How to properly bury money. (yard, best, location)

[Ben Around]

What a strange post for the Minneapolis/St Paul forum.

[Igor Blevin]

I would seal the money in 4" or 6" diameter PVC tubing and glue end caps onto it. I think that would be pretty waterproof. I have no clue if it would be necessary to put a dessicant in the tubing, but it can't hurt.

Next I would put the PVC tubing in a Kayak bag. That should make it 100% waterproof.

Then I would put the Kayak bag in a very sturdy plastic box, that should keep the Kayak bag from being punctured.

With no metal utilized, nobody could find the money with a metal detector. Assumes there is no gold within. If you are burying gold that way, then a metal detector could find it. If you are just burying paper currency, it should be undetectable.

Also, it would be easily lost if you forgot where you buried it. Unless you toss in an apple air tag, but that then becomes traceable all by itself, until the battery dies.

FWIW, you could probably just bury the sealed PVC tube by itself and be good to go. It should be both durable and waterproof. That said, with such a sum of money, I would be pretty anal about it and want the entire system just to be sure it was there and intact when I went back for it. A big box would also make it easier for me to find while digging up than a smaller PVC tube.

[Seguinite]

Originally Posted by Shawn Ford

Before burying your money, make photo copies (front and back) of each bill and hide these under your mattress. If something happens to the originals, you can bring the photo copies to a police station and by law, they have to reimburse you for your original bills.

If this is for real, who says they have to reimburse you? And why would they? If somebody took your autographed Mickey Mantle baseball card, the popo isn't gonna replace it just becasue you have a picture of it.

If you 'got me' here, then never mind!

[rrah]

After you decide on a burial method, note the GPS coordinates. Buy a lottery ticket with the numbers. Ask you friend Walt to hold on to it for you.

[mgforshort]

We have a fully fenced backyard with plenty of shade and big oak trees, patrolled 24/7 by a 60 lbs male Airedale. I have the tools to dig and I can help you with the work. Bring it by, just send a PM first to make sure we didn't leave the house for pizza. Or you can wait if it's really urgent. The closest neighbor is 200 feet from us, and we can always tell them we are planting a lemon tree, just in case if they have binoculars. Make sure to bring the tree, the 5-gallon size. Home Depot in Chico has a bunch. I'll keep the lemons, sorry.

If we must move in a hurry I'll dig it up and send you a postcard with the picture of the Golden Gate bridge. Any postcard you get without that bridge is pure FBI trick, don't fall for it.

[City Guy997S]

For those that don't realize it: 55K in cash is 5.5 bank envelopes filled with $100 bills. Smaller than the size of two bricks stacked.

PVC pipe would be likely the easiest but I would put the money in ziplock bags first then inside the tube. A 2 ft piece of 2 inch would do it

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by City Guy997S

For those that don't realize it: 55K in cash is 5.5 bank envelopes filled with $100 bills. Smaller than the size of two bricks stacked.

PVC pipe would be likely the easiest but I would put the money in ziplock bags first then inside the tube. A 2 ft piece of 2 inch would do it

Just to be sure, and I've done it, put money in a ziploc bag, then put in in another ziploc bag, and then into an airtight container. I did that one time.

[blickcd]

The PVC pipe and ziplock bags as described in earlier posts. Saw a story on TV about a pilot / drug smuggler who kept his excess cash this way and it survived fine.

May addition, and maybe he did this as well and just didn't mention it, would be to bury a large chunk of scrap metal (old tire iron or car jack easily obtained from a junkyard) near the PVC pipe so you could find it later with a cheap toy metal detector.

Also, bury it someplace you can easily and discretely access at any time of day or night.

[ketchikanite]

Good how-to article on pvc vaults.

https://wawanghunting.com/2015/03/25...ault-from-pvc/

[Gerania]

Dry it really well before you seal it. Bury a test batch.