Hiding Valuables in Books

[alfsauve]

Quite the interesting book shelf, is "Conflict of Visions"  "readable" or dry and "scholarly" ?

Conflict is sort of in-between.   The ideas presented are worth the effort though.   It explains a lot about two competing visions of the world, "constrained" and "unconstrained".   I always called it the Jonathan Edwards verses Ann Landers visions.   It could also be called the collectivism verses individualism, but it's more than that.  Those ideas rise from the roots that Thomas talks about.

I read this about three or four years ago, I may re-read it this holiday.

[Pathfinder]

I would add "Trail Safe" to that list also.......JK, Bane

Yeah, everyone knows Trail Safe is too thin to hold anything other than a mouse gun - and barely at that!!!!!   

When my mom passed I found a bunch of jewelery including diamond rings wrapped up in tin foil in the freezer.

Hey, there was this one guy in Louisiana that had $100,000 in his freezer. Of course he wasn't dead whent he FBI found it, right Rep. Jefferson? ? ?

[alfsauve]

I could tell that one with the XD had something in it.... it look too out of place.

On that shelf, yes the Michaels "box" looks out of place.   In the bookcase with my wifes novels, it fits in much better.  It is still a good buy for only a couple of dollars.....especially during Christmas with all the sales.   And if you don't want to take the time and effort to make your own, it's sturdy alternative.

[fightingquaker13]

On that shelf, yes the Michaels "box" looks out of place.   In the bookcase with my wifes novels, it fits in much better.  It is still a good buy for only a couple of dollars.....especially during Christmas with all the sales.   And if you don't want to take the time and effort to make your own, it's sturdy alternative.

It doesnt pass the smell test as is, but all you need to do is put a dust jacket on it from like a Tom Clancy book, and you're good to go.
FQ13

[alfsauve]

Props for having the Hayek and "Uncle Milton". Please don'r carve them up to hold guns. They're more  valuable SD tools than that LCP.
FQ13

Now, now FQ.   An LCP or LCR would fit nicely in one of those big hard-back novels.  I only carve up cheap books I find at garage sales.    AND dust jacket is a great idea for the Michaels "book".


Sowell and Williams dominate my economic reading material.

And speaking of books, I came across a biography on the Ringling Circus bandmaster, Merle Evans, in my collection last week.  It was autographed by Evans to Stuart Thayer.     Thayer was a preeminent circus historian, who passed away this summer.   I'm giving the book to his family to add to Thayer's historical collection.

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[twyacht]

What is old is new again. God Bless all of our relatives that have since passed and left us a "surprise" to be found later.

I found $250.00 in 50 dollar bills in my Grandfather's tool box.  With a 1955 Zippo lighter, (which still works).  under the the wrench template in the second drawer down.

Found my Great Grandmother's engagement ring in a "secret" compartment inside her jewelry box that my mother and sister had for years. (The hinges and inlays were popping out in a couple of spots in the mahogany box, and I heard something rattle when I was shuffling it around. ).

It was their ingenuity, resourcefulness, to think of the "big" picture. I may have a literal "treasure map" to get to my crap when I'm gone,..

Books at yard sales are a great resource to hide, cash, whatever,.....

Just takes patience. (Which Alf, has more than I)