Where Is the Best Place To Hide Money In Your House?

[cschin4]

why hide it in your house and not just put it in a bank where its fully insured?

Banks are failing. Your money is nothing but an electronic blip in their bank. It isn't like the money is locked up in the local bank safe anymore. An electronic hijacking could easily wipe you out. As for it being insured, yes, it presently is but what does that mean? How long would it really take you to get your money back if you accounts were wiped out? Wouldn't it make sense to have cash on hand such an event, for a power outage, or for a disaster?

[cschin4]

The problem with hiding money for me is that i would probably forget where I hid it! So, how do you deal with that? Do you make yourself a map or something and put it in your firebox?

[jasonnoguchi]

Never Keep Cash At Home. Period.

Put what you need into debit cards and keep them in your wallet.

[sgfinancialfreedom]

Buy gold bars, paint it black and keep it in the house. No one will know it is gold =)

[reallyprettyhappy]

Out of curiosity, where does one buy gold bars?

[Snodog]

The problem with hiding money for me is that i would probably forget where I hid it!

Exactly! Thats one of the many reasons why I don't hide money in the house. I keep a few hundred in the basement in a safe and that hopefully would be enough to keep us afloat until things got back to normal.

[LuxLiving]

Never Keep Cash At Home. Period.

Put what you need into debit cards and keep them in your wallet.

When electricity is out (such as in Katrina), debit cards are accepted WHERE exactly??? ...and we want to gas up our vehicles to get the heck out of Dodge?

Cash only please. Put a few hundred in a bolted down safe.

[kenyantykoon]

in a hole in the dog kennel. even if they get to know that it is there, they will never retrieve it. it helps if your dogs are vicious and more so rabid

[lovcom]

In a zip lock plastic bag, in the toilet tank.

[thekid]

Bedroom drawer.

I'm attacking the burglars with my counter-psychology!

Seriously, never keep much cash in the house (maybe 100$ or so), so I don't go to great lenght to hide it.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Ohh, how about ten dollar bills in sealed plastic, single layer, underneath the wallpaper? I guess nobody uses wallpaper any more. Oh, well.

I love this thread, but I'm not going to bother finding the most super secure place, anyway. I could put $$ in some great place, only to have an earthquake or tornado be our emergency, and then the money is sealed away under the brick and plaster of my destroyed house anyway. Or it would burn in a fire. My friend had a housefire last year and lost jars full of coins he'd been saving for 40 years. Some melted and got shoveled out the house by the firefighters who were trying to stop the smoldering. Some coins did not melt, but became encased in plastic from their jars and from nearby plastic household items.

[shibabigk]

I always keep in auckword places, in a bag full of books, or in an unloacked draw, while locked draw is above, or inside books, i live with few friends so many other ppl use to visit place! have to be cautious!

I heard one that they start with the bottom drawer and work their way up, that way they save time by not having to close the top one to see what's in the next one. Just thought of that when I read this.

We'll all be expert criminals after this thread.

[Saving_spree]

I have always pushed things under the mattress and now I have so many ideas to implement.

I personally like the freezer and the garbage bin idea.

[segmond]

Somewhere they can find it. Get an envelop, write RENT fund on it (stick around $50 in a bunch of 20 $1's, 2 $5's, 1 $10.

Put it where someone can find it if they break in, the sooner they find something, the faster they leave. hiding your money too good will lead to them tearing up your house and doing so much damage, you wiill wish you had left them a quick get out of my house gift.

leave it on the table, or under the mattress. or in a top drawer.
you want them to get in, find it, and get out. stick a bunch of old cancelled credit/debit cards there too or old cancelled bank account checkbooks.

[Aaron414]

i put it in a few cans and dig holes in the backyard and bury them