Good place to hide cash and other valuables?

Grumpysally

Don't forget where you have hidden your valuables. For instance, rolled up in a sock may seem clever.... until you have a mad declutter mood and send it off to the local charity shop......

Skint_yet_Again

We got broken into over the millennium when we were visiting relatives. They took mainly jewellery which was not hidden but they also pulled out all the drawers and even broke into the meter cupboard under the stairs which was locked to stop our DS age 4 at the time from getting in it !


The weirdest thing they took was OH donkey-jacket - horrible black thing - which had been washed and left on the airer by the back door.


A few years ago our neighbour was upstairs hoovering when a thief walked in the back door, took her handbag containing her car keys, then walked round the front of the house and drove off in her car


Needless to say I lock all my doors when I'm in the house and I shut all the windows when I go upstairs even if its just to use the loo !

daivid

How much cash are we talking about? I try to keep as little cash/valuables around as possible, but if for some reason I wanted to keep substantial reserves at home I think I would opt for something like Kruger rands. Higher value to volume, far more resistant to fire and flood and relatively easy to exchange. I have one item of gold jewelry of modest value (£300) and great sentimental value. Initially it was boxed in my sock draw, then I realised the stupity of this and moved it into a kitchen draw. As others have said there is plenty of shiny and flogable stuff to draw attention long before they empty the cocktail stick box. (that was my hiding place until shortly after writing this ;-) )

flubberyzing

I don't keep a lot of cash in the house, but I have my foreign currency stash in the back of a kitchen cupboard!

evenasus

GreyQueen wrote: »

:cool: If anyone is reading this and feeling smug because they've got a safe - I have some bad news. I know several people who have had their safes stolen in burglaries. And other people, who know quite a bit about safes, who tell me that any safe will break open if you hit it often enough on the corners with a lump hammer.

We do have a safe (although I don't feel smug)

The safe is mainly for keeping the house deeds and financial documents in but only about £50 is kept in cash in there.
It's very heavy, with a keypad and a key lock and is bolted through the safe floor to the concrete floor.It's in the tightest most awkward place to get to to open it. I curse every time I have to open it.
As for swinging a lump hammer - not a chance, as there just isn't the room to swing. Not from the side or above it - not even in front of it.

Slinky

GreyQueen wrote: »

:cool: If anyone is reading this and feeling smug because they've got a safe - I have some bad news. I know several people who have had their safes stolen in burglaries. And other people, who know quite a bit about safes, who tell me that any safe will break open if you hit it often enough on the corners with a lump hammer.

We've just come back from a holiday where the electronic safe packed up, with our money, passports, camera, phones etc inside it. The hotel staff couldn't get in, the safe installer couldn't get in either with his computer. It took two maintenance men 90 minutes, a lot of swearing, 3 drill bits and a drill they nearly knackered to get inside it.

Was a good job it didn't happen the day we were coming home......

Slinky

philbostavros wrote: »

To everyone's surprise, pinned to the back of one, was a 5000 peseta note (told you it was a long time ago)! A previous occupier had abviously thought it better to keep it there than in the communial safety deposit boxes in the lobby?

A couple of years ago I found somebody's wallet under an iceblock in the freezer of an apartment we rented in Greece. Had Swiss francs in it. The owner's agent was going to send it back to the last Swiss people who had rented it, a couple of weeks earlier. I wonder whether the owner had realised where he'd left it or couldn't remember what he'd done with it.