Hiding valuables in a drink and cushion?

The “out of sight, out of mind” saying is so true when it comes to security. If you can’t see the valuables, its less likely to tempt opportunist thieves from stealing those valuables. This is why there are so many campaigns telling you not to leave anything of value inside your car, as its relatively easy to break the window and steal something from the car seat. On the theme of safes, we have a very convincing safe inside a Brisk Iced Tea Bottle.


The Brisk Ice Tea Bottle uses coloured plastic inside the bottle to give the illusion that it contains real iced tea. Since the illusion is so convincing, a thief is less likely to consider the bottle to be a safe. Obviously if the bottle is kept in the bedroom, it will stand out a little more than if kept in the kitchen cupboard. Therefore the safe ‘container’ needs to be situated in the place you’d expect to find it normally to avoid suspicion.


Hiding your valuables inside a cushion is a good idea, although I don’t like the look of the cylinder style of cushion! The cushion safe is not particularly expensive, but you can do it yourself for even less. You could achieve the same effect by hiding a small pouch between 2 layers of padding inside a standard square cushion.