Where do you hide your money? (vehicle, California, range, sell)

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by PacificFlights

Int he utility room is a 4" ABS drain pipe goimg from under the house to the roof. Its hard to see as the old drain cleaner bottles, some cleaning products, a water ruined rolled of paper towels and misc stuff are on the shelves next to it. But its clear that at some time some brownish goopy liguid stuff had leaked from one joint and dried & harden on the pipe. I don't think anyone would ever look in that pipe for hidden treasures. I have seen many clever hiding places and the best one are right in front of your eyes but would never ever raise suspicion or be an item anyone would mess with.

A fake sewer clean-out would make a good stash, good idea.

10-21% of people in that survey said there was no safe place to hide cash in their home. So I tried brainstorming some ideas to see what I could come up with. How about a gutted smoke detector or doorbell box attached to the wall. Then there are those fake electrical outlets or switch boxes you can recess into a wall, as well as fake clocks. How about a potted plant sized to fill the mouth of larger pot with room below it for a watertight cash box or even just a baggy full of cash? Many pieces of furniture such as book shelves have room behind the bottom kick panel to stash a box. That is also true for most kitchen cabinets, cut a hole in an existing kick panel and screw another thin kick panel in place over it to conceal the cut out. I had to do that were a dishwasher leak damaged a kick panel below our sink, it was easy to install the replacement.

[TrapperJohn]

Get a safe. A good one. Make them wonder what's inside. :grin:

[Squirl]

If we have cash in the house I am certainly not aware of it. there's an ATM machine on the corner I can walk to.... however when I was a claims adjustor decades ago, the place least likely to be touched during home invasions was the attic..

[theatergypsy]

As for the cold cash in the freezer, my mother used to keep money in the freezer and it had nothing to do with hiding it from burglars. Her theory was that if the house caught fire, one of the last things to burn would be the fridge.

I only keep a couple of dollars in the house. And that's loose change emptied from pockets and purses back in the day when I carried cash. I have nothing worth stealing. Except maybe my Kindle but the minute it's gone I notify Amazon and they disable it.

[stan4]

Yeah, I don't really ever use cash so there'd be no reason to find a place to hide it in the house.

[ragnarkar]

Same place I keep my porn.. that is when I used to have porn.

Now I just keep it all in the bank save for maybe < $100 in cash.

[Flamingo13]

I think folks should keep a reasonable amount of cash - what if there was some type of weather emergency? (hurricane, flood, tornado, etc.) and there was no power for days. You wouldn't be able to use ATM's, buy gas unless you had cash, etc.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Escort Rider

I can't imagine for the life of me why anyone in this day and age would want a couple of thousand in cash for any legal purpose.

Funny, I always thought buying a used car was legal, and in a private transaction, that's what the seller accepts.

When one customarily drives a beater, one always needs to be prepared to replace it at a moment's notice if some unaffordable repair estimate comes in.

Just last week, I loaned nearly a thousand dollars to my neighbor, a college student, because the way student aid works, you have to pay half up front, and then wait a few weeks for the funds to come through. Maybe illegal, but I did it anyway.

[eRayP]

lol, what money, uncle Sams got it.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by Flamingo13

I think folks should keep a reasonable amount of cash - what if there was some type of weather emergency? (hurricane, flood, tornado, etc.) and there was no power for days. You wouldn't be able to use ATM's, buy gas unless you had cash, etc.

Huh?
I have bought stuff when the power is out. They do that hand stamp credit card machine from the old days.