Redditor Asks People To Imagine They Have 5 Minutes To Hide A Paperclip In Their Home From A Detective Who Has 24 Hours To Find It, And The Answers Are Brilliant (30 Replies)

inside the rubbing alcohol bottle. that way the paperclip sniffing dogs can't find it.

Somewhere safe where ill find it later. Just like everything else I can't find.

I'd un bend it. Then force it down the tube of a near empty pen.

Burying it with the last detectives who tried.

I'm gonna pass. Something tells me this detective is gonna do more than 10,000 worth of damage to my house looking for it. So unless he has a warrant I'm gonna say no.

I'd put it in my mask to form the nose bridge.

I’d glue it to the bottom of my shoe. I’d literally be standing there watching him look around my house, and trying not to look down.

In a septic tank. If they find it, they deserve to keep that $10,000.

Just hide a bunch of paperclips, when he finds one he'll stop searching

Give it my toddler...never to be seen again

Force it down the corrugation of one of the Amazon boxes I've yet to take out to recycling.

Push it through a drywall wall between studs and it should fall to the blocking at 4' increments off the ground code requires. If you can, put a nail into the hole and hang a painting or w/e to hide the small hole, or some Spackle. Later, use a magnet to attract it through the drywall and draw it back up to a hole or other opening in the wall. Even if the detective saw the hole, the paperclip isn't there, that's just the retrieval and drop point. It'd basically be impossible to find without ripping all the walls out. I doubt they could detect it, even using a metal detector because of all the background ferrous metal in nails, nail stops, Simpson clips, wiring, etc. that the detector would pick up everywhere else.

In the junk drawer. Good luck finding anything you're looking for.

Between the radiator fins of the split-type air conditioner. It's easy to insert, yet the position is not very accessible and would need to disassemble that aircon just to get a glimpse of it.

in the spine of a book (i have a room of ceiling to floor shelves)

1. Push it into a fresh turd in the kitty litter.

2. Straighten it out and insert it into one of those pin and string pictures

3. Shape it like a large staple and then use that to staple together some papers.

I'd tape it on the inside of one of the fabric labels on my winter coat, which is currently in a suitcase in my closet with the rest of my winter stuff

Firstly I'd straighten it out so it doesn't immediately look like a paperclip. That might help both if it's spotted and in finding a place for it. I would then push it into the gathered fabric at the top of my living room curtains, where it would be absolutely impossible to distinguish from the curtain hooks.

In the attic insulation

I would go into the roof and slide it in between two tiles in a random spot.