THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

JackieO wrote: »

I always keep a small stash of cash at home usually in different labeled ex onion chutney jars. Used during the month for small household bills 'Gardener' (£24) History club'(£20) Quiz night (£8.00) 'Food only' (£60). I draw it out at the end of the month and split it up between the different jars. The rest of my cash is moved after the D/Ds etc are left in for the month, and shoved into a savings account so I always know to the penny exactly how much cash is in my current account.I try to make every penny work as well as I can .I have seperate long term savings accounts that I add to each month, and one is for holidays only and the other a rainy-day fund which is my cushion against disasters
Leaving cash sitting in a current account doing nothing apart from my bill money to me is wasteful I know the rates have dropped again but even .25% is better than 0%.My Isa rates which I have the major chunk of my cash in ,my eldest DD moves it around at various intervals as she is an accountant which helps no end :):) I don't think anyone is making much from their interest at the moment

I can see where DD gets her accounting brain from >> her mama! :T

I need to keep more cash at home, especially smaller bills and change. I'll put that on my to do list along with Get Will Made.

I'm definitely keeping a bit more cash at home, in odd places ... I really, really don't trust what's happening at the moment.

I'm thinking of closing my Cash ISA - it has only a couple of hundred in it as I can only save a small amount each month, and I need new glasses which will be ridiculously expensive, so I could do with having the money available.
But then I won't have anything "for emergencies".....and I can manage with my current glasses for a while longer....Decisions, decisions

My uncle used to stash money in interesting places for long term S hits the F type situations... Inside the base of a lamp was a favorite and a plastic zipper bag taped on the back of the washing machine was another.
He was an interesting guy. He worked for years on the Neveda test site (outside of Las Vegas) starting in 1951 until the 1980s. He was head of the department that built the underground test sites for nuclear bombs. He said the last bomb tested was on the day after the US signed an agreement with Russia to stop testing nuclear weapons. No one told them an agreement had been reached so they exploded it as planned. Washington wasn't happy.
He had a high school education. The guy who took over for him had a PHD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site

One caveat, re stashing cash... it's a "friend of a friend" story but completely believable, doing what I do. Said friend's friend knew very well that her aged aunt had quite a wad of cash hidden somewhere in their home, but had no idea where. When the aunt passed away, she left the entire contents of her (rented) home to the niece, who went through the place like a dose of salts hunting for the cash, but found nothing. The landlords wanted everything out by the end of the month, and in the end, in despair, she called in the house clearance boys and paid them to take it all away & dump it, even the beautiful, fairly-new bespoke Laura Ashley full-length interlined curtains, which just weren't to her taste.

Months later, the aunt's best friend got in touch with her & asked if she was enjoying the money. She replied that sadly, there hadn't actually been any. The BF was horrified and asked, "Didn't you find them? The old sovereigns? Well, look closely at the curtains..." Apparently the old dear had replaced all the curtain weights with rare old gold coins, carefully collected over the years. She never dreamt that her niece, desperately short of time & space and not at all fond of floral extravagances, would just pay someone to take them away...

I'm still wondering whether anybody found them...