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re: Where in your house would you hide 2k in cash?
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:06 am to PeteRose
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:06 am to PeteRose
Why would you keep so much liquid cash stashed? Inflation eats that money...
I keep $500.00 stashed 10's and fives with a five dollar gold piece (worth about the same) in my hurricane stash JIC. I keep mine in a tub in the plenum space of the A/C.
The Gold piece means I get the portable generator or whatever I need when cash is all equal, learned this the hard way once.
I keep $500.00 stashed 10's and fives with a five dollar gold piece (worth about the same) in my hurricane stash JIC. I keep mine in a tub in the plenum space of the A/C.
The Gold piece means I get the portable generator or whatever I need when cash is all equal, learned this the hard way once.
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Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:14 am to LSUAfro
The point is to get creative, valuable responses from TD posters. I can see the non value responses already.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:20 am to BarberitosDawg
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Why would you keep so much liquid cash stashed? Inflation eats that money...
Inheritance briefcases
Now I wonder why that would be necessary in today's America...cough, cough
This post was edited on 4/24/15 at 11:23 am
Posted on 4/24/15 at 11:38 am to PeteRose
quote:The point is I'd be one mad SOB when the house burns down and my cash goes with it.
The point is to get creative, valuable responses from TD posters. I can see the non value responses already.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 1:11 pm to LSUAfro
"Right boot"
Posted on 4/24/15 at 1:13 pm to Oenophile Brah
I would never keep that sort of cash on hand, but I do have about $10k in sterling flatware stored in an out of the way spot in the kitchen.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 2:49 pm to hungryone
Inside of my front door.
Solid wood door, carve out the top and stash some cash with a metal plate screwed down... Who would ever steel the front door or ever check there when robbing your home...
Or in the monopoly board game box.
2k isn't hard to hide. Now a larger sum of money that actually takes up space would be a little more challenging to hide and keep hidden without being found.
Solid wood door, carve out the top and stash some cash with a metal plate screwed down... Who would ever steel the front door or ever check there when robbing your home...
Or in the monopoly board game box.
2k isn't hard to hide. Now a larger sum of money that actually takes up space would be a little more challenging to hide and keep hidden without being found.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 4:19 pm to HamCandy
Have to go with fire safe, as fire is as big or close to as big a risk as burglary.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 4:28 pm to LSUAfro
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More importantly why are you hiding money in your house? ATMS are open 24-7.
False. Good luck finding one with power after a hurricane.
Always have emergency cash.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 5:24 pm to PeteRose
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I would stuff it in a rib roast and throw it in the freezer?
Yep thats exactly what i would do.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 7:47 pm to MikeBRLA
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More importantly why are you hiding money in your house? ATMS are open 24-7
This is the correct answer.
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False. Good luck finding one with power after a hurricane.
This is the wrong answer. You withdraw the cash a couple of days *before* the hurricane instead of being a dumbass and waiting. Or even better, spend a couple of nights in a hotel out of the storm path. There's just no reason to keep large amounts of cash in your home.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 8:00 pm to foshizzle
Replace hurricane with tornado and you better have some cash on hand. No planning for those sometimes. In Alabama, we learned that the hard way.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 8:04 pm to foshizzle
I was using a hurricane as an example. Not all emergencies give you several days warning like they do. So there goes your "solution".
Also, most ATMs do not allow you take out more than a few hundred, so if more is needed for whatever emergency you are in you'd be SOL if you rely on an ATM.
Also, most ATMs do not allow you take out more than a few hundred, so if more is needed for whatever emergency you are in you'd be SOL if you rely on an ATM.
Posted on 4/24/15 at 9:27 pm to MikeBRLA
I've been in several natural disaster related true emergencies. There was nothing to spend cash on. you either had necessary supplies, or you borrowed them or bartered.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 3:52 pm to HamCandy
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Solid wood door, carve out the top and stash some cash with a metal plate screwed down... Who would ever steel the front door or ever check there when robbing your home...
Literally everyone in your neighborhood who watched you open the goddamned FRONT DOOR, stand in the doorway, unscrew the plate, put the cash in, and replace the plate.
You could have said literally ANY interior door, but no. You picked the focal point of the front of your house.
That being said, I really like this idea for an inside door if you're not going to put the cash in a fire-proof location.
This post was edited on 4/25/15 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 4/25/15 at 4:12 pm to PeteRose
my wife's purse, she would make it disappear
Posted on 4/25/15 at 8:35 pm to PeteRose
You can keep a coffee mug by your computer to hold pens and pencils. Place bills in a circular pattern following the form of mug. Stuff all your writing instruments in it. No robber is stealing your pens and pencils.
Posted on 4/25/15 at 11:29 pm to MikeBRLA
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False. Good luck finding one with power after a hurricane
After Katrina there were functioning ATM's not far outside of new Orleans.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 12:35 am to Jake88
Inside the hot tub housing. Learned that from the Edwards case.
Posted on 4/26/15 at 10:29 am to Sigma
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Replace hurricane with tornado and you better have some cash on hand. No planning for those sometimes. In Alabama, we learned that the hard way.
Begging your pardon, your two scenarios are a false comparison.
After the 2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado event, a functioning ATM was within less than 15 driving minutes of any affected urban area. And there were open local Big Box stores to spend the money.
Try Chalmette or Waveland immediately after Katrina, the nearest functioning ATM was hours of driving away. And then once you had cash money in a Chalmette or Waveland, there were exactly zero places to spend it.
Hurricane >>>> Tornado as to personal financial pre-planning.
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