Cash Under The Mattress

How to find a safe home for your cash.

Cash under the mattress. Stocking up on cash is risky. Keep cash under the mattress my mother often told me. Innerspring mattresses and box springs were available and widely adopted. Keeping cash under a mattress or bed is an easy picking for thieves and martin said the woman would be best suited putting her money into a savings account.

Don t keep cash under the mattress. The truth is your money is safer in the bank than under your mattress. But while hiding money under the bed has become one of the most popular ways to conceal your coin it s far from the only one. People can run up big fees to cash checks pay bills and meet their other financial needs.

After all the financial advice i give out on this site i keep a decent amount of cash under my mattress actually it s in another secure place in my home but it s effectively the same thing. Growing up in the 1960s i found it embarrassing every time my first generation father picked up a penny on the street. Keeping cash under the mattress also has you covered in case of an emergency. While storing non perishable food can give you some security there are risks associated with keeping up a lot of cash in your home.

He was penurious a self made man supporting his widowed prussian mother in bedford stuyvesant. Worried your money won t be safe in the bank. I thought her depression era advice was old fashioned and irrelevant. So to alleviate those fears i sent out a call to a large number of contacts asking where they would.

Keeping large amounts of money in your house rather than in a bank or building society is a bad idea because. Recently i posted a discussion about why i keep a small amount of cash at home under the figurative mattress for major emergencies one of the controversies with that article which was discussed on lifehacker among other places was the idea of actually storing cash under your mattress. You could lose the dollars you re hiding or someone could steal them. If you need to leave suddenly to help a family member in need you ll save yourself a trip to the atm.

Feds find 20 million hidden under a mattress in massachusetts. Grandma stuffing money under the mattress isn t the only one living outside the banking system. At first this seems to fly right in the face of everything i preach on this site. Adequate measures for protecting cash at home were prohibitively expensive.

The two way the box spring full of cash was discovered during an investigation linked to a massive pyramid scheme.