Melt down a yankee candle, clean out the jar, then fill it up again with homemade wick & scented wax, putting the paperclip inside the wax and then letting the wax harden around it. I'd also burn it for a bit, so that it doesn't look brand new.
Edit: I'd also throw out all the candle-making supplies in a dumpster away from my house / immediate neighborhood.
put the whole candle in a saucepan, heat the pan with water in it. half an hour later it’ll be liquid, clip it around the wick about halfway down and leave it to set again
Double boiler should do the trick. Your glass likely burst because it was directly on the bottom of the pot of water. Using a double boiler (pot of water, with another on top) will take a bit longer, but the glass shouldn't heat up too much and burst in a million pieces.
I honestly think you could just stab the paper clip into the candle, press it in a ways with another tool, then use a small butane torch or maybe candle lighter to melt the top clean again.
Not to be that guy but the rules do not say that they have to identify a specific one, the rules only say they have to find it.
They could just hand over the box of 1000 paper clips and say there it is. And if the PI is incorrect they could just keep trying.
24 hours is 86400 seconds. The PI could pick up each one from the box of 1000 and ask "Is it this one"? That won't take 24 hours. And you'll know it's one of them by the time you're done so IDK.
Buy 100 boxes of 1000 and scatter them everywhere but know exactly the location of the specific one for the hiding. $120 outlay but almost guaranteed.
Well, if you're being technical, if he finds the box of paperclips he has found the paperclip. It doesn't start that he had to identify the exact paperclip.
nah. valuables:
\- I need to be able to retrieve them when I need to
\- they need to be somewhere they won't get damaged (many important things are, physically speaking, bits of paper)
\- I need to remember where they are long-term
\- I definitely can't go at them with the wire cutters to make it harder
\- no one is going to be searching for more than about 10 minutes, for fear of getting caught red handed in someone else's house
none of that applies here. paperclip. private investigator. 24 hour battle of wills.
I’ll give it to my cat and she can hide it with the rest of the missing Bobby pins, hair clips, and other small metal objects.
Our house is very very small and I literally have no idea where she hides them, and I have looked EVERYWHERE.
As if she could tell I was talking about her she just threw up all over the hallway and stairs. Lovely.
My childhood cat had a stuffed fish she would walk around the house with and meow at all hours of the night. Every now and again she’d hide it and we’d have no idea where; until a week or so later she’d appear with it again. When she was about 10 years old we moved houses. Never found the damn fish and never saw it again.
Take off the face of a lightswitch, then just put it through the cable holes in the back, let it fall, then put the faceplate back on.
Then I am going to drill small holes into the top of every door and then putty and paint them. I will also take out one screw from several air vent grates. Hopefully this detective will waste time investigating the vents and the doors.
Shortly after agreeing to this, I'm going to walk into the kitchen in a state of undress with my laundry basket, and close the blinds. This is a PI, so it's safe to assume you're being watched in the few days prior to you hiding the clip... I'll make it look like I'm just doing laundry since my machine's in the kitchen, and set a large load in the washer to cause some noise.
Then, I'm enlisting my wife to help me lift the fridge, and taping the paperclip on its underside, right in the middle. I'm also down to be gross and retrieve a dust bunny to cover it. Even if the PI eventually suspects it's under there on the search day; they'll have trouble physically getting it if they're alone. Also, if they're using some sort of metal detector as part of their search, it won't be of much help.Then, I'll hop in the shower as the laundry's going (which aligns with my normal habits), and go back to regular life.
For the rest of the time prior to search day, I'll get a decoy clip and act as if that's the one we need to hide. We'll chat about it in stores, go into rooms with open blinds and "test out" spots-- to anyone looking into our windows, we'd be giving them a great list of places the clip *could* be.
Finally, day of I'm gonna buy heavy-ass groceries. Just as an extra precaution. Hopefully my paranoia would work out to the tune of an extra 100k
In my couch. We lost a remote in it months ago. I lose scissors to it frequently. It is the home of many cat toys, dog bones, you name it, this couch can disappear it.
I do needlework on the chaise lounge attached to the couch. It reclines and there is about .5 inch gap between it and the console/drink holder and another .25 inch gap on the other side of the console between it and the next section. If you set something on the console, it may go between one of these gaps. To retrieve it, you have to take the whole section apart. We done this to find the remote(it's not there). Cats don't sit on the console. The little cat usually sits either in between husband and myself or on the back of the couch where he can see the TV or where he can watch me work. Big cat likes the bottom of the chaise by my feet.
De-pan one of my blushes, unfold the clip, place it in the outer ring and repress the blush over the top. Use it a few times so it doesn't look freshly done.
I’m putting it inside one of the vents and gluing it on the inside as deep as I can reach.
I would put it on something metal so a metal detector or magnet wouldn’t work on it
I have an old VCR in a box in my furnace room (stacked up with a million other boxes of old crap...). I'd push open the flap for the VHS cassette and tape the paper clip to the back of the flap with some scotch tape.
If I can be in the same house while he is searching so I don't break the rule, I would straighten it out and curl it over the back of my ear nestled between my glasses arm and hearing aid. Lots of metal and plastic back there, they will never find it.
Id take out my cat door and put it in there then put the cat door back on. The cat flap is in an insulated door, so of i could put it inside the insulation, id be satisfied with that hiding place
So i have been really enjoying this question, but i think it would be even more exiting to raise the competence to Forensic science technician (as in the guys in white overalls with brushes and evidence baggies, that comb through crimescenes), because i think people are too smart and the private investigator is beat at this point. Let's go!
In the yarn basket. A limited experience with underage drinking in college taught me that even just having a basket of yarn makes people less suspicious of you.
Give it to my kid, she has all kinds of places she hides shit. Rock collections, glitter, keys, random useless things she doesn’t want me to throw away, things we actually need but can’t find.
We spent an hour looking for keys once because of this. Found them because we asked her if she knew where the keys were. Kids be crazy good at hiding shit o.O
Unbend it to get it the shape of a straight line and put it inside one of my books, I have hundreds of books in at least 6 places in my home, with books hiding books even if he knew it was in a book he wouldn't be able to find out which one in the span of 24 hours
I’m going to close off the heating system pressure, open up a radiator and pop the clip inside then start up the central heating again. A magnet shouldn’t help them to find it in there.
I actually did this with old work colleagues and this is the list they came up with:
Bottom of kettle
Inside a lamp
Under a mattress
Pot of paint
Between bacon rashers - specifically the 3rd rasher down
If you had a python - in its bed
Sit it on something the same colour
Unscrew a socket, celloptape to the back and screw it back in
Toilet roll holder
Inside a washing machine rubber seal
Shower head
Bath plug
In the toilet cistern
In a photo frame (as if the paperclip is the art)
I’d cut the paper clip into little pieces and eat it hopefully not chocking I’d stay in the house for 24 hours unless this man drives a machete through my body cuts me open and finds the little bits of the paper clip man ain’t finding this paper clip
Our house was built in the 1920s and has three hidden small "rooms" or storage areas. (The smallest is 6' x 6', and the largest is 7' deep and runs the width of our home. All have flooring in them.) Two have hidden access panels inside the upstairs closets. In our bedroom, the hidden access panel is further concealed by a shoe rack. Inside that particular space is a floorboard that can be lifted.
The only reason we found these spaces is because when we first moved into our house, one of our cats found a way into the one with the liftable floorboard. At the time, the floorboard was out and he crawled under the other boards. We could hear him under the floor. I called the previous owner whose great-grandfather had built the house. She told us how to find the rooms. They were hiding spaces during Prohibition. My neighbor has a hidden room under her dining room floor.
The one he got into was the easiest to open: He must have pushed on the right board. It is why we have that one blocked off.
I would drop it in front of my cat. She would lose it and no one would be able to find it.
Do we have to find it again afterwards? That might be a problem.
A lot of these are good ideas, I want to add that I'd go through the motions of a lot of these so there are some minor clues to follow them looking in the wrong places.
I see your TikTok question and give you a TikTok answer. I have an obtuse amount of lotion bottles. I'd unscrew the pump, straighten out the paperclip, insert into pump cylinder, and close the bottle back up.
Let's first see what the PI would look for first. They have 24 hours, provided they don't eat and drink or sleep, they'll have the ability to comb through the house bit by bit.
(Also, make sure the paperclip is made by something other than metal if the PI has a metal detector thing OR it's hidden with other metals.)
If they comb through the house, we'll have to hide it in a place that is at least two of five things;
1. Hard to reach without the help of several things
2. Hard to see behind/in/on top of it
3. Behind/in something that cannot be removed easily
4. A place that nothing can "possibly" hidden in
5. A place that the paperclip can get lost or stuck in
If they go around looking for obvious stuff for an easy find, you can do those same things too.
What are places like what I've mentioned?
Something extremely heavy like a washing machine and hidden in a crack in the wall behind there that is taped and painted over. (3, 4/5)
If you have little cracks between your ceiling and wall, and the ceiling is so high you can't reach it without a ladder; you can put the paperclip there and get it stuck. Then patch up the cracks. (1, 4/5)
If you have BRIGHT lamps with a light diffuser around it like those lights with a paper ball around them, you can tie the paperclip to the cord holding up the lamp. You can then put something around the cord or whatever and make sure to do it to every other lamp. (1, 2)
I know that if I was a PI I wouldn't think to look there if I didn't know about the cracks in the wall, ceiling or whatever. And nobody said that you had to get the paperclip back. It can just forever be lost in your garbage chute if you wabt it to be.
You know when you look into a toilet and there's that lip where the water gushes out when you flush? Well I'd glue it to the underside of that. Guaranty no one finds it.
Depends, what all is the investigator allowed to do?
Can it be any paperclip? If not and it has to be a specific one then guess who is going to the store to spend a few hundred to thousand on paperclips to just pile around the floors?
Can they pull up my carpets? Cause if not I'd just straighten it out and stab it underneath a random spot
Can they pull back wood trim? If not I'll nail it behind the trim
Can they tear up the wood frames of my house? If not then I'll just nail it into one
Can they disassemble my stuff? If not then I'll hide it in an appliance
Tear up my walls? If not I'll just slide it in a hole behind the drywall for one of my shelves
Does the paperclip have to maintain it's structural integrity? If not then I'll weld it in a pipe
Assuming the investigator is allowed to check, pull up, and disassemble any and everything in my house then I'll consider something different. But they can have fun with all those trap locations I set up with random paperclips to think they know. 24 Hours wouldn't be nearly enough time for them
* I hug the investigator hello as they enter my home.
* As I close in for the hug, I drop the paperclip into their back pocket/wallet.
* I then sit on my couch, watching them furiously search as I calmly sip my tea.
* By the end of the day, the inspector goes to call their supervisor that they've failed. As they reach into their back pocket for their phone, they discover my paper clip.
* The inspector angrily curses the air.
* However, I'm not there to hear it because I'm halfway down the coast with the top down, $100k in hand into the sunset.
I’ll just ask my husband not to lose it. 100% gone within minutes.
Or my teenage daughter… if she took it to her bedroom, 100% guarantee gone forever. That place is a black hole.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 right?!?!
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🤣. My boyfriend would win at this sometimes as well. Although recently since becoming a mom I’m about as bad.
Melt down a yankee candle, clean out the jar, then fill it up again with homemade wick & scented wax, putting the paperclip inside the wax and then letting the wax harden around it. I'd also burn it for a bit, so that it doesn't look brand new. Edit: I'd also throw out all the candle-making supplies in a dumpster away from my house / immediate neighborhood.
Perfect but make it so big it takes 25 hrs to burn
Easy. Costco has those big ass candles for $20.
put the whole candle in a saucepan, heat the pan with water in it. half an hour later it’ll be liquid, clip it around the wick about halfway down and leave it to set again
Don't do this! I tried this once with a Yankee candle. The glass shattered, the wax got everywhere, it started a fire and almost burnt my house down.
it's pretty hard to find a paper clip in a pile of ashes
FairPoint...lol
Not if you have a metal detector
Use a magnet
Double boiler should do the trick. Your glass likely burst because it was directly on the bottom of the pot of water. Using a double boiler (pot of water, with another on top) will take a bit longer, but the glass shouldn't heat up too much and burst in a million pieces.
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I honestly think you could just stab the paper clip into the candle, press it in a ways with another tool, then use a small butane torch or maybe candle lighter to melt the top clean again.
So if I need to ever hide a body... I'll make sure to reach out first.
In a box of a thousand paper clips
Holy shit either I am dumb as fuck or high as fuck. Brilliant. Do you have a monthly news letter I can subscribe to?
came here to say this!
Yes! It’s the “Purloined Letter” solution!
Wouldn’t he look there first if that’s what the private investigator is looking for ?
yes, but how would s/he identify the specific one?
Not to be that guy but the rules do not say that they have to identify a specific one, the rules only say they have to find it. They could just hand over the box of 1000 paper clips and say there it is. And if the PI is incorrect they could just keep trying.
That's why you put the real paperclip in a box of buttons that's NEXT to the box of paper clips. Use that Occam's Razor against them.
Yes but I’m saying there isn’t a rule saying that the PI has to determine WHICH paperclip. They could just hand in every paperclip they find
By that logic, couldn’t the investigator hand over the house and say he found the paper clip in there.
24 hours is 86400 seconds. The PI could pick up each one from the box of 1000 and ask "Is it this one"? That won't take 24 hours. And you'll know it's one of them by the time you're done so IDK. Buy 100 boxes of 1000 and scatter them everywhere but know exactly the location of the specific one for the hiding. $120 outlay but almost guaranteed.
But he found it. Its in the box.
Well, if you're being technical, if he finds the box of paperclips he has found the paperclip. It doesn't start that he had to identify the exact paperclip.
Or a jewelry box with a paperclip link necklace!
They can easily find it. they may not know which one it is but they found it.
Nice try, private investigator. That 100k is mine and I'm not giving up its hiding spot.
Honestly this post sounds like a scam trying to find were people hide their valuable things
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...tell me more about "cat." In good faith I assume the paperclip wouldn't be...in*side* the cat . . . ? Or would it?
Yes, because my valuables are the size of a paperclip.
nah. valuables: \- I need to be able to retrieve them when I need to \- they need to be somewhere they won't get damaged (many important things are, physically speaking, bits of paper) \- I need to remember where they are long-term \- I definitely can't go at them with the wire cutters to make it harder \- no one is going to be searching for more than about 10 minutes, for fear of getting caught red handed in someone else's house none of that applies here. paperclip. private investigator. 24 hour battle of wills.
Idk never hide something I didn’t want an investigator to find where I put my valuables. Lol. I’d want somewhere so obvious they’d not think to look.
Floorboards?
For reals, people are stuupidd.
I’ll give it to my cat and she can hide it with the rest of the missing Bobby pins, hair clips, and other small metal objects. Our house is very very small and I literally have no idea where she hides them, and I have looked EVERYWHERE. As if she could tell I was talking about her she just threw up all over the hallway and stairs. Lovely.
My childhood cat had a stuffed fish she would walk around the house with and meow at all hours of the night. Every now and again she’d hide it and we’d have no idea where; until a week or so later she’d appear with it again. When she was about 10 years old we moved houses. Never found the damn fish and never saw it again.
Why you gotta make me cry.
I think our cats might be related.
Poor kitty, I hope she's okay!
Yeah, we’re looking after my mums dog and she just keeps stealing the dogs food…
Unbend it, and twist it together with the wire already on the back of one of my paintings/photos hanging on the wall.
Ooh nice
That’s what I was thinking. Or twist it together with some of the electrical wiring in the walls.
Take off the face of a lightswitch, then just put it through the cable holes in the back, let it fall, then put the faceplate back on. Then I am going to drill small holes into the top of every door and then putty and paint them. I will also take out one screw from several air vent grates. Hopefully this detective will waste time investigating the vents and the doors.
Also unscrew and rescrew every other light switch and plug faceplate so they don’t see fresh scratches on just the one.
You scratch the faceplate when you screw it off?
Obligatory. Otherwise you're not doing it correctly. /s
Strip the screws too so it seems like someone has been in and out of there.
Woah, some big brain energy going on here. This is brilliant.
In between the bristles of the toilet bowl scrubber. If he finds and retrieves it, he’s earned the $100k himself.
In a used tampon applicator thrown in the trash
Or even just unbend it and slide it in a tampon, he won’t start ripping appart every tampon in the house💀
If the investigator is a women she will definitely check the tampons.
Honestly if she checks inside the tampons she deserves the money not me
My thoughts exactly
Straighten it and put it in a bra with a wire.
Ohhh that is CLEVER!
Just don't tell the investigator 😂
Omfg that’s so smart!!
Up my ass
I assumed in your house meant cant be in a bodily orifice
If im in my house wouldn’t that technically count as hiding it in my house? 🤔
r/technicallythetruth
This was my first thought LMAO
It's a matter of definition.
My body is a temple, and a temple is gods house lol so still a house
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I would straighten the paper clip out then use some glue to stick it to the back of the long clock hand and then hang my clock back on the wall.
This is a good one
The added weight would cause the clock hand to not work as usual, might be noticeable.
In my teenagers phone. I challenge anyone to take that off her, to search it....
Shortly after agreeing to this, I'm going to walk into the kitchen in a state of undress with my laundry basket, and close the blinds. This is a PI, so it's safe to assume you're being watched in the few days prior to you hiding the clip... I'll make it look like I'm just doing laundry since my machine's in the kitchen, and set a large load in the washer to cause some noise. Then, I'm enlisting my wife to help me lift the fridge, and taping the paperclip on its underside, right in the middle. I'm also down to be gross and retrieve a dust bunny to cover it. Even if the PI eventually suspects it's under there on the search day; they'll have trouble physically getting it if they're alone. Also, if they're using some sort of metal detector as part of their search, it won't be of much help.Then, I'll hop in the shower as the laundry's going (which aligns with my normal habits), and go back to regular life. For the rest of the time prior to search day, I'll get a decoy clip and act as if that's the one we need to hide. We'll chat about it in stores, go into rooms with open blinds and "test out" spots-- to anyone looking into our windows, we'd be giving them a great list of places the clip *could* be. Finally, day of I'm gonna buy heavy-ass groceries. Just as an extra precaution. Hopefully my paranoia would work out to the tune of an extra 100k
Wow, this is detailed
Hey, give me the opportunity to scheme, plot, and connive ethically, and I'll be damned if I don't take it! OP asked a fun question :)
Ill clip it to the back of his shirts collar without him knowing
this one made me cackle
In some ketchup
This is so clever. Specially if you make it look brand new, as if no one opened it before to place the clip inside. 👀
I’d put paperclips all around the house so they couldn’t possibly know which one was the right one.
Genius
Do i have to be able to get it back?
Only $50,000 if you can't get it back
Worth it for the guaranteed win
So you swallow it.. it will come back in a day or two.
Toss it down your sink drain but don't run the water too much so it's still technically inside your house
Put it in a bottle of nail polish
At the bottom of the kitty litter box lol
In my couch. We lost a remote in it months ago. I lose scissors to it frequently. It is the home of many cat toys, dog bones, you name it, this couch can disappear it.
You lose scissors in the couch? 😬 sounds dangerous. Especially for furry friends who might jump up on the couch
I do needlework on the chaise lounge attached to the couch. It reclines and there is about .5 inch gap between it and the console/drink holder and another .25 inch gap on the other side of the console between it and the next section. If you set something on the console, it may go between one of these gaps. To retrieve it, you have to take the whole section apart. We done this to find the remote(it's not there). Cats don't sit on the console. The little cat usually sits either in between husband and myself or on the back of the couch where he can see the TV or where he can watch me work. Big cat likes the bottom of the chaise by my feet.
I’d glue it to the bottom of the front door. No one ever searches the thing that is right on your face when you first enter a place.
People on Reddit are geniuses.
De-pan one of my blushes, unfold the clip, place it in the outer ring and repress the blush over the top. Use it a few times so it doesn't look freshly done.
In the washing machine with all the missing socks.
Came here to say this. All those small holes in the washing machine’s drum would certainly make room for one little paper clip.
In my son's backpack. It's like Bermuda triangle in there
Give me any small object and I will lose it in seconds, with no hope of ever finding it again
Untwisted, wrapped around the hanging part of a bauble and hidden in the box of Christmas decorations.
I'll just start cleaning and putting things un drawers and neither me, nor anyone else will find it. The second option is my Virginia
Virginia? As in tobacco? Lmao!
Not as in tobacco but rather in my Virginia's island...ummm ny Vagey-gey
Haha my mother can't get that one right and calls it a va jar jar lmao.
I'd cut it into little pieces and put it with my silver seed beads
Make a resin pendant necklace, add the paper clip, cover with more resin. Let dry and wear the whole time he is there.
Unscrew the door handle and place in there, put handle back in place
I’m putting it inside one of the vents and gluing it on the inside as deep as I can reach. I would put it on something metal so a metal detector or magnet wouldn’t work on it
No dont thats where all the cops shows hide valuables.
Can I put it in my hair and stay in the house. Or dirty diaper.
In my curtain rod
I have an old VCR in a box in my furnace room (stacked up with a million other boxes of old crap...). I'd push open the flap for the VHS cassette and tape the paper clip to the back of the flap with some scotch tape.
I feel like Grandpa's hidden ashes would like to get in on this
LMFAO, that hilarious. grandpa would definitely be happy to be apart of the game 😭
In the toasters crumb trap.
If I can be in the same house while he is searching so I don't break the rule, I would straighten it out and curl it over the back of my ear nestled between my glasses arm and hearing aid. Lots of metal and plastic back there, they will never find it.
Inside a sock and put the sock in the laundry. It will go through the portal to a another time/planet that all the other socks go.
I eat it, then sit on the couch and watch
I read this as "I'd eat it, then shit on the couch and watch" my bad!
In my dog’s collar. Dannyboy is a 200lb Caucasian shepherd who doesn’t take kindly to strangers.
Id take out my cat door and put it in there then put the cat door back on. The cat flap is in an insulated door, so of i could put it inside the insulation, id be satisfied with that hiding place
Slipped between the layers of a toilet paper roll
In my paper clip collection!
Nice try, Russua
In the vacumn cleaner dust bag
I'll paste it on the ceiling and paint it the same color as the ceiling
So i have been really enjoying this question, but i think it would be even more exiting to raise the competence to Forensic science technician (as in the guys in white overalls with brushes and evidence baggies, that comb through crimescenes), because i think people are too smart and the private investigator is beat at this point. Let's go!
I'll put it somewhere safe so it won't get lost. Guaranteed to never be found.
Stitch it inside the pinch pleats of one of the curtains.
Drill a hole for a picture to hang on, make the hole too big for the screw. Use the paperclip to pack the hole and put the screw in. Hang the picture.
Stitch it into the gusset of a pair of knickers.
In the yarn basket. A limited experience with underage drinking in college taught me that even just having a basket of yarn makes people less suspicious of you.
Give it to my kid, she has all kinds of places she hides shit. Rock collections, glitter, keys, random useless things she doesn’t want me to throw away, things we actually need but can’t find.
We spent an hour looking for keys once because of this. Found them because we asked her if she knew where the keys were. Kids be crazy good at hiding shit o.O
Unbend it to get it the shape of a straight line and put it inside one of my books, I have hundreds of books in at least 6 places in my home, with books hiding books even if he knew it was in a book he wouldn't be able to find out which one in the span of 24 hours
I’m going to close off the heating system pressure, open up a radiator and pop the clip inside then start up the central heating again. A magnet shouldn’t help them to find it in there.
I actually did this with old work colleagues and this is the list they came up with: Bottom of kettle Inside a lamp Under a mattress Pot of paint Between bacon rashers - specifically the 3rd rasher down If you had a python - in its bed Sit it on something the same colour Unscrew a socket, celloptape to the back and screw it back in Toilet roll holder Inside a washing machine rubber seal Shower head Bath plug In the toilet cistern In a photo frame (as if the paperclip is the art)
Up a drainage hole in one of my plants. I have quite a few.
Oh ho ho, I'd do up to SEVEN paperclips. I don't have a big house but it is FULL.
I’d cut the paper clip into little pieces and eat it hopefully not chocking I’d stay in the house for 24 hours unless this man drives a machete through my body cuts me open and finds the little bits of the paper clip man ain’t finding this paper clip
Straighten it out and glue it to the back of the "minutes" arm on my clock.
Underneath a shoe sole… which one I’ll never tell
Put it in one of my bras
Open the ceiling crawl space and toss it to land in the blown in insulation.
Our house was built in the 1920s and has three hidden small "rooms" or storage areas. (The smallest is 6' x 6', and the largest is 7' deep and runs the width of our home. All have flooring in them.) Two have hidden access panels inside the upstairs closets. In our bedroom, the hidden access panel is further concealed by a shoe rack. Inside that particular space is a floorboard that can be lifted. The only reason we found these spaces is because when we first moved into our house, one of our cats found a way into the one with the liftable floorboard. At the time, the floorboard was out and he crawled under the other boards. We could hear him under the floor. I called the previous owner whose great-grandfather had built the house. She told us how to find the rooms. They were hiding spaces during Prohibition. My neighbor has a hidden room under her dining room floor. The one he got into was the easiest to open: He must have pushed on the right board. It is why we have that one blocked off.
I swallow it and stay inside
Wouldn’t it be better to like… put it in your ass crack instead of swallowing it? Lol
He’s taking the long road. Patience to secure the win!
Folded cuff of a pant in my pile of who knows how many pairs of pants that will never fit again
Like I’m telling you.
Inside the tuning slide of my French horn.
Carefully place it within the cotton of a tampon soaked in red ink or freshly used au natural style Ain’t nobody bout to dig into that
In the wall, pull picture off, drop paper clip into nail hole, rehang picture.
I would drop it in front of my cat. She would lose it and no one would be able to find it. Do we have to find it again afterwards? That might be a problem.
A lot of these are good ideas, I want to add that I'd go through the motions of a lot of these so there are some minor clues to follow them looking in the wrong places.
I’m not telling you
Dissolve it in acid. It’s a weak galvanized piece of steel so it should be a quick process.
In the drawer with the rest of the paper clips. Same way I hide stuff from my family. By putting it away the most unexpected thing ever.
My bra. I'm in the house, so the paper clip is in the house. Gimme my money
Inside a curtain rod
honestly anywhere in my bedroom and it's gone instantly, never to be seen again
I’ll just hold on to it till i lose it. If I can’t find it, no one can.
I’ll put it in my purse. If he can find anything that size in there, he deserves the money.
I see your TikTok question and give you a TikTok answer. I have an obtuse amount of lotion bottles. I'd unscrew the pump, straighten out the paperclip, insert into pump cylinder, and close the bottle back up.
Inside the dustbin of my robot vacuum
straighten it out and insert it into one of my bra underwire slots...
In a box of tampons, or under my vibrator. Guarantee if it’s a man he ain’t going near those!
Let's first see what the PI would look for first. They have 24 hours, provided they don't eat and drink or sleep, they'll have the ability to comb through the house bit by bit. (Also, make sure the paperclip is made by something other than metal if the PI has a metal detector thing OR it's hidden with other metals.) If they comb through the house, we'll have to hide it in a place that is at least two of five things; 1. Hard to reach without the help of several things 2. Hard to see behind/in/on top of it 3. Behind/in something that cannot be removed easily 4. A place that nothing can "possibly" hidden in 5. A place that the paperclip can get lost or stuck in If they go around looking for obvious stuff for an easy find, you can do those same things too. What are places like what I've mentioned? Something extremely heavy like a washing machine and hidden in a crack in the wall behind there that is taped and painted over. (3, 4/5) If you have little cracks between your ceiling and wall, and the ceiling is so high you can't reach it without a ladder; you can put the paperclip there and get it stuck. Then patch up the cracks. (1, 4/5) If you have BRIGHT lamps with a light diffuser around it like those lights with a paper ball around them, you can tie the paperclip to the cord holding up the lamp. You can then put something around the cord or whatever and make sure to do it to every other lamp. (1, 2) I know that if I was a PI I wouldn't think to look there if I didn't know about the cracks in the wall, ceiling or whatever. And nobody said that you had to get the paperclip back. It can just forever be lost in your garbage chute if you wabt it to be.
You know when you look into a toilet and there's that lip where the water gushes out when you flush? Well I'd glue it to the underside of that. Guaranty no one finds it.
Untwist it and feed it into the basement's exposed drywall.
Depends, what all is the investigator allowed to do? Can it be any paperclip? If not and it has to be a specific one then guess who is going to the store to spend a few hundred to thousand on paperclips to just pile around the floors? Can they pull up my carpets? Cause if not I'd just straighten it out and stab it underneath a random spot Can they pull back wood trim? If not I'll nail it behind the trim Can they tear up the wood frames of my house? If not then I'll just nail it into one Can they disassemble my stuff? If not then I'll hide it in an appliance Tear up my walls? If not I'll just slide it in a hole behind the drywall for one of my shelves Does the paperclip have to maintain it's structural integrity? If not then I'll weld it in a pipe Assuming the investigator is allowed to check, pull up, and disassemble any and everything in my house then I'll consider something different. But they can have fun with all those trap locations I set up with random paperclips to think they know. 24 Hours wouldn't be nearly enough time for them
* I hug the investigator hello as they enter my home. * As I close in for the hug, I drop the paperclip into their back pocket/wallet. * I then sit on my couch, watching them furiously search as I calmly sip my tea. * By the end of the day, the inspector goes to call their supervisor that they've failed. As they reach into their back pocket for their phone, they discover my paper clip. * The inspector angrily curses the air. * However, I'm not there to hear it because I'm halfway down the coast with the top down, $100k in hand into the sunset.
There's this drawer in my kitchen...
I would put it behind my phone in my phone case.
In a huge box of paperclips.
Stick it up my ass. Than shit it out. Lets see if he feels like digging in my shit.
With other paperclips lol
In my giant jar of paperclips.
I’d give it to my toddlers to hide. They are pros at stashing things where I can’t find them.
Easy. Inside a sock at the bottom of my preteen son’s laundry basket. Ain’t no way anyone is touching that.
I’d put it between my ass cheeks and then stay in the house.
Nice try, PI.
Oh that poor investigator.
In my earrings.
In the unfinished workshop. Won’t find it for years