Where would you hide the paper clip?

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You have five minutes to hide a paper clip in your home. A detective then has 24 hours to look for it. If he finds it, he gets £10,000. If he fails to find it, you get £10,000.

Where are you going to hide the paperclip?

Tampon as suggested, or up the chimney. I might use it as a marker on my crochet and leave it in plain sight. I could possibly hide it inside a broken speaker.

I’d just chuck it down behind the bookcase. You’d have to move the whole thing to look for it. Or bury it in the fluffy rug, if metal detectors aren’t allowed.

If I’m allowed to hide it in the garden I’d tape it to the underneath of a leaf or throw it into the grass-cuttings pile.

I don’t actually think it’s possible to find one specific paper clip in a house in 24 hours. Especially not a house with as much mess and random shite as mine.

In the barn with the hay bales

I'd feed it to the dog

In the tiny little message in a bottle thing on the dog's collar. He hates strangers so wouldn't let him near it

Poked into my extensive polystyrene coving.

I think several people have forgotten the 5 minutes, but I'm still enjoying reading these.

I'm going to go for inside my blue hair dye tub. If he finds it, at least I'll have the satisfaction of him having blue hands. Assuming he doesn't use gloves. But then I use gloves and I always manage to dye part of myself 😂

In a tube of mascara

Inside the housing of either the oven light or fridge light

In box of washing powder. Then shake box to make sure it is covered.

Push it as far as I could into my mattress, then remake the bed

In my wine & chocolate cupboard if anyone broke in to look for it DH would warn 'you are brave going near that, she'll have you'

I’d run round panicking and he’d walk in and I’d still be holding it

Inside the curtain pole.
Under the tiny rip in the lino in the kitchen.
In the round bit where the wire of the ceiling bulb goes . Blurry picture as I can't be bothered to turn the light on

I’d run round panicking and he’d walk in and I’d still be holding it

This is absolutely the most accurate answer 🤣

Straightened out and shoved into a candle or a tube of toothpaste

I'd add it to one of my living room light shades which look as though they're made from paper clips.

On top of the dado rail.
Behind the handle of the drawers on the tv stand.
In the vents of the woodburner.
Under the rim of the loo.
In between the skirting and the tiles, there’s a very small gap.

I'd remove the plug cover in one of the sinks, hook it In there, and put the cover back on.
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I’d drop it between the keys of my piano/ keyboard where it can join the myriad other tiny things which have slipped down there never to be retrieved. Good luck taking apart 88 keys of 2 pianos and 2 keyboards in the time available, along with sorting through the rest of the crap in my house.

Downside is that the paper clip might cause damage enough I eventually need to use part of the £10,000 on a new instrument!

Well I'd have to hope it was the time of the month and then I'd stick it in my knickers in between 2 pads.

Attach it to DevilDog. No random man would have a hope of getting anywhere near that bouncing ball of bastarding fur, no matter how hard he tried

Either hidden in plain sight, paper clipping together some letters and hoping they focussed on less obvious places.

Or in a ring / jewellery box underneath the cushion.

I could probably unscrew a lightswitch faceplate and re-screw it in 5 mins...
Inside the hem of one of the duvet covers in a box in the attic
push it inside a pincushion

Wondering if I’m the only person that immediately thought “anus”

I would straighten it and lay it on top of the kitchen door frame. That'll learn him