One of the essentials in maintaining your privacy is to pay cash at the gas station, the supermarket, and when you go shopping at the mall. To do this, you must keep a fair amount of cash on hand. But where should you keep it?
There is no such thing as a burglar-proof home that cannot be entered, nor is there a security system that cannot be bypassed. However, the average burglar will be inside your home for less than ten minutes. Your goal, therefore, is to keep your cash hidden for more than that length of time.
The burglar will head straight for your master bedroom. He’ll check your underwear
drawer, then your other drawers, and he’ll look under your mattress. If he can find some cash in any of these places, he may just grab that and run. If you can afford it, therefore, leave a few hundred dollars under the mattress.
Otherwise, the burglar will next check your refrigerator and your freezer so don’t keep any “cold” cash in either place.
Instead, if you have a file cabinet, use one or more of the file folders for holding the cash. Title them with dull names such as “old tax receipts” or “travel brochures.” Or, if you have a library, use a box cutter to cut the center out of some book you no longer want. (Outdated computer books or AAA travel books are ideal for this.) Put your money inside and then mix the book with others in your bookcase. My favorite method, however, is to use one or more “can safes” that are available on the Internet. One of our Canary Islands friends keeps half a dozen such cans. She scatters them under her sink, in her pantry, and among a box of bug-spray cans in her garage.
Many additional ideas for hiding money are included in the e-book
Invisible Money, Low-Profile Banking, Private Investing.
Labels: burglar protection, can safes, hiding cash, hiding money, invisible money
Privacy blog post by JJ Luna at 12:01 AM
