{"id":12850,"date":"2012-05-29T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=12850"},"modified":"2022-05-19T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:49:02","slug":"your-disaster-fund-and-the-best-places-to-hide-money-in-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id12850-your-disaster-fund-and-the-best-places-to-hide-money-in-your-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Disaster Fund and the Best Places to Hide Money in Your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Most people who have emergency and rainy day funds<\/a> use banks to keep their cash safe. However, it’s also wise to keep a home-based readily-accessible disaster fund in the event a situation arises that makes it impossible to withdraw the cash from those accounts — especially if merchants become, for whatever reason, unable or unwilling to conduct credit card transactions too.<\/p>\n

The trick is in finding the perfect secret place for hiding your cash from burglars and, sadly, even dishonest friends or relatives.<\/p>\n

Of course, some places are more secure than others. For example, workmen fixing a broken water pipe in an El Paso, Texas home last year were more than a bit surprised to find almost $1 million stashed inside a wall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while nobody needs a million bucks to tide them over in the event of a local disaster, everybody should<\/em> have enough cash on hand to cover at least a week or two of living expenses.<\/p>\n

Burying your cash outside is never recommended because it’s not only easier to forget exactly where you buried it, but it’s also prone to decomposition over time.<\/p>\n

And although it can be an obvious target for burglars, inside the house you can always “hide” your money in a fire-resistant safe along with your other important papers and documents.<\/p>\n

But what if you’re looking to be a bit more clever<\/a>? Those safes are fairly easy to find and, unless they’re bolted to the floor, the smaller ones can often be carried off with minimal effort.<\/p>\n

A few years ago my pal, the great Linsey Knerl, proposed several good — and not so good — unconventional locations to stash your cash<\/a>. Some of the better ones included:<\/p>\n