I can’t remember if I emptied my home hideaway or not Months after we sold the house and moved to another town, I sat up in the middle of a nightmare. I never took our valuables out of my secret hiding place in the old house, I thought. But when morning came, I looked at my wife’s hand and saw the diamond ring safely with her. The hiding place had been in the inside of a pipe handrail on the staircase. I had removed the metal end of the pipe, hidden the ring and a fat roll of emergency banknotes, carved a wooden plug and painted it to look like the original. That was after the bank sent me a huge bill for insuring our safety deposit box in their basement.
The best place is the bank. The safest place to keep your money is in a bank. Failing that, a safe bolted securely to a concrete wall or floor may keep your money from being stolen. However, if these two options aren’t possible and you must hide your money in your home, there are several different approaches you can consider.
Leave a decoy Robbers enter a home with the intent of finding valuables. The quicker they find the valuables, the quicker they’ll leave. So it’s a good idea to leave some money in a relatively predictable location like on top of a dresser or in a drawer. When the robber finds the money, he may think he has found all there is to find. The amount of money you choose to leave out as a decoy should be determined by the outward appearance of wealth in your neighborhood. If you live in a wealthy neighborhood, a $20 decoy isn’t going to fool a robber.
Taped You might choose to hide money at home by taping it to an obscure surface like the underside of a drawer or a heavy piece of furniture. Others tuck the money between the pages of books. While these steps may keep the money from being found quickly, it isn’t likely to prevent the money from being found eventually, assuming the robber is persistent.
Camouflaged Another option for hiding valuables is to camouflage them in a container that won’t draw a robber’s attention. For example, money can be placed in a soup can that’s been cleaned out and placed among other soup cans of the same design. Hairspray cans and paint cans can serve the same purpose. There are some companies that produce and sell fake cans for hiding money. However, copyright laws prevent the makers of these items from duplicating popular labels, and the fake label may tip the robber off. Making your own can is wiser.
Around the house There are a number of excellent hiding places amid the everyday items of daily life. For example, valuables can be placed in a plastic bag which is then placed beneath the garbage bag already in use. We’ve heard of hiding goods in the freezer and even in a container of cottage cheese in the refrigerator. There is no end to one’s creativity.
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