How to Hide Your Diary

							How to Hide Your Diary
A diary is supposed to be a place where you can express your ideas and
confide your feelings. Writing your way through a problem can be very
therapeutic. The best way to make sure it isn't found is to make sure no
one sees your diary to begin with. Put it where no one knows where it is.
This is a set of good tips to keep people who are snooping around from
learning your well kept secret.
<Steps

Hiding Your Diary
1Hide anywhere no one will find it:<Find a old book and cut a hole in it
so your diary will fit.
In a jacket hanging up
In your pillowcase.
In a lock safe.
In yourhandbag/purse/oldbackpack.
Behind yourTV, orcomputer.
Under a pile ofstuffed animals.
In yourunderweardrawer.
In the little space under your bureau.
In yourbed, between themattressand the frame.
Under or inside your mattress
Inside a shoe box (make sure you keep shoes in there too!)
Inside your Computer
In the pet carrier box.
Under your cushion.
If you have a pile of cushions on your bed, then you can unzip one of the
covers, slot it in and re zip it. No one will ever know! Just make sure
no one sits on it and gets a nasty surprise!!
Under a pile of cans that you don't usually drink.
If you have an opening blanket, hide it under the cushion inside.

2Put yourdiaryinside a desktopcomputer. Mostcomputershave lots of empty
space inside the case, and very few people think to look inside them.
People, andparentsespecially, may not be very good at dealing
withtechnologyand not even realize it can open or that there is any space
inside. Just be sure not to store it somewhere where it will damage your
computer, start afireor block airflow to components that need cooling.
3Put your diary online. Don't use things like LiveJournal. That isn't as
anonymous as making a separate email address and emailing entries to
yourself or just saving all your entries as drafts on that email.
4Tape it to the underside of achair,desk,table, or interior of a drawer.
5Put it under a loose floorboard in a hardwood floor (best for old
houses).
6Make a hollow bookand put your diary inside.
7Act natural when anyone comes into your room as if you have nothing to
hide. This way, that person will be less likely to look around for
yourdiary!
8Make a decoy. If a nosy person comes into your room and starts snooping,
get a littlenotebookand quickly writemy diaryon it and then drop it onto
your bed. Casually leave the room. Maybe she or he will read the decoy
diary and, finding very little there, simply leave the room and you will
have nothing to worry about. Add bogus entries every so often, as if they
had really happened, but that the snooper can recognize as fantasy (such
as your fantastic trip toSan Francisco, or how you spent two years in
afoster home, or how you rescued adogfrom the pound and now it is your
best friend). This will make them wonder if other things you wrote were
true or fantasy, and you can tell people that you want to be a writer so
you make up a lot of things. Later, when you're done with that diary, go
back and put a code by the fantasy entries before you hide it
permanently. The famous writer Anais Nin did this for years!
9See if there is enough room to stick the diary between the back of a
framed picture and the wall. Nobody looks behind pictures.
10Lift a removableceilingpanel (if you have one) and place your diary (or
anything else you have to hide) on one next to it. Why would anybody look
in your ceiling?
11Slip your diary inside anewspaperroll, and set thenewspapernext to your
chair, on the shelf, wherever a newspaper looks natural but discreet. An
example of a bad spot is on an end table, where it may seem to invite
someone to pick it up, open it, and find the diary by mistake.
12Hide it under a chest of drawers, under the bottom drawer, where the
floor is. Remember to put the drawer back on. Some sets of drawers have a
base, with a space between the base and the bottom drawer, this way
people won't find your diary, even if they're moving the furniture
around!
13Find an old tissue box. Slip your diary inside, and then cover it with
a few sheets of tissue. The only problem is that if someone wants to take
a tissue they may find the diary underneath, so use quite a few tissues
and replenish them after anyone uses them.
14Hide it in an old Bible case. Also put one of your old Bibles in it to
cover up your diary. It works great!

Disguising Your Diary
1Conceal the cover of your diary with abook cover(make it look like a
very boring book so that if anyone finds it, they won't want to read it!)
and hide it amongst your other books.
2Write your diary in a completely ordinary-looking school notebook (you
might even put school notes on the first few pages) and keep it with
other school stuff.
3Consider the alternatives. If there are absolutely no good hiding spots
you can access easily or your nosy person has already discovered them
all:Consider writing your diary in a shorthand orcodethat only you
understand, so that even if intercepted no one will know how to read what
you have written. Note, however, that almost any code that isn't
generated by a computer can be broken by someone with enough time and
experience, and that if you write in a code that doesn't look like normal
English, it will be obvious to everyone that you're hiding something.
Also, the more complex the code, the longer it will take to write out and
the longer it will take to decipher when you want to read it. The more
practice you have with your particular method, the quicker your
writing/reading will become.
Or, as a twist to the above, consider writing in a language with a script
different from your own; for example,Japanese. Greek and Korean are a
good shortcut because you only need to learn the alphabet and not the
actual language (Korean and Greek characters have different shapes from
the English letters, but share very similar sounds). Try to choose a
language few people know and/or you have an interest in (if anyone finds
it, you can always say it's practice or something).
You can also create your own language or variation on English. English
has a lot of room for condensation. For example, consider dropping the
definite article and using a symbol instead. Then take that symbol and
place it somewhere that isn't grammatically correct in English. For
example, use a '?' symbol for "the" and attach it to the end of a word.
That way 'the word' becomes 'word?'
Consider instead keeping an electronic diary on a computer. Write inMS
Wordor a similar program, and then put a password only you know on the
file when you save it. Then, put it in a folder and put a different
password on that folder, giving an extra layer of security. For even
better hiding, place the password folder in a directory on your computer
that people would be unlikely to look in. For example, name the folder
something innocuous, like "data3", and then place it in a directory
called "utilities", instead of naming it "diary" and putting it in "My
Documents".

4Try considering one of those Password Journals. It is an electronic
device where you voice activate or pin code open. Then it opens up to a
notebook, LED light, pen holder, picture frame and all sorts. The prices
for these are very low for something that is very high technology!
5Hide it inside an old video case if it fits, then set it among the rest
of your videos.
6Get a diary with a lock, and carry the keys round your neck or hide the
keys.
7Instead of a paper diary, you could try blogging. If you have a video
camera, and are willing to spend time and money getting cassettes, you
can record your feelings out loud!
8Write your diary as a word document and lock the document with a
password. When you have a word document to put a password on it you need
to go to tools, options, click the security tab and type in the "password
to open". Also make sure not to name it "My Diary" but name it something
normal like "page 27 homework" or "gsdbasdbgkj."
9Hide your diary in bookshelf among storybooks........truly the diary
seems to be a story-book.
10Hide your diary in an old shirt/top and put it somewhere in your
dresser where nobody claims to look.<

Tips
A very determined person will pull every picture off the wall, every
floorboard off the floor, and every piece of furniture apart before
giving up. A code or an obscure language is your best bet if you have a
family member like this. Make a good code and don't share it with ANYONE.
Sometimes, the best place to hide a diary is in plain sight. The seeker
will be so intent on searching the hidey-holes that they wouldn't even
think to open the book they just tossed aside to get to a loose
floorboard!
The absolute best time to write in your diary is when you are home alone.
This is always the best time because you know that no one can burst in
without you knowing, as you would hear the door open or the car pull up
before they even came in the house, which would give you ample time to
hide it.
If all these fail try getting a diary with a lock on it.
If nosy people don't know you keep adiary, they won't think to look for
it. Don't be flashy aboutwritingin your diary or snotty about it being
secret, interesting, and private.
If you are going to lock your diary, and you don't feel like wearing the
keys around your neck, tape the keys to a spot like on the side of your
bedside table, so the person would have to be lying right where you sleep
to see them.
Read the book"Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh to find out what to do
if evilclassmatesactually do get hold of your diary. It's not a pretty
sight but this book will help you deal with it. Harriet is also a
greatnotebook-keeper.
Write in third perspective, so if anyone finds it, it'll seem like a
story you're writing.
Another great place to put your virtual diary is on a jump-drive or
memory stick. It may be easier to hide than an actual book.
If your diary is the same size as one of your hard-cover books, take the
book jacket off your hard-cover and put the book-jacket on your diary.
Put your disguised diary on your bookshelf were the hard-cover book would
go.
Another great idea for hiding your Diary is to set it in a clean trash
can (The small ones for bedrooms) and put the trash bag in, over your
diary. put some paper in the bag to cover up the Diary so no one sees it!
(like they'll check a trash can anyways!)
If you use microsoft word or notepad to write your diary, then this is
for you! Download 7-zip, a free utility, and you can encrypt (code) your
text/photos etc using 256 bit AES encryption, which takes your encryption
to the level of U.S Military! Now, that is hiding!
Use loose leaf paper like you'd use at school. It's thin, looks boring,
and easy to hide.
Clear your browsing cache. A nosy person can search your browsing cache
and find out all of your good hiding spots. To find out how, check outHow
to Clear Your Browser's Cache.
If you already have acomputer, it is not that difficult to transfer files
onto it, and then simply make them hard to find, and then hard to access.
Good places to hide files might be iniTunesfolders, movie-maker folders,
and anything that might seem like an unlikely hiding place. Another plus
to this idea is that many adults/parents/nosy people are not very
experienced with technology, which makes it even harder to find the
diary!
Put it on yourmp3 player! Just make sure it is password protected!

<Warnings
Never take it to school with you. You never know who could go through
your bag and steal it and then tell the entire universe your weird
secrets!
Never leave your diary around just because it came with a lock. A really
determined person could hack and break the lock if they tried hard
enough! And most locks don't seal the diary completely, and even if they
can't break the lock, they could open and read some bits through the gap.
Donotlose your diary. It could fall into the wrong hands, or your parents
could find it , and you could get teased for all eternity.
Try to write in it when there is no one around, or when you're all alone
in your room. If you hear someone approach, keep a fake page in the back
and pretend you are doodling or doing school work or writing a love
letter to your boyfriend.
Remember that anyone, including your parents, can read this page from
your history, and therefore might have a better idea of where to look and
will then tease you for eternity and/or tell the universe your secrets.
What if your worst enemy found it?

Things You'll Need
A big hollow book (optional)
A diary or journal
Writing utensil to write in your diary with.
A modern computer-system (optional)

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