I usually use the inside of the entrance to vault 106.I just set some mines out around the door.Sometimes if I see a caravan I will just travel with them because they have guns so they are really good to use for protection,and if they die you have the advantage of all the free stuff they had

You can also hide out deep inside the dunwich building Just put on your ghoul mask and you have an army of ghouls and glowing ones. And your army might even include some reavers aswell! Thats where I would hide out atleast.

I always thought that items placed into containers outside of the home will eventually dissipate?

Can someone clarify this for me please. What locations, if all, can hold items indefinitely. Also someone tell me how to move weird stuff, I read that you can pick stuff up but sometimes it's a pain lugging back one item all the way home.

I do i use the empty town house (search it on wiki if you dont know where it is lazy )