DIY Secret Hiding Places: 90 Places To Hide What You Don't Want Found!

The ideas in _DIY: Secret Hiding Places_ are genuinely original and useful. More importantly, they demonstrate the kind of thinking necessary to effectively hide things in your home. Once you’ve read all 90 suggestions, you begin to see hiding places wherever you look! Humans learn best by examples; reading about 90 hiding places is a very good way to learn how to invent your own secret stashes and caches. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who wants to keep valuables, data, secret formulae, treasure maps, passwords, keys, love letters, whistleblowing evidence, smuggled diamonds, dried herbs of whatever kind, annoying but beloved noise-making toys, illegal pesticides (like the late, lamented Chinese chalk), compromising photos, birthday gifts, emergency chocolate, emergency gin, sex toys, adult videos, the lease for your love nest, secret credit cards, gold bullion, heirloom seeds, that Picasso etching the Met has been looking for, and more! Well worth the price and a lot of fun to read.

Steve Plant's DIY Secret Hiding Places could have went into more detail after the first eight chapters/ideas. Chapter nine began with an undisclosed number of additional hiding places in the opening paragraph ("here are another *** ways to conceal"). Why he didn't put the number 75, representing the mentioned ideas appears to be an editing/proofreading blunder. That brings the total number of suggested hiding places to 83, not the 90 places advertised on the cover. Picture quality was fair, but could have been improved upon by taking more of his own photos and adjusting the resolution. The use of the Best Seller seal on the front cover is a rather poor marketing ploy that should either be removed from the book. There were a few formatting errors that I found distracting, but they don't necessarily take away from the content. There are some very good ideas that are truly inexpensive. I hope the author takes the opportunity to expand the content with a second edition. Until then, I would probably hold off on this title.

This book has two types of advice. Very detailed explanations of how to make your own hiding places for commonly known hiding places, for example, hollowed out books. And then a list of less known ideas without detailed instructions. I really liked the instructions on how to hollow out a regular book rather buy one of those pre-made hollow books. This way the book fits in with the rest of the books on your book shelves, if you have a lot of technical books you can use one of them so it fits in. A few of these hiding places have several pages of instructions. The majority of hiding places are listed a list, with a one sentence explanation. For example, an extra sewage pipe in the basement that blends in with the rest of the pipes.Ali Julia review

This book is a great teacher on storing valuables and reducing chances that they will turn up missing. These methods for hiding things are truly things you couldn’t think of on your own! The author gives extremely detailed instructions on how to go about creating and using all these different hiding places. Anyone reading this is definitely in for a surprise. Every hiding place the author mentions are common places within a normal household. You can use these hiding places for all sorts of things, like photos, flash drives, and jewelry. After reading this book I am much more confident in my ability to keep my belongings safe if I had too. I literally feel these are the types of hiding places that no one in their right mind would ever check. I really appreciate the effort the author put into this book, and the pictures were helpful as well. Would recommend this book to anyone trying to set up hiding places, or just looking for an interesting read!

This is a very interesting book. The ideas written in this book were all amazing and I really haven't thought of those places as a hiding place for my things. Steve Plant has helped save a huge amount of money from the possible monthly payment on banks. There are about 90 different places in this book on where you can stash your stuff and keep it out of the hands of thieves and curious folks. With the help of this book and the tips from Steve Plant, you don't have to pay costly monthly fees to a bank or storage company to hide and protect your valuables. I cannot wait to start creating my own hollowed book and a lot more.

This is a horrible book and not worth the money. It wouldn't be worth wasting the time reading it if it was free. All the author does is spit a list of ideas out with no information at all. Anyone can say build a cabinet with a false top and offer no other information.

This is a great book if you have anything that you want to keep secure & hide such as documents, Birth Certificates, keys, jewelry, flash drives, money and everything in between. Take advantage of some of these methods and stay a few steps ahead of potential thieves or your wife and children for that matter!If you have been robbed before (like me) try to take advantage of these techniques.Karl A. Minner, author of The Straight Talk Guide to Lawsuit Funding

Seller was great but the book is pretty lame.

Book has got good information , but only favourable for American conditions.

The hiding spots are really bad, the pictures in the book are pixelated, the "book" is little more than 30 pages. If you want to throw your money out the window, you should buy this book. If you want a book about hiding places, you should urgently buy another one. totally useless and waste of paper.

Tons of ideas, many I would never thought of myself. Just remember that if you can get this book, so can thieves and law enforcement.

Great thought starter and into to the whole idea. I learned a lot from this book but a more in depth version would be nice in the future.

Although there are one or two places/things most of us have heard about before, some of these ideas are ingenious. I wish I'd known about the ones which would help hide jewellery, as I had some stolen by someone I thought I could trust, who knew I kept it in a certain and, now I know, obvious place, so I'll definitely be putting what's left, plus any new items in less obvious places, not that they are likely to be in any mentioned here - in case anyone who knows me is reading this! I'm not sure personally about putting stuff underwater, but I know someone who does and they were also burgled - the hidden items remained just that, hidden. I will certainly be putting some of these tips into practice, and not letting ANYONE know where they are, even people I know. I found out, to my cost, not everyone is as honest as we'd like to think.