Where are some smart places to keep cash in at home? - Page 4

[lil_earthmomma]

Originally Posted by Sailor

a bolted down safe is the only thing I would really trust if we're talking a lot of cash. Or gold.

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My parents had their house broken into and the burglers went through the fridge, picture albums, my diary (I was 14) ripped inserts out of old riding boots, ripped open pillows etc. Clever hiding places will not keep your cash safe from a felon, but if you are hiding it from other family members etc. these may be good ideas.

We have an awesome safe, because we get paid in cash.

[MilkTrance]

If you want to get creative...

The bottom of a diaper pail / diaper genie.

A fake women's monthly garbage pail -- ball up unused maxi pads, tampons etc., and put them in a garbage pail. Hide the cash underneath that stuff. Nobody wants to touch "used" women's sanitary pads.

A lot of you don't use microwaves. If your microwave is eye-level, keep your cash in a plastic bag and tape it to the "roof" of the inside of the microwave.

Keep bills tucked inside of a children's book.

Underneath the insole of your husband's stinky shoes.

Taped to the bottom of a large dog bowl.

These would all work well for small amounts of bills. Can't have too thick of a pile.

I would not keep HUGE cash amounts in the house in case of fire, but these are all things that you can do if you're bored, I guess.

[MilkTrance]

Originally Posted by dubfam

Have you been watching the news??

Our credit unions are insured for up to $100,000 per account -- that is Canada, though.

[CallMeKelly]

Taped to the backside of the air filter for the a/c.

In a bag at the bottom of the dog food bag/box.

[delly]

My DH actually thinks we need to keep about $100 in an EASY to find place. No, really! His reasoning is that we have very little other stuff worth stealing (older TV and DVD player, a so-so laptop, I don't wear jewelry so what I do have even *I* don't know where it is , can't think of anything else worth taking)
He's afraid a burgler would come in, find nothing worth taking and destroy the place either because he's looking for well-hidden valuables that aren't even there, or just destroy things out of pique. Either way, it's an interesting idea. I would be willing to lose some cash rather than have the house torn apart, frankly, so I can see his point.

[CallMeKelly]

They will destroy the place either way. But it is an interesting idea... makes me wonder about leaving something like an ipod casing with a locator device somewhere in plain sight... your house will still be a wreck but you can find the fools who did it...

[Azuralea]

We've considered getting a bolted, fireproof safe, but it scares me what would happen if we were home and a baddie saw that safe.

[Sailor]

My great grandmother hid her savings in the garbage can before leaving for vacation. A bank wasn't an option as this was during a time of war.

Problem was, her husband came home early and took out the garbage.

I had my home broken into while I was away on vacation. They trashed the entire place - completely. Funny thing is, while they took the VCR, the TV, and the laptop - they left an expensive calculator, a very expensive camera, and lots of expensive jewelry. It looked like they trashed everything FIRST, and in that mess they couldn't find everything to steal. Which I found rather amusing ... much later.

[dancebaraka]

Originally Posted by CallMeKelly

They will destroy the place either way. But it is an interesting idea... makes me wonder about leaving something like an ipod casing with a locator device somewhere in plain sight... your house will still be a wreck but you can find the fools who did it...

totally Jack Bauer

[Amys1st]

Originally Posted by thixle

This thread has me thinking that I only have about $5 in cash in my purse, the rest is in the bank... Don't know which is worse at this point

I was just thinking the same thing. I have about $4 in my purse plus some change. If I was a robber, I would grab the piggy banks in my kids rooms.

[oneKnight]

Originally Posted by CallMeKelly

They will destroy the place either way. But it is an interesting idea... makes me wonder about leaving something like an ipod casing with a locator device somewhere in plain sight... your house will still be a wreck but you can find the fools who did it...

It wouldn't matter. This guy at work was telling me that someone broke into one of their houses (construction job I think) and they took pictures of him, his car and license plate with their cell phones, and the baddie left his own blood on the window where he broke it. The cops STILL can't find him

[Amys1st]

Originally Posted by ShaggyDaddy

my grandmother was a poor as dirt single mom of 7 in the 1940s and 50s. Once she had enough money to sock some away she did just that... compulsivly, even after she remarried and they were doing fine.

They had a lot of coffee cups, a full cabinet of them, so many of them that they only ever used the ones in the front. They had a lot of children's books, but the children were all grown up (untill of course the grand children started comming).

Then I was 5 I found a Gold certificate (hundred dollar bill) in an ancient kid's book. When Grandma started losing her cognative ability to Alzheimer's the dishes went un-done for a few weeks and then the back coffee cups were discovered, full of silver dollars, 20 dollar bills, even some old hundreds... about $4,000 in total when they pulled them all out.

After she died, My grandpa and my uncle were cleaning out her sewing room (patio converted into a room). They moved some boxes and saw that one of the baseboards was loose. they were trying to push it back into place, but something was in the way. When they finished pulling out the pill bottles full of cash, they had almost $20,000, stored over the course of many many years.

We kind of doubt that we found all of the money she had stored away.

As far as any of us know (including her spouse), she never tapped her "rainy day" money.

My mother found $6K worth of 20s and hundred dollar bills in my grandmas stuff in the early 1990s. This was before she died and before we sold her house. All of them were brand new like they just came out of the cash station. BUT, they were like 1929, 1940 etc. My father the accountant kept saying do you know how much interest this could have gotten??? He firgured it out at one point and it was like 500K with all the different varations... After we went to sell the house, my uncles and cousins found another 10K, same thing.

So I barely keep $100 cash in our house for this very reason. IF someone stole our dvd player- the joke would be on them!! LOL we hate our dvd player but being the frugal, not tv watchers we are, we are waiting for it to break (or get stolen I guess) to buy another one. And our tv wont be worth much in a few months since its an older 12 yr model.

[Purple*Lotus]

Originally Posted by Amys1st

So I barely keep $100 cash in our house for this very reason. IF someone stole our dvd player- the joke would be on them!! LOL we hate our dvd player but being the frugal, not tv watchers we are, we are waiting for it to break (or get stolen I guess) to buy another one. And our tv wont be worth much in a few months since its an older 12 yr model.

I feel the same way about the second hand TV BIL gave us and DH insisted on bringing home. 1. We don't have cable and probably never will have cable. 2. On the off chance that we do rent a movie, we could easily watch on a small TV.

So that is one item I would not be sad to see go. And it is also older so not worth anything anyway.

[academama]

If I ever leave my house overnight again before finishing my dissertation, I'm going to print a current copy and put it in a Ziploc in the freezer. I'm so afraid of a fire destroying all of my backups.

[DandeCobb]

Originally Posted by academama

If I ever leave my house overnight again before finishing my dissertation, I'm going to print a current copy and put it in a Ziploc in the freezer. I'm so afraid of a fire destroying all of my backups.

lol, when my mom was in grad school she had her dissertation and her friends in our freezer (her friend had her dissertation and my mom's in her freezer) and my mom carried a copy with us on vacation. we called it 'the puppy'.

[sunnysandiegan]

My dad grew up poor, very poor. Somewhere around his 40th birthday, he decided he was going to be "rich" and he defined what that meant to him. He did some math or read somewhere or did something and decided to keep a lot of cash on hand all the time (but not spend it). He kept a wad in his wallet and more in his house. He achieved his goal!

Meanwhile, he is now becoming a bit forgetful (age 61) and left his wallet somewhere earlier this year. It was returned without the cash. He didn't express a lot of emotion over the loss, but it may have made an impression on him because I recently watched him pull out his wallet and there wasn't nearly as much cash in it as he once carried regularly. I'm now curious if he still keeps a bunch of cash in his house.

[Ditto]

There are some fabulous ideas on this thread. I wanted to comment about the vacuum suggestion. My house was robbed a couple years ago, they took the vacuum. The police officers said that is really common because vacuums are easily pawned. Just thought I'd throw that out.