Any recommendations for cash safe-keeping in the home?

innovate

gkerr4 wrote: »

This is a very valid point and probably true - you have got me thinking too. I'd like to protect not just cash, but a backup drive of pictures etc - for both theft and faire protection.

Where are you keeping it all? I keep mine in a bunker in the back garden, alongside the tins of baked beans and yellow fin tuna. There's a couple of tin hats in there as well, just in case. Sun storms, drones, and other vicious stuff, you can't ever be prepared enough.

Not quite sure yet who would take £££ when I emerge from the bunker.

grey_gym_sock

innovate wrote: »

Not quite sure yet who would take £££ when I emerge from the bunker.

i expect the chief cashier of the bank of england would pop round to take them, and give you some crispy new notes in exchange, as he always promises.

adonis

Some ideas here where to stash it, my favoured one is photo 33

innovate

grey_gym_sock wrote: »

i expect the chief cashier of the bank of england would pop round to take them, and give you some crispy new notes in exchange, as he always promises.

Got a feeling (s)he would be a lot more interested in the tuna and the beans, come the time - - but you are right, I would probably be offered massive amounts of crispy new notes in exchange.

Fat chance I would part with any of my food for worthless paper!

redbuzzard

Up the chimney? (remember not to light the fire).

Under a loose floorboard?

Cut the middle out of the Complete Works of Shakespeare or Delia's Complete Cookery?

In the lavatory cistern?

Behind the bath side panel, assuming you haven't one of those freestanding ones on Queen Anne legs?

Take no notice of me. Every time I put something in a supposedly safe place, that's the last I see of it unless I rediscover it accidentally, years later.

dhs87

Just spend it if you're that paranoid. Also, send me some bottle caps... They'll be the world's currency in the future!

LardyCake

In a plastic box buried in the garden. You may give future archaeologists / treasure hunters something to find! I can see the headline: Late industrial age hoard found on building site

cepheus

redbuzzard wrote: »

Up the chimney? (remember not to light the fire).

:rotfl:

I'd rather take my chances with the banks/government than my memory!

My Mother used to take largish amounts of cash out and all she achieved was losing some of it. We never discovered how.

Tenyearstogo

A few years ago the Halifax card system went down for a few hours. That was the morning I'd allocated to do my jobs that week. I couldn't shop or get petrol. It really disrupted me.

Imagine if that was 24 hours, across all card systems. Still only a temporary blip but the consequences could be very disruptive.

cepheus

How to find the safest possible place for your money

If you live in London or one of the major cities, I believe there are companies which offer safe deposit boxes monitored by security cameras.