stashing cash

[Sara Noel]

Name some places to hide money in your home. Your reply can be serious or funny.

I could hide some serious cash in the laundry room. LOL Kind of like losing something in a snowbank...Don't worry honey, we'll find that 20 bucks come spring. LOL

I've read people that have money hidden in what appears to be a regular food item in their pantry.

[spyzvixxen]

If I were to hide $ it would prob have to be (and I kid you not) in my mattress...seriously...underneath the water tubes for the water bed. Those suckers are heavy!!

[guest002]

Kitchen pantry might be a good idea.

When we were robbed they ransacked out closets, office, etc. They didn't touch the kitchen. Maybe behind the cleaners under the sink.

Don't hide money in shoe boxes! They went through every pair of shoes I own!

Lucky for us I don't have any cash in the house.

[PaulaMM]

Hmmm, I could hide money in a package of toilet paper as I am the only one in the house who is able to understand the extremely complex dynamics of changing the rolls.

I guess I could hide it in the clean, unfolded basket of laundry or behind the cleaning supplies. My family never even sees those items. In fact, I'm convinced they are on the same level as moth balls as repellents.

Then there's the light bulb boxes. My family's night vision is extraordinary. Why, they never even notice a light bulb is blown until I'm up on a chair changing it!

[khjmom]

When we cleaned out my aunt's house, we found money in the jacket pockets of her deceased husband's suits, in several coffee cans, and inside a bible or two. I do have a friend that hides her Christmas funds in a tampon box. She adds to it year round until it's time to shop. (She figured that is the one place that no one would look.....)

[spyzvixxen]

I do have a friend that hides her Christmas funds in a tampon box. She adds to it year round until it's time to shop. (She figured that is the one place that no one would look.....)

I tried this tactic when hiding my cigarettes from Vic..it worked for a bit but he found me out. If you want to talk stash places for cigs that's a whole other thread! But since he knows I frequent FV, I may have to stay mute (or just quit for good!).

The real trick to hiding things is rotate your spot(s).

[FrugalMomof3]

I could hide money in the pantry or even in the TP rolls, as I am like PaulaMM, no one knows how to change the TP roll, except me.

[homesteadmamma]

I could hide it in my quilting stash, no one is allowed to touch that. Maybe in a scrapbooking stamp too. I'm thinking even a cookbook (no one looks at those here but me).

[zakity]

in the freezer

in your frugal or self help books

behind painters/pictures

in a female product box (would work great in my household which is all males except for me)

[Neeley]

The wall in my son's bathroom is brick. There is a small (approx 11x14) secret space behind the mirror. It is place where the brick is cut out and has a small ledge where you can store stuff. I have been known to put extra bottles of shampoo, brushes, and other odds and ends there. I suppose we could hide money there. It is so well hidden, we lived here for months before we ever knew that space was there.

My BF/cousin has a light switch in her house that is there just as a hiding place. It does not have any wires running to it, just a space covered by a switch plate. You just remove the switchplate and there is a small space to hide stuff in. She keeps her secret stash of cash there.

[MisaLady]

In a book... you can cut it out and make a place. We've got one that's a fake, but, well, it looks fake (it was a gift from somebody - maybe we don't have it anymore, I dunno). Behind paintings. Under rugs. Taped to the underside of the trash can. You can get one of those "hollow heel" shoes or just make your own. You can fill a jar a small ways, put money in (wrapped in plastic wrap or put in a film canister) then fill the jar the rest of the way. In the bottom of a full-size-freezer. In an airtight container in your toilet tank (you can do this using a milk jug with some pebbles in the bottom of it and if anybody questions you, you're saving the environment by using less water in your tank and using the pebbles to hold it down). Sewn into clothing. Build a "secret compartment" in a chest of drawers/dresser/anywhere you can think of.

I know somebody who was saving up to leave her abusive husband and she hid loads of cash in her kids' stuffed toys. She'd take the toy apart, stuff in money, then sew it back together. Only works if you're good with sewing, I suppose.

Somebody else I know regularly "lost" money - on purpose. She'd put it places where she or her husband would not some across it for a few months. When they did, they were able to use it for "fun money" because it was no longer part of the budget.

[squirrelwhisperer]

I hid it in the hem of my curtains.


Lisa

[MoonMommy]

No clue, but I am laughing at the responses. I think if I was hiding it from the fam, the TP, pantry, laundry room or the cleaning closet would work since I am the only person who approaches these items. Oh...a book would work too. LOL

[Trishagirl]

My Mil hid it in the linen closet between her towels. The freezer and a bible are good too! I hid stuff in my underwear drawer the boys don't go there! LOL

[SandNOceanGirl]

I have done the "hidden" money in the tampon box. Who was going to look in there for cash?! I have also stashed money in shirt pockets.