I donât collect stamps.
*Okay.* Iâve had quite a few people ask me about my methods for hiding tags. I donât hide tags. I take them with me.
Pictured above are fewer than a quarter of the tags weâve collected over the course of a couple months since weâve gotten our magnet in the mail. Weâve gotten RFIDS, a slew of super tags we disposed of (theyâre very large and not practical to keep), ink tags, golf tags, pencil tags, you name it. I didnât beep taking ANY of these tags with me. Not once!
Iâve easily carried ten plus tags into a store and not made a sound. Dozens of times. Left with a concealed tag a hundred times without beeping.
What Iâve done is layered a Ziploc container in THREE layers of foil, individually taping each one. Make sure the top has the same amount of foil too! Nothing should be left uncovered! This will counteract the tag detection of the towers.
Everything Iâve read online has suggested using more foil, some people even say to use ten to twenty layers. Seriously? Weâve used three. I havenât beeped at American Eagle, Express, Abercrombie, Aritzia, Garage, Cleoâs, Ann Taylor, Urban Outfitters, J Crew, Adidas (walking in with a bunch of tags), Payless, just to name a very short few off the top of my head.
You can use any container youâd like! Make it non-suspicious! We havenât gotten around to making a better one yet. Put the foil on the inside! Make it invisible!
I detag in the dressing room, and place tags in the container. This stops the beeping, I can abandon the container if need be, itâs less likely to be noticed by employees and doesnât make any crinklimg sounds at all! If youâre taking tags anyway, you have a magnet. So just detag in store. Donât bother wrapping your whole bag. Waste of time and way more suspicious.
Iâm getting really sick of all this double tagging non sense. Stop leaving behind your evidence. Youâre already getting a felon charge if youâre carrying a magnet and removing security tags. Donât pretend youâre a fucking angel because tin foil is somehow any more scary. Get over yourself. Maybe Iâm more *illegal* than you (whatever helps you sleep at night) but I wonât be caught because sales associates call the police next time Iâm in store after repeated instances of me leaving a dressing room of double tagged items. Miss me with your superiority. It is SO misplaced.