Anyone have any ideas for hiding some membership cards I have for a couple establishments? Found out that the s/o has been going through my things recently. Including my wallet where I usually have them hidden away. Thankfully I had taken them out recently.
Yes, I've considered getting rid of them to make it easy, but the few that I did keep, I kept because without those cards those places generally won't let me in.
Any helpful advice appreciated.
My situation will differ from yours, as I'm assuming you're in Japan and I'm back here in the good old USofA, but I've got a 500-pound gun safe in one of my closets full of firearms and ammunition and on a couple of shelves I keep boxes with emergency cash, jewels and a lot of sensitive work materials. I don't have such membership cards but if I did, that's where they'd be. And I'm the only one with the combination.
Due to the nature of my work, I always assume the worst in people and make it a rule to never trust anyone 100%. That said, I must agree with
@MikeH on this: If the girl is often and blatantly sneaking through your shit, GET RID OF HER.
If you're going to insist on keeping the girl and that kind of stuff in your place of residence, you could consider getting a small electronic safe. Of course, her sounding like an overly suspicious type, that's just going to drive her nuts and she'll either demand to see what's in there or (if she lives with you) eventually succeed in breaking in.
Don't make the mistake of hiding things in obvious "hiding places," like in your shoes, behind shelves, in the pockets of coats hanging in your closet, behind your socks, etc. And don't try for anything you see in movies, like a hidden trap door at the bottom of your drawer. Those are the first places I would look for things, IF I were ever to be doing recon in someone's home (which I never did, of course).
If you have a LOT of framed photos hanging on your walls, you could hide the cards in the frame of one of the more inconspicuous ones. Obviously, I wouldn't do this if your only photo hanging on the wall is a douchey, generic pic of Mount Fuji.
I hate generalizing but most women don't like doing things that involve tools. Therefore, you could hide lot of things inside gear that requires a screwdriver to get in...like a computer tower (if it's large enough) or in the back panel of a stereo system or computer monitor.
Another idea would be to try finding one of those "can safe" type things, like the Coca-Cola cans that screw open to reveal a hidden compartment. Now, obviously a can of Coke is going to stick out in Japan, as will a can of Campbell's Chicken Soup, but they also make them out of cans of shaving cream, hair mousse, etc., and if you keep it in the medicine cabinet amongst many other similar objects she'll probably never even think of shaking it to find out what's inside.
When I was living in Japan, I purchased a low, swivel reclining computer chair, disassembled the base/swivel assembly and would hide emergency cash and documents in there. My girlfriends were never in my apartment unsupervised or long enough to break into my computers or hard drives so my main concern was protecting my money.
I always assume people will mind my business, even though very few actually mind my business, but if I catch them minding my business I quickly make it my business to make absolutely sure that's the very last time they ever have the opportunity.
