where to hide?

homealone_2

after much soul searching i have decided to plunder my savings into paying off a third of my huge credit card bill. but for other personal reasons i want to keep some off it around the house. other than the obvious method of years ago of stuffing it under the mattress, i was wondering what ideas you may have of other not so obvious places about the home that you could hide something valuable?????

smurf_2

I can remember seeing double plug wall socket safes in the past, they look just like a double wall socket but you put a key into one of the pin holes and unlock it.
A quick google turned this up: http://www.thesafeshop.co.uk/products/double-plug-socket-safe.html
I am sure i saw it for cheaper in the past but unfortunatly i cannot remember where.

Paul_Herring

homealone wrote:

after much soul searching i have decided to plunder my savings into paying off a third of my huge credit card bill. but for other personal reasons i want to keep some off it around the house.

Probably not too helpful since it doesn't directly answer your question, but maybe something to consider:

Pay off even more of your credit card bill (and pay even less interest), and use your credit card for what you'd eventually be using the money for?

jhxmt

smurf wrote:

I can remember seeing double plug wall socket safes in the past, they look just like a double wall socket but you put a key into one of the pin holes and unlock it.

Just don't mix it up with a real socket! :eek:

Cannon_Fodder

If its so valuable why do you choose to give it to your credit card company?

In interest, I mean.

Get the bill paid off, and start your savings again.

Bogof_Babe

Why not open a tin of food from the bottom, use the food and wash out the tin, then replace it on your shelves (preferably behind other tins) with your valuables in it and a plastic can sealer on the open end?

However I do agree with other posters that cash left around the house is not benefiting you as much as it would if you invested it or paid off your debts with it.

Can't really talk though, I have my little stashes too .

empfun

Freeze them in a block of ice. :-)

Madiba_2

I just live near an ATM...

skylight

Dangers such as Fire??? Only a fire proof safe would keep it that way.

And burglars tend to ransack things to look for abnormal items - like a tin in the kitchen cupboards.

You can get under floor safes, that bolt into the joists and you lift the carpet out of the way, but again, these are usually not fire proof.

Bogof_Babe

charlotte664 wrote:

And burglars tend to ransack things to look for abnormal items - like a tin in the kitchen cupboards.

They'd have their work cut out in my kitchen cupboards! I nearly had to buy another tin of tomatoes today, despite knowing there are at least three somewhere in there .

Point taken about the fire-proofing though.

homealone_2

under the mattress is starting to look quite appealing lol