Jake builds a safe box out of an Altoids tin and a musical greeting card.
Posted 09.19.2007 at 7:06 pm 0 Comments



Jake demonstrates how to keep prying coworkers out of your secret stuff with this Altoids-tin storage box, complete with an "alarm" fashioned out of the guts of one of those musical greeting cards. Ah, the "sound of punishment." Enjoy.

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