A glimpse into an instructional website for new preppers with questions about caching underground; as well as the average citizen concerned about the safety of their valuables.

1. How to Bury Your Stuff:
The Ultimate Guide to Burying
Your Valuables
Because no one can take what they cannot find
Why bury?
I've been asked that question countless times over the years and my answer is always the same.
Because if done properly, it's the ultimate security for your valuables; not only is it cheaper than any
alternative but nothing else is as secure, period.
Hiding your valuables under your mattress or in your sock drawer does not protect against fires or
natural disasters like tornados. Safety deposit boxes can be costly in that they are an ongoing expense.
They can only be accessed during the bank's business hours and depend on functioning electricity.
Home safes are expensive; they do not always properly protect your valuables against fires or floods
and can be easily defeated by any intruder with the proper cutting tools. By burying your valuables
underground, one can guarantee that his or her most precious possessions are forever protected against
theft, fire, extreme weather, most natural disasters and even the collapse of the electrical grid.
Prior to around 1998, anyone who buried anything underground was considered paranoid by
mainstream society. The Y2K or “Millennium Bug” changed that. This was the belief that on December
31st 1999, all computer systems worldwide would crash. Survivalism or “Prepping” as it is now called,
started to become more popular. Tabloid news services like CNN started to push scary stories about
new diseases and imminent natural disasters. Television shows and movies geared around apocalyptic
themes grew in popularity and mistaken beliefs about the Mayan New Year would push worldwide
survival spending past $500 billion during the 2012 fiscal year.
I originally created this project with the intent of helping everyone in every demographic group secure
their most valuable possessions. But I am not naïve, I realize that the majority of my readers will be
survivalists and doomsday preppers. This brings me to another reason for burying your possessions; an
apocalypse of some sorts. Collapse of the world's economy, zombies, post peak oil, Fascist gun
confiscations, WMD's, disease or pandemic, mass starvation and civil war all seem to be included in
today's popular ideation.
Before I ever heard about something called the World Wide Web, I had already been burying stuff for
about 15 years and I had never lost anything that I put in the ground. One common myth on the Internet
is that it's illegal to bury, hoard or cache survival gear and valuables. This is a complete falsehood since
churches, youth groups and schools do it all the time; only they call their caches “Time Capsules.” In
addition, the term “geocaching” is a term that defines what's described as a popular outdoor activity in
which participants play a high-tech game of hide-and-seek.
Since the day I first discovered the Internet, I've also seen much chatter about how burying stuff is such
a waste of time and about how easily the government can swoop in with it's superior technology and
locate everything in the blink of an eye. But in reality, I can remember several instances during my life
where a small plane like a Piper or a Cessna disappeared over the American or Canadian Rockies.

2. Despite massive search and rescue operations, a few of these small aircraft have never been found; and
these crash sites were ABOVE ground.
The fantasy is that the government knows all and sees all. Using the population of the United States as
an example, no government has the ability to constantly monitor 320 million people all at once,
(although it certainly does try) nor does it have the resources to scan every inch of U.S. soil. And if no
government is capable of finding a buried stash, then neither are thieves, hackers, delinquents, drug
addicts or looters. Even the most massive illegal drug farms are either discovered by human
intelligence or accidentally stumbled upon by local law enforcement officers investigating an unrelated
crime; not located by superior government technology as many would believe.
To this day, there are many "treasures" (safes and even entire bank vaults are still missing from heists;
millions of dollars in cash and gold bullion from stagecoach robberies, etc) lost in the old American
West that have been buried for more than 100 years and have yet to be discovered.
Simply put; Burying is the ultimate security. Period.
About me: Why this my site is different
Because no one can take what they cannot find
Hello, my name is Dave and I've been burying stuff in the dirt for more than 30 years. In order to
prevent novels, cassette tapes and knives from being confiscated by my parents, I started burying them
in the woods of western Pennsylvania when I was about 10 years old. Since then, I've buried my stuff
in the forests of South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana; and in the city parks of Washington
D.C. and Charlotte, North Carolina. I've never used a safety deposit box and over the years I've also
helped advise other people bury their valuables in New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia and
Missouri. I'm proud to say that after 30 years of digging in 11 states, nothing to my knowledge, not one
single item that I've ever cached underground has ever been lost.
Although I can boast that I've never had a buried item lost or stolen, I cannot say that I've never had
anything damaged. I must admit that I've made mistakes and learned from them. On two different
occasions, I've been rushed or careless only to later return to my cache and find rusted knives or
waterlogged books. Diligence and patience must be observed and I'll only be showing you my proven
tried-and-true methods. I've never used Pelican cases and I've set up this project as a “Poor Man's
Guide,” offering the cheapest methods first.
Pelican is the only flashlight that I will use; they make excellent products and if you can afford to buy
their waterproof storage cases with the current state of the economy, then kudos. But you don't need to
spend hundreds of dollars on a box when you can spend hundreds of dollars on stuff to put in the box.
On this website, I will show you how to use Tupperware containers, Zip-Loc baggies and a few bricks
to easily accomplish the same task. I will also explain how to use empty US military-issue ammo cans
to shield your buried electronics from EMP and how to use sewer pipe to safety bury just about
anything that will fit inside it.
The content of this site was not outsourced and unless otherwise noted, I've personally written every

3. word. One doesn't see very many knowledgeable sites dedicated to burying items underground and
over the years, I have only seen a few good websites myself. Some of these websites have good advice
and some do not. If you are an experienced survivalist, then you may not learn very much from this
book as I've geared it toward beginners. If you are a beginner, then you should know that the reason
this script is different is simply because I am here. I am not normally a boastful person but I have been
stashing shit underground for a long time ... and I am very good at it.
Please be aware that I will not knowingly help any person break the law or commit any crime. You
should also know that I am new to prepping, I don't even own a gun. I prefer archery or crossbow
hunting and aside from a few extra AA batteries, I don't hoard much of anything at all. Although I am
in the process of making the transition to survival prepper, my current buried cache consists only of a
few personal items and a single HDD containing my laptop's backup files; which I will use as a stepby-step guide on this website.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions, please don't hesitate to click on the Contact Me page
of www.howtoburyyourstuff.com/contact-me/ or message me at www.twitter/buryyourstuff
This is something that I've been doing for most of my life; it's an activity that I enjoy and I will gladly
give helpful advice or accept constructive criticism. My intentions are quite simply to help you protect
your valuables and I plan to be personally available online as frequently as possible.
General Tips for Burying:
Your Electronics, Guns and Documents
Because no one can take what they cannot find
First time burying something underground? Feeling paranoid? Don't worry, burying valuables
underground used to be considered crazy or extreme; but since the Y2K and Mayan apocalypses,
survival prepping has gone mainstream. If you've never considered this option before you will quickly
find that there are dozens of survivalist websites, forums and blogs to get you started. Best tools for
digging? ...in my humble opinion, are shown in the photo below. A small hatchet, a small flat pick, a
mattock and a shovel should be all you need. Although I have never needed them, in some situations
you may also find post-hole diggers to be useful.
A common term used to define an underground stash is “cache” and here are 10 tips, just some
suggestions to consider in order to give your valuables maximum security.
1 - I would feel remiss if I didn't state the obvious. Do not tell anyone where your cache is, no one,
period. Not your spouse, best friend or child. That one person who you really really trust will tell
someone else that they really really trust and so on. Ensure that no one follows you to your caching
location and do not repeatedly travel back and forth. Do not draw any maps or directions; the only
directions should be the ones locked away in your own memory. If you can help it, don't even tell
anyone that you have a cache at all. Be creative and build multiple caches as backup or you could
“mark” a false location as a dummy cache.

4. 2 - If you are concerned about hackers or electronic surveillance then don't use your Garmin to locate
your hiding spot. When digging or checking on your underground cache, do NOT take your cellphone
with you. Leave all of your electronic devices at home, including your digital camera. You do not want
any electronic record of you ever having been at this location. Also remember that your vehicle's TomTom, OnStar or LoJack can also be your undoing.
3 - Remember “High and Dry” and stay away from lakes, rivers, valleys and any flat area of ground.
The water table of any flat area, regardless of elevation, can hold large amounts of water for an
extended time. You want to dig on hilltops, hillsides and ridges; far away and above any body of water.
4 - When choosing a location, try to find a place as close to home as possible but far enough away that
it cannot be found by simply sweeping your backyard with a metal detector. If you live in a rural or
suburban area, then this should be easy enough. If you live in a strictly urban setting, then you will be
forced to choose a location that requires driving some distance, buy a safe or hide stuff in your walls
and hope for the best. In an ideal situation, you want your cache located on or near a hilltop, in a
wooded area within walking distance of your home that is unlikely to be disturbed by construction or
logging companies.
5 - You'll have to research your location's “frost-line” (those who live in Calgary will have to dig
deeper than those who live in Juarez) and try to place the top of your container at or below that depth.
I've buried above the frost-line before and never had problems; but if you're not checking your cache at
least once a year, then you will want to get below the frost-line. Burying above this depth means
extreme changes in temperature that will cause something called 'frost heave.' This can not only
actually move your items around, but can cause condensation inside your containers. Frost heave can
also crush your containers.
6 - Do NOT “mark” your spot. Do not pound a stake in the ground, put a big rock nearby or tie a rag
around a tree. Markers like these can not only be found by others, but they can be moved. Depending
solely on a marker to find your underground cache could lead to disaster. You just need to “know”
where it is. Pick a certain tree, curve in the ridge line or an outcropping of rock and remember it. Also,
you will want your underground cache to be located somewhere that no one who knows you would
ever associate with you. Do not bury valuables near your favorite camping spot, your favorite fishing
spot or near your deer hunting tree stand. Keep in mind from the very beginning that if your cache was
to be discovered, you'd want everyone who knows you to think, “Really, he hid his stuff there?”
7 - I've traveled considerably and every small town that I've ever lived in had rumors about a nearby
creek where the water flowed uphill. While constructing, arranging, placing and covering your cache,
actually picture the water running uphill and remember that this is a scientific impossibility. Water
flows downhill and this is the basis for what I call my Bell Method. The Bell Method is based on the
fact that you can take an empty drinking glass, turn it upside down (like a hanging bell) and push it
down into a bucket of water. Anything attached to the bottom of the glass would remain perfectly dry. I
started using this concept during my teenage years and no matter how deep underwater (within reason)
there will always be a pocket of air inside. In the following webpages, I'll go into more detail about the
Bell Method and include some photographs.
8 - Insulate whatever you are burying against rapid changes in temperature. It's useless to waterproof
something only to have moisture condensate inside your sealed container. Take an empty 20 ounce
Coca-Cola bottle, rinse and dry it out completely. Screw the lid on tight and alternate placing the empty
bottle in the freezer, then outside on a hot summer day and back in the freezer again. Sooner or later, if

5. you continue to do this, moisture will start appearing on the inside of the bottle. This is the exact same
thing that can easily happen to all of your ammunition, each circuit board, each paper document and
each firearm you bury underground. Burying below your area's frost line and using temperature
insulation is critical.
9 - Steel wool will rust very easily. Buy some fine grade (0000) and place a piece of it with whatever
you are burying. Say for instance, that you dig up your cache once a year and check everything out.
Every year you should place that exact same piece of steel wool back into your container(s), if the year
ever comes when it suddenly has rust on it; then you know that you have a problem.
10 - Lastly, I want to reemphasize my first tip. Do not tell anyone anything about the location of your
underground cache. Burying your valuables keeps them absolutely safe because of the single solitary
fact that no one knows where they are. If your geocaching is the result of a group project, then make
damn sure you can trust your fellow preppers with both your property and quite possibly your life;
furthermore, whether you are digging in an urban, suburban or rural environment remember that there
are probably more people watching you than you realize. Use common sense when traveling to and
from your location, wear camouflage or dark clothing and try be quiet when digging. Be sneaky, dig at
4:00am during a full moon without using a flashlight or be creative; only visit your cache during a
severe thunderstorm.
If you are interested or if you've found this information to be helpful, please feel free to visit
www.howtoburyyourstuff.com … I have much more data available, including step-by-step tutorials
with photographs, and am in the process of adding more information.
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