Where is a good place to hide your journal?

Question

A few of my more nosy friends have already discovered what mine looks like - a large, bulky, rectangular canary yellow legal pad. ...And they've read it, but that's not related to this question. So, any help on Yahoo! Answers? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hide it in plain sight. Use the first few pages to camouflage your journal with class notes or something equally dull and boring. Your friends will glance at the first page, think it isn't *private* and not pay it any attention. If someone looks, don't panic and try to hide it. If you treat it as "no big deal", they won't either and will leave it alone.

Answer 2

If you have a drop ceiling that's a great spot to hide anything!
You could hide it inside of something else. Almost in plain site.
For instance get a large book, remove the middle pages so that there's a huge gap and you can place the journal within that gap.
If you have a box of tampons or a bag of pads hide it in there.
I've learned that this is a great hiding spot for anything!
Don't hide it with clothing, under the bed, in drawers or under the rug. That's waaaay too obvious!

Answer 3

Put it against the wall of a bookshelf so it's completely flat (with the cover at you, not the spine). Then stack a bunch of books (normally) over it.

Put it in a shoebox and put it on the top shelf of your closet where it's hard to reach.

Don't put it in your room, but in the back of a pantry--so far back that nobody will dare put their hand there.

Put it under your pillow and bedcovers.

Hide the journal in a typical place (e.g. under the bed), but get another yellow legal pad and put it on your desk to throw them off. Then write inside "STOP LOOKING," "GO AWAY," etc.

Or better yet: Type your diary entries on the computer and put them in a hidden file (go to your Control Panel for ways to make it hidden).

Hope I helped. Maybe you should just get a locked diary?

Answer 4

Just a suggestion: you might want to down size that pad--to conspicuous, too easy to find. What kind of drawers do you have? Do you have the kind that pull out right out so you can see what's underneath? If you do, then you can just stash it under the last drawer. I did that once. It worked. . . until I completely forgot it was there and my mom found it. I'm never keeping a journal again, I can tell you that.

Answer 5

I'm from the hiding in plain sight school of hiding journals. When I needed to keep something hidden from my brother, it went in an empty tampon box. He wouldn't touch that box with a ten foot pole. A smaller, less yellow journal might be easier to hide.

Answer 6

You've taken a step already by it not looking much like a journal. You could put it under your mattress.
If you put it near other legal pads, it would just look like another legal pad.
I just make sure I know where it is at all times.

Answer 7

I have a friend who hides hers in her kitchen garbage can before leaving on a trip. That way if something tragic happens during her trip they will just be thrown out when people are cleaning out her house. I don't know if this is a viable solution to your situation, but I thought it was a brilliant idea.

Of course, you have to remember to fetch them....

I just remembered when I was little I would hide notebooks I wrote stuff in in rarely or unused game boxes in my closet. For example, "Candy Land" or "Chutes and Ladders" or whatever games my siblings and I had outgrown, I put my notebooks in there and no one ever found them.

Answer 8

my advice, buy a new one with a lock. though inexpensive, all of the keys are the same. i have one, and i wear the key on a necklace with a friendship charm on a necklace from a prize machine. it has a cheap cross on it, and i kill three birds with one stone. anywho, a good hiding place would either be in a lockbox(haha), in a trick drawer(like where elizabeth hides the necklace in 'Pirates'), a small shoebox on a shelf at the top of your closet, in an old pair of slippers under your bed, inside your pillowcase, the breadbox, behind the T.V., under a couch cushion, under the kitchen sink, and in a deep hole dug in the backyard.

Answer 9

writing down your thought is such a vulnerable thing, and the results can be enlightening. So, when a person violates that, you probably want to step away from the journeying process. I would suggest that you buy a lock box; keep it in the trunk of your car...anything to gain back control of your ability to choreograph your thoughts

Answer 10

Most people now are writing in journals online so it's more secure and password protected. You can try transferring your information to an online journal like MyDearDiary.com or others if you search Google.