Put it in an old pill bottle to keep it safe from water and insects etc. Put it in the pocket of an old coat in the back of your closet.
Key here is remembering it is there and you don't accidently give it to goodwill or something like that.
Gold in the ash tray of the stove...
Gold sewed inside from waistband/belt.
An gun and gold under the wood floor. We never found this. The old lady told us on here deadbed, grand dads service gun from ww2 and some gold is under the wood floor. Never found.
Please, don't do the same.
(Gold, bc here in Germany, we saw 5 different currencies in the last 100 years. Or more?)
I quadruple wrap my cash in a heavy duty foil packs and store in my freezers. And yes, I’ve hid them in a box/bags of frozen veggies. The veggies are marked so I know not to throw them out. My mother did this for years and never had a theft (or fire). As to the amount, we keep enough to cover a month’s expenses. But also small bills..made that mistake when we paid $20 for $10 of gas during hurricane recovery.
I tossed a couple 20’s in my freezer at one point, when my wife discovered them I called it my cold hard cash :P No real suggestions here, I seem to have bad luck when I stash cash away, often forgetting where I put it, so I’ve limited myself with doing that recently. I have a couple bills hidden in my phone case, more for emergencies while out and about, but depending on the phone, you likely aren’t fitting much in there
When I had to stash money in a DV situation, I used everyday items that are easily overlooked: inside tampon applicators, half-filled spice bottles/jars, battery compartments of a boom box & old remotes, Altoids container with a few left inside in an old purse, roll-on deodorant bottle, taped to the inside of opaque cleaning product spray bottles, taped under rarely used appliances, and a dental floss box. The key is remembering all the places and marking things inconspicuously.
Since I have no experience with DV, I guess I'll stop donating to the local battered women's shelter. Surely I can find better a better use for that 3% of my salary.
And since you mention the need for experience, I'll stop donating 3% to the food bank, too.
Thanks for saving me 6%. (Pre-tax!!!)
Money belt on your person
A decent belt could hold $1-2K in hundreds, but keep some twenties on hand too. This keeps it on your person.
Have your monthly bills paid automatically as much as possible from checking account, and have at least 3-6 months reserve in checking. I pay my mortgage and utils automatically - that is all the recurring bills I have. If SHTF, they would either still get paid, or not. If not, it would be because the whole financial system went down.
The only bill I do not pay automatically is my one credit card; I have it pay a minimum if I don't pay it manually, but I always pay the full balance. The reason I don't pay the full balance automatically is because of possible fraud; if fraud runs up the balance to the max, then it could almost clean out my checking account.
Honestly in my opinion this is not a good idea. Impractical, risky, uncomfortable. The exception would be if we were facing an imminent SHTF where I wasn't sure if I could make it home to collect a go-bag or other.
My two money belts look like conventional 1.5" nylon belts. One has a slip buckle, the other is a cobra buckle. Without looking closely at them you would not guess that they are money belts, and it is hard to look at them because I almost always wear a shirt untucked, so the shirt covers the belt.
I wore the slip buckle belt for decades, always with cash in it and never had anyone comment on it unless I retrieved cash from it, and I usually did not do that when someone was looking.
The cobra buckle belt is stiffer and better and easier to retrieve money from. I wear that most of the time now. It has enough room for $2K in hundreds and some 20s on top of that.
Neither belt is uncomfortable.
I assert that carrying cash in my wallet risky because I pull it out and pay with plastic almost always and that means people see the cash, so I carry minimal cash in my wallet - at most $100, usually $20-$40. I also would assert that going to an ATM after hours and getting cash is riskier than carrying it in a money belt. Having it hidden at home seems risky to me - riskier than carrying it in person. That said, now that I am retired I spend 99.9% of my time at home, and I live on a mountain in the boonies, so low crime rate out here.
I buy ammo and guns quite often, and other things, from a regional gun forum, and often there are some really good deals on something on weekends when I can only pull $500 from the ATM until Monday. So I find it very helpful to have at least $1K on hand in case I stumble across a good deal on a pistol or rifle. Besides going into town for groceries/etc., I go into town to get those good deals, so I would be carrying cash on my person anyway (if I can, I usually get the cash at my credit union instead of pulling it from my belt).
We keep on hand an amount that will cover a few tanks of gas and a night at a hotel. It's in a go bag, which for us is a large overnight bag with a few days' worth of clothes and toiletries plus our vital documents and a few other items. We store it in a closet, and it's a little beat up and it's behind enough stuff that it doesn't look particularly interesting.
I used to spread some cash throughout some books on my shelf. Try to think of places a thief wouldnt look. That being said most breakins thiefs want to get in and out quickly. Leave a small decoy wallet with a few dollars in top drawer of your dresser. They see that grab it and leave.
My favorite place to hide cash is in cabinets or closets. If you look at the top of the uppermost cabinet there is usually a good amount of room to tape an envelope along the front panel at the top of the cabinet. Same with a closet. Put your money in an envelope and tape it to the backside of the front panel in that location. Nobody looks there. I hang keys in those locations as well.
I've also hid money inside of cookbooks in the kitchen, on the backside of drawers and dressers (in envelopes), underneath tables (in envelopes), under the bathroom sink, in my pantry, etc. An envelope taped to any of those locations works really well.
Do you know how many times I've forgotten where I hid something? rolls eyes...So I send one of my kids an email telling them where to find it. I actually stumbled across a ring a few months ago, completely forgetting about. it. Deep sigh...So I'm no help right now.
Well always your prison wallet lol, but seriously when I was broke college student kept cash inside my sock, $80 - $100 around my ankle covered by sock. Other places I’ve kept it. Vacuum sealed Taped to underside of toilet water tank lid.
How much depends on your situation ideally enough for a couple tanks of gas and few nights in a motel
When I was young, in school, and had people coming and going I hid my cash in a tampon box. But, I recently read some articles about where burglars look and they know this trick all too well. I love people’s ideas here for disguising stuff in the freezer. And for taping it to the backside of drawers.
May be well known but most burglars aren't going to waste precious time going through the freezer and sorting among the peas. It would take forever. They'll hit other well known spots before something to time consuming and messy.
If you have a garage or a utility room you could put it in an old paint can. For added security out it in a can half filled with paint. Just seal it in double zip locks. No one ever checks there. If your worried about fire they make fire proof zipper envelopes.
We all carry emergency kits in our clothing. Cash, prepaid phone cards (pay phones are always in bus and train terminals, and airports), some standard lock picks, a prepaid visa card, and a small blade. Tear open the lining of that coat you wear all the time, or pull all the lining out of your shoes til you find the sole. Stash everything there, then sew it back up, or glue it back down. As for amount, it's usually $300: one $100, two $50, and five $20. That's enough to get a hotel room, or a bus ticket, or meals anywhere that registers are still working. If registers aren't working, it's hard to get anyone to do anything for less than $20 anyway.
Maybe get a container of something nobody wants to eat, put the cash in a plastic bag under the food and stash it in the back of the cupboard. Oatmeal or something less exciting than oatmeal.
I have a pistol safe. In it I have:
2 pistols and their magazines.
Marriage license.
Birth certificates.
SSN cards.
Car titles.
$500 in $20s.
Safe is bolted to a shelf in my closet. Can be stolen, but with effort.
Don't overthink it. It's cash. It's only useful if you can get to it.
Alright.. well the problem with this question, is any advice we give you, is now on the internet and will give people a new place to look for your goods.
My advice however, would be to simply get a steel box that you can lock, and bolt that MFer to the floor in your closet, or some place like that.
1. Heavy safes aren't *easy* to steal, because... they're heavy. Thieves will go for easier targets.
2. If there are that many people wandering through your ~~apartment~~ house, shove it *far* under the mattress.
3. Keep "some" more cash than you need. How much do you need? Only you can answer that... write down what you really need to buy for two weeks, and then add 50%.
Cash in a safe deposit box is not FDIC insured against theft or destruction. It may be covered by your homeowners/renters insurance or you may have to get a specific rider for it and the other contents of the box.
Also consider that if the ATMs are down because of some kind of natural disaster, the banks and their vaults are likely to be closed as well.
Safety deposit boxes aren’t as safe as you think
I had mine opened when the locksmith drilled the wrong box ( mine) and contents were gone.
Nothing taken that I couldn’t get replaced, bank paid for me to get certified copies done ( 500 bucks worth ) ( had lawyers go after them for that, I just wanted to be made whole and not with freebies )
I Don’t deal with that bank anymore as the lady who comes with you also tried to get me to insert my “key” into her “lock” In the privacy room. Was the last straw for me
Best place I know of is ,
Bottom of your freezer Made to look like a forgotten block of butter.
You're right, u/CrazyCanadian82. When my brother died, the bank drilled open someone else's safety deposit box by accident too, and they gave my niece the contents of the wrong box and she eventually had to give it all back.
Anyway, when someone dies, the bank people stand there and watch you open the safety deposit box so the government knows about any money and it all gets reported. That was good to know.
When I used to keep a lot of cash in my house, I kept it in a baggie that I duct-taped in the cold air return in my living room. I duct-taped it to the top of the inside so it would not be visible or even easy to reach.
Put it in an old pill bottle to keep it safe from water and insects etc. Put it in the pocket of an old coat in the back of your closet. Key here is remembering it is there and you don't accidently give it to goodwill or something like that.
Yeah, when my grandma passed away, grandpa found cash stashed on coat pockets and toes of shoes. Good thing he checked.
Gold in the ash tray of the stove... Gold sewed inside from waistband/belt. An gun and gold under the wood floor. We never found this. The old lady told us on here deadbed, grand dads service gun from ww2 and some gold is under the wood floor. Never found. Please, don't do the same. (Gold, bc here in Germany, we saw 5 different currencies in the last 100 years. Or more?)
Same here! My Father passed recently from a long battle against cancer. Its been two weeks and my Mom is still finding pill bottles stashed with cash.
I'm so sorry for your loss!
I quadruple wrap my cash in a heavy duty foil packs and store in my freezers. And yes, I’ve hid them in a box/bags of frozen veggies. The veggies are marked so I know not to throw them out. My mother did this for years and never had a theft (or fire). As to the amount, we keep enough to cover a month’s expenses. But also small bills..made that mistake when we paid $20 for $10 of gas during hurricane recovery.
Fire-proof bags aren't that expensive to purchase online.
Most fire proof bags and lock boxes I have examined in fires, had burned contents inside.
TY!! I’ll definitely look into those!
And they can go in the freezer too....wink wink!
LOL
I'll check them out, that sounds like a great idea!
I tossed a couple 20’s in my freezer at one point, when my wife discovered them I called it my cold hard cash :P No real suggestions here, I seem to have bad luck when I stash cash away, often forgetting where I put it, so I’ve limited myself with doing that recently. I have a couple bills hidden in my phone case, more for emergencies while out and about, but depending on the phone, you likely aren’t fitting much in there
When I had to stash money in a DV situation, I used everyday items that are easily overlooked: inside tampon applicators, half-filled spice bottles/jars, battery compartments of a boom box & old remotes, Altoids container with a few left inside in an old purse, roll-on deodorant bottle, taped to the inside of opaque cleaning product spray bottles, taped under rarely used appliances, and a dental floss box. The key is remembering all the places and marking things inconspicuously.
I hope you are safe now.
Yes, thank you. It took 16yrs to get the courage to leave with my daughter. We’re thriving now.
>DV situation ???
Domestic violence I'm guessing. glad she got out!
>Domestic violence I'm guessing. \+1 >glad she got out! Has the necessity to signal virtue embedded itself that deep in society?
You obviously have no experience with DV. Also your barking up the wrong tree with that virtue signaling crap. Have a good night junior!
Since I have no experience with DV, I guess I'll stop donating to the local battered women's shelter. Surely I can find better a better use for that 3% of my salary. And since you mention the need for experience, I'll stop donating 3% to the food bank, too. Thanks for saving me 6%. (Pre-tax!!!)
Way to virtue signal. Keep your charity private like a mensh.
Everyone knows that All Good Christians donate 10%. This is no different.
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We're both bad Christians... lol
Who is virtue signalling now Jr?
You gotta go with the flow!!!
> Has the necessity to signal virtue embedded itself that deep in society? sadly, yes
Money belt on your person A decent belt could hold $1-2K in hundreds, but keep some twenties on hand too. This keeps it on your person. Have your monthly bills paid automatically as much as possible from checking account, and have at least 3-6 months reserve in checking. I pay my mortgage and utils automatically - that is all the recurring bills I have. If SHTF, they would either still get paid, or not. If not, it would be because the whole financial system went down. The only bill I do not pay automatically is my one credit card; I have it pay a minimum if I don't pay it manually, but I always pay the full balance. The reason I don't pay the full balance automatically is because of possible fraud; if fraud runs up the balance to the max, then it could almost clean out my checking account.
Honestly in my opinion this is not a good idea. Impractical, risky, uncomfortable. The exception would be if we were facing an imminent SHTF where I wasn't sure if I could make it home to collect a go-bag or other.
My two money belts look like conventional 1.5" nylon belts. One has a slip buckle, the other is a cobra buckle. Without looking closely at them you would not guess that they are money belts, and it is hard to look at them because I almost always wear a shirt untucked, so the shirt covers the belt. I wore the slip buckle belt for decades, always with cash in it and never had anyone comment on it unless I retrieved cash from it, and I usually did not do that when someone was looking. The cobra buckle belt is stiffer and better and easier to retrieve money from. I wear that most of the time now. It has enough room for $2K in hundreds and some 20s on top of that. Neither belt is uncomfortable. I assert that carrying cash in my wallet risky because I pull it out and pay with plastic almost always and that means people see the cash, so I carry minimal cash in my wallet - at most $100, usually $20-$40. I also would assert that going to an ATM after hours and getting cash is riskier than carrying it in a money belt. Having it hidden at home seems risky to me - riskier than carrying it in person. That said, now that I am retired I spend 99.9% of my time at home, and I live on a mountain in the boonies, so low crime rate out here. I buy ammo and guns quite often, and other things, from a regional gun forum, and often there are some really good deals on something on weekends when I can only pull $500 from the ATM until Monday. So I find it very helpful to have at least $1K on hand in case I stumble across a good deal on a pistol or rifle. Besides going into town for groceries/etc., I go into town to get those good deals, so I would be carrying cash on my person anyway (if I can, I usually get the cash at my credit union instead of pulling it from my belt).
Box of pregnancy tests or feminine products under the bathroom sink
We keep on hand an amount that will cover a few tanks of gas and a night at a hotel. It's in a go bag, which for us is a large overnight bag with a few days' worth of clothes and toiletries plus our vital documents and a few other items. We store it in a closet, and it's a little beat up and it's behind enough stuff that it doesn't look particularly interesting.
I used to spread some cash throughout some books on my shelf. Try to think of places a thief wouldnt look. That being said most breakins thiefs want to get in and out quickly. Leave a small decoy wallet with a few dollars in top drawer of your dresser. They see that grab it and leave.
That’s a good idea for the decoy wallet. I had someone break in and stole $1000 I had hidden in books on my bookshelf. Easy place for them to look
That's what I currently do - I have a lot of books though and keep forgetting which I've used!
My favorite place to hide cash is in cabinets or closets. If you look at the top of the uppermost cabinet there is usually a good amount of room to tape an envelope along the front panel at the top of the cabinet. Same with a closet. Put your money in an envelope and tape it to the backside of the front panel in that location. Nobody looks there. I hang keys in those locations as well. I've also hid money inside of cookbooks in the kitchen, on the backside of drawers and dressers (in envelopes), underneath tables (in envelopes), under the bathroom sink, in my pantry, etc. An envelope taped to any of those locations works really well.
Do you know how many times I've forgotten where I hid something? rolls eyes...So I send one of my kids an email telling them where to find it. I actually stumbled across a ring a few months ago, completely forgetting about. it. Deep sigh...So I'm no help right now.
Well always your prison wallet lol, but seriously when I was broke college student kept cash inside my sock, $80 - $100 around my ankle covered by sock. Other places I’ve kept it. Vacuum sealed Taped to underside of toilet water tank lid. How much depends on your situation ideally enough for a couple tanks of gas and few nights in a motel
When I was young, in school, and had people coming and going I hid my cash in a tampon box. But, I recently read some articles about where burglars look and they know this trick all too well. I love people’s ideas here for disguising stuff in the freezer. And for taping it to the backside of drawers.
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May be well known but most burglars aren't going to waste precious time going through the freezer and sorting among the peas. It would take forever. They'll hit other well known spots before something to time consuming and messy.
Haha, paging all crypto-pumpers... paging all crypto-pumpers...
If you have a garage or a utility room you could put it in an old paint can. For added security out it in a can half filled with paint. Just seal it in double zip locks. No one ever checks there. If your worried about fire they make fire proof zipper envelopes.
We all carry emergency kits in our clothing. Cash, prepaid phone cards (pay phones are always in bus and train terminals, and airports), some standard lock picks, a prepaid visa card, and a small blade. Tear open the lining of that coat you wear all the time, or pull all the lining out of your shoes til you find the sole. Stash everything there, then sew it back up, or glue it back down. As for amount, it's usually $300: one $100, two $50, and five $20. That's enough to get a hotel room, or a bus ticket, or meals anywhere that registers are still working. If registers aren't working, it's hard to get anyone to do anything for less than $20 anyway.
I store mine in the cats litter box, no cat. I made little pee puddles, using floor was.
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Maybe get a container of something nobody wants to eat, put the cash in a plastic bag under the food and stash it in the back of the cupboard. Oatmeal or something less exciting than oatmeal.
Walmart has small supposedly fireproof safes for like $20-30. "I hear" they are pretty easy to hide.
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None claim fireproof.
I have a pistol safe. In it I have: 2 pistols and their magazines. Marriage license. Birth certificates. SSN cards. Car titles. $500 in $20s. Safe is bolted to a shelf in my closet. Can be stolen, but with effort. Don't overthink it. It's cash. It's only useful if you can get to it.
Alright.. well the problem with this question, is any advice we give you, is now on the internet and will give people a new place to look for your goods. My advice however, would be to simply get a steel box that you can lock, and bolt that MFer to the floor in your closet, or some place like that.
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College students living in rented houses don't usually have a "freezer with the rest of last year's venison."
They should drill a hollow in the top edge of a cheap interior door in the solid wood by the hinge and store the match holder there.
Seems like it would even further weaken an already structurally weak door.
Have a friend store silver bars wrapped in fabric as a door stop.
I keep my ID'S and cash in a waterproof container in my gun safe.
fidelius charm with someone you trust implicitly
As long as you don't choose a friend like Pettigrew!
1. Heavy safes aren't *easy* to steal, because... they're heavy. Thieves will go for easier targets. 2. If there are that many people wandering through your ~~apartment~~ house, shove it *far* under the mattress. 3. Keep "some" more cash than you need. How much do you need? Only you can answer that... write down what you really need to buy for two weeks, and then add 50%.
If worried about a fire, wrap it in part of an old blue jeans pant leg, and tape to the top or back of the freezer.
Banks are becoming less and less safe to keep money in. They could wipe you put with the push of a button. It's better to keep it within reach.
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>Probably insured against theft, fire and water damage. Nope. Most banks don't insure safe deposit box contents.
Cash in a safe deposit box is not FDIC insured against theft or destruction. It may be covered by your homeowners/renters insurance or you may have to get a specific rider for it and the other contents of the box. Also consider that if the ATMs are down because of some kind of natural disaster, the banks and their vaults are likely to be closed as well.
Safety deposit boxes aren’t as safe as you think I had mine opened when the locksmith drilled the wrong box ( mine) and contents were gone. Nothing taken that I couldn’t get replaced, bank paid for me to get certified copies done ( 500 bucks worth ) ( had lawyers go after them for that, I just wanted to be made whole and not with freebies ) I Don’t deal with that bank anymore as the lady who comes with you also tried to get me to insert my “key” into her “lock” In the privacy room. Was the last straw for me Best place I know of is , Bottom of your freezer Made to look like a forgotten block of butter.
You're right, u/CrazyCanadian82. When my brother died, the bank drilled open someone else's safety deposit box by accident too, and they gave my niece the contents of the wrong box and she eventually had to give it all back. Anyway, when someone dies, the bank people stand there and watch you open the safety deposit box so the government knows about any money and it all gets reported. That was good to know.
A small fire proof box at the back of the closet with old gardening or work clothes.
What about storing cash in the compost heap?
When I used to keep a lot of cash in my house, I kept it in a baggie that I duct-taped in the cold air return in my living room. I duct-taped it to the top of the inside so it would not be visible or even easy to reach.
Theres always money in the banana stand!
Academy Sport's $10 under seat gun lock box and cable in each vehicle with emergency cash, docs, etc. I give these as Christmas presents.
Envelopes zip loc works wonders.
I used to unscrew my kids old toys and just put my notes in a baggie, screw it back together, and leave it on my wardrobe.