Comments on: Twenty Places To Hide Money At Home Besides Under Your Mattress

By: Cash Hoarder

Cash Hoarder — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 04:43:12 +0000

The best is what some people have said. Leave the theif worthless stuff to take. I like to leave out an old, dead laptop, a crappy guitar, fake checkbook, etc.
The laptop alone will probably get them all excited and ready to leave pretty quick.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:55:54 +0000

Hey! I do number 4. i put my money all the way in the back of the freezer and put a burrito on top of my stash. :)

By: Justina

Justina — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:52:10 +0000

I think that number 15 is the best. I hid my money in the kitchen under one of the drawers and nobody found it. I put it into a plastic bag before I taped it so that my money wouldn’t get wet…..just in case.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:41:54 +0000

How bout put your money in the bank? In the bank its insured.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:06:42 +0000

In the toybox? Yeah right. Your kid is going to have a bunch of new video games before you kow it from money he “found” or “earned” pulling weeds or whatever bad excuse he comes up with. Kids know what money does before they can complete sentences.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:03:32 +0000

Best spot is something you don’t mention or tell anyone else about… And a lot of these places mentioned have been used in movies so I’m not so sure (ie Coyote Ugly, was in her freezer, all gone). There have been a few good ideas, but I don’t want to draw too much attention to the worthy ones.

By: meg

meg — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:23:25 +0000

i think a good place is behind the picture in a photo frame or one could slightly undo the stitching of a stuffed animal, stick money in there,and sew it back up.

By: sewingirl

sewingirl — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:55:25 +0000

A quick FYI, money buried in the ground will get moldy after a while, you need to exchange the bills for new ones after 7 or 8 years depending on your climate.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:46:54 +0000

Just some ideas:

–In your garden, buried under the border (where you’ll never rototill.
–In a windowbox, planted with lovely petunias.
–Inside a hollowed-out fencepost.
–Fake, hollow trim around a door.
–In a photo album, between the pictures.
–Behind a fake outdoor vent on your shed.
–In a jar in a bag of fertilizer or potting soil.
–In the handle of a plastic snow shovel.
–Clean out a spent caulk tube well, insert valuables and keep in your caulk gun or with other tubes of caulk.
–Behind pegboard in garage.
–Behind insulation.
–Inside legs of shelves of plastic garage shelves.
–Inside a fake duct in the basement.

etc.

By: jorithg

jorithg — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:32:53 +0000

The police said I had my $1,700 just-cashed-paycheck money stuck in the best place possible for the situation: thieves broke into my car at night while I was making a quick visit by a friends home and I had put my money into a sealed envelope and stashed it in my glovebox. The contents of the glovebox were all over the front seat and in the floorboard…where we found my envelope intact. The jerks had smashed the back window in order to knock out the overhead light and not be seen when they unlocked and opened the front door, but it kept THEM from seeing something too!

By: Rosydoodles

Rosydoodles — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:19:13 +0000

If you’re going to use a fake socket then plug something into it – would a burglar really unplug it and then try and take it out? Probably not.

And I’d also like to see them go through my books, I have thousands (literally) :P (though if I was on holiday then they would have time).

My biggest fear for someone stealing stuff is a “friend”, someone you let into your house and they’re in one room while you’re making tea, going to the bathroom whatever…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:26:08 +0000

OR HAVE A PANIC ROOM AND KEEP IT IN THE FLOOR BOARDS (floor boards is another good idea)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:25:17 +0000

another good place is behind a mirror or picture frame in an envelope. (I put mine behind a poster and forgot aobut it for about 3 years)

By: eunice

eunice — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:22:42 +0000

Well now i am totally depressed. Because you can’t trust banks anymore either. How many have shut there doors now ? I’m thinking the best idea so far is from the old days. A mason jar in the back yard. If your worried about forgetting where you buried it then put it under the edge of the house by a landmark.

By: donovan

donovan — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:47:27 +0000

I keep cash shrink wrapped in a fire box -(about 12″ x 4″ x 6″) under 6 inches of dirt
in my crawl space (half my home’s floor plan has a basement-the other half is crawl space) If I needed to get to it,it would only take a minute and a burglar might not ever find it.

By: jake-w

jake-w — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:08:23 +0000

Thease are all good spots but my fav spot is in the toilet paper roll holder.the tube should come apart. and you can easily put money in the spring.

By: Steve-o

Steve-o — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:52:21 +0000

Pretty much assume this:

1) Everything in the house – EVERYTHING – gets stolen. Including the appliances, furniture, anything not nailed down.

2) Everything which IS nailed down is then smashed with hammers, crowbars, you name it.

3) Then the house is set on fire.

Did your hiding place survive intact?

By: stefandem

stefandem — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:49:05 +0000

A safe is the worst place to hide any valuables.
it’s an indication to the thief that everything is there.
they can break the floor and pick the whole safe along with your valuables if they don’t have time to open it in your house.
I could use an empty safe just to distract the thief and make him lose time by trying to open it or even hide some fake jewels inside just to make him think he found something really valuable.
also, if you are away on a trip, make sure you lock all of the inside doors (rooms, toilets, kitchen etc) this will make thieves life a liiiiitle more difficult by losing some time.
do not hide money in jars etc as a thief will search inside all of them. Hide fake money in jars.

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:09:05 +0000

I’ve read everyone’s ideas and opinions, and I generally agree that cash shouldn’t be in the house. But I also agree that cash is sometimes the safety blanket you rely on in emergencies. Consider this tidbit… hid it in plain site.

If you have rolls of bills, tuck them inside an empty toilet paper roll and tape over the edges. The tape is meant to keep stuff out – not keep the money in. Then place the roll in the center of a much larger (and preferablly plastic) jar and ‘fill’ the jar with misc items… loose screws/nuts/bolts, leggos, etc. Put that jar up with several other similar collections of crap – and it’s hidden away in plain sight.

True – thieves tossing the joint might stumble over your jar when they attempt to smash it – but then again, they may be too busy rummaging through books, outlets, and ceilint tiles.

By: Michael Long

Michael Long — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:04:27 +0000

As should be obvious, anyone with the time to do a semi-thorough search will find your stash. As such, you have several objectives:

1) Keep them out. Security lights, lights on timers, radios on timers, and so on will help give the impression that the dwelling is occupied.

2) Security cameras, labels, signs, all tell the thief that it might be better to look elsewhere.

3) An alarm system AND service may not prevent a thief from doing a quick search, but it will be a QUICK search, as that buzzing alarm is telling him that his time is limited.

4) Imped the thief. Safes, lock cabinets, lock closets, put anti-theft cables on TVs and computers and electronics, use quick-ties to bundle cords and cables.

Nothing will stop a determined thief, but dealing with each problem cuts into his time clock.