12 inches deep, while the average book is less than six. So, make a false back for your shelves, which will fit tightly between them. Then paint it to match the wall or look like it’s part of the bookshelf. Put the food inside, cover it with your false back and fill the front part of the shelf with books.

It’s not really furniture, but there are a few inches of space underneath your kitchen and bathroom cabinets. The small area that’s set back is called a toe kick and it’s designed for your toes to go into, so that you don’t kick the cabinets. But there’s nothing behind there. If you pull the face board off (it’s probably glued and nailed in place) you can fill the area with food and then put the board back on. Here is an example of How to Prepare For the Coming Food Crisis

Fake them Out

You can fake out searchers by using some fake stuff, specifically fake parts of your home. Few people know a home’s systems well enough to tell if things are fake or not. Take your heating ducts, for example. They’ll either be in your attic or basement, depending on the home’s design. Just add some more ductwork, making it out of the same material as the original and attaching it so that it looks like part of the home. You can fill it with food and nobody will be the wiser.

The same thing can be done in your basement, making extra plumbing pipes. You’ll notice that you have some four inch diameter plastic pipes, which are the drains from your toilets. Add another in another part of your basement, but don’t hook it up to anything. Just let it go into the ceiling and down to the floor. It will be just the right size to fill with canned goods.

Speaking of attics and basements, yours is probably at least partially filled with boxes, like everyone else’s is. We tend to collect stuff in these places, whether it’s Aunt Gertrude’s linens or the kids baby clothes. So use those boxes as camouflage, filling them partway with food and then covering it with those old curtains and outgrown baby clothes.

Bury It

One of the oldest known ways of storing food was to bury it. Early on in American history, casks and barrels of food were buried in the ground, as a means of preserving it. For the most part, animals can’t get into food that’s buried in the ground, and raiding Indian bands didn’t know where to look for it. We can beat out those early Americans today, using five gallon food-grade buckets to store food in the ground. Insects can’t even get into those.

You can also bury food in PVC pipe “safes.” A piece of 4″ PVC pipe, with caps on it, will fit nicely into a hole dug with a post hole digger. While they won’t hold as much as the five gallon buckets will, you’ll be surprised with how much you can get in one; especially if you do so without packaging.

Go Somewhere Else

You should always keep some food off-site, just in case. Your home may burn down or you may be forced to abandon it. If that happens, the only food you may have is what you have stored elsewhere. So, where is elsewhere?

To start with, check with friends and family members, to see if you can keep a stash at their place. If any of them are preppers as well, they’ll probably be more than willing. While there is a risk that they will use it in the case of an emergency, if they’re preppers, they probably won’t.

Rent a storage space somewhere, or if you have one, make sure that part of your stockpile is there. A 10′ x 10′ storage space can hold a lot of food, along with your old golf clubs, the baby bed and the toys the kids no longer play with. Just make sure it’s conveniently located to your home, so that you can get to that food, even without a car.

Create some buried caches too. These could be anywhere, but they are best done along your bug out route and near your planned bug out location. That way, they’ll be available to you if you are ever forced to get out of Dodge and abandon your home.

Don’t Forget a Diversion

No matter how well you hide your food, if they think you’ve got some, they’re going to keep looking. That is, they’ll keep looking until they think they’ve found it. So, you may as well use their thinking against them. Let them think they’ve found your stash and they’ll probably go away.

What I mean is for you to set up a food stash for them to find. It should be easy enough to find, that they’ll think they’ll find it first, but not so obvious that they won’t think it was hidden. That way, they’ll hopefully take the bait, thinking they’ve found it all. But you’ll still have enough food to keep you going. Just make sure you act like they’ve got it all, so that they don’t keep looking.

UPDATE (from Lisa R.):

If you are felling thrifty you can buy a club chair and replace the springs with a hidden lock box and cover it with a cloth and then put a cushion on top. Also there are old secretary desks that have a hidden slip drawer that can only be accessed when reclined under the desk. Usually you can find these items at the local flee market.

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SOURCE: www.askaprepper.com



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    • Large Fuck Driver

      Hilarious.

      • HitleryforPrison

        For real??? What difference at this point dose it make!!!? Once martial law is initiated…you will be better off hiding food products up your A$$!!!

      • Ambicatus

        yes! it is! i could call this article “the numerous places profligates hide contraband”

    • DISPENSER

      Remember how important temperature is to the long term storage of food. Self storage places that are climate controlled would be OK, but garages, etc. that get hot will reduce the storage limit on food.

    • Madtingo

      Keep food inside a washer or drier?? The heat fluctuations would destroy it as food and render it inedible in no time.

      Any long-term food storage requires a low stable temperature and a dry atmosphere such as may be available in a basement or similar environment. Even tinned food is susceptible to temperature changes, and any dampness will rust the tin.

      Those who follow some of the advice in this article will likely poison themselves.

      Buy a good book on the subject and ignore amateur articles such as this.

    • Pink Slime

      Thanks for telling people where to hide food. You just gave them carte blanche to RIP YOUR HOUSE APART!

      Hope you like living under the stars.

      • FAT AXL!!!

        Hi. Pinko.

        It’s me. Clawd Nelsson, the author of this article.

        Truth is, I don’t hide my stored vittles in those places I suggested above. What I DO hidethere, is CNq1A. So DOOM on ANYONE who tries to steal MY provisions.

        CNq1A is the chemical formula for the most unstable high explosive known to man. You see, if you eat your tannerite mixture in equal parts and wash it down with Bombay Sapphire Gin (on the rocks), the fecal by-product of that ingestion will yield the volatile mix known as CNq1A!!!

        [NOTE -- if you mix a good Spaghetti Sauce into the fecal formula, once expelled and pressed into a cake pan or other suitable mold, your explosive splatter will stick to everything, kind of like nuclear napalm. And if you add a dash of sawdust and some liposuction fat from fat lady's thighs, you actually get a thermo-nook-you-lar explosion!!! (Oppenheimer was a hack. We don't need no stinking plutonium 239!!! Just look at all the time Lil' Kim Jong UN in North Korea has wasted developing WWII era firecrackers!!!)]

        Did you follow all that?

        If not, I sell my recipe for digestive explosive compounds in my new Cook Book…

        …available from General Electric/Westinghouse Publishing Company.

        (Security Clearance needed for book pre-order. Qualification will be waived in exchange for your vote for TRUMP in the general election.)

        • Madtingo

          Reasonably imaginative for a lunatic.

          • Madtingo

            You may have a future in Hollywood.

        • Claude Nelson

          Who is this guy pretending to be me? Can someone ban him please?

          • The Clucker

            Someone should ban you for that photoshopped in pineapple can in the first pic.

          • Ambicatus

            look, if they not gonna ban me, how they ban Vinny? YA CANTS.

            Vinny, just in the groovyest way, said yer article is poop, i AGREEE. why cant i find a SINGLE Vinny post that i disagree with? at ALL.. i use the google advanced settings so i read every single comment of every single poster, not incontext to artice, but put ALL the things they have ever said, in long list, then analyse. you would not believe, how many poster, are robot like in their answers, where the same words repeat every coupla posts, and CAAAAAAAALLLAAUDE NELSON, is like the “wolve-bean” of articleS! so HAIL VINNY. Vinnys right, artickle is poop, and claude is wolve-bean.

            https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CQ72NxzWoAAcjNh.jpg

        • Ambicatus

          Vinny, i appreciate the way you think. also, did you know that Thermite, is like so easy and so cheap, not one bunker stands a chance, we just pour. and it cuts, k everthing living inside dies, but like we care, i needs resources for the cause! hahaha, o btw,i have delivered unto Rood, a dire warning.

          hes very very rich, and, i wonder, what would the angel of death think, if he saw this deceptive ad.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEVmlncdYIM

          i intend to show him first chance i get. roods in BEEEEG trouble, aboot the same trouble as montaigne an all these money makers of that which is freely given, and as i type this there booms the lightning

          • FAT AXL!!!

            I keepa wonder who you means by this ROOOD. Then I watcha you video.

            Ahhhhh. Miggeleuch Roooood. Him maka many OLD-SCHOOL Bible believers dizzy with he likes to play dress up like a fat womens in Palestinian rags. Yup. A salesman. He’s been SELLING a (corrupt) version of the Message.

            You know Tannerite is a HIGH EXPLOSIVE and is legal to buy in da FRIGGIN MAIL? Don’t know about yous South Africas, but over here in da GREAT GUN BARREL they like to sell us this compound for cheap. Don’t needa so much at all — a few pounds to knock down a house. And the law says we allowed to mix FIFTY POUNDS. FIFTY POUNDS.

            That make any kind of sense to you?

            Here’s what 164 pounds does to an old barn:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRbcTXAijY

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