Hiding Money

The following excerpt from my ebook is about hiding money. It was written for the person who would be doing the hiding, but I thought that for treasure hunters it might give some insight into where to look for hidden stashes like these. After all, people do die without telling anyone where they hid there valuables and cash, so who knows how mush is out there to be discovered.

This is a short section of Chapter Eight, Hiding Money, in A Survival Guide for Interesting Times, which is part of The Secrets Package.

In And Around Your Home

Hiding money under the bed in a fire-safe that can be carried is an obvious place and only just barely better than leaving the money on a shelf in the closet. The fire-safe is a good idea, but the small ones are easily carried off, so it is important that you keep them in hard-to-find places, like buried under the home or hidden under attic insulation just out of easy reach.

Where else can you hide a stash in and around your home? Garages, sheds, and other outbuildings are natural ideas. Just be aware that if you ever tell anyone you have hidden money around the home, these stashes can be found relatively easily. None of the secret hiding places you choose are likely to be unfamiliar to criminals.

This is one of the reasons it may be best to keep the money in your house. Most criminals are opportunists who avoid confrontations. They may sneak into a barn to look for things to steal, but hesitate to enter your home -especially if you are in it.

Places in houses that have been used to hide money include:

- Space in walls that can be accessed by removing electrical outlet covers (one screw usually).
- Inside drop ceilings, on top of the ceiling tiles.
- Underneath insulation in attics.
- Inside books on shelves
- Taped to the backside of paintings on the walls.
- Inside frozen orange juice containers in the freezer.
- Underneath sinks, out of sight behind the basin.
- In the space underneath a removable floorboard.
- Buried in crawl spaces accessed from a basement.
- In the floor joists, on top of the ductwork in basements.
- In a waterproof container inside toilet tanks.
- Inside television sets (the old one have space).
- In dresser drawers, underneath clothing.
- Underneath and between mattresses.
- Inside couches and chairs.
- Inside stuffed animals.
- Inside walls accessed by holes in closets.
- Behind furnaces in basements.
- Underneath carpet that is loose-laid (flat bills in plastic).
- Inside wall where washing machine outlet goes.

As you can see, there aren't really that many places you can hide things that are new and that criminals would never think of. The goal, then, is to make it too much trouble for them.

As mentioned, you also achieve a higher degree of security by having your hidden money and equivalents spread among many places. You could put a few bills inside the base of a lamp, a few more in a fake head of cabbage in the refrigerator, some in the pages of several books and some in a jar buried in a crawl space, as well as four other places, for example. Hiding money in this way makes it unlikely that anyone would ever find even half of your hiding places.

You might forget where some of them are, though. Another risk is that if you die your loved ones won't know where all of the hidden stashes are. To prevent this you may want to keep a list in your safe deposit box.