Stash It - 5

The next unit I would make would be a water heater safe. That is correct, I said a water heater. This is about the only other appliance in the home that is insulated. They can be a little hard to work with and a little inconvenient, but they work. Once again, there are a fair amount of homes that have more than one water heater. Get an old water heater, the larger the better, remove the top and take out the water storage tank. You may want to keep this tank to store water for survival situations. You can now set guns around the inside or put just about anything else into the unit. The problem with storing small items in this unit, and that includes ammo, is that it is a long reach to the bottom. If you are going to store these types of items in a water heater, you may want to build a set of round shelves that will just fit into the unit and can be pulled out as one piece. Try to reattach the drain spout to the bottom for a realistic look. Also, set this unit close to your regular water heater and run a couple of dummy plastic pipes up into the plumbing to give it a further look of authenticity. Again, use your imagination for other ways to convert water heaters.

Now it is time to take a good look around the house and see where some good places to hide things might be. I cannot know all of the areas because each house is different. What I will try to do is to give several ideas and hopefully, if none of them will work in your house, they will get the seed of ideas started and you can find and design your own. However, I believe that you will be able to use one or more of my ideas.

I have used many different types of "around the house" storage. This is partly due to the number and various types of dwellings I have lived in. Since getting into the survival movement back in the early seventies, I have lived in three different apartments, six different houses and spent six months living in a pickup camper.Through all of this I have managed to store my firearms and any other valuables safely. The most difficult was while I lived in the pickup camper, followed by a one room efficiency apartment. All of these and one of the houses were rented. This meant t6hat I could not do a lot of cutting or building. However, in one apartment I did put a false ceiling into  closet. Owning your own home make it much easier. You can add and build just about anything you want. I am going to leave it here this week and I will start with closets when I make my next entry. Until then, SURVIVE.

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